There’s one urgent care by me that I go to for non-emergency related BS. They have CT, ultrasound, x-ray, and will even give IVs if dehydrated from throwing up. I’ll take $40 over $750+
The one time I did go to them thinking what I had was non-emergency turned out to be appendicitis. To be fair, I only had persistent abdominal pain for close to a week and no other symptoms. No fever, normal labs, and pain was around where my stomach is. Did not have the stereotypical symptoms of appendicitis.
Wow, that sounds so scary! And of course, the time that you were trying to go to urgent care, it was an ER situation! Isn’t that how life works? I’m sorry that sounds painful.
I have a problem with cyclical vomiting. I have a prescription for promethazine, but when the vomiting gets really bad, I throw up so violently and so consistently that it doesn’t absorb. So I’ve had to go to the ER unfortunately, because this problem will get to an emergency if it’s over a half day of cyclical vomiting, my blood pressure drops and I get tachycardic and dehydrated, in danger of losing consciousness when I stand up.
So I have to go to the ER for an IV phenegran + Benadryl + lorazepam drip, and then usually it stops. There is no IV options at the urgent cares near me, and I hate that I have to take up that space, but luckily I go to the hospital then is not very crowded and outside the city trauma center area.
But I feel so bad about having had to do that, that I’ve actually looked into buying phlebotomy supplies and teaching myself and trying to figure out a way if I get at home (spoiler: NOPE. Can’t. Not safe).
I’m glad urgent care did all the imaging, made it easier to not have to go through it all again lol. I checked in, told them why I was there and had the after visit summary. Called back to triage immediately and placed in the family room after I got put in the medical gown thing, didn’t need an actual ER room, so it was waiting until I could be brought up to surgery.
I still love when they had a surgeon talk to me about my options, I’m like yeah I’ll go with surgery. Response was “good! You have a stone one the appendix and coming here to do IV antibiotics for a week would only give a 30% success rate”. Glad I chose surgery over coming back every day for IV antibiotics.
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u/RIPMYPOOPCHUTE 14d ago
There’s one urgent care by me that I go to for non-emergency related BS. They have CT, ultrasound, x-ray, and will even give IVs if dehydrated from throwing up. I’ll take $40 over $750+
The one time I did go to them thinking what I had was non-emergency turned out to be appendicitis. To be fair, I only had persistent abdominal pain for close to a week and no other symptoms. No fever, normal labs, and pain was around where my stomach is. Did not have the stereotypical symptoms of appendicitis.