12/27/2025
Hi yall! Thought I share this with everyone to help others advocate their health when they are at the ER. I’ve been in the hospital since Christmas Eve.
A little history of what happened:
I’ve been having thoracic pain for about a little over a month now. I did acupuncture, chiropractic, physical therapy. Had 8 day steroids but nothing was working. They thought it was from muscle strain due to bronchitis cough and pleuritic pain.
Christmas Eve I was not able to move and had to call the ambulance. They pumped me with high dosage of steroids, morphine, toradol, and muscle relaxers and pain was still excruciating. After couple hours everything calmed down but still feel stabbing knife piercing pain from thoracic into ribs and abdomen.
Doctors did ct scan, ultra sound, Mri and blood work. They found one 2cm gall stone but said it’s not actively attacking into the duct and that people can have it and be asymptomatic. So they basically don’t think that was causing the pain and it was STILL muscle.
They gave me oxy and I felt great enough to speak up and think. I told the nurse that I need to talk to the specialist as soon as they’re in. I still felt stabbing pain even though I could walk now. Luckily I know muscles and nerves more than most people and if all these strong meds are not working then it’s an internal issue. They were just going to send me home with strong meds. The specialist/surgeon came in and I told her my history and we confirmed that it’s the gall stone coming in and out of the duct causing severe pain.
This is also happened to me back in 2015 when I told the ER that it was my appendix and they blew it off because of the location of the pain and negative for rebound tenderness until I made them do a CT scan.
Moral of the story, doctors may miss the whole picture and only look at scans and results instead of listening more. Not everyone is textbook case and everyone’s body is different. Luckily I’m in healthcare to know what is going on with the body….
