#Urgent Medical Care

[grandeintegratedwellnesss]

When you’re in need of urgent care, having access to behavioral health services in Casa Grande, Arizona can make all the difference. Whether it’s a sudden illness or a minor injury, urgent care centers provide immediate medical attention without the long wait times often associated with emergency rooms. These facilities are equipped to handle a variety of health issues, ensuring you get the care you need when you need it most.

[bamsara]

Listen. I JUST had a kidney stone and it was worse than period cramps my dude person. My fellow human. Please please please pleeeeease. Drink straight water too. I do not wish that pain on ANYONE. Ever. It landed me sweaty, in ER, silently screaming and twisting in the bed, and hyperventilating. Like BamSara, please, be be be careful. I never hit a lvl 10 pain scale and I genuinely thought I was going to croak. I don’t wish that kind of PAIN on even my worst enemy. For real.

And I have health insurance but my bill was 2,300-ish $$

I’ve cut back on coffee and Dr Pepper… I’m also 32 so I dunno if age factors into that

I have both great and terrible news: I have already had kidney stones slkdhglksdhgsd

I had 8 of them, and one of them got stuck in the tract for a while. I thought it was P Cramps too and since it was late at night/early in the morning I decided to see if I could wait it out (plus also hospital is expensive) and so I ended up doubled on the floor, curled up and sobbing in pain near some of my own vomit completely unable to move

Finally went to the ER after 6 hours of agony and they were like 'why didnt you come earlier' and 'welp theres nothing we can really do outside of manage the damage and give you some strong painkillers and morphine'

But yeah anyone who's reading this don't be like me, kidney stones are very painful. Still drinking this cup tho

[catmitsumi]

no home characters as bugeater1101 posts + roaches

[ahedderick]

The three-week sore throat

Vis-a-vis the second trip to Urgent Care with my teen daughter: Bless the medical people who say any version of "Hmm, the test is negative BUT I can tell something's going on so we're going to start you on medication for xyz anyway . . "

That. That is actually PRACTICING medicine. Examining the patient with your own senses, using your knowledge, trusting your eyes and fingertips and the patient's reported symptoms over a damned test. Thank you, Ma'am, she's finally feeling better.

Whew!

[neathbound-fiends]

sorry for quiet lol. dealing with a lot

[thevaudevillescene]

doctor at urgent care looked in my right ear and said, “she’s perfect! :)” then she went and looked in my left ear, which has been clogged for DAYS, and she said, “…ooh. Ooooooh, let’s get you on antibiotics :/”

[tj-crochets]

Hey y'all, weird question time again, this time for people without POTS or other tachycardia-causing health issues. I know my heart rate is higher than it should be a lot of the time, but I can't find comparison data for not-tachycardia peoples' heart rates at any point except resting and like target rate when exercising, so my questions are these: 1. What's your heart rate when you stand up? 2. Does your heart rate go up noticeably when you are sick? There's presumably a whole spectrum of non-tachycardia heart rates at points between resting and high intensity exercise, but I have not been able to find any comparison points in between those extremes at all

[ectobabble]

Hey guys I'm in urgent care. If you can send good vibes please I'm kinda scared. I reached a limit with the physical stuff goin on. They're doing a bunch or tests. It's gonna be so expensive and it's probably ly nothing. Idk. I feel so stupid sitting here but I'm in so much pain. I can't function rn

[uranium]

having a really awesome time because my lung is doing weird things again but i have this insane combination of a super high pain tolerance + severe hypochondria that makes me completely incapable of being able to determine if something is actually going wrong or not. things feel Kind of Bad. is this a feeling that would be sending most people to the floor? do i only care about the feeling because im constantly hypervigilant to every sensation i feel and its something most people would totally ignore? who knows

[eternatuslesbian]

i swear to g-d anytime i feel as though i have genuine medical concerns and voice that to my parents they just act like it's bc im fat. i promise you my suspected kidney infection has nothing to do with me being fat.

[the-lady-maddy]

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[snarp]

Appalachia

[assorted-aesthetics]

genuinely not trying to be anti-science about it at all but i will say that just like. when it comes to adhd, communities of people with the disorder finding commonalities and connecting some dots are LEAGUES ahead of psychologists. and has been vastly more helpful to me in realizing when smth is a symptom i can manage and not me being uniquely evil and crazy

[stinkrascal]

my ears hurt :( 1 billion points hammer damage to the american healthcare system

[in-patience]

Post Urgent Care Visit

Yesterday i finally went to urgent care about a repeat hip injury. I ended up arguing with my doctor because she kept focusing on describing to me how i would be reacting to the pain level she thought i should be in for the injury i thought it was, instead of focusing on less subjective symptoms and talking to me about differential diagnoses. I ended our argument by telling her that, as a chronic pain patient, i know i experience pain differently than other people and it's dumb to try and focus on describing the pain level. At that point we were able to move forward and answer some of my questions. I felt like I had to drag answers out of her, but nonetheless my questions mostly got answered. I don't regret using the word "dumb," i think it's what got her attention.

It takes me awhile to decompress after appointments like this. My partner who went with me, later described how when we have doctors like this, it sometimes feels like we're dissecting a new trauma as we try to sort out what happened after we leave. And honestly i think he's onto something. I exit these appointments in a panic state, not sure if i managed to communicate well enough or if they believed me or if the visit was even worth my while. I cry after them sometimes. I almost always bring them up in therapy after.

Ultimately I think, hours after I left, i was able to piece together what we had said and synthesize the relevant information in a way that I can semi-confidently move forward with the condition. But the memory registers fuzzy even though it was yesterday.

This is a big reason why i appreciate when doctors actually write good notes, or any at all even. The clicking of a keyboard is my favorite sound in appointments. I didn't hear it much during this one, so i expected poor notes. She surprised me! They weren't extensive, but they were definitely useful and I am thankful for that. And I'm glad I argued with her, I don't think i would've gotten my answers otherwise.

[lastoneout]

Kinda wish I could stop having medical anxiety for like five seconds. I literally just got done irrationally freaking out about one stupid thing that turned out to be nothing, and I had like ONE day of rest before my brain decided to fixate on some random weird dry spots on my arm, immediately convinced this is the first sign of skin cancer or something and now I'm wide awake at 6am trying to get my dumb ass to calm the fuck down.