DIAGNOSIS STOMACH HERNIA, NO OPERATION, JUST SEND PATIENT HOME

I STARTED GOING TO JHB GENERAL HOSPITAL WITH A REFERRAL LETTER FROM MY DOCTOR, AFTER HE TREATED ME, BUT THE PROBLEM WAS FURTHER THAN WE THOUGHT, HE DID TEST MY ADRENAL GLAND AND IT WAS DEPLETED, PUTTING ME ON MEDICATION WE HAD TO CALL FOR APPOINTMENT TO SEE A DOCTOR AT SURGICAL OUTPATIENTS DEPARTMENT ROOM 456 THE DATE GIVEN WAS 22 MAY 2018 ONLY, I HAD TO WAIT 6 WEEKS. MY SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS APPITITE PROBLEMS, CANNOT TASTE WHEN EATING OR DRINKING, WHILST EATING FEELS AS IF THE FOOD IS STUCK AND VERY SLOWLY GOING TO MY COLON AREAS BLOATING BLOOD PRESSURE (LOW & HIGH) BOWEL MOVEMENTS IS NOT ONE DAY THE SAME, PAIN IN ****** WHEN BOWELLING (BURNING PAIN), I AM EITHER CONSTIPATED FROM 1 TO 7 DAYS, OR DIARRHEA FOR DAYS, IT MOSTLY FEELS LIKE I DO NOT HAVE CONTROL OVER MY BOWEL MOVEMENTS OR URINATING BRAIN FOG BREATH SOMETIMES SMELLS ROTTEN BREATHING TROUBLE SOMETIMES CHRONIC PAIN, I SUFFER FROM EXTREME PAIN IN ABDOMINAL AREA (TAKING ABOUT 20 TO 30 PAIN TABLETTES PER DAY) CONSTANT TIREDNESS DIZZINESS ENERGY LEVELS LOW FATIGUE, DURING THE DAY AND NIGHT, FEEL TIRED BEFORE AND AFTER EATING FEEL FULL EVEN AFTER EATING YOGHURT FEVER & CHILLS GAS RELEASING PROBLEMS HEAD ACHES HEART PALPITATIONS NOISE WILL JUST START RUNNING LIKE WATER FOR NO REASON PAIN, TAKING 2 – 4 PAIN PILLS EVERY 3 HOURS, EXTREME PAIN, 24/7, STANDING UP, WALKING DURING THE DAY, GOING TO SLEEP AT NIGHT, WAKING UP DURING THE NIGHT WITH PAIN, TAKING PAIN PILLS AGAIN TO GET THROUGH THE NIGHT FOR ME TO BE ABLE TO SLEEP PMS, WHEN THIS PERIOD IS COMING CLOSER I CAN FEEL THE SYMPTOMS EVEN WORSE, AT THE END I FEEL NORMAL FOR ABOUT 1 WEEK PER MONTH ****** AREA, KNIVE LIKE PAINS, IT IS FEELINGVERY IRRITABLE BY MY ******, WHEN SITTING, WALKING, STANDING, LYING DOWN SLEEPING PROBLEMS, CANNOT GO TO SLEEP AT NIGHT, I WILL STAND, SIT, WALK AND JUST FEEL I WANT TO SLEEP, I AM SLEEPING MOSTLY DURING THE DAY, AND AT NIGHT I CANNOT SLEEP, NOT EVEN COFFEE WAKES ME UP, HOME DOCTOR DID PUT ME ON SLEEPING PILLS, BUT AFTER SEVERAL MONTHS HE IS NOT ALLOWED TO KEEP ME ON IT, FOR NOW I AM STRUGGLING TO SLEEP AT ALL SITTING, STANDING, WALKING ETC, I CANNOT SIT, STAND, WALK FOR TO LONG PERIODS OF TIME THEN MY BODY FEELS AS IF IT IS GOING NUMB, I WILL SIT ON THE COACH AND FEEL MY LEG/S ARE GOING NUMB STIFFNESS 24/7 SUGAR LEVELS VERY LOW IN THE MORNING SWALLOWING PROBLEMS, WHEN EATING AND DRINKING VISION PROBLEMSWALKING, IT WILL FEEL LIKE I AM DRAGGING MY LEG BEHIND ME OR LEGS NOT RESPONDING TO WALK WEIGHT, LOOSING WEIGHT EVERY MONTH FOR NO REASON I WAITED PATIENTLY TILL THIS DATE, WITH ALL THE ABOVE SYMPTOMS SURGEON – 22/05/2018 I WENT ON 22/05/2018 TO SEE THE FIRST SURGEON, PROVIDING HER WITH REFERRAL LETTER, SHE OPENED THE LETTER NOT READING IT AT ALL, ASKING ME WHY AM I AT THE HOSPITAL, I TRIED TO EXPLAIN ALL THE SYMPTOMS AND SIGNS I AM GETTING I WAS BEGINNING TO EXPLAIN ALL MY SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS, AND SHE SAID WAIT, ARE YOU EATING AND DRINKING, LETS START DOING BLOOD TEST AND X-RAY & SONAR, SHE DID NOT ALLOW ME TO FINISH EXPLAINING. NO PHYSICAL EXAMINATION, ONLY PROVIDING ME WITH PAIN TABLETTES, LACSON ADVISING ME IF ANY PROBLEMS, COME TO THE EMERGENY UNIT APPOINTMENT FOR X-RAY AND SONAR WAS ON 29 MAY 2018, ROOM 356 EMERGENCY WITHIN A FEW DAYS MY LEGS JUST STARTED TO COLLAPSE AT HOME, MY HUSBAND RUSHED OF TO JHB GEN HOSPITAL EMERGENCY, THEY ASKED WHAT IS THE PROBLEM, AT THIS STAGE EVERYBODY THOUGHT I HAD IBS OR SPASM COLON. I WAS USING A WHEEL CHAIR TO GET AROUND, AS I WAS UNABLE TO WALK AFTER SEEING 2 DOCTORS, THEY CALLED THE SURGEON DOCTOR TOOK ME TO DO X-RAY, ACCORDING TO THEM THEY COULD NOT FIND ANYTHING WRONG EXCEPT FOR MY BOWEL STUCK IN MY COLON AT THE TOP PART, THEY GAVE ME BACTROBAN INJECTION FOR PAIN. WAITED TILL THE AFTERNOON TO SEE THE SURGEON, SHE BOUGHT SOMEONE ELSE WITH, HE ASKED ME QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW I FELT, SAYING YOU HAVE IBS AFTER PHYSICAL EXAMINATION, PRECRIBED, TRAMADOL, LACSON, TREPLINE, HYOSPASMA (2 TABLETTES 3 TIMES PER DAY), SENDING ME HOME. BUT TO BE ABLE TO GET THE MEDICATION I MUST COME BACK THE NEXT DAY TO THE HOSPITAL PHARMACY, EXPLAINING TO THEM WE LIVE 70 KM FROM THE HOSPITAL, NO RESPONSE HE ASKED ME TO COME AND SEE HIM AND DR FOURIE THE FOLLOWING WEEK, AS THEN THEY WERE SUPPOSE TO DO SONAR, THIS WAS ON 30/05/2018. I TRIED TO ASK THE SISTER WORKING AND SHE ASSISTED ME WITH THE MEDICATION. APPOINTMENT FOR SONAR ON 29/05/2018 WENT FOR SONAR, THE LADY ADVISED ME WHY DID THEY SEND YOU FOR COLON PROBLEMS FOR A SONAR, WE CAN ONLY SEE PROBLEMS RELATING TO ORGANS, THEY SHOULD HAVE SEND YOU FOR A CT SCAN OR G-SCOPE, SHE COULD NOT FIND ANYTHING WRONG, BUT COULD ALSO NOT FIND MY LEFT OVARY I WENT BACK, SEEING DR FOURIE, SHE DID NOT ASK MANY QUESTIONS, ONLY LOOKED AT THE X-RAY AND SONAR, ADVISING ME NOTHING WRONG SHE ASKED ME TO BOOK APPOINTMENT FOR G-SCOPE, SHE PRESCRIBED ALL THE SAME MEDICATION AGAIN. EMERGENCY GOING TO EMERGENCY ROOM JUST BEFORE MY G-SCOPE DATE, STILL COLLAPSING, THEY PUT ME ON EKG MACHINE, GIVING ME BACTROBAN INJECTION FOR PAIN, AT THE END OF THE DAY, GIVING ME ALL THE SAME MEDICATION AGAIN, SENDING ME HOME HOME DOCTOR SEEING MY HOME DOCTOR FOR THE PAIN, HE DID PUT ME ON MORPHINE BUT HE WAS ONLY ABLE TO GIVE ME ONE BIG BOTTLE STILL WALKING WITH ALL THE SYMPTOMS, I WENT FOR THE G-SCOPE ON 23/07/2018 I HAD TO FETCH THE LIQUID I AM SUPPOSE TO DRINK 1 WEEK BEFORE THE G-SCOPE, THEY DID NOT WANT TO GIVE IT TO ME ON THE BOOKING DATE, ALTHOUGH I EXPLAINED THAT WE LIVE 70 KM FROM THE HOSPITAL AFTER GOING FOR G-SCOPE THEY ONLY GAVE ME A LETTER, SAYING GO MAKE APPOINTMENT AT ROOM 456 FOR RESULTS, A MONTH FROM NOW. NO MEDICATION GIVEN, AND MOST OF MY MEDICATION WAS FINISHED THE NEXT APPOINTMENT WITH THE SURGEON WAS 21/08/2018, I WAITED, HOPING AND PRAYING THAT I WILL GET ANSWER TO ALL MY PAIN, PROBLEMS AND DISCOMFORT SURGEON 21/08/2018 SEEING A NEW SURGEON, GIVING ME THE RESULTS FROM G-SCOPE AS FOLLOW: SORRY THE G-SCOPE WAS UNSUCCESSFULL, THEREFORE WE CANNOT SAY WHAT IS THE PROBLEM, I TRIED TO EXPLAIN TO THE LADY HOW I FELT AT THIS STAGE, DRINKING AN EXTREME AMOUNT OF PAINPILLS, NOT BEING ABLE TO EAT, HAVING FEVER AND CHILLS ALL THE TIME, FEELING FATIGUE, AND NOBODY CAN TELL ME WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME. SHE REP**** THAT I HAVE AN ATTITUDE AND SHE CANNOT HELP WITH ANYTHING THEN. I ASKED HER IF A PERSON IS NOT CLEAN ENOUGH IN COLON AREAS, AS I WERE TOLD IF THERE IS ANY PROBLEM AND THEY CANNOT SEE, THEY WILL GIVE ME AN INJECTION WHILST SLEEPING TO CLEAR OUT THE COLON. THIS DID NOT HAPPEN, SO I FELT FRUSTRATED, WAITING WEEKS ONLY TO GET NO ANSWER. SHE ADVISED THAT I MUST MAKE AN APPOINTMENT FOR CT SCAN, GIVEN THE SAME MEDICATION AGAIN BLOOD TESTS WAS DONE AGAIN THE ONE DOCTOR MADE APPOINTMENT FOR ME AT CT SCAN DEPARTMENT AND G-SCOPE AGAIN EMERGENCY AGAIN JUST BEFORE MY CT SCAN DATE, I COLLAPSED AT HOME, WENT TO EMERGENCY AGAIN, THE SAME STORY, EKG TESTS, BLOOD TESTS, BACTROBAN INJECTION, SENDING ME HOME AT THE END OF THE DAY CT SCAN APPOINTMENT ON 9/10/2018 G-SCOPE ON 16/102018 THEY ADVISED THAT THE RESULTS WOULD BE READY ON 10/10/2018 ON CT SCAN SURGEON 10/10/2018 SAW ANOTHER SURGEON ON 10/10/2018 ONLY TO FIND OUT THAT THE RESULTS WOULD ONLY BE READY THE FOLLOWING WEEK, SHE ALSO ADVISED NOT TO GO FOR G-SCOPE AGAIN AS THEY ARE WAITING FOR RESULTS FROM CT SCAN. SEEING A SURGEON ON THIS DAY WAS ALL FOR NOTHING. SHE REP**** I DO NOT KNOW WHY THEY SAID RESULTS WOULD BE AVAILABLE TODAY, AS IT WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE BY NEXT WEEK. THEREFORE I WAS NOT ABLE TO GO FOR G-SCOPE ON 16/10/2018 AS WE DID NOT HAVE THE RESULTS FOR CT SCAN AS YET. SHE KEPT ON SAYING WE NEED TO MAKE SURE YOU DO NOT HAVE CANCER, PLEASE BE PATIENT FOR THE RESULTS, I BELIEVE IF THEY PERSONALLY GO THROUGH THIS, THEY WOULD DEFINITELY FEEL THE SAME AS THE PATIENTS. BLOOD TESTS WAS DONE AGAIN SURGEON APPOINTMENT 17/10/2018 AT ROOM 456 FOR RESULTS ON 17/10/2018 I WENT BACK TO SEE A NEW SURGEON ONCE AGAIN, HE ASKED ME QUESTIONS, AFTER I ADVISED HIM HOW I FEEL AND I WAS GOING THROUGH. HE ACTUALLY LISTENED AND TRIED TO GET TO THE PROBLEM. TAKING BLOOD TESTS TO TEST MY THYROID, AND HE ADVISED I MUST MAKE AN APPOINTMENT FOR G-SCOPE AND C-SCOPE ON THE SAME DAY APPOINTMENT FOR G-SCOPE AND C-SCOPE WAS 3 DECEMBER 2018 AT ROOM 554 AGAIN I HAD TO WAIT FROM 17/10/2018 TO 3/12/2018, STILL WALKING AROUND WITH ALL OF THE SAME SYMPTOMS I WENT FOR BOTH G-SCOPE AND C-SCOPE ON 3/12/2018, I WAS GIVEN AN ENVELOPE SAYING MAKE APPOINTMENT AT ROOM 456 FOR RESULTS ON 15/01/2019, NO MEDICATION WAS GIVEN ON THE 18/12/2018 ME AND MY HUSBAND DECIDED I MUST GO TO SOUTH RAND AND SEE IF THEY CAN HELP OR ASSIT ME WITH SOME MEDICATION.THE LADY DOCTOR LISTENED TO MY SIGNS & SYMPTOMS, SHE TOOK A LOOK AT THE RESULTS FROM THE G-SCOPE AND C-SCOPE AND ADVISED THAT MOST OF MY PROBLEMS IS CAUSED BY THE HERNIA. JHB GENERAL HOSPITAL MUST FIX IT FOR HER TO SEE WHAT ELSE IS WRONG, SHE ALSO DID A X-RAY, SHE ADVISED ME THAT I HAVE ARTHRITIS, SHE GAVE ME MEDICATION FOR THIS I WENT BACK ON 15/01/2019 BELIEVING THIS WAS THE DAY I WOULD GET MY ANSWER, HELP, ASSISTANCE FROM SURGEONS. AS THIS HAS BEEN DRAGGING ON SINCE 22 MAY 2018, HOW CAN IT TAKE THIS LONG FOR SURGEONS TO SEE OR FIND THE PROBLEM. I GAVE THE SURGEON THE RESULTS AS IT WAS GIVEN TO ME, HE ASKED ME WHAT IS THIS, I ADVISED HIM THIS IS THE RESULTS FOR G-SCOPE AND C-SCOPE. HE LOOKED AT IT AND SAID, NOTHING WRONG, I ADVISED HIM THAT I WAS AT SOUTH RAND HOSPITAL AND THE LADY DOCTOR THERE TOLD ME WAS THE RESULTS ARE SAYING, I HAVE A LOT OF ACID IN MY STOMACH, INFLAMMATION ABOUT 30 TO 40 CM DOWN IN MY THROAT, AND A HERNIA, THE RESULTS ALSO SHOWED THAT MY COLON IS MISFORMED AT THE TOP PART AND BOTTOM PART ON THE LEFT SIDE HE REP**** YES I WILL GIVE YOU MEDICATION FO RTHE ACID AND INFLAMMATION, BUT THE HERNIA IS CAUSED BY THE ACID AND INFLAMMATION, AND THAT LANSOLOC WOULD HELP FOR THE NEXT 3 MONTHS, I ADVISED HIM THAT I HAVE BEEN TAKEN THIS MEDICATION FOR THE LAST 5 TO 6 MONTHS ALREADY, AND HE REP**** JUST USE IT FOR ANOTHER 3 MONTHS, THEN COME BACK AND WE WILL LOOK AGAIN. DO NOT WORRY ABOUT THE DEFORMATION OF THE COLON MY BOWEL RESULTS WAS NOT DONE, DUE TO THE PAPER WORK NOT BEING CORRECTLY COMPLETED, BLOOD TESTS RESULTS WAS NOT ON THE SYSTEM. AS HE ADVISED ME WE DO NOT ALWAYS OPERATE ON HERNIA I ADVISED HIM THAT I WAS AT SOUTH RAND HOSPITAL AND WITH AN X-RAY THE FOUND I HAVE ARTHIRITIS, HE JUST REP**** GO BACK TO THEM AS FAR AS I KNOW IF A PERSON HAS A HERNIA, NO MATTER WHERE IN THE BODY, ONLY AN OPERATION WOULD CURE THE PROBLEM, SO DO THE SURGEON EXPECT I MUST WALK AROUND WITH THIS HERNIA FOR ANOTHER 3 MONTHS. BY NOW I HAVE ALSO REALISED THAT THE SURGEONS ONLY WORK AT A HOSPITAL FOR 3 MONTHS, THEREFORE I WILL NOT SEE HIM AGAIN, LEAVING ME WITH MY SYMPTOMS AND PROBLEMS AND START AGAIN FROM SCRATCH WHAT I CANNOT BELIEVE IS IF I DID NOT READ THE RESULTS I WOULD HAVE GONE HOME WITH NO RESULTS GIVEN BY THE SURGEON, THE WOULD HAVE TOLD ME NOTHING IS WRONG TILL DATE NO SURGEON HAS GIVEN ME ANY BLOOD TESTS RESULTS, BUT OVER 100 BLOOD TESTS WAS DONE EVERY TIME YOU GO TO JHB GENERAL HOSPITAL YOU SEE A NEW SURGEON, EACH AND EVERY PATIENT GOING MUST EXPLAIN THERE STORY FROM SCRATCH TO THIS PERSON I AM UNEMPLOYED, AND EVERYTIME GOING TO JHB GEN HOS, IT IS COSTING US ABOUT R600 FOR THE DAY, PETROL, SURGEON VISIT, PAYING FOR X-RAY, SONAR, G-SCOPE, CT SCAN, G-SCOPE & C-SCOPE, GOING BACK TO GET THE FLUID FOR G-SCOPE THE WAY THE DOCTOR AT SOUTH RAND HOSPITAL EXPLAINED TO ME WAS, JHB GENERAL HOSPITAL NEED TO FIX THE HERNIA PROBLEM, THEN ONLY WE CAN GO FORWARD AND SEE WHAT IS THE OTHER PROBLEMS. AT THIS STAGE I DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO, AS JHB GEN SEND ME HOME WITH LANSOLOC FOR INFLAMMATION AND ACID PROBLEM, BUT NO SOLUTION TO THE HERNIA PROBLEM. I AM VERY FRUSTRATED AT THIS POINT, I FEEL I AM BEING MISTREATED AT JHB GENERAL HOSPITAL IN THE TIME I WAS GOING TO THIS HOSPITAL I SPOKE TO A LOT OF PEOPLE, AND THE STORIES YOU HEAR IS VERY HEART BREAKING TODAY I CAN HONESTLY SAY I CAN EAT PROPERLY ONE WEEK PER MONTH WITHOUT HAVING PROBLEMS, THE REST OF THE TIME IT IS DIFFICULT SOMETIMES I WILL GO TO BED WITH ONLY HAVING 2 BISCUITS FOR BREAKFAST, 1 EGG FOR LUNCH AND A CUP OF MILO FOR DINNER,THAT IS ALL MY STOMACH WILL TAKE WE WENT TO EMERGENCY SEVERAL TIMES JUST BEFORE MY NEXT SURGEON APPOINTMENTS OR CT SCAN ETC, BUT MY HUSBAND STOPPED TAKING ME AS WE DID NOT GET ANY RESULTS, CAUSING US TO FIGHT ALL THE TIME, I AM NOT EATING, I AM COLLAPSING, I CANNOT WALK TODAY I KNOW THAT IT IS NOT MUSCLES THAT IS STIFF, IT IS THE BLOOD FLOW THROUGH MY LEFT BUM AND OTHER PARTS THAT IS GIVING ME PROBLEMS I REALLY, HONESTLY DO NOT HAVE FAITH IN JHB GENERAL HOSPITAL ANYMORE, SPENDING ALL THE MONEY I HAD, STILL WALKING WITH MY PROBLEMS, NO ASSIST FROM THEM I AM NOT SURE WHAT THE SURGEON’S ARE WAITING FOR, WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF THEY DO NOT FIX THE HERNIA, A PERSON CANNOT EAT PROPERLY ONE WEEK PER MONTH