what all happened
For the past 3 weeks or so, I've been feeling sick. It all started just after I started taking birth control pills (and no, it wasn't to prevent getting pregnant), so Ifigured my body just didn't like the pills. I switched meds, but that didn't help. I figured maybe I was eating too much, so I totally cut it down, but that didn't help. I was digressing and digressing, to the point that I could eat yogurt and smoothies, and that was it- everything else made me so extremely nauseous that I couldn't move. I finally made an appointment to see a doctor.
Friday the 12th, I go to Urgent Care, and my doctor thinks I have gallstones. He sends me to an ultrasound on Tuesday the 16th. I go through that, and the technician says "I don't see any stones, but I'm not a doctor-I'm not a doctor-I'm not a doctor!". Thursday I get an appointment to go over the results. The doctor confirms I don't have gallstones, but the ultrasound picks up a hemangioma on my liver- a tumor from abnormal blood cells. It isn't cancerous, but still dangerous. He sends me for immediate extensive blood work and a CT scan of my abdomen and pelvic area.
The barium sulfate for the CT scan was SOOOO gross- I was dry-heaving for a good half hour after taking it! I told the techs I was a science teacher, and they printed out some of my pics so I could show my kids- that was cool!
Today I went back to the doctor to go over all those results. I don't have a hemangioma- the ultrasound picked up a shadow of something. They DO think I possibly have Crohn's Disease- an auto-immune disorder that affects the digestive tract. Knowing my mom has 3 auto-immune diseases, that would make sense. I'm not a STAT patient, so now I need to see a GI to look at what's going on, and how to treat whatever it is I have.
Fun times, huh?
Friday the 12th, I go to Urgent Care, and my doctor thinks I have gallstones. He sends me to an ultrasound on Tuesday the 16th. I go through that, and the technician says "I don't see any stones, but I'm not a doctor-I'm not a doctor-I'm not a doctor!". Thursday I get an appointment to go over the results. The doctor confirms I don't have gallstones, but the ultrasound picks up a hemangioma on my liver- a tumor from abnormal blood cells. It isn't cancerous, but still dangerous. He sends me for immediate extensive blood work and a CT scan of my abdomen and pelvic area.
The barium sulfate for the CT scan was SOOOO gross- I was dry-heaving for a good half hour after taking it! I told the techs I was a science teacher, and they printed out some of my pics so I could show my kids- that was cool!
Today I went back to the doctor to go over all those results. I don't have a hemangioma- the ultrasound picked up a shadow of something. They DO think I possibly have Crohn's Disease- an auto-immune disorder that affects the digestive tract. Knowing my mom has 3 auto-immune diseases, that would make sense. I'm not a STAT patient, so now I need to see a GI to look at what's going on, and how to treat whatever it is I have.
Fun times, huh?