Post by Su on Jan 5, 2024 10:51:33 GMT
Not on our wedding night as we lay in our beds (ERNIE!)
Since coming back from holiday I have experience the most strangest feeling. I'll try and explain it.
Suddenly I feel like I'm either going to be sick or faint. I go really hot, my heart starts racing and my head feels like it's going to explode.
This happened four times in 24 hours so yesterday I manager to get a face to face appointment with a GP. Not my GP obviously, a locum but still, face to face!!!
He checked me over, asking things like 'are you an anxious person?' (he's thinking panic attacks) followed by - I think you need to go to A&E for an ECG, bloods, BP check etc. WHAT?? I genuinely was expecting him to say, oh it's your age, menopause etc etc.
So, after asking couldn't it wait until after the junior doctors strike, which the answer was a resounding NO, off I pop (via JB's taxi) to No Hope Hospital. Get to A&E where there is an 8 hour wait. Luckily, I have a letter from my GP so they send me off to the Acute Medical Unit (AMU) where I was seen almost straight away.
Of course, that's just for the checks. Whilst I'm waiting to see the consultant I have another 'episode' Out rushes a nurse with a sick bowl, a BP monitor and an oxygen monitor for my finger which shows my heart rate has doubled within seconds!!
Chatting to the consultant later 'ECG results are good, nothing untoward. Pity you weren't wearing it when you had your turn as we need to see what is happening to your heart when it happens!'. Yeah thanks!! Comforting! NOT!
Wait another few hours, they even fed me!, to be told my bloods are fine too.
Next step is to take my BP at home for the next 7 days, then, if I'm still having these strage happenings, they will fit me an ECG monitor to wear for 72 hours (I can do this at home luckily) to see what is going on.
They joys!
Oh one thing I was asked 'you've just come back from holiday, do you fly often?' 'Just a bit' was my reply
Since coming back from holiday I have experience the most strangest feeling. I'll try and explain it.
Suddenly I feel like I'm either going to be sick or faint. I go really hot, my heart starts racing and my head feels like it's going to explode.
This happened four times in 24 hours so yesterday I manager to get a face to face appointment with a GP. Not my GP obviously, a locum but still, face to face!!!
He checked me over, asking things like 'are you an anxious person?' (he's thinking panic attacks) followed by - I think you need to go to A&E for an ECG, bloods, BP check etc. WHAT?? I genuinely was expecting him to say, oh it's your age, menopause etc etc.
So, after asking couldn't it wait until after the junior doctors strike, which the answer was a resounding NO, off I pop (via JB's taxi) to No Hope Hospital. Get to A&E where there is an 8 hour wait. Luckily, I have a letter from my GP so they send me off to the Acute Medical Unit (AMU) where I was seen almost straight away.
Of course, that's just for the checks. Whilst I'm waiting to see the consultant I have another 'episode' Out rushes a nurse with a sick bowl, a BP monitor and an oxygen monitor for my finger which shows my heart rate has doubled within seconds!!
Chatting to the consultant later 'ECG results are good, nothing untoward. Pity you weren't wearing it when you had your turn as we need to see what is happening to your heart when it happens!'. Yeah thanks!! Comforting! NOT!
Wait another few hours, they even fed me!, to be told my bloods are fine too.
Next step is to take my BP at home for the next 7 days, then, if I'm still having these strage happenings, they will fit me an ECG monitor to wear for 72 hours (I can do this at home luckily) to see what is going on.
They joys!
Oh one thing I was asked 'you've just come back from holiday, do you fly often?' 'Just a bit' was my reply