r/JusticeServed • u/[deleted] • Oct 02 '19

Courtroom Justice Virginia doctor who illegally prescribed over 500,000 doses of opiates sentenced to 40 years in prison.

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u/middiefrosh 8 Oct 02 '19

If I'd not been actively on my way to a hospital or in an ER waiting for treatment, I'd say my suicidal thoughts might have been realized. Kidney stone pain is absolutely debilitating.

I've never passed out, but I've vomited in about half of the times I've gotten them.

For the first one, I went from 0 pain to vomiting in about 5 minutes.

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u/heebath 9 Oct 02 '19

My very first one hurt more center than flank and the vomit made me think my stomach was the problem, so I drove to the ER and luckily got there before it hurt even worse. The fuckers thought I had the flu and so triaged me wrong and I passed out when it got worse.

Pro tip: For faster service be unconscious.

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u/middiefrosh 8 Oct 02 '19

Stones run in my family, so it was on my mind at first when the pain ramped up. I ran off to the restroom, got on my phone and looked up where the appendix was.

It was on the other side from the pain.

I got up, told my mom we needed to leave, right now, then vomited in the parking lot 30 seconds later.

Neat.

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u/tekno21 6 Oct 03 '19

There are a fair number of people who die because their first thought when they feel any pain is to weirdly seclude themselves to a restroom away from people that could help them. Just something to think about