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I had rhabdomyolysis in high school after an intense afternoon of running around in the cold. Let me describe the pain: * everytime I breathe in or down I felt
by badclient 13y ago
I had rhabdomyolysis in high school after an intense afternoon of running around in the cold. Let me describe the pain:
* everytime I breathe in or down I felt like screaming
* moving almost any part of my body even an inch made me scream
* my urine was dark red
All my life I've had above normal pain tolerance from another chronic illness but it took rhabdomyolysis to really break me--quite literally. Ultimately it resulted in being put in a stretcher as I screamed my ass off.
It took a lot of morphine to find any relief and dialysis to fully recover.
- Whitespace 13y agoMy experience with rhabdo involved no pain (outside of really sore muscles). I am not a doctor, but I think what you experienced was what rhabdo leads to if untreated: myoglobinuria (kidneys poisoned due to excess myoglobin) which then leads to acute renal failure (kidneys fail). The normal treatment for rhabdo is intravenous saline (I had 5 days of saline), whereas myoglobinuria or acute renal failure require dialysis, since your kidneys have shut down. In any case, that sounds absolutely frightening in the worst way imaginable. Any long-lasting side effects?
- badclient 13y agoThat sounds about right. Mine had gotten much worse by the time we took action, mostly because we confused it for my other illness during the early stages. And thank you for crediting saline. I became a saline "addict" myself. We were told to get home health to give IV at any sign of red urine. This was almost exactly 10 years ago. I've been well since.