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A medical quandary.

Grandaddy DeliciousGrandaddy Delicious Registered User regular
edited August 2007 in Social Entropy++
I realize that I would probably have better luck in H/A but it usually takes a long time for people to get back to you on that board and I need a more immediate answer if possible. I understand there will be a few "Dude you are totally dying" posts but I'm hoping that from amidst the chaos I can get some clarity of vision.

About once every three or four months, I get a pain out of no where. Not like a tiny kind of pain.. I would best describe as being stabbed in the belly button with some rusty piece of shrapnel. That's not really an exaggeration. I can't explain exactly where it comes from, and there are a lot of variables involved, but usually it happens when I'm stretching in some form or another. Leaning my head back in the shower to wash my hair, yawning while extending my arms in the air, and just now, taking a large step over the clothes in my living room.

I doubled over. Like, the pain was blinding and I yelled out loud involuntarily while clutching my stomach. It seriously feels like I'm getting stabbed in the stomach. Also, it makes it feel as though I've been kicked in the balls, really, really hard. This time I grabbed my balls in pain and it MULTIPLIED the feeling of the stabbing a hundred fold and I quickly found myself in the fetal position. That helped. So I hunched over, remaining in the fetal position and now I'm lying on the floor with my open laptop, typing sideways.

Has anyone ever experienced this?

Like I said, it only happens once every few months and it usually subsides inside of fifteen minutes, but my roommate is telling me there is nothing normal about this.

TL;DR - My body is killing me from the inside out. Please help me.

Also, to add context to the thread, how is your body broken?

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    go to the doctor

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  • StaleStale Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    very possibly could be a type of hernia

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  • TrillianTrillian Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    My guess is gas.
    A doctor wouldn't hurt, but try and think back to what you ate in the past 24 hours.
    Anything different?

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2007
    Screaming in blind pain is perfectly normal. I do it every day before school, and if I'm running late, I do it after class without fail. Sometimes I do it twice.
    I would say hernia. Which could end up being some suck-ass surgery if that's what it is.

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  • FreddyDFreddyD Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    go to the doctor
    I mean... damn, what else is there to say?

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  • DegjoDegjo Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    You're having a miscarriage.

    Either that, or you have a hernia and never have had it checked out.

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  • TarranonTarranon Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Rarely, I'll inhale and it will feel like my lungs are being poked by my ribs. Really really hurts. I'm not sure if that's common.

    Also Granddaddy D needs to go to a doctor

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  • J3pJ3p Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    go to the vet

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  • DegjoDegjo Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Damn you Stale.

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  • GravesGraves Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Yeah i'd hit the hospital for this.

    I'm going to the hospital tomorrow to see if my nose and heel are broken.

    Woohoo.

    Then I get to have 2 route canals and over 5 moderate cavities filled.

    Double woohoo.

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited August 2007
    FreddyD wrote: »
    go to the doctor
    I mean... damn, what else is there to say?

    go to the doctor retard?

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  • VivixenneVivixenne Remember your training, and we'll get through this just fine. Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Sounds like cramps. Are you on the rag?

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited August 2007
    in other news I fell down my steps today

    and yesterday I stepped on the top stair on our deck and the entire thing just fell down

    EDIT: not the deck, just the stairs

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2007
    Degjo wrote: »
    You're having a miscarriage.

    Either that, or you have a hernia and never have had it checked out.

    I had a hernia that never hurt. I didn't even really notice it until I was itching myself and went "What the fuck is that third lump?" 6 months later, on December 26, I'm lying in the recovery room in the hospital, next to a dude who looks just like Andre Agassi.
    One-upped that fucker, my physics teacher looks like Clark Kent.

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2007
    gallstone?

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  • StaleStale Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    My money is on hernia


    or, and I'm absolutely serious, it's eerily similar to my rotten guts. However I seriously doubt that as it would be constant.

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
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    dude, hospital








    sometimes, very very rarely lately, i get a sudden sharp pain in the very back of my skull, nearly blinding. wears off after about ten seconds, but causes me to drop what i was doing and clutch my head and curse in two languages

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  • DegjoDegjo Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Wiggin wrote: »
    Degjo wrote: »
    You're having a miscarriage.

    Either that, or you have a hernia and never have had it checked out.

    I had a hernia that never hurt. I didn't even really notice it until I was itching myself and went "What the fuck is that third lump?" 6 months later, on December 26, I'm lying in the recovery room in the hospital, next to a dude who looks just like Andre Agassi.
    One-upped that fucker, my physics teacher looks like Clark Kent.
    My brother had a hernia since birth and didn't think to mention anything to anyone until about a year ago because he thought it was normal.

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  • Grandaddy DeliciousGrandaddy Delicious Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I really don't want to believe it's a hernia, but I think it started a couple years ago when I first started lifting weights.

    Dangit, if it's a hernia, I hope this isn't natures way of telling me I should have stayed fat.

    I've never had a surgery before. I'm looking up webpages on hernias and it's saying that I would have to have surgery.

    Frickkkkkkkk

    Edit: but there is no lump, i'm reading that there is almost always a lump...

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  • DegjoDegjo Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Yeah, my brother isn't the brightest of people.

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    hernia surgery is no big deal

    i had one when i was seven

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    well we could tell you what it might be all day

    or you could go to a doctor before you die

    up to you

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    i was in and out of the hospital in four days

    and that was in brokeass Russia

    so there you go

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  • LardalishLardalish Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Shit, I didnt even reconize you stale. Im used to Ron Jeremy giving me that creepily happy laugh.

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  • StaleStale Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I really don't want to believe it's a hernia, but I think it started a couple years ago when I first started lifting weights.

    Dangit, if it's a hernia, I hope this isn't natures way of telling me I should have stayed fat.

    I've never had a surgery before. I'm looking up webpages on hernias and it's saying that I would have to have surgery.

    Frickkkkkkkk

    Edit: but there is no lump, i'm reading that there is almost always a lump...

    it's not that bad.

    they make a small incision, they tuck the intestine back into place and close up the tear in your abdomen, then close the incision.

    Afterwards you watch what you lift, but you can go back to lifting about 3 weeks later

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  • JManJMan Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I had this exact same thing happen. I would get pain so fierce, I would literally start sobbing, begging to stop the pain.

    Turned out I had a diseased Gallbladder that needed removing.

    Are there any other symptoms? Or is it just pain?

    Either way, you still need to head to the doctors, as this could be a serious problem.

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  • 150cc150cc Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2007
    man

    threads like this

    come on now grandaddy you are too old of a dude to make a thread like this

    GO TO THE DOCTOR

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    hey stale i started watching good eats

    goddammit, it's good

    cooking will happen

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  • DegjoDegjo Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Whatever you do after the surgery. make sure you go to the bathroom after they release you. Something went wrong being/after mine and I needed to have a catheter for three fucking days.

    Do you want something the size of a pencil shoved up your pee-hole?

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  • Sub StandardSub Standard Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Yeah, you should see a Doctor about this. Crippling pain at monthly intervals is not normal.

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  • Dead LegendDead Legend Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    right now my body is holding up quite well

    i have the various football injuries like busted knuckles and jammed fingers, but fuck that's normal at this time of year

    on the other hand i did just gouge my big toe on my computer desk and that fucking hurts.

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    hey maybe your appendix is leaking

    you know what happens if it explodes?


    you die

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  • StaleStale Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Gallstone is another possibility, but the pain would much more common, and by now, almost constant.

    It would also get more intense after spicy or very rich foods.

    Stale on
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  • DegjoDegjo Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Stale wrote: »
    I really don't want to believe it's a hernia, but I think it started a couple years ago when I first started lifting weights.

    Dangit, if it's a hernia, I hope this isn't natures way of telling me I should have stayed fat.

    I've never had a surgery before. I'm looking up webpages on hernias and it's saying that I would have to have surgery.

    Frickkkkkkkk

    Edit: but there is no lump, i'm reading that there is almost always a lump...

    it's not that bad.

    they make a small incision, they tuck the intestine back into place and close up the tear in your abdomen, then close the incision.

    Afterwards you watch what you lift, but you can go back to lifting about 3 weeks later
    I was lifting so much at the time I have two incisions

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  • 150cc150cc Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2007
    caner

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  • J3pJ3p Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Doctors take away the hurt, but they leave the pain.

    or something

    I once had a surgery on my finger to re-attach a nerve that I'd clean sliced apart. Nerves healing is painful. :]

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    you'd think thousands of years of stubbing our toes on rocks and trees and sabertooth tigers and desks and curbs, the human body would evolve to have less nerve endings there

    evolution has failed us

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2007
    Degjo wrote: »
    Wiggin wrote: »
    Degjo wrote: »
    You're having a miscarriage.

    Either that, or you have a hernia and never have had it checked out.

    I had a hernia that never hurt. I didn't even really notice it until I was itching myself and went "What the fuck is that third lump?" 6 months later, on December 26, I'm lying in the recovery room in the hospital, next to a dude who looks just like Andre Agassi.
    One-upped that fucker, my physics teacher looks like Clark Kent.
    My brother had a hernia since birth and didn't think to mention anything to anyone until about a year ago because he thought it was normal.

    Pretty much the same as me, except I didn't know I had it until this time last year.
    Like I said, I was scratching, and went "Huh? There shouldn't be a third lump!"
    EDIT: The surgery was OK. The part afterwards, where they gave my short, skinny ass a couple Percocet, wasn't. I got up and pissed, then they had to put a chair behind me so I could collapse into it and vomit wildly. If that wasn't bad enough, my mom punched me for saying something to the effect of "Fuck me running, that sucked." I couldn't sit up on Percocet without shaking all over.

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  • TrillianTrillian Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Shit I have to go to the doctor and get some more X-rays.
    It seems I'm probably worse off than I though.
    Crap.

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  • DegjoDegjo Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Wiggin wrote: »
    Degjo wrote: »
    Wiggin wrote: »
    Degjo wrote: »
    You're having a miscarriage.

    Either that, or you have a hernia and never have had it checked out.

    I had a hernia that never hurt. I didn't even really notice it until I was itching myself and went "What the fuck is that third lump?" 6 months later, on December 26, I'm lying in the recovery room in the hospital, next to a dude who looks just like Andre Agassi.
    One-upped that fucker, my physics teacher looks like Clark Kent.
    My brother had a hernia since birth and didn't think to mention anything to anyone until about a year ago because he thought it was normal.

    Pretty much the same as me, except I didn't know I had it until this time last year.
    Like I said, I was scratching, and went "Huh? There shouldn't be a third lump!"
    He just thought the pain was normal.

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