Well my good run of staying out of hospital came to an end last month, but hey i made it 8 whole months which is a record for me. The pain was becoming unbearable was taking over my life again making me feel depressed which drove me to become an emotional wreck.
One day i was in so much pain that i could not move at all and i was home alone so i had to call mum at work to come home as it was so bad. I called Kings and was told to come to clinic the next day before my CT scan and as soon as they saw me in clinic i was admitted on the ward. The next few days consisted of invasive procedures and the findings where quite shocking.
The CT showed i had a anurysm in my splenic artery and the endoscopy showed that i had some little ulcers, inflammation of the duodenem and constipation. They began making plans to block the anurysm as they didn't want to do surgey as it would be too risky and they put me on alot of laxitives to help with the constipation and a course of antibiotics for the inflammation. However me being me something always has to go wrong. After my angiogram i developed a hematoma on my groin where they went in and then the consultant decided not to do the embolization procedure (block the anurysm) as it is in a very akward place which they cant get to without open surgery and they are so against doing any surgery as the chances of perforating or damaging something else during the surgery is very high and it will set me back even more and i may end up needing a splenectomy. Therefore they decided to leave it and just keep an eye on it and if it ruptures then they will have to deal with it as an emergency.
The good thing that came out of my hospital stay is that they found the inflammation which was the cause of the majority of my pain and for the past few days i have been somewhat pain free which is great.
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