I think my wife has an ulcer again. This seems to happen about every eight or ten years.
She can't eat anything, big fever, dizzy, throws up everything for two or three days, even water.
Called off work of course, but she has to have two negative Covid tests before she can return.
Did the home tests, both negative, and she was feeling better, but today she went downhill again.
We're going to the hospital in the morning.
I hope she'll be ok. What is the treatment for an ulcer?
The doctors eliminated ulcers as a diagnosis.
The brown, half digested blood in her vomit (yes, I helped her collect samples last night to take to the doc) was caused from an esophageal tear from gagging so hard for three days. That can be quite serious, but hers seems to be minor. They took pics.
After a day of tests and scans they determined that she has a small pocket of kidney stones causing problems.
One specialist told us that about half the population have some form of kidney stones for most of their lives, but with a healthy immune system they are kept under control until they grow so large as to cause blockages in the kidneys or ruptures in the blood vessels running through the kidneys.
A compromise to the immune system (my wife has worked nights for fifteen years, does not get enough rest during the day = compromised immunity) and the smallest stones can begin to harbor harmful bacterial infections. Once the stones, infected with bacteria, become large enough to begin to rupture blood vessels in the kidneys, the bacteria enter the blood stream and many varied symptoms begin to occur.
Vomiting, fever, nausea, reduced bile output and other liver issues are most common, often accompanied by pancreatic and thyroidal compromises as well.
In other words, you can't eat much without throwing up, but if you can keep food down, it does not digest properly. Sugars go out of control, either way high or way low and the good fats turn into bad fats before you gain any benefit from the food.
SO, you are hungry all the time, can barely hold food down and you are starving yourself no matter how much "good food" you eat. All that from a few pebbles of calcium salts that have begun to be colonized by bacteria.
Yep, the specialists took us to kidney stone school today.
They're keeping her in the hospital for a day or two until they break the fever, get the infection under controll and get her electrolyte balance back to normal.
