I totally agree with everything Beth, Michelle, and the others have said here. I know how much pain our bodies can generate if we don't pay attention--more demanding than a 2 year old! I also know how fast problems can go from being big to being deathly. A big part of my recovery from my fiasco in November was the love and support from my forum family. If I had your phone number I would be on the phone to you, Sweetie. We're not nagging, we're worried. As Beth said, be very attuned to your body. You know her better than anyone else, and she will demand that you listen. Your thread is the first one I go to whenever I come on, and when I'm not on I am sending you gentle healing energy, as are most of us on here, I imagine. One of the things that I find extraordinarily cruel is that you didn't need to suffer more than a couple of days at the most. This problem should have been addressed and eliminated months ago. I fault your doctors for not taking you seriously and causing you needless pain and suffering. I just hope their neglect of you as a patient doesn't cause you lifelong problems down the road. For example, Michelle had an obstructed gall bladder and tried to tough it out, since she is so tough.
By the time she went to the ER, her liver was nearly in failure, and when they took out her gall bladder they had to take 1/4 of her pancreas as well, because the obstruction had killed it off. Her payback for ignoring her body is that she has chronic pancreatitis, and I see how it rules her life day in and out.
We don't want you to be in pain anymore, and we don't want you to have lifelong afteraffects, and above all, we don't want you to die. I'm so glad you are keeping your promise to us about going to the ER when you need IVs. We love you, Carrie.