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So October 29th, I had a migraine, took my meds for it and was going to see if I could find someone to cover my shift that evening (I had a doctors excuse, so I could use that if needed in case no one could cover my shift.). I brought the phone list to my bedroom to start texting coworkers and that's all I remember, this was around noon - 1 pm. That's all I remember before I woke up at 2:30 with severe neck and shoulder pain and swelling, I couldn't even form thoughts or speak coherently. I had a hard time getting my shirt on. I asked my fiance to call 911, but he said it would be quicker if he just drove my to the hospital.
We get there, I couldn't speak in a coherent manner, I could move my arm, the nurses let asking what was wrong but no matter how hard I tried, it came out as incoherent babble. They immediately put me in a trauma room. They thought I was having a stroke, by the time the doctor came in, I was more or less able to tell him what was going on. My shoulder and neck were extremely swollen, he ran some test, found my white count was high and the inflammation levels in my blood were through the roof. He admitted me. I was there for a few days in extreme pain, I could use my left arm and my neck was so swollen that you couldn't see my chin. After 3 or 4 days, the hospitalist was going to send me home until the nurse insisted he feel my neck and shoulder (the hospitalist is a germophobe who didn't like touching patients. He called a few other doctors to come look at me including an infectious disease specialist. They had no idea what was going on. After two weeks in the hospital, an orthopedic doctor diagnosed me with viral myocitis, which is severe inflammation of muscle tissue.
I was in the hospital for 2 weeks, I wasn't ready to go home because the pain was still so bad, but there was no other reason to keep me. The pain is still terrible, I've hhad to go to the ER over 7 times since I was released from the hospital, and all they do it pump me full pain killers and send me home. The orthopedic doctor said he's only 2 cases of this in 20 years. He's sending me to a rhumatolgist and a surgeon.
I don't know to do, I know the people at the ER are getting tired of seeing me.
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We get there, I couldn't speak in a coherent manner, I could move my arm, the nurses let asking what was wrong but no matter how hard I tried, it came out as incoherent babble. They immediately put me in a trauma room. They thought I was having a stroke, by the time the doctor came in, I was more or less able to tell him what was going on. My shoulder and neck were extremely swollen, he ran some test, found my white count was high and the inflammation levels in my blood were through the roof. He admitted me. I was there for a few days in extreme pain, I could use my left arm and my neck was so swollen that you couldn't see my chin. After 3 or 4 days, the hospitalist was going to send me home until the nurse insisted he feel my neck and shoulder (the hospitalist is a germophobe who didn't like touching patients. He called a few other doctors to come look at me including an infectious disease specialist. They had no idea what was going on. After two weeks in the hospital, an orthopedic doctor diagnosed me with viral myocitis, which is severe inflammation of muscle tissue.
I was in the hospital for 2 weeks, I wasn't ready to go home because the pain was still so bad, but there was no other reason to keep me. The pain is still terrible, I've hhad to go to the ER over 7 times since I was released from the hospital, and all they do it pump me full pain killers and send me home. The orthopedic doctor said he's only 2 cases of this in 20 years. He's sending me to a rhumatolgist and a surgeon.
I don't know to do, I know the people at the ER are getting tired of seeing me.
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