On Monday I went to the clinic to get medication refills and a check up. I had iron deficiency a few months ago so I asked for bloodwork to check up on that. Today, Friday. I had a dermatologist appointment because i have eczema. I go sit in the waiting room and they call me into the assessment room, they do their routine: checking blood pressure, getting my weight, etc. They tell me to come back to the assessment room once im done with my appointment because my bloodwork came back abnormal. I get my dermatologist appointment done, nothing out of the ordinary and i go back to the assessment room. I assumed my iron deficiency was back so I wasn’t worried but they tell me to sit in the waiting room until a room is available for me. A little odd but okay. Eventually they place me in a clinic room and I continue waiting. The doctor comes in after 25 minutes but his demeanour was somber and tense. I still didn’t think anything of it, I assumed he just acts like that but suddenly he looks at me and says “your kidneys aren’t working.” I was in disbelief because I’m supposed to be a healthy 20 year old. I couldn’t find any words, just stutters of “how?” and “why?”. He tells me they’re gonna transfer me to the emergency room immediately, I was in some type of denial and i convinced myself that they’re gonna fix me right up and I’ll be back to my normal life. I immediately get my own room once I’m in the emergency section of the building. Usually it takes hours to be seen or tended to around here but a phlebotomist immediately comes in to get 5-6 vials of blood, another doctor is setting up IV’s and a nurse is getting my history/information. I’m still in denial/disbelief and not processing it. From their perspective their patients bloodwork tells them near fatal kidney failure yet their patient denies any of the symptoms and does not physically show any symptoms. they squeezed my legs to see if fluid is retaining there but it’s normal, all my vitals are normal and all their questions inquiring about my health are normal. Everyone is acting tense and urgent yet try to appear calm so i don’t freak out. Eventually the doctor comes in and tells me my creatinine levels were over 1,000 on Monday. If you don’t know, that means end stage kidney failure and I’d need life saving measures like a kidney transplant immediately otherwise I would die. The tests they ran half an hour ago shows my creatinine levels are in the normal range now and i can be discharged. I’m assuming my bloodwork was mixed up/ contaminated in the lab with someone that is struggling with end stage kidney failure. Today was total emotional whiplash because one moment I was told and treated like i’m in kidney failure to then being told I’m actually perfectly healthy. I’m at home now and still processing whatever happened today so i needed to share somewhere. submitted by /u/hater_at_heart [link] [comments]
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