Hi everyone
I've been lurking here for a few days now and feel like I need to post about my current experience.
At the beginning of the month I was rushed into a&e in total agony in my abdomen, I felt like the doctors thought I was being over dramatic as they wouldn't even give me paracetamol to begin with, I got a little worse within the first hour, I couldn't even sit or lie down, I was just pacing around my room crying. Eventually my blood test results came back which showed my white cell count was extremely high, I was then given morphine and admitted to a ward.
The pain disappeared after about 24 hours, but I was in hospital for nearly a week while they were trying to figure out what was wrong, I had multiple scans and everything would always appear fine, I spent a lot of the time on IV antibiotics as they thought it was an infection somewhere, eventually they decided to do ct scan, which was where they finally found it, I'd had a splenic infarct which basically meant my spleen didn't have enough oxygen and part of it had died off, extremely rare apparently, the doctors told me that the most common reason for this is haematological decease and that I needed to a full blood count and then I could be discharged while waiting for the results.
Now here is where I'm getting extremely anxious, my white cell count was high, on my discharge notes it says that they have ruled out that I even had an infection to start with, I've had no symptoms of anything before this, they told me the results would take a few days, I waited a whole week before I chased them up, all they could tell me was that it had to be referred to a specialist and this would take 3 weeks, I've been trying and failing to make an appointment with my gp to discuss what's going on, my surgery only received the notes for my a&e admission and nothing for afterwards so they are unaware of what is going on, I was really good at not googling what was going on, but the long wait has kind of made me do it, so I am really worried that it really looks like leukaemia.
I know I just to need to sit and wait for the results, but it's been 3 and a half weeks now, I'm sure the holidays are to blame for the delay but it's driving me crazy.
