{"id":15782,"date":"2024-11-01T08:01:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T09:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=15782"},"modified":"2024-11-01T09:23:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T09:23:59","slug":"her-stomach-pain-was-unbearable-what-was-causing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=15782","title":{"rendered":"Her Stomach Pain Was Unbearable. What Was Causing It?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The terrible pain started a week earlier, and she had already been to the emergency room twice.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou need to go back to the hospital,\u201d the visiting nurse declared shortly after entering the 68-year-old woman\u2019s bedroom. The patient\u2019s hair was matted, her face pale and dotted with sweat. She moaned softly as she shifted in the bed, the tangled sheets a testament to her search for a comfortable position.<\/p>\n

The woman knew the nurse was right. The terrible pain in her gut started a week earlier, and she had already been to the emergency room twice, even though the pandemic had recently invaded her suburban Long Island town. She had to go back; something was horribly wrong with her.<\/p>\n

On her first visit, the E.R. was crowded with people in masks. When she was finally examined, the doctor offered reassurance and sent her home with a recommendation to follow up with her gastrointestinal doctor. But she couldn\u2019t follow up with anyone \u2014 she could barely get out of bed. She called her son in California and begged him to come help his father take care of her.<\/p>\n

Before her son could get there, she was back in the E.R. This time she was admitted. Her blood tests and CT scan were normal, but an endoscopy suggested that she had gastritis, an inflammation of the stomach lining. She was prescribed a strong antacid, a medication to coat her stomach and another to increase her gastrointestinal motility. The woman was dubious. She\u2019d had gastritis before; that pain was different and certainly not this severe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Her son arrived the day she was discharged from that hospital stay. He was shocked when he saw his mother being wheeled out. She was so thin, so pale and so very weak. It took both him and his father to support her into the car, then into the house.<\/p>\n

The medications didn\u2019t help. The woman spent four days at home in bed in pain. She couldn\u2019t eat and could barely drink. And then the nurse came and sent her back to the E.R. a third time.<\/p>\n

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The terrible pain started a week earlier, and she had already been to the emergency room twice.\u201cYou need to go back to the hospital,\u201d the visiting nurse declared shortly after entering the 68-year-old woman\u2019s bedroom. The patient\u2019s hair was matted, her face pale and dotted with sweat. She moaned softly as she shifted in the bed, the tangled sheets a testament to her search for a comfortable position.The woman knew the nurse was right. The terrible pain in her gut started a week earlier, and she had already been to the emergency room twice, even though the pandemic had recently invaded her suburban Long Island town. She had to go back; something was horribly wrong with her.On her first visit, the E.R. was crowded with people in masks. When she was finally examined, the doctor offered reassurance and sent her home with a recommendation to follow up with her gastrointestinal doctor. But she couldn\u2019t follow up with anyone \u2014 she could barely get out of bed. She called her son in California and begged him to come help his father take care of her.Before her son could get there, she was back in the E.R. This time she was admitted. Her blood tests and CT scan were normal, but an endoscopy suggested that she had gastritis, an inflammation of the stomach lining. She was prescribed a strong antacid, a medication to coat her stomach and another to increase her gastrointestinal motility. The woman was dubious. She\u2019d had gastritis before; that pain was different and certainly not this severe.Her son arrived the day she was discharged from that hospital stay. He was shocked when he saw his mother being wheeled out. She was so thin, so pale and so very weak. It took both him and his father to support her into the car, then into the house.The medications didn\u2019t help. The woman spent four days at home in bed in pain. She couldn\u2019t eat and could barely drink. And then the nurse came and sent her back to the E.R. a third time.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15784,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15785,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15782\/revisions\/15785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}