YIKES!!! Sharp Acute Belly Pain

So last night I had to leave work with sharp acute belly pain on the lower left side.  After leaving a patient room I hobbled into the restroom where I found myself doubled over in severe pain. Since I did not want an Emergency Bill right now I did not have it checked out. by a doctor.  

Now, I know what you are thinking, but, I like to figure stuff out myself.  And since I'm the only one who can feel it I figure I'm the best one to solve it.  Crazy?!  Maybe.  I figured it couldn't be my appendix because that is on the right side not the left.  And it couldn't be my gallbladder either since that is also on the right side.  My spleen is higher up than the pain so that should't be a concern, that left only the kidney, ovary or bowel (colon) as possible concerns.  

So I left work and went home to see if I could solve the pain that was stabbing me in the lower left belly area.  It hurt so bad that the pain radiated down the top of my left leg.  I hadn't felt that kind of pain since I had my tubes tied in 1999.  

I told the charge nurse at work that it was most likely caused by one of three things.  Either my tubes were trying to untie themselves (unlikely but possible), or possibly a kidney stone trying to pass or I was simply FOS (full of shit). She laughed and agreed with me.  

Now, in the hospital, when a patient has colitis or a bowel obstruction or they are going to have a colonoscopy to see why their belly is hurting, we typically give them something to clean out their bowels.  When they come in with a kidney stone we often connect them to an IV and give them lots of fluids to drink to help flush their kidneys and help pass the stone, unless it is too large to pass.    

So this is what I decided to do: 

I drank pure cranberry juice (NOT "cranberry juice cocktail") mixed with water to reduce the tartness a bit.  I also drank a combination of cranberry, apple, blueberry and lemon (depicted below) to help flush and clean out the kidneys.  Later, I drank some herbal tea to clean out my bowels.  Other than these two things I ate and drank nothing else except a couple of glasses of water for 24 hours.    

I will say that I had an elevated temperature (101.6) during the night hours, so I took a hot and cold shower (hot cold hot cold hot) to help accelerate the healing process and bring the temperature down a little.  I'm now feeling better and the stabbing pain of about an 8 is now down to a 3.  So I'm going to just let my belly rest till tomorrow morning.  

Question:  What stage would you guess this was in the "Seven Stages of Disease?"

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