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Doc comes back and says "CT scan shows nothing wrong so you are being released". I said "what about my legs, I can't move them, I can't stand" He said "The scan shows nothing wrong we can't and wont keep you, and we will help you out" I asked what was I suppose to do when we got home since nobody can carry me, and they didn't answer. I don't understand...why would he not check my reflexes, my pulse, ANYTHING?
Please, pray for me to be able to use my legs again...this is scary!
Prayers, lifting you up
And I am so sorry, that obamaCare is in full swing.
(Don’t blame the docs)
Is this your first time to that ER?
Go to a chiropractor.
How near is the next closest ER?
Maybe you really are fine and don’t know it yet. Just need to weight until the muscle heals? I got hit once during a football game and couldn’t move for awhile either. I was nailed right at the base of the back. Whatever the case, prayers up.
I can’t imagine any of our local hospitals discharging under these circumstances.
Yikes....do you have family you can call ? Kids or something ?
Wow, my last post was pretty goofed up. Weight = wait, etc.
It is scary. God willing you'll be back on your feet again soon -- we're all of us here praying for you.
Praying for you.
Nineteen more days to Obamacare! Has your Navigator visited you yet?!
Ask your GP if a nerve conductivity test is in order. They'll take readings of your 'traffic' and see if there's any disruptions. Might be a painful test, but my guess is neurological if nothing else has been found.
Sounds like they think it was temporary nerve paralysis (trauma induced). If so, they should have told you.
Get a good lawyer.
I cant imagine a hospital discharging you under those conditions. no diagnosis provided. no treatment or even precautionary measures reported?
I bet your doctor tells you he wants you taken (carefully taken) to another hospital for a better evaluation .
if your doctor wants you carried in a stretcher, let him have his way, because there is just a very very small but still real chance that there could have been some nerve damage and your doctor may want you extra-protected from any further possible harm
but one way or another...if it were me and I were still immobilized and had not received a meaningful diagnosis and some sort of care or treatment plan, I would definitely seek those things out
meanwhile you definitely do have all our prayers.
(I had both legs mostly immobilized once and barely could make it to hospital, but fortunately it was something minor and went away. SIMPLE PRUDENCE says you cannot count on that, there is always a small chance of something seriously hurt inside you .... so please get a good medical workup
it will at the very least put your mind at ease
which is worth a whole lot, too
blessings,
Chiro, not neuro.
The latter are arrogant SOB’s who will make sure you are VERY impressed with the glossy teak scroll squares on their wall, and the white coat.
In the end they can’t help you, and you wa$$$$ted lot$ of time and money.
My ex-boss was a neuro was an idiot and couldn’t program a VCR after a power outtage —sounds made up, right?
The neuro LOATHED chiros, but GUESS WHO ended up actually helping me (and cheaply, what’s more) after MY injury..?
THE NEURO CANNOT HELP YOU.
Do whatever you have to do to get a second opinion, go to another hospital, whatever. A few years ago hubby was in a horse wreck, local ER doc said he only had a couple of cracked ribs, would not admit him, released him. Hubby was having trouble breathing and I was quite concerned, as was my daughter who is a nurse. We took him to another town and ER doc there said he had numerous broken ribs and one had punctured his lung...that hospital transferred him to nearest trauma center where he had to have chest tube, a week in ICU...and lots, lots more care over weeks and months...
My experience is ER doctors are luck of the draw, and the deck is stacked against getting a good one- seems a lot of doctors don’t want to work ER.
I have had similar ER experiences. My advice? Go to another ER. Of course it’s friday night and you can’t get your GP for several days... that seems to be how it goes.
You go another hospital... after they do the exam and say that they’ll release you, you turn to your friend/relative/wife and you say, “guess this one will have to go to the lawyer.”
MAKE SURE that a nurse overhears you.
I once screamed in a waiting room at the top of my lungs that if they released my son, and if anything happened to that kid within the next 72 hours, I was going to OWN that doctor, the hospital, the board of directors, etc.
A nurse overheard me and my son was immediately transported via ambulance to a pediatric hospital and admitted for five days for a heart issue.
(I have a spinal fusion as well, so I get why this is concerning. That hardware and scar tissue can do anything.)