I really need advice, I’ve seen 2 doctors this week and no onehelped me but my symptoms keep getting worse. I’m a 29 year old mom with 2 small kids at home. 6 months ago I was admitted into the hospital for a 5mm kidney stone and they found I still have 3 left in my right kidney. These cause me pain quite often so my urologist had me on hydrocodone alot. At one point I was on it for a month straight (urologist’s orders) to stay on top of the pain and keep me out of the er until the other 3 stones pass. Well, due to the fatigue I felt (making my job as a mom more difficult) and the constipation, I decided to stop taking it. The withdrawls were terrible. I was referred to pain management where the doctor there immediately assumed I was a druggie (despite the fact that I see just 2 doctors and use1 pharnacy) and rather than putting me on a medication that was either non addicting or something that is easier to manage, he put me on suboxone. Although it eased my other withdrawal symptoms, I threw up for the 1st 3 days, then was in the process of passing a 3mm stone and nothing helped for the pain because if the suboxone so I spend days in bed crying hysterically. So these stones are my only medical issue, except for being diagnosed with Grave’s Disease in 2004 and is completelty under control.

So here’s the scary part for me. On Tuesday I woke u with terrible upper stomach pain so I was up from 2-4am. The next day my husband noticed I looked very pale and I was having a hard time holding a conversation with him. I fell asleep sitting up numerous times and at one point spilled juice on our brand new couch. Fell down2x while walking as if my legs gave out from under me.My husband took off of work for the first time in 10 years because I was feelimg so crummy. And I want to make it clear that I did see my GP this week who said my urine didn’t look too bad by suggested I go back on hydrocodne since she felt my weakness and vomiting could be caused by the pain. But I’m not in that much pain, I tried explaining that.

Well yesterday I went outside for the furt time in a few days and 3 minutes into my car ride broke out into a huge rash, with thousnads of bumps covering all of my skin exposed to the sun. As soon as I got to my sister’s house, 10 minutes away, my mom took one look at me and called an ambulance. By the time they got there my eyes were swollen shut. All they gave me was 35mg of benadryl and a steriod and the hives went away pretty quickly. They took some blood and kept me there 2 hours and let me go around 2pm. The only thing that came back abnormal on the bloodork was a slightly koe potassium levek, ehivh they hve me 4 pills for. On the walk back to to car, the hive s started to come back again, so it’s definately heat related.

I’m still dizzy today and have double vision. I’m planning on spending yet another dat in bed, does anyone have any idea on what can be going on with me or what could be goin on with me all of a sudden?

(almost done) As a surprise, my husband picked me up some icecream and a movie. Well I just remember his franticky trying to wake me and I coundn’t speak. I was slurrying my speech and he wanted me to go back to the er. I begged for him no to ecpecially since we have a 1 and 4y/o with all of thodr nasty bugs going arpunf now.

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