GlennM's Journal, 06 February 2009

Went to the ER last evening for ulcer-type pain. It came and went but was bad. I did joke with the nurses a bit. If you do that EVER forget it. They saw nothing wrong with me. So here I am woke up at 430 a.m. in severe pain and called the hospital and told them they were getting a complaint to their director as a nurse wouldn't even give me something to drink. All I got was a rectal exam and told I have hemorrhoids and constipation - and then told by the doctor that the supposed ? constipation is from Atkins - and I don't even have it now. And that is my problem and to see my PCP. He did nothing a few days ago but gave me increased Prilosec, which is useless I have to eat every few hours - the Prilosec was once a day and increased to two like it had been earlier for the first two weeks I was on it, I asked for Nexium instead it's better and he got pissed at me as I'm somebody with a 131 IQ - at least - and knows about meds. Back to the ER last night I did not see a doctor (who was a woman) until after my labs were done and was told to leave - again my potassium was low, I will take a supplement as I refuse to drink juice regularly as I was told to do as I will not add sugar to my diet. I was a nurse and can figure out what I need if the doctors won't tell me as far as a potassium supplement is concerned so they can all go jump in a lake. The rectal exams piss me off - the doctors seem to be sadistic with them and then she tells me she's giving me suppositories to go, I said I don't think so, the exam was bad enough. A male doctor gave me an exam a year ago that I will I think report as it was absolutely brutal, and I changed doctors right away. I wrote to his regional office and they never wrote back acknowledging anything. When one has a mental illness they ignore any complaints one might have usually. Oh well. So Atkins got blamed for my hemorrhoids - I've had them a dozen years-long before I did this diet. It got blamed for constipation, which the doctor diagnosed and I didn't have it last night, and I'm on strong pain pills that cause that anyway. She told me to get off the diet. She looked scrawny anyway, she was older. I'm sure she saw I was in ketosis, and they don't consider that healthy. Whatever. The potassium issue has to be taken care of - but I will take supplements... I was so mad as they didn't take me seriously, and then blamed everything on a diet that is really healthy... Oh by the way I have had the bacteria that causes ulcers that may be the cause and I will have an endoscopy so they can check later in the month as it may be there in my stomach still as it is not in my bloodstream ...