Each and every month while taking my estrodial and spirallactone, I find myself getting moody. Well this month starting yesterday, I started to feel sharp pains! It will start off all over my stomach then just the sides of my hips around the area where biological females say the pain is. Today is just the same, what is going on!?

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Called the office, they told me to go to urgant care...

I hope it's nothing too serious.

**keep's my fingers crossed for you**

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Turns out that it was serious, a pendasitece. I went the the ER around three in the afternoon, in utter pain but did not recieve any drugs until 11pm; I had the operation around one in the morning. The nurses really were no help I think they didn't like the fact that they had to pamper a Transgender Woman. I would have to unplugg myself so many times just to use the bathroom that I wound up putting more stress on my wound that I should have! They cut me open, hurts like hell and they made me move around on my own.
The worst part, no-one gave me my medication! I had to wait for one of my friends to show with my things before I could self medicate with my perscription hormones. Denver General were not nice at all, they even made me walk three buildings just to pick up anti botics on my own, to another building way across on the other side then back again. Walking on my own, I am in so much pain!

Appendicitis? You're lucky you did go and get help then!

Glad you're up and about again now, after a fashion.

should have just crapped the bed - two can play at that game

Its a myth that nurses are all 'angels'

something they have been trading off for years

they are just as likely to be pushing a pensioners bed away from the nurse call button

allowing someone to sit in their own faeces for hours and hours

and carry all the bias and social issues that everyone else does

the only advantage you have - if there was any is that you can make a formal complaint to the http://www.nmc-uk.org/

say when it was and where it was what wards etc and they will be easy to trace

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Nurse Rachel Baker
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/6709169.stm

more recent
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/7137677.stm
DEC

nuff said

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Man [...] must count no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth." (Jean Paul Sartre, 1943)

http://www.nmc-uk.org/aFrameDisplay.aspx?DocumentID=1566
http://www.nmc-uk.org/aFrameDisplay.aspx?DocumentID=3294

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Man [...] must count no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth." (Jean Paul Sartre, 1943)

i think the original poster was from the USA.i'm not sure how you would go about complaining about nursing care in the states.
i think the vast majority of nurses do a good job.i'm a nurse and transsexual and have never treated anyone like shit.i work on a urology ward in london and all the nurses have been very supportive of me.
rachel.

tbh its unfair to make all these negative assumptions about nurses not bothering to do their jobs and not looking after their patients properly. from what ive heard a lot of nurses run around like mad for hours and hours on the trot each day coping with large numbers of patients to small numbers of them.

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It's just like any other job, you get good people and bad people.

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yup - but the 'all angels' is a misnomer

they do a job like everyone else and some do it badly

in psychology when a patient becomes a patient they take on something called 'the sick role' and often very independent people become almost helpless at the hands of medical staff vulnerable people are open to exploitation - this is why there are inspection teams

fuelled by ignorance and a lack of understanding of patient rights and legal obligations of hospital staff not only ethically but as part of their registration with their professional body

patients can complain to their professional body and no nurse wants to face that - its extremely stressful and may even cost them their career

something they sometimes forget when mistreating their charges :/

if you feel you are being badly treated its perhaps worth reminding them of that

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Man [...] must count no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth." (Jean Paul Sartre, 1943)

actually, i think the moral of this thread is less 'oh noes, some nurses are teh eviels', but rather 'any transwoman who experiences abdominal pain should most definatly not try and talk herself into the possibility that she is experiencing phantom menstrual cramps', because, you know, DUH.

glad they caught it and fixed you up.