• Buglefingers@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    I hate going to hospitals, especially in cities. They really don’t seem to care unless they can physically see how injured you are. I saw an independent nurse and a walk in clinic before they both said to go to the ER when I tore something inside my abdomen. Waited 15 hours to be seen, struggled to breath without pain, and passed out from pain during the Xray. The Dr said I passed out from anxiety and sent me home with nothing and no advice.

    One of the absolute worst experiences I’ve had at a hospital, and all I wanted was to make sure it wasn’t my gall bladder. Of course they also charged the obscene US prices too

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        25 days ago

        While working out I apparently tore a bit of some lining that surrounds the organs, it just happened to be near where the gallbladder is. 0/10 would not recommend, breathing and moving hurt a lot.

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          25 days ago

          Jesus. Did they have to do anything to get it to heal, or did it heal on its own? Or is it still ripped?

          I was stretching too much after months of not stretching, when I got my new place last year. Suddenly felt a sort of sharp pang of pain in my belly. Scared me, immediately stopped the stretch and curled forward around it.

          Later on, noticed I had an umbilical hernia. They had to fix it surgically.

          Really freaked me out. Like, I knew the tissues of my body had a tensile strength beyond which they’d fail, but I always assumed those forces would be like from a car crash or something. Not just a stretch.

          Definitely a weird feeling to realize we’re all just jello of various consistencies wrapped around bones.

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            24 days ago

            I’m under the assumption it healed on it’s own. The pain is gone and hasn’t come back, although I haven’t lifted nearly as intensely since. I have access to a nurse outside of a hospital so they helped me keep tabs on it, took something around 1.5 months to heal up though.

            The dichotomy of how resilient or fragile our bodies are is wild. I like your analogy of various consistencies of jello.

            Well on the bright side you found out about the hernia, hopefully before it was a serious issue and got it fixed.