IVIG
Does anyone get IVIG therapy in Texas? If so may I ask your neurologist name? Mine is autoimmune and I have so much fluid on me my whole body hurts. I can’t get into my shoes or clothes. I went to the ER in Dallas they did nothing. The doctors were worried about blood clots and I have pericardial effusion. They did not do an echo or check for blood clots. I am so swolllen that the doctors could not get an iv into me they had to go through my neck. That really hurts.
The ER doctor put me on 20 mgs of cortisone and told me to go home. After trying to get an IV into me for two hours to go into my neck for a metabolic cbc. They did drug testing my blood without my permission. No big deal I just hate it when they have that attitude that you’re a drug addict. I am in pain can hardly walk due to all the fluid. I did not ask for pain meds but the first thing out of the doctors mouth is I can’t give you anything. I looked at him and asked him if I asked for pain meds? I then told him I am there to get the fluid off of me where I could walk and breathe but I got nothing. I was there at 6 pm left at 11 pm. Did not connect me to the monitor to check the bradycardia and tachycardia from the cardiac autonomic neuropathy.
Sorry about my complaining just really had a bad week from a crazy neurologist to a crazy ER. The neurologist burned my legs repeating a EMG/nerve conduction test that I had already had by three previous neurologists. They had more credentials than this neurologist.
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