Thyroid Medication in Hospital Stay

[FancyPants54]

I am currently stuck in hospital due to a huge nosebleed on Tuesday morning. I came in with all my medicine for the week in my pill box. They insisted on locking it away in my nightstand. They have no idea what Armour is. I take Armour and some Levo at 8am and more Armour at 5pm and leave an hour before food. I have some meds for atrial fibrillation and vitamins that I take at 10am and 10pm.

They cannot get their heads around this. This morning I got access to my thyroid meds about 10 minutes before breakfast was thrust at me. And they have been on at me since 6:30 to take everything else. So frustrating.

Then 2 weeks ago I fell over hard and smacked my knees up and shoulder. One leg is badly bruised and swollen. They have forced it into a surgical stocking that is so tight I’m in pain all the time. The peripheral neuropathy in my feet is also aggravated by the tight stockings. I don’t know how anyone gets better from things in these places.

[helvella Administrator]

Wishing you well. Hope you get out as soon as possible.

[FancyPants54 in reply to helvella]

Me too. But I really hope they find something to cauterise first because it was a terrifying experience.

[helvella Administrator in reply to FancyPants54]

I struggle to imagine - I've only ever had minor nosebleeds. While it is easy to imagine the outside view - of blood - the experience of it happening to you must be very different - and deeply unpleasant.

[FancyPants54 in reply to helvella]

Deeply unpleasant. My husband suffers with them, and even he was getting worried enough to phone 999. Ambulance wait - 2 hours, whilst I was coughing out huge clots and pouring out of my nose.

We were told to drive ourselves to A&E! I had to take beach towels and a mixing bowl to bleed into and somehow get clothes on (hubby did that) and get meds together. All in all I was in the accident units of 2 hospitals well over 12 hours and finally got to a ward at 1:30 am. It’s been traumatic. I couldn’t wear a mask and the departments were full. Horrible all round. I’ve had inflated nasal balloons inside my nose all the way back since. Horrible. And they keep wondering why my BP is high. 4 weeks ago at my endo visit, it was perfect.

[Sparklingsunshine in reply to FancyPants54]

My mum used to suffer from horrendous nosebleeds, they made her anaemic. They found out she had a deviated septum in her nose. She had it cauterised several times but it didnt help.

[FancyPants54 in reply to Sparklingsunshine]

I’ve had some cauterising in the past for lesser bleeds so they have looked up there before. Hopefully I don’t have one of those as they didn’t say.

[Cake-Maker in reply to FancyPants54]

Wishing you well. Sorry to say that your hospital experience was typical of what’s happening in UK.

[bantam12]

While in hospital earlier this year I found it easier to just go with the flow for the duration of my stay and go back to normal tabs schedule once home, not ideal I know but trying to get the staff to change their rules is usually hopeless.

[FancyPants54 in reply to bantam12]

It is. Trouble is my own meds are locked away!

[bantam12 in reply to FancyPants54]

Yes they are locked up and it’s near impossible to get them unlocked any time other than drugs round especially now when staff are in short supply so nobody has time to help. Hopefully you will be out soon and can get back to your normal routine.

[arTistapple]

As usual being too honest in our search for ‘help’ does not seem to help us. So many incidents to report, too many. Like you we have to be on our toes the whole time dealing with medics, right when we are at our most vulnerable. There is a huge barrier in communication with them. It really humongous. Who is really in charge or maybe, more accurately - what is in charge?

Hoping you get over this ASAP.

[Cake-Maker]

Is your Armour prescribed or self-sourced?