Please help. I need someone to come along with me to the hospital. To be a fierce lion and advocate for me and her doctors to take me seriously. Or else I am going to die of sepsis from infections.
(Important note so it is at the top: I am going to take a nap, please text me. Text only. I need to sleep. I am exhausted. I’ll call you back if I want to talk. And yes I am a real person, I swear.)
I’m a good person. I always help other people whenever I can. I’ve never purposely hurt another human being. I’m young (30’s) I’m supposed to have a long life.
I deserve to live. I don’t want to die.
Medical malpractice and medical negligence and domestic violence and abuse might kill me. I’m screaming into the internet void begging the world for help.
I have autoimmune illnesses so infections do not show up on normal labwork in me, like they do in normal people.
I am very sick and 2 hospital emergency departments have not believed me. Medical gaslighting sucks.
I am septic from several dead dying teeth. My dentist was scared to operate because I am so sick. I’ve barely eaten in 2 weeks because it was so bad. (I couldn’t go sooner because of a domestic violence situation. Long story)
My dentist sent me to the hospital with a letter saying they are infected and I needed treatment for the infections, and the hospital doctors won’t even read it.
I have been keeping the infections semi at bay with oral antibiotics. But it is not enough.
I cannot keep up enough doses. I am cold, weak, lethargic, shaky. The second ER was even such assholes that my labs showed dangerously low potassium and sodium, and they didn’t even bother to fix that! (A simple IV bag!)
I cannot even eat due to the swelling in my mouth and throat. I can barely swallow even small things. My whole mouth is swollen.
And if I eat food, it gets stuck in the holes and channels that line my gumline now, as the infections are spreading.
Please help. Someone please help. Anyone please help.
I am going to die.
I am going to die if I don’t get help.
Doctors keep saying that I am starving myself on purpose for attention. I am not. I can barely swallow food, and when I do eat, it gets stuck in the channel holes along my gums and it makes the infections worse.
For example:
I ate Italian food… I could taste Italian food for 4 days afterwards even after brushing teeth and mouthwash.
Because there’s thousands of channels and holes now, eaten by the bacteria, burrowed along my gumline and teeth that all the spices and sauce got into.
And it made the infections so much worse.
Frankly it went from 1-2 bad teeth to like 20 teeth with holes along the gum line in the span of 1 month. It was a nightmare. (Why didn’t I go to the dentist sooner? Domestic violence! An abuser was preventing me. Literally. With death threats. Nightmare.)
I was living off juice and ensure shakes.
But now I can’t even eat those. Because living on that + being on antibiotics gave me thrush (oral fungal infection) from too much sugar.
Now my mouth swells up and becomes 10/10 painful if I drink something with sugar.
And my throat swells up inside.
All this and doctors still don’t believe me!
Because “your labs don’t show infection markers, you’re fiiiiiiiiiiiine!”
Autoimmune patients don’t show infection markers in labs, those idiots
Oh and they accuse me of being a drug addict when I’m not too!
They ONLY “diagnosed” me based on my labwork “no high white blood cell count, no high fever, no high crp, no high lactate”
I have autoimmune diseases. I am malnourished too.
I have had infections many times in the past, confirmed infections, where those labs were normal in me. I tell doctors this and they don’t believe me.
I need to be admitted to the hospital and be seen by an ENT, ear nose throat doctor. Who can see my throat closing up with a camera.
I need to be seen by Infectious Disease, who can take a tissue same of the dead bones (teeth) in my mouth and culture it.
I NEED TO BE GIVEN IV NUTRITION
Did you know they can give you whole meals through an IV line? Yeah! Protein, fat, carbohydrates, all the key vitamins, all of it. Straight into your bloodstream.
I need that.
I currently look like a person who escaped a concentration camp. It’s terrifying.
And if I die, idiot doctors are just going to say “she did it to herself”. Meanwhile I am screaming, “Somebody help me”
And I also need an NG tube. A feeding tube through my nose into my stomach. It bypasses my mouth, so I can drink shakes and stuff without hurting the holes in my teeth.
In case you don’t know the statistics—
A woman is 200% more likely to be believed in the emergency department if a man is there with her. Even if he’s silent. It’s fucked up. And women are 50% more likely to be dismissed in the ER when having a stroke because doctors don’t believe them. And more statistics like that. It’s awful.
Having another person come with me will literally save my life.
Even if you just sit there, your mere presence will help.
But even better if you actually advocate and demand they believe me! Demand they give me IV nutrition. Demand they admit me to the hospital. Demand that I am seen by ENT and infectious disease.
Docs and nurses will malpractice like crazy and do terrible things when they know there are no witnesses around. Because it’s just my word against their word.
If there is a witness in the room— then they are less likely to do something bad. Because then it is their word against 2 peoples words.
But even better if you actually help fight to save my life!