u/seriouslycurious00

37F, no significant medical history, no alcohol use, no recent NSAID use.

Yesterday while sitting on a boat I experienced sudden, severe central abdominal pain radiating to my back and ribs. Onset was immediate with no trigger I can identify. Pain escalated rapidly. I began sweating and became lightheaded, then lost consciousness for approximately 30 seconds. Pain continued after I regained consciousness and escalated to a 11/10. Easily the worst pain of my life and I have generally high tolerance.

Taken by ambulance to the ER. Received two doses of morphine (4mg each time), which dulled but did not eliminate the pain.

Discharged after 5 hours.

Testing done at the ER: CAT scan of the abdomen, bloodwork including liver enzymes, lipase, and amylase, and an EKG. All came back normal. An incidental ovarian cyst was noted on the CT (have had for some time with no complications). No gallbladder ultrasound was ordered.

Follow up today with a PCP covering for my regular doctor. He reviewed the discharge paperwork, suggested an ulcer, and told me to take Pepcid AC and avoid spicy food.

I have not eaten in 24 hours. Pain is currently a 4/10, still present in upper abdomen radiating to my back.

I have a virtual GI appointment Monday.

No alcohol. No spicy or acidic food prior to the episode. Pain was sharp and stabbing, not burning or aching.

What am I missing here?

I want to preface this by saying I travel a ton for work, I like to think I'm familiar with flight etiquette and after reading so many posts from other fliers about being approached to swap seats, I never thought I'd be in the position to initiate that ask myself, but here we are!

My husband and I were vacationing in Sicily and had 2 more days before we were to fly home from Palermo when a sudden death in the family caused us to very quickly change our plans - we got the call around 7pm on Saturday and ended up changing out flight (which was originally direct PMO to EWR) to a connecting flight at 7:45am the next morning - PMO --> FCO --> EWR. The first leg was a quick ITA Airways flight, no issues. On the United leg from FCO to EWR there were virtually no seats left, however, we found 2 E+ seats - 34B (my middle seat) and 35C (my husband's aisle seat). I figured I could ask whoever was sitting in my aisle if they wanted to switch with my husband (literally the same aisle seat, 1 row behind) so we could sit next to each other.

Well, turns out the 2 individuals in my row were an older married couple and had booked the window and aisle hoping that the middle seat wouldn't be booked (their words). I normally have zero issues with this strategy - they have a right to do whatever they want. But, the flight was completely full. I very kindly asked the husband if he'd be willing to switch with my husband since he clearly had no issue separating himself from his wife. He told me no, and I said "no problem, just figured I would ask". His response was "I really just want to sit near my wife". LOL'ing now because clearly you didn't care THAT much - you weren't worried about a complete stranger sitting in between you.

The wife then chimes in and basically offers her husband to switch with ME - meaning her husband would be in the middle seat and I would sit in his aisle seat. Well, the husband wasn't happy with that and then got mad at ME saying he would absolutely NOT be taking the middle seat. I'm sitting there super calm, basically saying I didn't ask him to switch with me for the middle and we were fine just leaving things as is.

Whatever, nobody switches seats, I sat in the middle the entire flight, meanwhile these two were having FULL ON CONVERSATIONS, leaning over me in the middle like I wasn't even there. PRO TIP: if you wanted to spend the majority a 9 HOUR FLIGHT talking to each other, THEN FREAKING BOOK SEATS NEXT TO EACH OTHER!!

**end rant.

So long story short: I've been bringing my 24 GC 4xe to the dealership for hybrid acceleration issues since October 2025. 5 different visits, all same issue. During 3 of the 5 visits, it was also to get the recalls taken care of. For all the visits, the techs would tell me they couldn't replicate my issue and all of the recall tests passed. Last service was 4/24/26. I had been in contact with a lemon law attorney here in NJ and they basically said that even though you meet the threshold and qualifications for a lemon case, the fact that some of the services also included recalls makes those cases substantially more difficult to win. They recommended continuing to take the car in for service without also addressing recall. Not sure who has time to just repeatedly take the car to be serviced, but fine.

Fast forward to today 5/28/26 and my car won't start - sitting in the driveway, check engine light is on and a notification for "charging system service". Super. I get it to the dealership and the codes are saying I need a new hybrid battery and it's going to take 4-5 weeks. GREAT. My question is: does this help my lemon case? I would imagine that the acceleration issues I was having was some sort of early manifestation of the defect I experienced today. Though I'm 1000% sure Stellantis will try to argue otherwise.

The best part, my husband has the same car and literally experienced the EXACT same issue yesterday. So now, both GC's are at the dealer waiting for new batteries.

Any advice appreciated!