I had been feeling fine, had been in hospital the previous month with very bad migraines, they went away and I was happy to conclude they were just a result of the extreme pressure I had been under at work and I was in the middle of studying for my professional accounting exams. I returned to work for 2 weeks feeling fine, but on the 14th of July 2015, life as I knew it was about to change forever.
Since that morning I hadn’t been feeling great, I had walked to work but had not been able to stop sweating all morning, and I mean properly sweating dripping down my face. I thought maybe I had just gotten very unfit during my time off. As the morning progressed I started to get shakey, my head started spinning and I just knew something was badly wrong. At 1 o’clock that day I left the office thinking I would be back in a day or two….little did I know what was around the corner for me.The Doctors visit was first that day, she could not understand what was wrong with me so ordered a blood test and possibly gave me some kind of medication but I can’t remember what. She made another appointment with me for 2 days time but if I was not feeling any better in between to come back to her, eventually ended up in the emergency department as they were worried there could be something wrong with my head because of the headaches. Had more blood tests – everything fine, iron stores slightly low but nothing out of the ordinary, high blood pressure but told I was just having migraines and was discharged.
A day or two later, started getting AWFUL feelings in my stomach, sickness to the very pit and the worst nausea I have ever experienced in my life with frequent bouts of diarrhoea. Had been taking motillium and Imodium and they were providing some relief but not enough. I was crying in pain having to keep bouncing my legs to distract from what was going on in my body. Eventually ended up back in the Emergency Department waited 7 hours in agonizing pain feeling completely drained and desperately wanting help of some kind. Finally got seen and was told it was just some bowel inflammation was given some solpadol for the pain with motillium and send on my way again. All this time I had been advised to be eating food such as bread and crackers to settle my stomach….yes BREAD and CRACKERS. Little did I know that this was only adding fuel to the fire.
Things eventually got so bad that I could barely get out of bed, didn’t have the energy to stay awake, felt like I was just surviving. My parents eventually drove 8 hours in total to come pick me up and take me home to them because I needed help. I spent days on end lying in bed barely able to walk, trying to eat but not even having the energy to sit up long enough to do so.
It felt like my body was giving up and I would never be able to overcome this…