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My First Ride in an Ambulance.
13 years ago
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I can't catch a break. I really can't. Yesterday I had my first ambulance ride to the emergancy room because I was having that "heart attack pain without actually having a heart attack" again. I had a lot of trouble just driving ten minutes to get home.
Of course by the time I got there and waited about 2hrs......my pain was mostly gone. This started happening after I had a Pepsi at school and it just got extreamly bad.
It first starts out with mild discomfort and almost a heart burn like feeling. Then that pain intensifys after about an hour into a very sharp pain, like a knife in your chest. Then the pain begins to spread to my sides and lungs making breathing just plain uncomfortable. And at that point the pain is very severe and it just radiates throughout my entire torso. Sides, chest, lower back.
And my inhaler for asthma (that I used to bearly ever use......like.....I used it maybe once a year) doesn't seem to do much.
The doctors think that because my pain is right smack in the middle of my chest, and not actually where my heart is......it has nothing to do with my heart.
Nothing seems to bring this on and nothing in particular really makes it go away.
They actually suggest it's a gas buildup....and I don't remember what they said, but......I have my scepticisisms about gas........doing.......THAT.
I'm here in the waiting room (I'm am hour and a half.early.......whoops...) typing this on my Evo that I'm a little mad at cause it didn't like to run GPS, and about 10 minutes ago the pain started coming back. It's 8am. I haven't even had a glass of water yet today. I took two more hits of the inhaler and did a few laps around the parking lot and the pain faded.
I did notice that the pain starts to reside when I burp or move, and the doctor told me to take some Maalox if this pain starts again.......but what am I supposed to do? Just carry a bottle of Maalox around with me? Really? Tums make me sick......
*sigh* This isn't fair. I don't deserve this. I can only conclude that I must be a bad person, cause I keep getting punished.
Are their any....uh.....I don't know.......MedicalFurs out there that can help me? Please?
Of course by the time I got there and waited about 2hrs......my pain was mostly gone. This started happening after I had a Pepsi at school and it just got extreamly bad.
It first starts out with mild discomfort and almost a heart burn like feeling. Then that pain intensifys after about an hour into a very sharp pain, like a knife in your chest. Then the pain begins to spread to my sides and lungs making breathing just plain uncomfortable. And at that point the pain is very severe and it just radiates throughout my entire torso. Sides, chest, lower back.
And my inhaler for asthma (that I used to bearly ever use......like.....I used it maybe once a year) doesn't seem to do much.
The doctors think that because my pain is right smack in the middle of my chest, and not actually where my heart is......it has nothing to do with my heart.
Nothing seems to bring this on and nothing in particular really makes it go away.
They actually suggest it's a gas buildup....and I don't remember what they said, but......I have my scepticisisms about gas........doing.......THAT.
I'm here in the waiting room (I'm am hour and a half.early.......whoops...) typing this on my Evo that I'm a little mad at cause it didn't like to run GPS, and about 10 minutes ago the pain started coming back. It's 8am. I haven't even had a glass of water yet today. I took two more hits of the inhaler and did a few laps around the parking lot and the pain faded.
I did notice that the pain starts to reside when I burp or move, and the doctor told me to take some Maalox if this pain starts again.......but what am I supposed to do? Just carry a bottle of Maalox around with me? Really? Tums make me sick......
*sigh* This isn't fair. I don't deserve this. I can only conclude that I must be a bad person, cause I keep getting punished.
Are their any....uh.....I don't know.......MedicalFurs out there that can help me? Please?
You're not a bad person. It happens to the best of us and
what can't get worse can only get better.
The things that are meant to be in life are the things we don't force in order to have them.
Life is work but consistent roadblocks mean we aren't meant to head down that path.