"Love does not expose faults; it covers them." --Joyce Meyer

A couple of weeks ago, shortly after Thanksgiving, I took this diet pill to help my fat bum lose weight, right? Well, I started having this pain in my back right under my right shoulder blade, kind of radiating under my arm pit. My first thoughts were OMG, my kidneys!! So, I drank even more water and cranberry juice to rid myself of the damaging diet pills and to feel better. The pain only increased, it did not go away and it hurt for about 4 days when I called to make an appointment with the Dr.

 

So, I go in and tell him about my problems and he started pushing on my stomach and OUCH!! It hurt and he listened to me breathe and pushed on my sore back a little. He ask me had I been working out, because he knows I was trying to lose weight(hence the diet pills), and of course I said yes, because I had been.

He decides to do a urine analysis and a back x-ray. The urine test is clean but there was a slight problem with my x-ray. Okay, if you are squeemish, stop reading now...

 

My bowels were clogged up and he asked had I been constipated... I said, no more than normal!! He laughed and said it was normal for women to be irregular and prescribed me a muscle relaxer and a laxative. He told me he was going to treat the pain as a strained muscle and help me return to regular with the medicines he gave. Told me to take it easy, not to lift any thing over 15 pounds and to drink lots of water. I already drink tons of H2O so I said no problem.

 

He told me to call him back in a week if the pain had not relinquished itself and he would order an ultrasound of my gall bladder... :(

I went with it. I do not believe it was a muscle because I played most major sports as a child and teenager and know that familiar pain of sore muscles. Still, I went with it and said ok.

 

Now, it has been a week since I saw him and the pain has decreased, but has not gone away. I notice the pain more after meals, and before bedtime. It is a radiating pain under my right arm and under my right should blade. It hurts randomly, seemingly for no reason, and is a sharp intense pain... Then it fades away until the next time it decides to grace me with it's presence.

 

I have not called him yet because I feel like I am just delaying the inevitable...on purpose. I don't want to have an ultrasound...They are expensive. I don't want to have surgery because I am starting Uni this semester and I can't miss school. But, I need to take care of myself... AHHH!!

What do I do???