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I was shitting blood, turned grey, and fainted in public. I did go the hospital. They literally said "idk" and sent me home with a 4000$ bill. It kept happening.
Went to a specialist that also resulted in a literal "idk", and they wouldn't clear a colonoscopy because I am "too young" and "don't have a family history." I was begging them to figure it out because this was a fucking nightmare. Nope. At least the bill was 400$ this time around.
It kept happening for over a year at random. Actually terrifying.
FINALLY, I put myself on a diet of oatmeal and water for a month and slowly introduced new foods every week. I was curious to know if maybe certain foods triggered it?
Turns out: yes. I triggered a reaction using one of my favorite foods/ingredients. No idea why, but I had developed some kind of severe intolerance to it. And I had to figure it out myself.
You can't just not say what it was
Green onions.
Oh nooo that's so good, is it just green ones?
Ye! It's very strange. I haven't noticed an effect from standard white/yellow onions or anything. Just green onions.
Ever since I cut them out of my diet, I've never had an issue since.
I did love green onions.. but I also love not shitting blood and passing out in front of strangers.
Huh, I didn't even know there was such a thing as green onions. I've only heard of red and white before.
edit: wait, looked it up. Apparently green onions are what we call "scallions" where I'm from.
I prefer passing out in front of strangers and then shitting blood personally. Try it in that order you may be able to enjoy green onions again!
Tempting. Veeeeery tempting.
It was definitely something weird that everyone would tell them was the obvious thing.
"I just like dipping my fries in crude oil. What of it?"
"I had recently switched from salt on my tomatoes to crushed glass for the extra crunch."
Probably chicken bones. I’ve heard of people who like eating them have serious issues.
Do not eat bones. Seriously people, I can’t stress this enough!
Not many chickens where he lives I'd guess. Maybe it's fish bones? (His username is SharkEatingBreakfast.. and Im explaining a dumb joke... Fuck)
I don't eat chicken bones on the regular, if at all.
But turns out it was green onion.
My condolences! I love green onion! That’s a really weird food reaction!
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Broken glass
I'm very sorry that you went through that. I know it sucks with the American healthcare $ystem, but you are always allowed to seek a second opinion and any provider that is opposed to that is a bad provider and you shouldn't see them again anyways.
One thing to keep in mind about the ER though, is that they're there to rule out anything that is going to kill you quickly, and if you didn't lose enough blood to drop your hemoglobin count (a measure of how many red blood cells you have), it is perfectly within the standard of care for them to discharge you and tell you to follow up with your primary care physician or a specialist. The ER has a lot of resources, but not enough resources to fully diagnose every possible problem. They can make sure you're not on death's doorstep, and stabilize you if you are, but beyond that, they're pretty strapped for resources and staffing which make it hard to fully work up every mystery diagnosis.
What was the allergy, out of curiosity?
I'm figuring out my own allergies. Atm on a GFCF diet. Seems to be working somewhat.
Maybe bro just eats a fuckton of beets
Semi-Funny story. I had never eaten beets before, but I started eating those beet and sea salt chips (so good!), and I freaked the fuck out when I peed red that next morning.
I have hella good healthcare through my job, and so I made an appointment with my primary care doc right away, and he was like "Any changes to your diet?"
Felt bad about wasting his time, but Jesus, I was not expecting that amount of red in the bowl!
Ask anyone in primary patient care - people make that exact same appointment because of beets regularly. Beets are absolutely delicious, but boy can they be a little mindfuck for a moment if you aren't expecting the side effect!
As someone who temporarily switched from carrots to beets due to an allergy, golden beets are a solution to avoid giving people you cook for a good scare
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Can relate, my dad sees 'going to the doctor' as a personal weakness and thus rarely goes.
I see it as financial weakness and thus rarely go.
Many if not most men are like this. It's usually their wives or another woman in their lives that drags them in when something is about to fall off. It's another way in which husbands leave 71% of a household’s ‘mental load’ on their wives, down to their own well being.
Men are raised to bring money into the household, and it can easily be half a years wages to go to the hospital. It's weird to act like they are being malicious to their partner by being this way.
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That’s a whole part of my cynical conservative upbringing that I have to consciously work against.
You can’t do the obvious thing you’re SUPPOSED to do. What are you, some kind of sucker and/or [gay slur]?
That's dangerous, that could be sexual transmitted disease 💬🤔or kidney diseases
Let's not rule out bladder cancer.
Painless hematuria (blood in the urine without pain when peeing) is one of the first (and frequently only) signs of bladder cancer. Especially if it's frank blood (meaning that you can see it without a microscope).
I'm currently pissing blood on the regular and I have free healthcare, so I think this is more of a "dumb dude" thing than an "American with an overdraft" thing.
I will go to the doc eventually, but I need more. I can't be turning up there with one thing to report. I need stabbing pains, memory loss, night terrors and maybe some jaundice before I pick up the phone.
I know I can't die early, because I'm not getting off that easy. So I'm safe for the time being 👍🙃
Painless gross haematuria is one of the most common first signs of bladder cancer. A very treatable cancer for most people. Peeing blood for no reason can be bad. It can also be beats.
Can confirm, dude is indeed dumb ;-)
If symptoms linked to kidney failure isn't enough to send you to the doctor...
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Holy fuck just go to the doctor so at least they can do simple blood work and make sure it's nothing obvious. I pissed blood once, turns out along with the leg pain my kidneys were about to shut down. Go to the fucking doctor
Look at Constantine over here, cursed to live.
no, stupid questions!
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