The hospital-staff almost killed me

Last week i thought i had a flu.
I felt weak and my body temperature was high.
I was wrong, it wasn't the flu.
An infection was spreading throughout my Gullbladder, pancreas and liver.
Sunday i started having unimaginable pain in my lower abdomen and it got so bad that i started screaming uncontrollably.
My organs were digesting themselves due to my pancreas being infected.
I called an ambulance and the drivers rolled their eyes at me and told me to quiet down.
The doctor at the hospital yelled at me because she "had a rough night and couldn't deal with this"
None of them took me seriously.
2 hours after the pain started the doctor returned.
She was suddenly very worried and immediately admitted me to the Intensive Care Unit.
I received a plethora of the worlds strongest opioid painkillers and they still couldnt quite eliminate the pain.
No one there told me what was going on, only that my situation was critical and that there is a chance that i might not survive it.
When i began to ask questions about my status or how the situation was developing they started giving me very large amounts of sedatives. This got to the point where i was no longer able to control my extremities, speak or even move my eyes under my own free will, while still being conscious enough to notice everything around me.
They constantly prodded me, undressed and dressed me again and carted me to take tests without anyone ever talking to me.
I was put in a CT-Scan with no one speaking a single word to me from the moment they picked me up to the time i was returned to the ICU.
The results were, as usual, not disclosed to me at any point.
Tuesday they upped the dose to a level where my breathing was growing more and more shallow and i was afraid of dying because of an overdose.
I managed to slowly edge myself off of my bed, ripping the needle out of my hand.
The drip with the medication in it emptied itself and after i was lifted back on my bed it was empty and they didn't connect me to it again, so i had a chance to get control over my body back.
When i could walk and speak again i invoked my right to chose my physician and took away their right to treat me and then i left.
This was two days ago.
I still have no idea how extensive the damage to my organs actually is or what really happened to me, but i know that these people who i trusted to help me when i was at my weakest had me live through the worst abuse of my entire life.
In about one hour i will go see my regular doctor who is also a specialist in internal medicine to find this out.
This was the worst week of my life and i am still deeply traumatized by what i had to live through.

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The thing is, i actually used to enjoy recreational drug-use once in a while and that was always fine for me.
I never tried any opioids before, mostly because you get addicted so quickly, but there was really nothing pleasurable about this, because i was in a life-threatening situation, was completely overdosed and lost all links to reality.

Well... my doctor was like she usually is. She is grough and tough, but ultimately a very good doctor the kind of person you want at your side when you need a very qualified doctor.
Today she sent me to her little lab and had me give some blood so she can evaluate it by tomorrow morning.
Tomorrow morning i will come in and we are going to do an ultrasound of my affected organs to see what exactly is going on there.
She prescribed me a weak opiate (guess i can't get around it) that i need to take for the next 4 weeks. I am going to combine it with high dosages of Metamizol, a painkiller that is banned in America, but legal here that works well.
Even if i combine that Opiate with Metamizol it isn't quite enough to actually get rid of the pain.
 
When do you have to go back?
can you sleep?
what were you told not to do?
I hope it gets better.
 
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Go back to the hospital? Never.
Back to my doctor? I have an appointment tomorrow morning at around 10am.
I was told to be very careful with what i ingest, but that is not an issue anyway, since i lack all appetite. All i eat right now is some medical liquid food. It gives me all the nutrients and calories i need.
 
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@KingpinSlim , I feel sorry for you mate , if it makes you feel better your not the only one , my story is nowhere near as bad as yours , but the worst ive had is when my 70-years old dentist left a needle of novacaine hanging out of my mouth for 10 minutes (without injecting the plunger to numb my jaw) while he flirted with the nurses . hurt like hell (I had a cracked tooth) . pathetic compared to what you went through right? guess i'm gonna hafta stop complaining bout him . hope you get better
 
Maybe you could go to another hospital...if there's more than one around where you live...
 
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@Icie nimbus: Oh believe me... that is more than terribly enough. I am actually quite scared of dentists and this sounds awful to me. I probably would not have gone there ever again had i been in your situation and i most certainly would have told him the reason for it!

@Amapola62: Sure, there are others, but i honestly doubt they are any better and i would like to have my own doctor treat me. I am no longer in a very trusting mood.
 
There are lots of really bad doctors who get paid based on the number of clients they see. So they aren't interested in you if you have a complicated problem that takes time to identify.

At least, that's the case in Canada.
 
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Our german system is a lot like yours my canadian friend, so i believe this to be the situation here as well.
At least in this worst-case scenario.
 
Maybe you should see a good specialist of the digestive system...if they exist that is...I have no idea there are doctors specialised in the digestive system...
 
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My doctor is a specialist in internal medicine so (lucky me) this actually is her specialty.
 
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I hope the lab-results and the results of the ultrasound of my lower abdomen will give me a picture of how bad everything is.
If i can manage it, i might eat my favorite kind of ramen tomorrow.
Nong Shim - Shin Ramyun.
Very, very good ramen.
 
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I absolutely agree, It is so simple, yet so delicious.
None of the flavors overpower one another and you have good quality noodles and a lovely, not to spicy beef-broth.
 
You are from Germany? Actually im gonna move there soon, I hope it wont happen the same to me. Because my family lives there and i join them. I have a problem with health, something serious but not that prevents me to move or work for now. Its about my future.

Sad that it happened to you, all the best.
 

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