I got treated for red swollen fingers whilst on holiday in Tenerife and I need to find out what treatment it was that they gave me.

[lenny111]

On advice, on holiday I went to a Spanish teaching hospital to get my fat red fingers checked out. I am still mystified about the treatment given because of doubt about whether they were actually doing what they said.

First off they had no clue about the cause but said that they wanted to give me a cortisone injection. I was fine about that but then the nurse wanted to put a cannula into my arm which I thought was odd cecause cortisone is usually adminstered by deep IM. Not being too knowledgable I let them get on with it and they proceded to drip feed me the medication. When that was over they then gave me a deep IM injection stating that it was anti-histamine. That again struck me as odd because I never heard of deep IM anti-histamine. As well as that I got a prescription for anti-hist tablets and also anti-inflammatory.

When I got home I checked out what I could decipher from the treatment sheet that they supplied and discovered that the deep IM was a form of cortisone so the burning question is, what was the first treatment by drip. Additional info on that:-as soon as it entered my body it felt like an invading force of UFO's that were landing quite painfully at strategic points all over my body.

Please offer any ideas that you may have. Thanks

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the only thing i can think of that is painful as it enters tbe body is potassium which if given by I.V. is excrutiating. i know after i had a heart attack (the LAD widowmaker) they tried to give me potassium and i made them stop...this was the first time i ever had that kind of pain from a medication. why don't you request your records and have someone translate to english for you. at least you can find out what they did.. was it helpful???

tassia123

[frillyhilly]

Hi,

I just had a chat with my husband who has worked within the NHS and is involved with our GP's patients association, about treatment abroad.

We think you should contact your GP. They should be able to request details of your treatment (if you're really lucky the hospital may even have sent then to him already). If your GP can't help, I'd try your specialist, or "his" secretary if it's a while to your next appointment

You don't mention if you've experiemced any ongoing changes since the treatment - hopefully yoir condition has not got worse - but if you have, if it was me, I would see my GP.

Take care of yourself, Nicola