Jade.postpartum

 I’m stuck in a hospital bed waiting for surgery (been here about 26 hrs now 🤪) and boredom has reduced me to writing another blog entry 😂 I’ve been experiencing episodes of horrendous pain which is mostly felt in my upper back. This has been happening every few weeks for over a year now and absolutely nothing will ease it...I just have to wait until it passes which is usually about an hour or so. I was seeing the physio thinking the problem was my back (because that was where I felt the most pain), but I started to realise that my stomach would get very bloated and sore too and I would get nauseous and sometimes vomit. The pains felt similar to labour, but unlike contractions there were no breaks... just constant almost unbearable pain. I thought maybe I was intolerant to something I was eating because the pains would always come on not long after eating dinner. I spoke to my GP and straight away he said it sounded like gallstones and wanted me to get an ultrasound to check. The ult