“But I remember at the hospital, after I had the CT with the contrast, and I went to go to urinate, my kidney on the left side when I was urinating, felt literally like it was about burst. That’s what it felt like. The pain was so immense when I was urinating. It felt like my whole left side was on fire, especially my kidney and the amount of pain that I was going through while I was urinating on my kidney side, it felt like I was almost going to kind of collapse, if that makes any sense to you guys.
But after I finished urinating I came out of the bathroom, went back into my room where the nurse was and I told him, I was like ‘Hey, when I was in the bathroom urinating, I felt like my kidney, I said was in extreme, extreme pain.’ And at the time the nurse was just like ‘Oh.’ I told him ‘Is that normal?’ He said, ‘Yeah.’ He’s ‘like with the contrast you know, it can happen I guess.’ Or something like that. And he kind of just said that and just walked away. And I was just like ok, maybe it was passing the contrast, it’s pretty normal or something like that in my head. Didn’t really think about it after that because nothing else persisted with my kidneys thank God. Where it kept persisting the pain or anything like that, went home and felt fine at that time for a bit.
But then I would say a couple of days later, is when everything else kind of surfaced. The digestive problems happened. Oh, I forgot mention actually back the night when the first night when I was having the throbbing pain, I had extreme diarrhea actually, at that time, where it was almost nonstop, I remember, that night. Along with the throbbing pain in my stomach as well. But that leads me now going fast forward again after the hospital now. I was having abnormal bowel movements at the time. I was having, that’s when all of the muscle twitching, the fasciculations started to appear over my body, especially in the joints.
The thing is everything slowly, slowly progressed where it was mostly the stomach pain, the left side of my body, from the arm to the left side of my chest all the way down to the left side of my abdomen, all the way down to the left side of my leg, especially on the inner side of the thigh, where the joint is on the side of the knee – is probably one of the worst spots on my body, I would say.
My feet are now definitely worse than any part of my body. I get the most twitching, fasciculations in my body, in my feet especially the bottom of my feet, the calves, the joints especially. My joints, the only thing I can describe it as, is it feels like my joints are swollen but they don’t appear swollen. My tendons feel like as if they’re extremely brittle, if that makes any sense. When I flex my legs or walk now or move around like I normally used to, just doesn’t feel the same like it did anymore. And my overall mobility has definitely suffered I would say now, where some days it feels like I’m almost limping on my left side and can barely move around. And I try to avoid it as much as I can now. That’s because just of how everything feels.”