I am 16 years old and I just got over some serious health issues.
Not long ago, I was going to the doctor WEEKLY, out of school all the time, and I felt like I was going to die. I was depressed and wanted to kill myself because I just didn't want to hurt any longer. I was SUFFERING. To make things worse, the doctors didn't know why!
It all started with severe side pain, and I mean severe. It felt as if someone was shredding my side with a knife, and the pain was unbearable. I then started peeing dark-orange to tea-colored urine, and then there was bright red blood in my urine. They ran tests on my kidneys and I went in for a couple of ultrasounds on my kidneys. They said that the creatinine levels in my urine were high, and they drew blood and ran more tests- all to come up with nothing.
I continued to have the lower back/side pains. The next symptom that came about was bloody stools, and I mean there was a TON of blood in my stools. I lost a significant amount of blood, was dizzy some days, and had to be hospitalized to this. There was so much blood coming out from my butt that I had to wear feminine pads so I would leak blood everywhere.
The doctors ran tests for this, and I even had to have a lower GI. The lower GI was excrutiating. I wasn't given enough sedative and I remember EVERYTHING! The pain from the lower GI was one of the worst pains in my life.
Even after all this - nothing.
Added to the bloody stools, bloody urine, lower back/side pain I started to have extreme pain in my upper stomache area, kind of between where my rib cage is. This pain was so bad. I would have these contractions of pain, and I couldn't eat anything because I would just throw it up. I was miserable.
The doctors ran galbladder tests, I had radiation scans, everything, and nothing came up. They were about to remove my galbladder, but because I was scared they let me "wait-it-out" until I was ready.
I missed a whole year of school because of this, and I was on the highest dose of hydrocodone that anybody can take without dying every 4 hours for my debilitating pain. The pills made me so queazy, but it subsided the pain some.
I just got so tired of life and living, and I stopped doing anything. I was depressed, and I soon stopped taking all my medications because I felt that if I was going to die (which I felt like I was) then these pills aren't going to make it any better, and I'm on 3 different daily medications due to my PCOS. One of them was Ocella, prescribed by my endocronologist to regulate my hormones.
Almost instantly after I stopped taking my pills I felt a little better. It felt like a miracle. I told my mom that I had stopped taking my pills and she of course got mad and told me to start taking them again. We argued, and I hated taking the birth-control pill (Ocella) because I hated having the periods. I was bleeding everywhere already, so why add a period to all the mess? she told me to just skip the Ocella untill I felt better.
I had one last period, and then I didn't have another (due to the unregulated hormones) and because I stopped taking the Ocella.
Long story short, I feel amazing now. I got so much better months after I stopped taking the pills. We didn't really have any idea as to what the cause of all my ailments were until we noticed a compensation commercial for Ocella, Yaz, and Yasmin. Almost everything they listed were syptoms I was having.
So, should I file for compensation? I know a lot of women have filed for compensation, and I feel like I deserve it. I went through months of torture for no reason, I was poked and proded by thousands of needles, I had to endure the pain of MANY IVs, had endless amount of blood drawn, and I was held back a grade because I lost a year of my life becasue of this. And I'm only 16!!
Let me know what you think! Thanks!
-Emily
Not long ago, I was going to the doctor WEEKLY, out of school all the time, and I felt like I was going to die. I was depressed and wanted to kill myself because I just didn't want to hurt any longer. I was SUFFERING. To make things worse, the doctors didn't know why!
It all started with severe side pain, and I mean severe. It felt as if someone was shredding my side with a knife, and the pain was unbearable. I then started peeing dark-orange to tea-colored urine, and then there was bright red blood in my urine. They ran tests on my kidneys and I went in for a couple of ultrasounds on my kidneys. They said that the creatinine levels in my urine were high, and they drew blood and ran more tests- all to come up with nothing.
I continued to have the lower back/side pains. The next symptom that came about was bloody stools, and I mean there was a TON of blood in my stools. I lost a significant amount of blood, was dizzy some days, and had to be hospitalized to this. There was so much blood coming out from my butt that I had to wear feminine pads so I would leak blood everywhere.
The doctors ran tests for this, and I even had to have a lower GI. The lower GI was excrutiating. I wasn't given enough sedative and I remember EVERYTHING! The pain from the lower GI was one of the worst pains in my life.
Even after all this - nothing.
Added to the bloody stools, bloody urine, lower back/side pain I started to have extreme pain in my upper stomache area, kind of between where my rib cage is. This pain was so bad. I would have these contractions of pain, and I couldn't eat anything because I would just throw it up. I was miserable.
The doctors ran galbladder tests, I had radiation scans, everything, and nothing came up. They were about to remove my galbladder, but because I was scared they let me "wait-it-out" until I was ready.
I missed a whole year of school because of this, and I was on the highest dose of hydrocodone that anybody can take without dying every 4 hours for my debilitating pain. The pills made me so queazy, but it subsided the pain some.
I just got so tired of life and living, and I stopped doing anything. I was depressed, and I soon stopped taking all my medications because I felt that if I was going to die (which I felt like I was) then these pills aren't going to make it any better, and I'm on 3 different daily medications due to my PCOS. One of them was Ocella, prescribed by my endocronologist to regulate my hormones.
Almost instantly after I stopped taking my pills I felt a little better. It felt like a miracle. I told my mom that I had stopped taking my pills and she of course got mad and told me to start taking them again. We argued, and I hated taking the birth-control pill (Ocella) because I hated having the periods. I was bleeding everywhere already, so why add a period to all the mess? she told me to just skip the Ocella untill I felt better.
I had one last period, and then I didn't have another (due to the unregulated hormones) and because I stopped taking the Ocella.
Long story short, I feel amazing now. I got so much better months after I stopped taking the pills. We didn't really have any idea as to what the cause of all my ailments were until we noticed a compensation commercial for Ocella, Yaz, and Yasmin. Almost everything they listed were syptoms I was having.
So, should I file for compensation? I know a lot of women have filed for compensation, and I feel like I deserve it. I went through months of torture for no reason, I was poked and proded by thousands of needles, I had to endure the pain of MANY IVs, had endless amount of blood drawn, and I was held back a grade because I lost a year of my life becasue of this. And I'm only 16!!
Let me know what you think! Thanks!
-Emily