Death by Tea
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Ravel H. Joyce wrote:
undiagnosed chronic illness
Ceylon Colon? Dargeling Feeling? Pekid Pekoe? :)
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I was dripping blood by the end of it. (God I wish I was kidding about that...)
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
Did you drink chamomile or linden tea?
Nah, it was a really boring English Breakfast tea.
Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
You may have had an allergic reaction. Did you experience any other discomfort, e.g. swelling of the lips or tongue, runny nose or headache?
It did occur to me that it may be an allergic reaction, but I didn't really experience anything else, except perhaps occasional flashes of nausea.
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I was dripping blood by the end of it. (God I wish I was kidding about that...)
That sounds serious! It sounds to me like diverticulosis / diverticulitis, but I'm not a doctor. I suffer from that and have the symptoms you describe - totally unrelated to tea. I was advised to eat a high fiber diet and take Metamucil twice a day, which I've been doing for years. That pretty much controls it, most of the time. However, the doctor also told me if I had the symptoms you described and start with a fever or chills, get to an emergency room fast, bucause it indicated a perforated colon, which is deadly.
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The first time I saw my doctor he prescribed me metronidazole, thinking it was giardiasis. It didn't help, but I'd hit a very busy and stressful part of my life and it took me far too long to see him again. I had a battery of blood and faecal tests done, and everything came back negative: no coeliac or inflammatory markers, no infections, no nothing. So, he recommended I have a colonoscopy done, but unfortunately I live in a rural area so the doctors who would do that are all heavily booked. I've been waiting a pretty long time for my appointment, which is actually less than a week away now, however my mum has led me to believe that even after I see him it may still be a few more months until I can have the procedure. :((
Hi Ravel, I'm relieved to hear you are getting medical care, but, of course, disturbed at the delay you are encountering. I am lucky to be in a country (Thailand), in one of the largest cities, Chiang Mai, where I can get to see a top specialist, who probably is also a professor in the local medical school, probably western trained and board-certified, within one to two days at the public hospital for Thais (which has a special administrative unit for non-citizens). Of course I must pay a premium, as a non-citizen, but, even then, the cost of consultations and tests here would be often 25% of the costs in the US (and god help you there if you don't have health insurance). The public administrative unit I mentioned of the local public hospital for Thais that provides services to non-citizens has a package of a complete physical exam, including treadmill ECG, ultrasound internal organ scan, chest-xray, and around forty different bio-assays, etc., for a cost of around US $150. I sent the list of tests to a physician friend mine in Arizona, who told me that if I were not insurance covered, and wished to have the same series of tests in the hospital he now consults for, it would cost in excess of US $1200. He also told me that getting any of the typical HMO's in his area to even provide such a series of tests would (even if I were co-paying to some extent) be virtually impossible because the insurance company I'd likely have would do everything they could to find reasons to deny the tests. I constantly hear, from friends in the US, how frustrated they are at regular denials of procedures recommended by their doctors, by their insurance companies, and very long delays in even getting a referral by their primary physician to have an appointment to see a specialist, and then another long delay to see the specialist. My English friends tell me it is much the same with the public health service in England. I also have a great GP here, speaks perfect English, who I can see for around US $8 for a consultation, on almost any given day with a maximum two-hour wait. For reasons like these, "medical tourism" to Thailand, India, and other countries has become big business. And, many people come here for major dental services at less than 25-50% of the costs they would pay in the US, in very modern clinics with the latest equipment, and with western trained dentists, oral surgeons, orthodontists, etc. But, I'm not trying to suggest you fly to Thailand :) My very best wishes for your health to improv
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This afternoon I had a cup of black tea with no milk, and soon after it I was very ill. I don't want to go into great detail here, but I spent a lot of time in the bathroom with what I imagine childbirth feels like. Given that I have some sort of undiagnosed chronic illness, does anybody have any clues as to what could've happened?
Perhaps the tea was bad, rancid?
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This afternoon I had a cup of black tea with no milk, and soon after it I was very ill. I don't want to go into great detail here, but I spent a lot of time in the bathroom with what I imagine childbirth feels like. Given that I have some sort of undiagnosed chronic illness, does anybody have any clues as to what could've happened?
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This afternoon I had a cup of black tea with no milk, and soon after it I was very ill. I don't want to go into great detail here, but I spent a lot of time in the bathroom with what I imagine childbirth feels like. Given that I have some sort of undiagnosed chronic illness, does anybody have any clues as to what could've happened?
Doesn't seem that anyone here has suggested that the cup you drank from might have accidentally contaminated with some bacteria. Possibility? So is this the first time you've drunk tea? Is it the first time you've had a reaction like that from something you ate/drank?
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I was dripping blood by the end of it. (God I wish I was kidding about that...)
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Hospital Ravel, quick. That shouldnt happen.
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Meh. It's all good now.
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Meh. It's all good now.
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So what was the problem? It sounded nasty.
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I don't know what the problem is. I'm having a colonoscopy sometime in the next three months, to search for inflammation. The doctor will look as far as the terminal ileum, which is where Crohn's disease most likely presents. It's not necessarily Crohn's disease, but it's a horrible horrible possibility.
