Your ulcerative colitis sounds terrible. I can't imagine how it affects your life. I've known people with colitis that died from it. I have had a neurogenic bowel that occurred 59 years ago when I was partially paralyzed in surgery. It was more of a nuisance, having to run to the restroom and sometimes not making it. But never required me to go to the ER except when I had bleeding hemorrhoids. Requiring me to get a blood transfusion at the height of the covid epidemic here in Houston in January 2021.
But your experience and your account of others, having to wait for a diagnosis and treatment is beyond the pale compared to mine. I called 911 and an ambulance took me. That way, instead of waiting hours in the waiting room with infected people, I got right in, wheeled in a gurney, but had to wait to get admitted to the hospital. Got very bad treatment from the overworked and understaffed nursing staff and acquired a blood clot because I wasn't turned. It took two days for me to get my transfusion. Within three months, I had a hemorrhoidectomy that has stopped the bleeding and nearly made me regular again with occasional accidents, since I cannot get out of the wheelchair to go to the bathroom.
As result of my incontinence, I had a barium enema (very painful) and several colonoscopies that fortunately show my bowel normal and free from any growths or signs of cancer. I am curious about the use of the colonoscopy for you. To find where it is bleeding and stop it?
I was on prednisone for two years when a neurologist thought it would "cure" my declining function from my spinal cord injury thinking it was inflammation. The drug had some unpleasant side effects like making me very hungry and giving me an enlarging tummy I didn't want.
I heard of many ERs here in the United States that were overwhelmed during the pandemic as well. If only the deniers had taken the vaccines when they were first available so much suffering and death would've been avoided.
Finally, when I fell once, smashing my shyness and fracturing my eye orbit, I waited in the emergency room that had only a few other people waiting for five hours to get a CT scan. The whole time I had a tremendous headache that could have been my brain bleeding and no one seemed to care or give me any medication for it. Thankfully, the scan found the fracture and the headache went away eventually.
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But your experience and your account of others, having to wait for a diagnosis and treatment is beyond the pale compared to mine. I called 911 and an ambulance took me. That way, instead of waiting hours in the waiting room with infected people, I got right in, wheeled in a gurney, but had to wait to get admitted to the hospital. Got very bad treatment from the overworked and understaffed nursing staff and acquired a blood clot because I wasn't turned. It took two days for me to get my transfusion. Within three months, I had a hemorrhoidectomy that has stopped the bleeding and nearly made me regular again with occasional accidents, since I cannot get out of the wheelchair to go to the bathroom.
As result of my incontinence, I had a barium enema (very painful) and several colonoscopies that fortunately show my bowel normal and free from any growths or signs of cancer. I am curious about the use of the colonoscopy for you. To find where it is bleeding and stop it?
I was on prednisone for two years when a neurologist thought it would "cure" my declining function from my spinal cord injury thinking it was inflammation. The drug had some unpleasant side effects like making me very hungry and giving me an enlarging tummy I didn't want.
I heard of many ERs here in the United States that were overwhelmed during the pandemic as well. If only the deniers had taken the vaccines when they were first available so much suffering and death would've been avoided.
Finally, when I fell once, smashing my shyness and fracturing my eye orbit, I waited in the emergency room that had only a few other people waiting for five hours to get a CT scan. The whole time I had a tremendous headache that could have been my brain bleeding and no one seemed to care or give me any medication for it. Thankfully, the scan found the fracture and the headache went away eventually.
Ron