my 6 yr old granddaughter, I have been sick twice in 3 months. She brings a cold home seemingly every other week.

That’s what youngsters do. When I worked in a daycare center, I caught just about everything that came along.

If I felt better, I'd be royally pissed. Right now, I'm just glad to be out of there.

ER visits are the absolute pits.

Please never let the med staff underserve or bully you. You have a right to decent healthcare and if you aren't getting it you should demand it. Don't let them push you around.

Always insist upon better care and you will eventually get it. I am just glad that you are feeling better, but don't be put off by a bad experience. Be aggressive in the future with the hospital staff because your life may depend upon it. Please let us know what your primary care doctor says and I hope that you will find yourself in good health going forward.

You might also want to see an opthamologist about the possibility of having caught the eye clap, (ocular clappitis).

Where is your other thread?

Maybe the antibiotics are a good idea since you might have the clap.

So glad you're going in to see your PCP.

So glad you made it home. So sorry you had to go through what you went through. Hopefully, your regular doctor can figure out what in the world was really going on.

And since you heard the word dehydration, you know what to do.

Please get some rest, and feel better.

but everyone should experience the other people in an ER waiting room (and also back in the unit) just once.

Friday and Saturday nights in some ERs are places that cannot be described.

I’m serious. Cypro will cause terrible, permanent damage to your body. I’ve had chronic painful tendonitis all over my body for over 5 years. It can cause your Achilles tendon to snap even after you stop taking it. It has crippled me and ruined my life. All physical activity has to be done in moderation because when you injure your tendons you have to NOT overuse them. People in your life will all want you to go out and force yourself to do exercise and take long walks because they will not understand that injuring your tendon’s is not the same thing as straining a muscle.

It all happened when I had a UTI infection that put me in the hospital. I had a team of doctors that happily gave me Cypro because it’s great on bacterial infections, and mine was life threatening.

I am truly and profoundly angry at doctors now. I ignore them. As a matter of fact I despise most of them. I’ve been to a doctor once and that was to because I had a bladder infection and you have to go to get an antibiotic because it’s the only way it will go away. It’s also extremely painful. Needless to say I ordered the doctor not to give me Cypro. He told me his office doesn’t ever prescribe Cypro because one of their doctors is now messed up for life because he took it. They stopped that condescending crap of discounting you and trying to say it’ll all go away. Fuckers!

There are alternatives and these should not be first choice drugs. I do not know your situation though and they are powerful and can prevent death but some docs had them out like candy and use them as first med overkill

https://fqresearch.org

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-warns-some-antibiotics-can-cause-serious-heart-damage-n950606

Movie made by a director who got. hit bad by it under miserable knees production called
certain adverse events.
It was made years ago and now is on YouTube in 6 parts
Part 1 talks about FDA and all drugs and how safety is determined

I’ll watch the other ones too.

Cipro affected almost all my tendons, so I know what pain is. The worst is when I first move like getting out of bed or standing up from a chair and walking. Thankfully I’ve found relief in Arnica and CBD so I only take Tylenol when I need it. But the other effect it has in me is nerve damage in my legs and feet. If I stand for any length of time my thighs become numb from the knees to my hip and the shoulder of my feet have that fuzzy, needle pricky feeling all the time. I have been alleviating that with vitamin B12. Actually I get enough relief to function by taking a one a day vitamin for women.

not alone .
Did you know at one point FDAs MEDWATCH ( where you should report even now, also post at ASKAPATIENT.COM if you can) lost all the reports on ci pro and Levaquin and Avelox , years worth supposedly due to a system upgrade?

After a couple of years I just recently did some research hoping to find some kind of therapy or help for the symptoms if not an out and out cure. Nope. No such luck.

Be good to yourself and best of LUCK with your follow up.

And on day 8 of bad cold and cough I feel you.

Last night in total desperation and bad cough i went diving into my bathroom cabinets for anything i could find. I have been trying to go natural tea, juice, water, soup, zinc, C, but kept getting worse.

I found DM cough med and a Codeine one from 3-4 years ago. Guess what I chose after having a bunch of hardly sleeping and knowing i needed sleep?

It worked i slept a bunch taking more at 2am when i got up.

My fever finally went back to normal and while still sick I think I see a light of health. It was never high mostly mid 99’s but enough to make on top of symptoms me feel off and last night after shower it went up to 100.7 that didn’t help.

Sorry for long rant of illness, like you i never post i am sick.

Hope your doctor figures it out.

Never ever google your symptoms!

Luckycharms, glad you are feeling a bit better and hope you are on the mend.

I sobbed most of the night one time when I looked up softening of the spine...on my husbands chart...he had two surgeries as a result...but it was fatal according to google...when I spoke with the doctor he said it can be fatal but we caught it in time...and your husband will make a complete recovery after surgery and he has done that...but several terrible days when I thought my husband would choke to death within a year or two!

way out the door before a woman with a rolling cart came along to get our info. I was amazed. With 4 kids I have spent hours in the ER. Now that they are adults, medicine is becoming more service oriented and don’t wait hardly ever for any doctors or ER. Lots of competition in Philly/South Jersey region.

... best wishes for diagnosis soon.

Take care!

Relax and treat yourself for making it through that harangue.

And while you may not have come out of the ER with the answers/care that you wanted, the information from the lab tests at the very time of your situation will probably be helpful for your primary care doc, etc. Duh, I know, but far be it from me to not state the obvious.

Am just lookin on the bright side - I’d be hacked off, too, about such an ER experience. I’ve had to search for the usefulness of various doctor visits, and if nothing else, had to turn to the sketchy law of averages out of frustration. Mostly has panned out thus far.

And when they do it's like they're playing telephone...

It is ALWAYS dehydration...

Are...it'll just depress you. Suffice it to say that when my husband and I were there together for 5 days, we begged them to let us stay longer...best vacation ever!

Is there another hospital you can go to? I hope your primary guy can keep you from going back!❤

I am disgustingly healthy for an old lady but I have taken and gone to see (in the ER) too many family members over the years... I always opt for Dartmouth-Hitchcock in Lebanon, NH... The BEST!

You deserve better.

Similar bad experience. I told them it must be 'amateur night'.
Everyone I encountered was incompetent.

Managed to get into to see my primary care doctor a few days later and ended up on
Hydrocodone and a muscle relaxer for a rotator cuff injury I got when the E.R. attempted to do a cat scan
and hurt my left shoulder.

Have had x-rays and am seeing a specialist next Friday.

(Posting about my experience did not occur to me)

emergency rooms can be daunting at times. Please watch your eye for any infection.

Have you got a vision of the way this situation would have played out if we had Medicare for All?

I'd hope that there'd be a more equitable distribution of health care workers.

(I think doctors are required to talk to you about what they've read on the triage chart to ensure they are treating the person whose triage chart they've read.)

And yet you can tell us your experience with a dose of humor. I’m sorry you had to go thru that and I’m really glad you made it home! Hope you’re feeling better and that your doc can clear things up for you!

He has a chronic condition, Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome. He’s had it since he was three (he’s in his early 30s) but last year it got very bad. 23 ER trips in 6 months, a dozen resulting in hospital stays. SAME ER, mind you. He has a specialist there and a long, long history.

In the past few years they’ve decided it’s from smoking pot. He does but it’s not. He didn’t smoke at three, four, five...but suddenly the level of care and compassion deteriorated. We always have to go with him. To say he’s incapacitated is an understatement. He can’t communicate, he can’t do anything but continuously, violently barf until he’s dehydrated and gasping. There’s a specific protocol in his file and we have copies. They don’t follow it. I don’t know why. We have to fight for it. Now sometimes he gets someone familiar with him and they get it. But if not, it’s hell.

Once they left him do long he tore his esophagus and ended up with a tube down his throat for two days, drugged unconscious. Once when I had to go home they turned him onto the street at 3 am, so drugged he didn’t know where he was. Fortunately he could call me and I managed to find him. I almost killed somebody. I thought of suing but we need them.

Happily, the specialist found a preventative protocol that has kept him relatively symptom free for the past year. We’ve got fingers crossed. But it’s madness. It’s prejudicial. I will never understand the willful ignorance of what they’ve been instructed to do.

Btw this is a well respected city hospital. Once he’s admitted he gets stellar care. In fact, now and then he’s been admitted to the cancer ward (only bed available) where many patients are on chemo and are encouraged to—you guessed it—help the symptoms with pot, which is legal here.

Sorry to go on and on. I am so very sorry you’ve been subjected to bad treatment. I wish I had more to say than be sure you have advocates. And get well! ❤️

This sounds like a very tough road, nolabear.

My best wishes to you and your son.

some are OK. Personally, in general, I prefer cats

Take care.

I have been to an emergency room twice in the last ten years, both time on suspicion of a heart attack. Once, it was (2011) and once, it was not (2013). The first time was at home in Dallas, and they were positively wonderful. The second time was in Washington, D.C., and I might as well not have gone. If that had been a real heart attack (it was the flu), I probably would have died before they got to me. In Dallas, I was attended to within minutes.

And a sane world to come home to