Dang, I have no idea what we are talking about, but, I am sorry ladies. This does not sound fun.
Have you ever had your appendix rupture? That's what it feels like to have an ovarian cyst rupture. Let me see if I can paint a picture for you.
You're driving over to your boyfriend's house and you notice that you're having some really sharp, uncomfortable pains in your stomach. Once you get to his house, you start feeling queasy until you're so nauseated you can't do anything but lie on the couch. You figure it's the flu. Then you start vomiting and ****ing as if everything in your GI tract that ain't nailed down is fleeing for the nearest exit. The abdominal pain is so sharp and crushing, that it intensifies to the point where you can't walk. Your oxygen sats drop because it hurts too much to take a full breath. You're curled in the fetal position until finally your boyfriend drives you to the hospital. The triage nurse makes you take a pregnancy test to see if you're suffering from a tubal pregnancy, and when you show up as "not pregnant" she determines that you ain't gonna die anytime soon, and you have to sit in a crowded ER waiting room for three hours. You're so exhausted that you want to cry, but you don't have enough energy to sob. You lie down on the hard, cold floor because there's nowhere else to lay down.
Finally they put you on a gurney and wheel you to a room, but you can't have anything to drink. Your mouth is bone dry and you'd kill for some water. Since you're dehydrated from all the vomiting and ***ting, they give you IV fluids (3 liters total!). Your stomach hurts so fuck*ng bad you can't see straight. They give you a quart of contrast solution to drink for the MRI or PET scan or whatever. You throw that up too, so they have to give you iodine as a contrast even though you have a thyroid condition and ask for them not to do it. The iodine burns like hell when they inject it into your veins. They do the scan, and the tech finds about 10cc's (milliliters) of free fluid around your ovary. They won't give you any pain meds, but they do give you some anti-nausea meds in your IV. Finally the pain subsides. They do another blood test, and they see that your potassium and magnesium are down, so you get a small paper souffle cup with some supplements to take.
That's about it. They give you some vicodin, more anti-nausea meds, and you get sent home. If you get septic (an infection), then they instruct you to come back.
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