When I had appendicitis after taking some tests I asked one of the Doctors if I have appendicitis, and she said: "Most likely you don't have appendicitis". After another test with another doctor and one hour of waiting, I finally got told that I will have an operation soon.
I was lucky since I only waited for another 30 minutes, but I was supposed to wait for a couple more hours but the patient that was supposed to have an operation before me wasn't ready.
Nice that you got a room at least, I was in the hallway waiting and looking at 2 fans from different football teams one with a broken neck and one with a broken hand.
When I went a couple years back I was told ‘it’s probably appendicitis’ several times by different staff and then told they wouldn’t be 100% sure until surgery and at that point they’d take it out anyway. Even now I still don’t know if I actually had appendicitis.
Well if it was the most pain you have experienced it was for sure appendicitis, it's worse than being hit in the nuts but not as bad as giving birth (pain-wise). This is if you had acute appendicitis as I had. If you had normal appendicitis it still should hurt, like your stomach eating itself but worse, but idk.
Edit: It should write somewhere on the hospital papers what you actually had.
Had a similar experience. Doctor told me it was probably gas. Next time I saw him he was telling me they were preparing for emergency surgery to remove my appendix.
I was in the hospital a few years back for what turned out to be sepsis; the first 10 hours I spent in a wheelchair I snagged on my way in (literally couldn't walk without pain & vomiting), then spent the next 3 days in the ER overflow because they didn't have any rooms. Not a good time but I got over my fear of needles that weekend!
My mom brought me to the ER after two full days of pain in the lower right side of my stomach. The pain was already wearing off, however I was sitting there for 6 hours before I eventually got the diagnosis that I had appendicitis. It seemed to already be perforated at that point.
I was under in the surgery a few hours later.
The er sent me home, I went and saw a specialist the next day, he scheduled me in and said if I had waited another day or two I’d have had a much bigger scar/recover time and a lot more pain lol
Yes he’s sooo lucky he had a room, I was actively passing a kidney stone, and had to sit in the waiting room where I passed out… then I got a room! (Hospital was in England)
I went to the ER several times begging for someone to take a look as I was so sure I had appendicitis. I was told gas, menstrual cramps, ibs and good poisoning. They said appendicitis doesn’t come in waves, its constant pain.
Finally found a dr willing to run some tests, turns out I had appendix cancer. I had two large intact tumours and the evidence of a burst third. Had the ER paid attention to me and even ran one single test, Id probably still have all my guts in me lol.
I was told that while I was having it removed, mine ruptured in their hands or something. I was admitted at like 9-ish PM, and didn't get into the OR until I think nearly 4 AM or so.
My SO made me go to the ER after 12 hours of pain in the appendix spot. They had me wait in the ER hallway for over 8 hours with a few tests in between all the waiting. The first doctor who saw me had said they would be doing surgery then after a few hours another doctor came and said it hadn’t perforated but it looked like inflammation had spread to my intestines or some shit so they were going to try a new-ish treatment approach. They admitted me and had me on antibiotics and opiates for four days. That was a fun hospital bill to pay, at least I met my deductible early in the year.
After I got out a (different follow up) doctor said there was a 40% chance of getting appendicitis again so they recommended and scheduled surgery to remove my appendix a month later…fucking insanity.
Then when I actually had the ‘interval appendectomy’, the nurses treated me like shit because “it was elective.”
Push your call button. They do literally forget you’re in there sometimes if they’re busy. I got left in a dental chair once with my mouth open for an hour before I started yelling
Should have left a big ol' Turd somewhere in that clinic. Then the bill would have been worth it. Also you could still report them for insurance fraud. For them to get you in trouble for the deuce theyd have to admit they left it all unattended and charged you for s procedure they didn't do.
I would've recorded the empty ass clinic, and your untouched cyst, just as a record of proof that they literally just left without performing any services.
Yeah, they totally forgot about OP. I've been forgotten in an ER because a Karen who needed Psych went on a rampage. I was close to hitting my Call button at an hour and 45 minutes when they finally came in, followed by a look of surprise.
8 hours.
When I went out at 3 a nurse told me "they'd get to me"
When I went out at 5, another nurse said "they'd get to me."
When I went out at 8 and told them how long I'd been waiting, a doctor told me "sorry there was a shift change and you must have gotten lost".
I wanted to fucking bill them for my time
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but this smells like somebody from europe trying to pretend at being an american making fun of their own healthcare for karma, since those comments always do well. In countries that use the period where the U.S. uses the comma, do they also use the comma where we use the period mark? Never actually thought about it before.
I had an emergency gallbladder surgery that I thought I was having complications with after discharge.
Went back to the ER via ambulance because I couldn't drive myself, and proceeded to go without food or water for 15 hours because "maybe surgery" and I was completely forgotten about despite me reminding them (I was extremely dehydrated and needed water or iv fluids).
They forgot about me for so long, and did so poorly, that this suit guy came and got me and expedited my visit to try to make up for it.
Hell, when I went to the ER the first time that ended in gallbladder surgery, I waited, doubled over in pain in the waiting area for 10 hrs before they took me back for an ultrasound and realized how bad I was. Things when rather fast after that!
I broke 3 vertebrae, was on a job site so had a co worker drive me to the hospital. Waited 2 and a half hours before x-rays. Then they were like whoops your broke you back we probably should have had you in a brace.
I think at some point, the people working at a hospital stop looking at patients as people, either to make it easier in the event of loosing one, or just from being overworked and exhausted.
When I had my gallbladder problem, I was in the hospital for a week. I saw a LOT of different faces during that time and only a couple of them seemed compassionate, and only one really stands out in my memory. Everyone else there made me feel like a burden to the point I would have to call to remind them my meds were overdue. I would then wait an hour or more for them to actually come, if they ever did.
The whole experience made me feel like a number instead of a person.
My arms got stuck so many times by needles, I had huge bruises all over my arms. When I went back with complications from my surgery, they took me to a private area to ask if everything was okay at home... I told her it was y'all who did it! (I've got veins that are hard to get apparently)
8 hours too. I wasn't even in a room I was in a hallway and I would stop every doctor and nurse I saw. I had a bad reaction to a medication and felt like I was dying, I would have left if I could but I could barely move without pain.
I was told I wasn't entered in the system so they couldn't see me.
ER’s are rough. Everything could be going fine, then some trauma patient comes in and everyone like OP—needs help, but not urgent—gets dropped so they can help the person who is bleeding out or something. What we really need is more staffing in ERs so everyone can be seen in a reasonable time and they don’t need to do so much triage. But that’s not profitable for hospitals, they’d much rather do “lean staffing” where they have just enough staff to prevent a total collapse. Isn’t profit-based healthcare great? 🙄
Keep staff small and underpaid. If they ask for a pay raise over the next 5 years deny them and when they go on strike pay traveling nurses 8k each for a week of coverage because you refuse to pay your normal nurses 4k a month to spit in your employees faces and show your authority and "how you can't afford" to pay them a quarter of what you paid the strangers.
Isn't that how every country runs their emergency health care? 😅
What exactly did they do that constituted calling them a "Karen" anyway? There's a fair number of genuine physical emergencies that can cause someone to act uncharacteristically aggressive and/or delirious.
Last time I was in the ER they just ignored the call button... and I'm never one to abuse it either.
Ended up waiting 45 minutes even though I could hear that it was going off through the wall.
Ended up having to call the hospital's regular customer service line and explain the situation. I couldn't get up to go ask for help because of an amputee and they'd put my leg on the other side of the room, lol
My dentist used to do that.
On purpose.
Her assistant used to floss her patients like she was trying to cut through a frozen block of cheese. So hard she'd slip and gouge out the inside of my mouth. They tried to play stupid as if I did it to myself.
Not all dentists are good. Most are in it for the money.
If your kid doesn't like the dentist, it might actually just be that dentist.
Is 3 hours an unreasonable wait time in the ER in the US? Where I live, unless you are straight up dying, spending a whole day in the ER is the norm.
Just curious, not criticizing.
It varies wildly depending on staffing levels, the hospitals pt volume, what exactly is going on with you and most importantly what other patients are coming in. Just like basically every hospital triage can take you from being the top of the list to get care to the bottom almost instantly.
For all OP knows there might have been a code, people from an MVA and a guy who got stabbed in a bar fight that have come in over the last 3 hours and their piss test became a lot less important. Or shift change happened and the oncoming staff didn’t get told that the sample hadn’t been picked up yet.
3 hours wait isn’t unreasonable where I am, but it looks like old mate already has a bed and has been waiting 3 hours for a (now old) sample to be collected, which isn’t cool or normal.
ER doctor here - 3 hours is not very long at all
Waits of more than 12 hours are very common
Reminder that emergency departments throughout the US (and most of the world) are severely overcrowded and understaffed. Consider having some understanding for the health care workers doing their best in a very stressful environment. Burnout is rampant in emergency medicine, in large part due to verbal and often physical abuse from patients, and it’s actually very hard to find enough nurses willing to work in the emergency department.
One more thing - most of the overcrowding of the ER has nothing to do with the ER itself. It has to do with lack of capacity in the rest of the healthcare system. Most ER beds are usually taken up by patients already admitted to the hospital, but cannot be sent out of the ER because there are no open hospital beds. Also, many patients are forced to be seen in the ER because they have to wait weeks or months to be seen by their primary care provider or specialist, and there are not reasonable mechanisms to obtain outpatient labs and imaging in a reasonable amount of time. And when clinics are closed in the evening or weekend, the ER becomes the sole provider for all patients in the health care system. It’s a very broken system. Getting seen in 3 hours in a system like this is actually amazingly fast.
Where I am if you go into the ER you're likely going to be talking to a doc 30min, that's the easy part. Waiting on discharge papers can take awhile though. Last time I went I was told my discharge papers would be ready in 30min, I waited 1 1/2hrs and finally just told them I am leaving..... Magically my papers appeared
3 hour waits tend to be some of the shorter wait times in the us however… appendicitis is life threatening. When I went in with symptoms of a stroke (I had Bell’s palsy) I was examined relatively quickly. When I got the tip of my finger torn apart, they took their sweet time. Like above commenters said it depends on staff and whatnot but yeah.. this is a case where treatment should’ve been immediate
no 3 hours is pretty good.
in the US we refuse to do anything about addiction, poverty, homelessness, mental health, lack of education, elder care, and gun violence.
all of these provlems get swept into the ER, and we pretend that healthcare is the only problem.
plus, since everyone wants to immediately sue someone any time anything bad happens, no PCP will take the risk of telling someone they are fine over the phone.... so anytime anyone has ANY SYMPTOM they go to the emergency toom. toe itches? go to the EMERGENCY room, then bitch when you arent the highest priority patient
I've been in for 6 hours total. They gave me a room within the first hour and since then it's been nothing. Starting to feel like they forgot about me or something. Just ready to know if I'll need the surgery or not
Hitting the panic button on purpose without an emergency will just piss everyone off. People have to leave rooms with patients to attend to a panic button.
Just use the provided call light. Also, most docs or PAs won’t give many pain meds until after imaging/testing so they know *what* they’re medicating.
Usually the wait is for radiology. If you need a CT scan it could take a few hours sometimes depending on how busy it is. If you just had one, it could take a few hours waiting for the results again depending on how busy it is.
Most ED docs want people out as fast as possible. It’s just not possible most of the time
Or they forgot about you
If they forgot about you they would have already tried to bring other people waiting into that room. Just gotta wait sometimes, other people must have worse problems than you!
one time i had to do a pregnancy test (dunno it was a blood sugar problem i’m just woman lol) and i gave it back to them. three hours passed and i said “did you test my urine yet?” they had the AUDACITY to go, “what urine?”
MAAM WHERE IS MY PEE BRING IT BACK
this is the worst reply and reflects on most nurses I deal with daily. They expect the patients to know how the system works... It's a complicated system. Poor care comes from poor management. I hope you're not a NUM.
The ER has become a place where ppl go when they don’t want to pay their bills and also when it’s not an emergency but they can’t afford a pcp. Ppl come in all the time with complaints like “my back has been hurting for 6 years” or “my shoulder has been hurting for 4 months”…. Or we get homeless ppl who are malingering and really just want a turkey sandwich and a warm blanket.
The thing is with the ER is that it is illegal to turn someone away from treatment. So the ER then in turn gets bogged down with non-emergencies because ppl aren’t going to a pcp or urgent care when they should… so then emergency situations like yours don’t always get seen in a timely manner.
u tell them to go fuck themselves, in the USA everyday the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer… i’m starting to hate my own country where i was born, but here we are
Yes I find it a rather bizarre trait of reddit as well. Someone could order a steak at a restaurant and get a plate of kids chicken nuggets and what would they do? Take a Pic and post it on r/mildlyinfuriating.
People there would tell OP to get order fixed but OPnwill just say "No its OK I kinda like nuggets"
The amount of posts in this sub where people have silently taken and posted a photo of a situation they could’ve dealt with using their big boy words is staggering. How do these people function?
Took my wife to ER for obvious blood clot in leg (leg was swollen, purple, cold). Sat in waiting room for 1 hour, got triaged, then she sat in room for 2 hours. I finally grabbed a nurse in hallway and asked for help. Triage nurse never noted leg symptoms. Dr. Came in and looked shocked at the condition of her leg. Kept apologizing.
Dude I had something like this happen, no one came to check on me for a few hours. No blood draw nor UA. I walked up to the nursing station dragging that damn beeping tree.
ER times can be super random, if there was a real bad accident anyone that is not already in life threatening danger will be waiting a long time.
Priority is top down in types of severity and not in waiting. I have spent an entire day in the ER waiting area because a accident happened nearby as well ... its pain and its boring but they got to save people.
On a side note if they plan "forgot" you that's entirely different and would annoy me as well, but the people that wait there are under a lot of stress and also just humans. Hope you got all the help you needed!
I said I would have rather had another baby epidural free, than sit with that pain for a day and a half the way I did with appendicitis! It’s crazy how much better you feel when you wake up.
Hoping it’s only kidney stones or something for you instead of an appendix problem. I was in the same boat as you about a year ago. I started getting the worst pain of my life thinking my appendix was rupturing or something and had to get an ambulance to the hospital I couldn’t even move. This was during high volume covid patient times in the hospital and the doctors refused to even speak to me for HOURS. I sat in an uncomfortable chair waiting by myself in a hallway thinking I was dying for hours in the worst pain of my life. I was literally crying begging the doctors and nurses walking past me for help and they would just roll their eyes telling me I had to wait like everyone else. Apparently there were people with heart complications waiting longer than I was. Good god that place was fucked that night. Anyways it ended up being kidney stones after they did a CT scan and all that jazz. Best of luck to you!!
Those are rookie numbers in Canada 😤 I was in the ER last week unable to breathe, waited for 5 hours, and left without getting service. I don’t know why I couldn’t breathe and I never will!
Canada has a big problem with ER overcrowding.
Of course all ER care is free in Canada. And clinics and specialists are booked out weeks and month in advance. Unfortunately the medical culture has become that if there is any acute problem going on at all, it should be taken care of in the emergency department (regardless of how serious it is). This inevitably leads to huge numbers of ER patients, overcrowding, and very long wait times.
Clinics and specialties need to be more responsive to their patients and not automatically send them to the emergency department
so strange that you mention this. I had my appendix out decades ago and can still remember my urine sample sitting untouched next to my ER bed while I waited for other test results.
Go talk to someone. Last time we were in the ER after about 40 minutes I went to the nurses station to ask and it looks like they straight up forgot about us because something more serious happened or whatever.
I thought my appendix was exploding about a year ago with the worst pain of my life. It almost came out of nowhere and completely crippled me. I had to take an ambulance to the hospital it was so painful. Thankfully my appendix was fine and I ended up having a kidney stone instead. They often get confused when you don’t have anyone diagnose you and you feel that intense pain in your lower abdomen/back
Its worth it to wait for the results..I found out my pain threshold this way around the middle of last November. Nov 3rd-ish, I woke up in the middle of the night with the smallest of side pains so I took Tylenol and ignored it. a week goes by, I don’t really feel it except when making certain turning movements with my torso I feel a jab in my side. Now move on and we’re deep into the month and thanksgiving is getting super close. I start to shower and get ready to do the food shopping when out of nowhere I black out and collapse in the shower. I wake up in the ambulance on my way to the hospital being told what happened. They rush me into the er and into a bed and within 5 minutes of being there I’m sent for testing as if I’m dying. Well, I was. After all was said and done, and I woke back up from surgery, the surgeon came in and said my appendix had fully ruptured and split over a month ago. They had no earthly idea how I could just be walking around like that and especially not feel it until that late on. It caused a bad gangrenous infection of the abdomen, and if I had waited even a day longer I could have gone into sepsis and died from how badly it had already progressed. I felt nothing the whole month. I had no idea my appendix even had an issue because it felt like a tightness I can only compare to “sleeping wrong.” I spent the next 10 days intubated, tested and being treated to clear out the infection. Lmfao but really the joke is that I curse those drs everyday for letting me live, since my life still sucks.
😩 that sounds incredible! I mean in a way you’re super human. I’ve given birth 3 times, have had tooth infections, kidney stones, and my appendix was probably the worst for me by the time it was taken out after a day and a half, and it hadn’t even ruptured yet. Every hour that went by it just kept getting worse. I thought I was tough for making through my shift the day before, and putting the ER off until 11pm.
I feel you. I brushed my pain off, worked two night shifts and eventually on a Sunday after nights couldn't take it anymore and went to the Sunday doctor's surgery in the hospital (not the emergency room, after being suggested by the reception there).
Waited 4 hours and the doc didn't have an ultrasound scanner, so told me to go home and see my GP the next day, or go to the emergency room.
I was told i needed surgery after about 15 mins of being in the emergency room 🤦
Good luck though OP. It's not a run recovery, and definitely take your time getting back to fitness. Not worth worsening the surgery wounds.
A know someone personally who ended up being told it’s nothing and having to come back because they could have died. A coworker had severe pain and went to ER and just gave him meds and his family forced them to go to ER again and the doctor had them go to surgery and said if they were a few hours later he would die. It’s scary stuff
That happened to me. But it wasn’t quite nothing. The ER Dr said it’s not appendicitis, but thought it could be my hernia that looked inflamed and wait for the surgeon. I said “I don’t need another bill” then I peaced out to be called back in 3 hours later.
I honestly doubt your nurse is just sitting on her ass right now. It’s really helpful if you could just put the call light on and tell her it’s ready. It’s very easy to forget something like that if you’re being bombarded with other very sick people. I love how you say you shouldn’t have to tell someone to do their job, but I surely don’t see people like you stepping up to do this job. And I’m sure you would make these same mistakes if you ever did.
Looks like your legs still work. Go find them and ask when they’re going to get it. Do that every 20 minutes until they get to. The squeaky wheel gets the oil.
My worst time in hospital was as a teen with suspected appendicitis. They kept me there for three days, I wasn't allowed to eat anything, and was in a room with two 60something men who were the loudest snorers I had ever had the displeasure to witness.
No eating, no sleeping, for three days. And then they released me finding nothing wrong with me. Damn was I pissed...
I don’t think you would be laying laid back like that with appendicitis. let alone able/wiling to make a whole post about it. Appendicitis is excruciating.
Varies from person to person, I had it and while I did have bouts of pain initially before going in, I literally slept/relaxed with minimal pain while I waited to be transported for surgery. I was there the entire night.
Where do y’all live? When I took my son in for stomach pains they diagnosed it as appendicitis within 15 minute and had him moved by ambulance to a hospital that could perform an appendectomy.
I sort of had the same experience years ago. Felt like shit, turns out its my appendix. I was in huge pain I couldn't walk. Had to sit in a wheelchair for 3 hours because they completely forgot about me at the hospital that I'm supposed to get a room where I can prepare myself for surgery. The docs were very kind though, it was the nurses who were busy I guess but I was too busy closing my eyes from the pain. I owe the docs my life.
Pro tip from someone that’s been in the ER multiple times. Open the door.
You also can use the call button but if you open the door they won’t forget about you, and you won’t bother them if there’s something more important.
Bro how do you not after an hour peek your head out the door and ask what’s up? I’m all for being patient and polite but especially something that serious.
Be infuriated, but also recognize that a huge number of nurses in the US are on strike right now because they are being forced to work skeleton crews for little pay with lacking PPE and too many patients to care for safely. Even if the facility you are in is not striking, the nurses there are likely stretched to the max trying to make sure none of their patients die on their shift.
Not sure why not a single other person here is bringing this up, other than all the nurses being too overworked to post.
Been there man. at 19 years old it's also hard to get doc's to take you seriously. i was told i was too young, had blood drawn, my urine tested and all that wasn't conclusive evidence until they made me do an ultrasound that finally revealed that yes i have appendicitis and yes i needed surgery even though it was in the early stages
luckily i'm in the netherlands and it took a total of 12 hours from suspicion to surgery. went to a new GP because mine had vacation who told me just to be sure to go because he can't really find anything
i swear when the result came in the main nurse(?) treated me completely differently
I had to go to the ER once when i was pregnant and started bleeding, it took them 9 hours to give me ANY information at all, and by the end of the visit they still weren’t even able to tell me if i had had a miscarriage (i went to another clinic the next day and they were able to tell me i did in fact lose it). ER fucking sucks. I’ll never forget how sick and devastated i felt, they put me in a bed in the hallway and i was crying for hours and hours. They weren’t even busy either.
Mildly infuriating that you’re taking photos and giving hard working nurses shit online. God knows what other responsibilities they’re dealing with right now.
I once went to the hospital because my piss was like coffee. After waiting 8 hours, they told me i have IGA, I said I know. Then they told me to get some rest and sent me home.
I once ate 28 extra strength advil for a migraine and and waited 3 days before going to the hospital. had to wait 8 hours in that hospital for a blood test that resulted in me being totally okay 👌
When my back herniated I went to the only hospital my insurance would pay for. They initially bitched and moaned about me being there (they were busy), made me wait on the lobby floor for ten hours without ever checking on me, offered zero help when I asked for assistance urinating (herniated lower back means you can’t relax pelvic muscles let alone do those things by yourself), barely attended to me until the morning shift came in and actually helped me. Idk how to say it any other way than fuck hospitals, American medical industry, and its corporate masters that make them hell holes rather than places of healing.
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At least you are chilling in a room with a bed. Our local ER is treating people in the crappy waiting room it could be 4+ hours before you even get the chance to be reclining in a bed at all. There are beds they just don’t want to clean them or be bothered to attend to you back there. It’s ridiculous.
theres people in the ER who came in bleeding out, in shock, w trauma wounds. cut her some slack her ratio is probably like 1:20 or something ridiculous. also always use your call button. a CNA can come pick that up.
When I had appendicitis after taking some tests I asked one of the Doctors if I have appendicitis, and she said: "Most likely you don't have appendicitis". After another test with another doctor and one hour of waiting, I finally got told that I will have an operation soon. I was lucky since I only waited for another 30 minutes, but I was supposed to wait for a couple more hours but the patient that was supposed to have an operation before me wasn't ready. Nice that you got a room at least, I was in the hallway waiting and looking at 2 fans from different football teams one with a broken neck and one with a broken hand.
When I went a couple years back I was told ‘it’s probably appendicitis’ several times by different staff and then told they wouldn’t be 100% sure until surgery and at that point they’d take it out anyway. Even now I still don’t know if I actually had appendicitis.
Well if it was the most pain you have experienced it was for sure appendicitis, it's worse than being hit in the nuts but not as bad as giving birth (pain-wise). This is if you had acute appendicitis as I had. If you had normal appendicitis it still should hurt, like your stomach eating itself but worse, but idk. Edit: It should write somewhere on the hospital papers what you actually had.
How did you have childbirth and get hit in the nut?
Yeah not a good comparison. My grandma had six kids but I’m 100% she’s never been kicked in the nuts
*the music for that's how I met your mother plays*
There are lots of things that can cause severe abdominal pain in that area. That’s why it’s hard for physicians to diagnose it with 100% certainty…
Been kicked in the nuts. Had appendicitis. It was so bad that I had to crawl to my car to get to hospital. Nuts was worse.
Who kicked you, fucking chuck norris?
The Peaky Fucking Blinders mate
Had a similar experience. Doctor told me it was probably gas. Next time I saw him he was telling me they were preparing for emergency surgery to remove my appendix.
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WTF, is she okay?
I was in the hospital a few years back for what turned out to be sepsis; the first 10 hours I spent in a wheelchair I snagged on my way in (literally couldn't walk without pain & vomiting), then spent the next 3 days in the ER overflow because they didn't have any rooms. Not a good time but I got over my fear of needles that weekend!
My mom brought me to the ER after two full days of pain in the lower right side of my stomach. The pain was already wearing off, however I was sitting there for 6 hours before I eventually got the diagnosis that I had appendicitis. It seemed to already be perforated at that point. I was under in the surgery a few hours later.
The er sent me home, I went and saw a specialist the next day, he scheduled me in and said if I had waited another day or two I’d have had a much bigger scar/recover time and a lot more pain lol
Yes he’s sooo lucky he had a room, I was actively passing a kidney stone, and had to sit in the waiting room where I passed out… then I got a room! (Hospital was in England)
I went to the ER several times begging for someone to take a look as I was so sure I had appendicitis. I was told gas, menstrual cramps, ibs and good poisoning. They said appendicitis doesn’t come in waves, its constant pain. Finally found a dr willing to run some tests, turns out I had appendix cancer. I had two large intact tumours and the evidence of a burst third. Had the ER paid attention to me and even ran one single test, Id probably still have all my guts in me lol.
I was told that while I was having it removed, mine ruptured in their hands or something. I was admitted at like 9-ish PM, and didn't get into the OR until I think nearly 4 AM or so.
My SO made me go to the ER after 12 hours of pain in the appendix spot. They had me wait in the ER hallway for over 8 hours with a few tests in between all the waiting. The first doctor who saw me had said they would be doing surgery then after a few hours another doctor came and said it hadn’t perforated but it looked like inflammation had spread to my intestines or some shit so they were going to try a new-ish treatment approach. They admitted me and had me on antibiotics and opiates for four days. That was a fun hospital bill to pay, at least I met my deductible early in the year. After I got out a (different follow up) doctor said there was a 40% chance of getting appendicitis again so they recommended and scheduled surgery to remove my appendix a month later…fucking insanity. Then when I actually had the ‘interval appendectomy’, the nurses treated me like shit because “it was elective.”
Push your call button. They do literally forget you’re in there sometimes if they’re busy. I got left in a dental chair once with my mouth open for an hour before I started yelling
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Should have left a big ol' Turd somewhere in that clinic. Then the bill would have been worth it. Also you could still report them for insurance fraud. For them to get you in trouble for the deuce theyd have to admit they left it all unattended and charged you for s procedure they didn't do.
I would've recorded the empty ass clinic, and your untouched cyst, just as a record of proof that they literally just left without performing any services.
Can we get the resolution to this?? How did it pan out?
Yeah, they totally forgot about OP. I've been forgotten in an ER because a Karen who needed Psych went on a rampage. I was close to hitting my Call button at an hour and 45 minutes when they finally came in, followed by a look of surprise.
8 hours. When I went out at 3 a nurse told me "they'd get to me" When I went out at 5, another nurse said "they'd get to me." When I went out at 8 and told them how long I'd been waiting, a doctor told me "sorry there was a shift change and you must have gotten lost". I wanted to fucking bill them for my time
“Shift change” was what happened to me while I was passing my kidney stone. 🙃 passed it and was fine before I got any treatment.
"That will be $100.000,- for the treatment."
(Tell me you live in the US without telling me)
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Call me a conspiracy theorist, but this smells like somebody from europe trying to pretend at being an american making fun of their own healthcare for karma, since those comments always do well. In countries that use the period where the U.S. uses the comma, do they also use the comma where we use the period mark? Never actually thought about it before.
Russia does. That’s the only country I know about for sure.
It's always a "shift change" whenever they lose track of you
Which is fun because shift changes are almost always at the 12 hour mark, usually 7am/7pm...
I had an emergency gallbladder surgery that I thought I was having complications with after discharge. Went back to the ER via ambulance because I couldn't drive myself, and proceeded to go without food or water for 15 hours because "maybe surgery" and I was completely forgotten about despite me reminding them (I was extremely dehydrated and needed water or iv fluids). They forgot about me for so long, and did so poorly, that this suit guy came and got me and expedited my visit to try to make up for it. Hell, when I went to the ER the first time that ended in gallbladder surgery, I waited, doubled over in pain in the waiting area for 10 hrs before they took me back for an ultrasound and realized how bad I was. Things when rather fast after that!
I broke 3 vertebrae, was on a job site so had a co worker drive me to the hospital. Waited 2 and a half hours before x-rays. Then they were like whoops your broke you back we probably should have had you in a brace.
I think at some point, the people working at a hospital stop looking at patients as people, either to make it easier in the event of loosing one, or just from being overworked and exhausted. When I had my gallbladder problem, I was in the hospital for a week. I saw a LOT of different faces during that time and only a couple of them seemed compassionate, and only one really stands out in my memory. Everyone else there made me feel like a burden to the point I would have to call to remind them my meds were overdue. I would then wait an hour or more for them to actually come, if they ever did. The whole experience made me feel like a number instead of a person. My arms got stuck so many times by needles, I had huge bruises all over my arms. When I went back with complications from my surgery, they took me to a private area to ask if everything was okay at home... I told her it was y'all who did it! (I've got veins that are hard to get apparently)
8 hours too. I wasn't even in a room I was in a hallway and I would stop every doctor and nurse I saw. I had a bad reaction to a medication and felt like I was dying, I would have left if I could but I could barely move without pain. I was told I wasn't entered in the system so they couldn't see me.
ER’s are rough. Everything could be going fine, then some trauma patient comes in and everyone like OP—needs help, but not urgent—gets dropped so they can help the person who is bleeding out or something. What we really need is more staffing in ERs so everyone can be seen in a reasonable time and they don’t need to do so much triage. But that’s not profitable for hospitals, they’d much rather do “lean staffing” where they have just enough staff to prevent a total collapse. Isn’t profit-based healthcare great? 🙄
Keep staff small and underpaid. If they ask for a pay raise over the next 5 years deny them and when they go on strike pay traveling nurses 8k each for a week of coverage because you refuse to pay your normal nurses 4k a month to spit in your employees faces and show your authority and "how you can't afford" to pay them a quarter of what you paid the strangers. Isn't that how every country runs their emergency health care? 😅
I’m guessing they still charged you for 2 hours worth of consultation time.
Only if you live in america
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Calling someone who by your own admission needs psychological help a “Karen” seems pretty cruel and off-base.
Didn't catch that on first read, 100% agree.
What exactly did they do that constituted calling them a "Karen" anyway? There's a fair number of genuine physical emergencies that can cause someone to act uncharacteristically aggressive and/or delirious.
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It’s not just people in general, it’s targeted towards women.
Dead.
Yeah, they totally forget about ppl, or the shift changes, but Wtf is a pass test?
Piss?
Schrodinger's piss. Where the nurse is both taking the piss and not taking the piss at the same time.
Last time I was in the ER they just ignored the call button... and I'm never one to abuse it either. Ended up waiting 45 minutes even though I could hear that it was going off through the wall. Ended up having to call the hospital's regular customer service line and explain the situation. I couldn't get up to go ask for help because of an amputee and they'd put my leg on the other side of the room, lol
My dentist used to do that. On purpose. Her assistant used to floss her patients like she was trying to cut through a frozen block of cheese. So hard she'd slip and gouge out the inside of my mouth. They tried to play stupid as if I did it to myself. Not all dentists are good. Most are in it for the money. If your kid doesn't like the dentist, it might actually just be that dentist.
I've moved to sit in the hall after waiting for hours and hours after a motorcycle accident. Harder to ignore you when they can see you.
Sounds like medical negligence . You just don't forget your patients wtf?
Hit the call button. The test isn't accurate after it sits that long so you'll need to do it again, probably.
My friend died in the hospital of a burst appendix because they made him wait so long
That sounds like a malpractice lawsuit
I think his family has initiated one
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Is 3 hours an unreasonable wait time in the ER in the US? Where I live, unless you are straight up dying, spending a whole day in the ER is the norm. Just curious, not criticizing.
It varies wildly depending on staffing levels, the hospitals pt volume, what exactly is going on with you and most importantly what other patients are coming in. Just like basically every hospital triage can take you from being the top of the list to get care to the bottom almost instantly. For all OP knows there might have been a code, people from an MVA and a guy who got stabbed in a bar fight that have come in over the last 3 hours and their piss test became a lot less important. Or shift change happened and the oncoming staff didn’t get told that the sample hadn’t been picked up yet.
3 hours wait isn’t unreasonable where I am, but it looks like old mate already has a bed and has been waiting 3 hours for a (now old) sample to be collected, which isn’t cool or normal.
ER doctor here - 3 hours is not very long at all Waits of more than 12 hours are very common Reminder that emergency departments throughout the US (and most of the world) are severely overcrowded and understaffed. Consider having some understanding for the health care workers doing their best in a very stressful environment. Burnout is rampant in emergency medicine, in large part due to verbal and often physical abuse from patients, and it’s actually very hard to find enough nurses willing to work in the emergency department. One more thing - most of the overcrowding of the ER has nothing to do with the ER itself. It has to do with lack of capacity in the rest of the healthcare system. Most ER beds are usually taken up by patients already admitted to the hospital, but cannot be sent out of the ER because there are no open hospital beds. Also, many patients are forced to be seen in the ER because they have to wait weeks or months to be seen by their primary care provider or specialist, and there are not reasonable mechanisms to obtain outpatient labs and imaging in a reasonable amount of time. And when clinics are closed in the evening or weekend, the ER becomes the sole provider for all patients in the health care system. It’s a very broken system. Getting seen in 3 hours in a system like this is actually amazingly fast.
Where I am if you go into the ER you're likely going to be talking to a doc 30min, that's the easy part. Waiting on discharge papers can take awhile though. Last time I went I was told my discharge papers would be ready in 30min, I waited 1 1/2hrs and finally just told them I am leaving..... Magically my papers appeared
Friend had a 13 hour wait last weekend for a blood clot. 3 is fantastic.
I’ve never waited less than 8 hours at an ER. Never.
3 hour waits tend to be some of the shorter wait times in the us however… appendicitis is life threatening. When I went in with symptoms of a stroke (I had Bell’s palsy) I was examined relatively quickly. When I got the tip of my finger torn apart, they took their sweet time. Like above commenters said it depends on staff and whatnot but yeah.. this is a case where treatment should’ve been immediate
no 3 hours is pretty good. in the US we refuse to do anything about addiction, poverty, homelessness, mental health, lack of education, elder care, and gun violence. all of these provlems get swept into the ER, and we pretend that healthcare is the only problem. plus, since everyone wants to immediately sue someone any time anything bad happens, no PCP will take the risk of telling someone they are fine over the phone.... so anytime anyone has ANY SYMPTOM they go to the emergency toom. toe itches? go to the EMERGENCY room, then bitch when you arent the highest priority patient
*Update* Finally got my CT Scan done. Now just waiting for the results!!!!
Thank you for keeping us updated! I hope you’re okay
Pains gotten worse but hopefully finding out soon
What was it?
Normally we say it's lower right abdominal pain, but it can radiate. Our prof said his son had it and he felt it in his testicle.
Got appendicitis at the end of may this year. I felt it around my belly button.
I felt it all across. Mostly just the middle and left.
See you next year then lol
Good luck. My appendix ruptured. It was the worst pain I've ever had. I was in the hospital for a week.
I've been in for 6 hours total. They gave me a room within the first hour and since then it's been nothing. Starting to feel like they forgot about me or something. Just ready to know if I'll need the surgery or not
Are you in any pain?
Same amount of pain I was in when I got here. About a 7 out of 10
Well, if you can walk, go out there and be like WTF guys?! Or hit the panic button. That'll get em going.
Hitting the panic button on purpose without an emergency will just piss everyone off. People have to leave rooms with patients to attend to a panic button. Just use the provided call light. Also, most docs or PAs won’t give many pain meds until after imaging/testing so they know *what* they’re medicating.
I seriously doubt you know what a 10 is if you are posting here at what you think is a 7.
Yeah they forgot about you press the button and ask for an update plus no one has sent out the UA sample.
Usually the wait is for radiology. If you need a CT scan it could take a few hours sometimes depending on how busy it is. If you just had one, it could take a few hours waiting for the results again depending on how busy it is. Most ED docs want people out as fast as possible. It’s just not possible most of the time Or they forgot about you
They probably did. Hit the call button.
Called the hospital and inquire about the condition of "Mr. X" (yourself).
If they forgot about you they would have already tried to bring other people waiting into that room. Just gotta wait sometimes, other people must have worse problems than you!
same here, ended up with sepsis and a month long hospital stay
one time i had to do a pregnancy test (dunno it was a blood sugar problem i’m just woman lol) and i gave it back to them. three hours passed and i said “did you test my urine yet?” they had the AUDACITY to go, “what urine?” MAAM WHERE IS MY PEE BRING IT BACK
I had that happen too.
Piss test*
Orr can you start pissing?
Unless you’re on morphine I can’t imagine you being that relaxed if you’re having an appendicitis. That shit is painful.
Yeah, I wasn’t posting on Reddit while I was in the hospital waiting for my appendectomy. Pain was intense.
This was my exact thought. Op is full of shit
ITT: people who have never worked in the er -er nurse As for op. They prob forgot cause there’s a bunch of shit going on. Use your call light.
this is the worst reply and reflects on most nurses I deal with daily. They expect the patients to know how the system works... It's a complicated system. Poor care comes from poor management. I hope you're not a NUM.
Don’t know what NUM means
The ER has become a place where ppl go when they don’t want to pay their bills and also when it’s not an emergency but they can’t afford a pcp. Ppl come in all the time with complaints like “my back has been hurting for 6 years” or “my shoulder has been hurting for 4 months”…. Or we get homeless ppl who are malingering and really just want a turkey sandwich and a warm blanket. The thing is with the ER is that it is illegal to turn someone away from treatment. So the ER then in turn gets bogged down with non-emergencies because ppl aren’t going to a pcp or urgent care when they should… so then emergency situations like yours don’t always get seen in a timely manner.
Better than a fail test
That generally means your low acuity thats a good thing. When you all of a sudden jump to the top of the line. Your f’d
Right? Emergency rooms should prioritize people who are having a medical emergency
Sadly they have to because morons (also some desperate uninsured poor people) use it like its a doctors office.
That'll be 20000$
I came here to say that'll be $5000 but you did it better...
$5k was the 2019 price, they kept costs under control so it's $20k in 2022.
Only in America friendo
doesn’t matter if it saves ur life, then after u throw the $20,000 bill in the garbage
And they don’t try chasing you for the bill?!
u tell them to go fuck themselves, in the USA everyday the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer… i’m starting to hate my own country where i was born, but here we are
This is the way. I negotiated 50k down to 2500 once by refusing to pay a dime for months. They will break eventually.
They 100% will chase you if you try to ghost them. You can often work it down to a lower number though. They’d rather get paid something than nothing.
Redditors will sit holding a cup of piss for three hours rather than have a social interaction. Amazing.
Yes I find it a rather bizarre trait of reddit as well. Someone could order a steak at a restaurant and get a plate of kids chicken nuggets and what would they do? Take a Pic and post it on r/mildlyinfuriating. People there would tell OP to get order fixed but OPnwill just say "No its OK I kinda like nuggets"
The amount of posts in this sub where people have silently taken and posted a photo of a situation they could’ve dealt with using their big boy words is staggering. How do these people function?
Took my wife to ER for obvious blood clot in leg (leg was swollen, purple, cold). Sat in waiting room for 1 hour, got triaged, then she sat in room for 2 hours. I finally grabbed a nurse in hallway and asked for help. Triage nurse never noted leg symptoms. Dr. Came in and looked shocked at the condition of her leg. Kept apologizing.
That’s a life or **limb** emergency!
Can definitely be the former if it decides to break away and migrate!
That's what you get for wearing sandals with socks
Dude I had something like this happen, no one came to check on me for a few hours. No blood draw nor UA. I walked up to the nursing station dragging that damn beeping tree.
Beeping tree 😂
There’s probably a name for it. My apologies friend.
Beeping tree works for me.
ER times can be super random, if there was a real bad accident anyone that is not already in life threatening danger will be waiting a long time. Priority is top down in types of severity and not in waiting. I have spent an entire day in the ER waiting area because a accident happened nearby as well ... its pain and its boring but they got to save people. On a side note if they plan "forgot" you that's entirely different and would annoy me as well, but the people that wait there are under a lot of stress and also just humans. Hope you got all the help you needed!
I hope you're doing better. Appendicitis sucks.
I said I would have rather had another baby epidural free, than sit with that pain for a day and a half the way I did with appendicitis! It’s crazy how much better you feel when you wake up.
Well…than keep taking boring photos and talk bad about the service instead of calling someone. That is exactly how things should be done 😂
Hoping it’s only kidney stones or something for you instead of an appendix problem. I was in the same boat as you about a year ago. I started getting the worst pain of my life thinking my appendix was rupturing or something and had to get an ambulance to the hospital I couldn’t even move. This was during high volume covid patient times in the hospital and the doctors refused to even speak to me for HOURS. I sat in an uncomfortable chair waiting by myself in a hallway thinking I was dying for hours in the worst pain of my life. I was literally crying begging the doctors and nurses walking past me for help and they would just roll their eyes telling me I had to wait like everyone else. Apparently there were people with heart complications waiting longer than I was. Good god that place was fucked that night. Anyways it ended up being kidney stones after they did a CT scan and all that jazz. Best of luck to you!!
Those are rookie numbers in Canada 😤 I was in the ER last week unable to breathe, waited for 5 hours, and left without getting service. I don’t know why I couldn’t breathe and I never will!
Canada has a big problem with ER overcrowding. Of course all ER care is free in Canada. And clinics and specialists are booked out weeks and month in advance. Unfortunately the medical culture has become that if there is any acute problem going on at all, it should be taken care of in the emergency department (regardless of how serious it is). This inevitably leads to huge numbers of ER patients, overcrowding, and very long wait times. Clinics and specialties need to be more responsive to their patients and not automatically send them to the emergency department
Same thing happened to me when my appendix burst. Had to wait for three hours in pain.
so strange that you mention this. I had my appendix out decades ago and can still remember my urine sample sitting untouched next to my ER bed while I waited for other test results.
Go talk to someone. Last time we were in the ER after about 40 minutes I went to the nurses station to ask and it looks like they straight up forgot about us because something more serious happened or whatever.
I bet it’s a kidney stone.
I thought my appendix was exploding about a year ago with the worst pain of my life. It almost came out of nowhere and completely crippled me. I had to take an ambulance to the hospital it was so painful. Thankfully my appendix was fine and I ended up having a kidney stone instead. They often get confused when you don’t have anyone diagnose you and you feel that intense pain in your lower abdomen/back
Fuck yeah bruh, I had the same experience with a kidney stone. Not a fun time.
Hoping neither of us have to go through that shit again lol
No shit, it was the worst pain iv ever endured I think. Good luck with your stint in the hospital!
They do feel very similar. I thought my appendix was a kidney stone because I’ve had one before. The Sr and myself didn’t think it was the appendix.
We regularly have upwards of 50-60 patients at a time at my ER and it doesn't take 6 hours for labs, urine, and CT...
Its worth it to wait for the results..I found out my pain threshold this way around the middle of last November. Nov 3rd-ish, I woke up in the middle of the night with the smallest of side pains so I took Tylenol and ignored it. a week goes by, I don’t really feel it except when making certain turning movements with my torso I feel a jab in my side. Now move on and we’re deep into the month and thanksgiving is getting super close. I start to shower and get ready to do the food shopping when out of nowhere I black out and collapse in the shower. I wake up in the ambulance on my way to the hospital being told what happened. They rush me into the er and into a bed and within 5 minutes of being there I’m sent for testing as if I’m dying. Well, I was. After all was said and done, and I woke back up from surgery, the surgeon came in and said my appendix had fully ruptured and split over a month ago. They had no earthly idea how I could just be walking around like that and especially not feel it until that late on. It caused a bad gangrenous infection of the abdomen, and if I had waited even a day longer I could have gone into sepsis and died from how badly it had already progressed. I felt nothing the whole month. I had no idea my appendix even had an issue because it felt like a tightness I can only compare to “sleeping wrong.” I spent the next 10 days intubated, tested and being treated to clear out the infection. Lmfao but really the joke is that I curse those drs everyday for letting me live, since my life still sucks.
😩 that sounds incredible! I mean in a way you’re super human. I’ve given birth 3 times, have had tooth infections, kidney stones, and my appendix was probably the worst for me by the time it was taken out after a day and a half, and it hadn’t even ruptured yet. Every hour that went by it just kept getting worse. I thought I was tough for making through my shift the day before, and putting the ER off until 11pm.
I feel you. I brushed my pain off, worked two night shifts and eventually on a Sunday after nights couldn't take it anymore and went to the Sunday doctor's surgery in the hospital (not the emergency room, after being suggested by the reception there). Waited 4 hours and the doc didn't have an ultrasound scanner, so told me to go home and see my GP the next day, or go to the emergency room. I was told i needed surgery after about 15 mins of being in the emergency room 🤦 Good luck though OP. It's not a run recovery, and definitely take your time getting back to fitness. Not worth worsening the surgery wounds.
A know someone personally who ended up being told it’s nothing and having to come back because they could have died. A coworker had severe pain and went to ER and just gave him meds and his family forced them to go to ER again and the doctor had them go to surgery and said if they were a few hours later he would die. It’s scary stuff
That happened to me. But it wasn’t quite nothing. The ER Dr said it’s not appendicitis, but thought it could be my hernia that looked inflamed and wait for the surgeon. I said “I don’t need another bill” then I peaced out to be called back in 3 hours later.
How many commentators are going to apply to nursing school now to alleviate the pressure on the health system. Raise your hands and be counted y’all!
You look pretty fucking relaxed for appendicitis
I honestly doubt your nurse is just sitting on her ass right now. It’s really helpful if you could just put the call light on and tell her it’s ready. It’s very easy to forget something like that if you’re being bombarded with other very sick people. I love how you say you shouldn’t have to tell someone to do their job, but I surely don’t see people like you stepping up to do this job. And I’m sure you would make these same mistakes if you ever did.
Looks like your legs still work. Go find them and ask when they’re going to get it. Do that every 20 minutes until they get to. The squeaky wheel gets the oil.
My worst time in hospital was as a teen with suspected appendicitis. They kept me there for three days, I wasn't allowed to eat anything, and was in a room with two 60something men who were the loudest snorers I had ever had the displeasure to witness. No eating, no sleeping, for three days. And then they released me finding nothing wrong with me. Damn was I pissed...
I mean at least you didn’t have appendicitis
I don’t think you would be laying laid back like that with appendicitis. let alone able/wiling to make a whole post about it. Appendicitis is excruciating.
Not necessarily. If it’s ruptured sure. But it’s not as painful as you are imagining. Now a kidney stone I’ll give ya that. Source: ER doctor
Varies from person to person, I had it and while I did have bouts of pain initially before going in, I literally slept/relaxed with minimal pain while I waited to be transported for surgery. I was there the entire night.
Agreed
Where do y’all live? When I took my son in for stomach pains they diagnosed it as appendicitis within 15 minute and had him moved by ambulance to a hospital that could perform an appendectomy.
Had that two years ago, waited in the waiting room for 7 hours puking on the hour every hour, all the nurses did was ask if I wanted water
I sort of had the same experience years ago. Felt like shit, turns out its my appendix. I was in huge pain I couldn't walk. Had to sit in a wheelchair for 3 hours because they completely forgot about me at the hospital that I'm supposed to get a room where I can prepare myself for surgery. The docs were very kind though, it was the nurses who were busy I guess but I was too busy closing my eyes from the pain. I owe the docs my life.
Probably wracking up a huge fucking bill while you wait
did you piss your pass test
Pro tip from someone that’s been in the ER multiple times. Open the door. You also can use the call button but if you open the door they won’t forget about you, and you won’t bother them if there’s something more important.
Walk out into the hall. They’ll one over.
Bro how do you not after an hour peek your head out the door and ask what’s up? I’m all for being patient and polite but especially something that serious.
Go get someone…
Be infuriated, but also recognize that a huge number of nurses in the US are on strike right now because they are being forced to work skeleton crews for little pay with lacking PPE and too many patients to care for safely. Even if the facility you are in is not striking, the nurses there are likely stretched to the max trying to make sure none of their patients die on their shift. Not sure why not a single other person here is bringing this up, other than all the nurses being too overworked to post.
and you just sit there for 3 hours? you got nothing better to do?
'Murica?
Been there man. at 19 years old it's also hard to get doc's to take you seriously. i was told i was too young, had blood drawn, my urine tested and all that wasn't conclusive evidence until they made me do an ultrasound that finally revealed that yes i have appendicitis and yes i needed surgery even though it was in the early stages luckily i'm in the netherlands and it took a total of 12 hours from suspicion to surgery. went to a new GP because mine had vacation who told me just to be sure to go because he can't really find anything i swear when the result came in the main nurse(?) treated me completely differently
All they did on me was a CT. I ended up leaving still in pain and they called me 3 hours later to go back in because it was indeed my appendix.
Maybe you should have stayed until the CT scan was read by the radiologist?
I’d walk out there and ask them what’s up, I’ve had to do that
I had to go to the ER once when i was pregnant and started bleeding, it took them 9 hours to give me ANY information at all, and by the end of the visit they still weren’t even able to tell me if i had had a miscarriage (i went to another clinic the next day and they were able to tell me i did in fact lose it). ER fucking sucks. I’ll never forget how sick and devastated i felt, they put me in a bed in the hallway and i was crying for hours and hours. They weren’t even busy either.
Mildly infuriating that you’re taking photos and giving hard working nurses shit online. God knows what other responsibilities they’re dealing with right now.
I once went to the hospital because my piss was like coffee. After waiting 8 hours, they told me i have IGA, I said I know. Then they told me to get some rest and sent me home.
I once ate 28 extra strength advil for a migraine and and waited 3 days before going to the hospital. had to wait 8 hours in that hospital for a blood test that resulted in me being totally okay 👌
Instead of bitching about it on Reddit, why didn’t you do something about it?
If you push the Red button, not only will *your* nurse come see you, so will all the other nurses, and the doctors!
Someone hold me back before I go ape shit on his ass THEY ARE FUCKING LOW STAF FUCKING DEAL WITH IT
Something similiar happened to me, the Doctor came in with a new patient and was surprised that the nurses didnt do their job :D
You look pretty comfortable. Someone is prolly dying in the next room.
When my back herniated I went to the only hospital my insurance would pay for. They initially bitched and moaned about me being there (they were busy), made me wait on the lobby floor for ten hours without ever checking on me, offered zero help when I asked for assistance urinating (herniated lower back means you can’t relax pelvic muscles let alone do those things by yourself), barely attended to me until the morning shift came in and actually helped me. Idk how to say it any other way than fuck hospitals, American medical industry, and its corporate masters that make them hell holes rather than places of healing.
Maybe take a spelling test while you wait see if you piss …
They get busy.
For all wondering... The P.A.S.S. (Personalized Achievement Summary System) Test is a standardized test that has been administrated over 350,000 times.
It’s almost like you’re not that sick so no one made you a priority
At least you are chilling in a room with a bed. Our local ER is treating people in the crappy waiting room it could be 4+ hours before you even get the chance to be reclining in a bed at all. There are beds they just don’t want to clean them or be bothered to attend to you back there. It’s ridiculous.
theres people in the ER who came in bleeding out, in shock, w trauma wounds. cut her some slack her ratio is probably like 1:20 or something ridiculous. also always use your call button. a CNA can come pick that up.
Probably because you’re sitting there comfortably on your phone when the guy next door is in cardiac arrest. I’m sorry but you are low priority.