Do I Have a Medical Lawsuit?
Question by Melinda: Do I have a medical lawsuit?
Went to ER for severe abdominal pain and unable to have bowel movement for 2 weeks. I was the only patient in the waiting room due to it being only 7:30 a.m. Once in the ER room, I waited for approximately 1 1/2 hrs in pain to see the doctor. Then I was given Toradol and told I was getting xrays. Xrays showed large amount of stool and gas in entire colon. But nothing past transverse colon. Doctor said my colon had stopped working. Enema did not work. Around 12:30 p.m. I was given Dilaudid which finally helped the pain. I had to drink contrast for a CT. Approximately around 3:30 p.m. I was taken to CT. When IV contrast was injected, I started having severe abdominal pain. By the time I got back to my room, it was a 10 on the pain scale. Never felt pain like this. I pressed the Nurse Call button. No nurse came. About an hour or so later, the doctor comes in. Says he’s discharging me because he sees no obstruction. I’m crying and telling him my pain is a 10. He just stands there. I beg for pain medicine. He says no. Finally says he’ll give me more Toradol and another enema. I told him he was “full of crap” for sending me home and not checking out the sudden severe pain. He says, “Oh really?. Whatever Ma’am.” He leaves. I never see him again. About 45 minutes later the nurse comes in. She starts putting a medication in my IV. She says it’s Naloxone and says it should help me have a bowel movement. I ask, “What does it do?” She says “not sure.” I ask, “Are there side effects?” She says, “No.” I start feeling weird. My body starts burning and I get very anxious and scared. She leaves the room. Then I run across the hall to the bathroom and have a very painful bowel movement. For 24 hrs I have liquid diarrhea. I hear the nurses laughing and talking about it while other patients that are in the hallway and also able to hear. When I get back to my room, she’s there with the discharge papers. I’m still hurting and I remind her the doctor said he was going to give more Toradol. She goes to get it. At discharge, my pulse is 119 and rapid breathing. She doesn’t care. On the way out I have to run to the bathroom in the waiting room. I had to throw away my panties because I didn’t make it. The entire evening at home is spent in pain and the worst diarrhea I have ever had. I got severely dehydrated and was in bed for 3 days because I could barely move due to muscle fatigue from dehydration. Now, I have nightmares and my abdominal condition is worse. I also have anxiety attacks. The medicine given was supposed to be for emergency overdoses of narcotics. I don’t take pain medicine. They knew that. My pain was not treated and I was discharged when I should not have been. I feel that the doctor did this out of spite. In the course of 10 hrs, I saw him 3 minutes. The naloxone (Narcan) was misused. I’m an EMT and I know what it’s used for. It’s only for narcotic overdoses that are in respiratory distress or unresponsive. I was wide awake. I don’t take narcotics. Giving that reversed the pain relief from the Dilaudid a few hours before. Just found out that it can cause heart arrhythmias, seizures, rapid pulse, and pulmonary edema. The nurse knew what it was for but said she didn’t. Any medical person knows what this med is for. I was not told that I was getting it. They didn’t even do a urine drug test to confirm the need. Which would have been negative. Do I have a potential lawsuit?
Obviously you have never been in pain severe enough to cause you to beg. And NO I don’t take any meds at home at all. IV naloxone is NOT used for constipation. Even the ER manager told me that today. And, YES, I know what I’m talking about. Worked as an EMT for 11 yrs. The emotional stress and anxiety caused me to turn down a couple job interviews. Now I have emotional stress and anxiety that I’ve never had before.
And, NO, it did NOT help. It was liquid stool. Signs of Obstruction. I’ve still been having the abdominal pain and paralysis of my colon.
Obviously you have never been in pain severe enough to cause you to beg. And NO I don’t take any meds at home at all. IV naloxone is NOT used for constipation. Even the ER manager told me that today. And, YES, I know what I’m talking about. Worked as an EMT for 11 yrs. The emotional stress and anxiety caused me to turn down a couple job interviews. Now I have emotional stress and anxiety that I’ve never had before.
And, NO, it did NOT help. It was liquid stool. Signs of Obstruction. I’ve still been having the abdominal pain and paralysis of my colon.
Obviously you have never been in pain severe enough to cause you to beg. And NO I don’t take any meds at home at all. IV naloxone is NOT used for constipation. Even the ER manager told me that today. And, YES, I know what I’m talking about. Worked as an EMT for 11 yrs. The emotional stress and anxiety caused me to turn down a couple job interviews. Now I have emotional stress and anxiety that I’ve never had before.
And, NO, it did NOT help. It was liquid stool. Signs of Obstruction. I’ve still been having the abdominal pain and paralysis of my colon.
Obviously you have never been in pain severe enough to cause you to beg. And NO I don’t take any meds at home at all. IV naloxone is NOT used for constipation. Even the ER manager told me that today. And, YES, I know what I’m talking about. Worked as an EMT for 11 yrs. The emotional stress and anxiety caused me to turn down a couple job interviews. Now I have emotional stress and anxiety that I’ve never had before.
And, NO, it did NOT help. It was liquid stool. Signs of Obstruction. I’ve still been having the abdominal pain and paralysis of my colon.
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Answer by Arthur
So you went in with an obstructed bowel, get treated, successfully I might add, and now you want to take them to court for doing their job? I might add that if I were there I would assume you were on oxy due to the constipation, especially after you “beg for pain medication”.
Am I wrong?
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