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Shanky's Hospital adventure (long)
Ladies and gentlemen of the forum, as a bit of background to this: I have heart trouble. yes I am a college student, yes I am less stressed than I could be, this does not stop the fact that I do have frequent chest pain and heart palpitations. I really wish I was making this up.
I have chest pain so frequently that I tend to ignore it now unless it lasts for more than 10 minutes or occurs more than once within an hour. Then and only then will I actually debate a hospital trip. For those of you in the medical field what follows is nothing against your chosen profession, I understand that sometimes you are over booked in the emergency room, and honestly no one knows why I'm having heart palpitations. Weak heart is the best guess I've gotten so far. I am however a wee bit grumpy and therefore need to vent a bit.
So after my second exam this morning my chest started to hurt. I knew it was coming, I was under a lot of stress this morning and had more caffeine than I should have this morning. So I was expecting at least a bit of a twinge. I was not expecting the swirly blackness which was suddenly all I could see, nor was I expecting it to last at that level for 15-ish minutes (wasn't exactly focusing on a clock). A friend saw me doubled over in the hall clutching my chest (insert sandford and son jokes here) and drove me to the hospital before I could ask her to.
We get to the waiting room. Nice nurse takes my pulse and goes "Holy-!" For those of you following along at home this is normally a bad sign. My blood pressure was way up and she compared my heart rate to that of a bird. Again, we are much larger than birds, our hearts can't function that fast. She was amazed I was coherent.
Cut to a 2 hour waiting room stint. yup, college student with a heart problem with signs of a recent heart attack (the buggers run in my family by the way) and I get to sit in an empty waiting room for two hours.
Finally get into the emergency room, they take an x-ray and hook me up to a heart rate monitor, just in case. Doctor asks me what is wrong, so I tell him I had severe chest pain and I'm having heart palpitations.
Four hours after this (for those of you keeping score we're up to 6 hours kiddies). He comes back with the x-ray results. He proceeds to tell me everything is normal, but I'm having heart palpitations -was I aware of this?
I'll let that sink in for a second.
::facepalm::
No doctor I wasn't aware of the symptoms that I've suffered with for the last three years, nor was I admitted with that being the complaint. The money for your PHD was well spent sir. *Glare*
Finally home. That was 6 hours and $75 I spent to walk out being told the same thing I told the nurse going in. I am slightly grumpy.
I have chest pain so frequently that I tend to ignore it now unless it lasts for more than 10 minutes or occurs more than once within an hour. Then and only then will I actually debate a hospital trip. For those of you in the medical field what follows is nothing against your chosen profession, I understand that sometimes you are over booked in the emergency room, and honestly no one knows why I'm having heart palpitations. Weak heart is the best guess I've gotten so far. I am however a wee bit grumpy and therefore need to vent a bit.
So after my second exam this morning my chest started to hurt. I knew it was coming, I was under a lot of stress this morning and had more caffeine than I should have this morning. So I was expecting at least a bit of a twinge. I was not expecting the swirly blackness which was suddenly all I could see, nor was I expecting it to last at that level for 15-ish minutes (wasn't exactly focusing on a clock). A friend saw me doubled over in the hall clutching my chest (insert sandford and son jokes here) and drove me to the hospital before I could ask her to.
We get to the waiting room. Nice nurse takes my pulse and goes "Holy-!" For those of you following along at home this is normally a bad sign. My blood pressure was way up and she compared my heart rate to that of a bird. Again, we are much larger than birds, our hearts can't function that fast. She was amazed I was coherent.
Cut to a 2 hour waiting room stint. yup, college student with a heart problem with signs of a recent heart attack (the buggers run in my family by the way) and I get to sit in an empty waiting room for two hours.
Finally get into the emergency room, they take an x-ray and hook me up to a heart rate monitor, just in case. Doctor asks me what is wrong, so I tell him I had severe chest pain and I'm having heart palpitations.
Four hours after this (for those of you keeping score we're up to 6 hours kiddies). He comes back with the x-ray results. He proceeds to tell me everything is normal, but I'm having heart palpitations -was I aware of this?
I'll let that sink in for a second.
::facepalm::
No doctor I wasn't aware of the symptoms that I've suffered with for the last three years, nor was I admitted with that being the complaint. The money for your PHD was well spent sir. *Glare*
Finally home. That was 6 hours and $75 I spent to walk out being told the same thing I told the nurse going in. I am slightly grumpy.
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I can answer questions for ya, but a doc is your best bet. I'd recommend writing a list of Q's to take with you when u go to see him.
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