Leg spasms!

Feb 10, 2015

On Feb. 4, 2015 I was having legs spasms, Charlie Horses. They would start from my toes, go up my leg, stop and start again in my ribs and back. I was in so much pain! I called Telehealth that night, after having about 3 of them, that lasted about 25 minutes each. The nurse advised me to go to the nearest hospital. So we went.  I wanted answers. So we went to the emerge. Waited around for 4 hours, for them to take blood to see if I had any blood clots, turned out I didn't. They ended up giving me morphine, and about ten mins after it started working, I started having stomach pain, sweating, my eyes were the size of pin holes (what I was told), feeling nauseous and wanted to puke. I was basically overdosing.. they gave me two doses! Maybe the best route would have been to ask me what my drug tolerance was. I don't take anything. A quarter piece of a Gravol knocks me out for half the day. I have a very low tolerance. They made me sit for for hours in a wheelchair, and basically cry in pain. I would go in and out of "sleep". Even though I kept asking for Gravol, they didn't give me any for three hours. Then ended up discharging me, because the blood work came back clean. I am still feeling like crap from the morphine. Got home, went straight to be and fell asleep. Well 15 mins later, I was in the bathroom puking my guts out. Ended up having a 3 hour bath, which makes me feel better when I am sick. Went to see my GP, since the hospital didn't know what was wrong with me. She ended up telling me right away, that my legs and other parts of my body were having spasms because my Vitamin D is extremely low. I have been on liquid Vitamin D for the past 3 weeks, but just not enough time to prevent the Charlie Horses. She also told me that I was dehydrated, and the hospital should have hooked me up to an IV. I will never take Morphine ever again, and I will definitely inform all future nurses and doctors that I have a bad reaction to Morphine. Drinking Gatorade, even low the sugar content is high, I need the Electrolytes! Hopefully my Vitamin D gets to where it's supposed to be soon.

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