I'm off to the emergency room

ghettoside · Post by **ghettoside** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:50 am

Since last weekend I've been having chest pains, pounding headaches, lightheadedness, pain and sometimes tingling in some of my extremities, and other problems.

Most of the week I've been going to bed right after work, a couple days I barely made it thru my 10 hr shifts. I've been extremely tired.

I've never felt like this before. I laid off the weed all week too.

Misty has been asking me to go to a dr all week, but I've been adamant about not going w/o insurance. Well, I didn't tell her until mid-week, hoping it was gonna pass....

I'm feeling worse now. My bud is on his way to pick me up and take me to the hospital.

Last night I did some googling on heart attack symptoms and stuff. Pretty much why I'm going in now.

I always thought a heart attack was where you grab your chest and hit the floor. Really should've educated myself on this stuff a long time ago.

From what I read... and since I haven't lived right, I've had pnuemonia 3 times so I already have a weakened heart, I've lost over 20 lbs. since I had the mold poisoning in Nov. ... yadda yadda yadda... I suppose it's possble I've already had one and/or may be about to have a big one, and I need to see a dr.

I had to cancel my trip to the steamer.

I feel like I might pass out any second, my chest/sides are tight as hell, and my head is pounding.

There was something else... I posted it in Roody's thread last night. I'm not gonna rehash it here. link if interested

btw, I posted this to inform- period. Hopefully it's just something simple like anxiety.

Illini25 · Post by **Illini25** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:53 am

Thoughts and prayers GS.

triniwasp · Post by **triniwasp** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:55 am

Illini25 wrote:Thoughts and prayers GS.

Diddo, take care bud.

Lefty · Post by **Lefty** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 11:04 am

triniwasp wrote:Diddo, take care bud.

double ditto

minir · Post by **minir** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 11:12 am

Wishing you the best possible outcome ghettoside.

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minir

burple · Post by **burple** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 11:20 am

Man I hope you feel better.

9mmprincess · Post by **9mmprincess** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 11:48 am

Hope you're ok ghetto <3

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 11:51 am

ghettoside wrote:.......I've been adamant about not going w/o insurance.....

So who's going to pay for your burial?

I know it's an ass hole of a question, but your health comes first. I've got bills up to me ears after my detox episode, which will take forever to pay off.

But like I said your health comes first.

I wish you all the best.

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 11:53 am

Damn man.. I thought my stuff was bad!

I hope you took a asprin. just incase if it is your heart.

9mmprincess · Post by **9mmprincess** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 11:58 am

RoundEye wrote:So who's going to pay for your burial?

I know it's an ass hole of a question, but your health comes first. I've got bills up to me ears after my detox episode, which will take forever to pay off.

But like I said your health comes first.

I wish you all the best.

*nods*

Back when I had no insurance ( and little money ), if I had a problem I went to the free clinic, or often, the emergency room. Not something I liked doing, but I admit I did it knowing damn well I didn't have the money to pay them. What was I supposed to do, sit there and just let myself get sicker and sicker? No way. You get your health taken care of, and worry about the financial aspect later. It's just money, and you can't get blood from a stone. Took me a while to pay back the bills once I had the income to do so, but I did. Luckily (and I do mean luckily, I know how **** it is not to have health insurance), I'm insured now, with Kaiser, and they're really good. But yeah - your health should always come first.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 12:31 pm

ghettoside wrote: I laid off the weed all week too.

Thats a start....

MissTynker2 · Post by **MissTynker2** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 12:42 pm

Sighs a big sigh of relief! Insurance and financial issues are fixable, though uncomfortable....death is neither!! I am pleased you are finally going to do something about all this. At the very least you will get down to the cause of whatever the problem is, and then have the knowledge and the means to begin a repair on it. Finally!!

I am sorry I was not on when you left. My connection blew due to the rains yet once again, and I could not get back. I hope your bud can stay with you through what ever procedures you have to endure and hopefully they will have found the cause and boot you out of there yet today.

Prayers, best wishes, and positive thoughts coming at you from this end. Hang in there!!

MissTynker2 · Post by **MissTynker2** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:34 am

No update yet? It would appear that they may in fact have kept him either for observation, further testings or an actual procedure. Maybe after this he can truly get on with his life. Good luck Jeff!!

ghettoside · Post by **ghettoside** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:39 pm

Illini, trini, Lefty, minir, burple, 9mm, Roundeye, Shinobi, Sava, Misty:

Thank you all for the well wishes.

I'm still a patient in the hospital. I managed to find a place to access the net here.

As you can tell, I'm feeling much better today. They had to give me morphine a couple times yesterday for a severe headache.

I'm taking a few meds, and of course I've already forgotton the name of the main one, lol. cardisol or something. And aspirin too, lol.

I had a test today that lasted about 3 hours, and tomorry I'm scheduled for some new kind of CAT scan which uses dye too. I have no idea what it is exactly, othert than I need to have it done. They are trying to determine the extent of blockages. I'm likely looking at an angiogram also, that will depend on how much info the test tomorry yields.

knightmare · Post by **knightmare** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:41 pm

sounds like stress & worry, try to relax, and rest properly, even if you don't want to...

Comtrad · Post by **Comtrad** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:43 pm

Good luck guy.

Wear a noseplug. Hospitals smell bad. Almost like old folks homes.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:49 pm

New kind of CAT scan with dye, that **** is so old, its been on House since the first season!

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:53 pm

We knew something serious was up when we didn't see you around for a while.

Keep trudging away and be

while doing it.

JC · Post by JC » Mon Apr 23, 2007 6:01 pm

Probably a nuclear stress test. I just had one last month. Not to big of a deal. They gave me a shot of somekinda radioactive isotope. Then went to a gama machine for the reading. Ran for about 12 minutes on the treadmill, then back to the gama machine.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 6:23 pm

JC wrote:Probably a nuclear stress test. I just had one last month. Not to big of a deal. They gave me a shot of somekinda radioactive isotope. Then went to a gama machine for the reading. Ran for about 12 minutes on the treadmill, then back to the gama machine.

Do you have super powers?

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 6:26 pm

Thanks for the update GS.

Stay well.

MissTynker2 · Post by **MissTynker2** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 6:34 pm

I was about to post your progress here as per email if you had not. Should have known you would find a way to the net

. I have this visual picture of the nurses chasing you back to your room. Now there's a chop idea for you given a bit of imagination.

I am relieved that at least now you will know for sure what is going on, and be on the proper medications as well hopefully. I believe the testing you are speaking of now is a CTS angiogram, with the dye, which is quite painless. The dye will actually feel quite warm for a few seconds, and you may have a metallic taste in your mouth, but both will be very quick in passing.

Since you are already there, go for all the tests they wish to run in all fields...once you get out of there, you don't want to be going back!!

Hang in there!!!

JC · Post by JC » Mon Apr 23, 2007 6:37 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:Do you have super powers?

not as of yet????? I'm still waiting..........

JC · Post by JC » Mon Apr 23, 2007 6:40 pm

MissTynker2 wrote:I was about to post your progress here as per email if you had not. Should have known you would find a way to the net . I have this visual picture of the nurses chasing you back to your room. Now there's a chop idea for you given a bit of imagination.

I am relieved that at least now you will know for sure what is going on, and be on the proper medications as well hopefully. I believe the testing you are speaking of now is a CTS angiogram, with the dye, which is quite painless. The dye will actually feel quite warm for a few seconds, and you may have a metallic taste in your mouth, but both will be very quick in passing.

Since you are already thouere, go for all the tests they wish to run in all fields...once you get out of there, you don't want to be going back!!

Hang in there!!!

Is the procedure you speak of also the same as a "heart cath"???

MissTynker2 · Post by **MissTynker2** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:37 pm

JC wrote:Is the procedure you speak of also the same as a "heart cath"???

Hi JC,

If you were directing that question to me...no..they are entirely different procedures. The CTS angiogram, is done with dye injections, while a camera takes pictures of the specified areas in question.

A heart cath is this procedure

A hollow needle is put into vein for a right heart cath or an artery in the arm or groin for a left heart cath. A flexible wire is threaded through the hollow needle into the vessel. The catheter is then put over the wire in the blood vessel. That cath. is then directed to the exact area of inspection and a dye injected at that point. There is no invasion with the first procedure.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:45 pm

JC wrote:not as of yet????? I'm still waiting..........

Avoid this man.

Roody · Post by **Roody** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:58 pm

Thanks for the update bro. Stay well.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 8:56 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:Avoid this man.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 8:58 pm

CableDude wrote:

How about that Deal or No Deal contestant eh? Looking good. BUT ITS HEREOS TIME!

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:09 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:How about that Deal or No Deal contestant eh? Looking good. BUT ITS HEREOS TIME!

Sid · Post by **Sid** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:08 pm

Just remember, Jesus loves you,

BUT I THINK YOU'RE AN ASS!

triniwasp · Post by **triniwasp** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:11 pm

Hope your all right homie, give us an update ASAP.

brembo · Post by **brembo** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:29 pm

Sid wrote:Just remember, Jesus loves you,

BUT I THINK YOU'RE AN ASS!

[neo]whoa.....[/neo]

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 12:03 am

I got a CT Scan with contrast dye when they were looking at my left side of my neck. The only thing is you'll have to wait awhile before they can do the same thing type of CT Scan again.. because the Dye is really hard on the kidneys. So no "2 in a row" type of thing..

You can never sleep very well in the hospital.. I know first hand on that one.
Try to relax as best you can man..

Let us know what is up.

Roody · Post by **Roody** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 8:56 am

Those scans aren't easy. I had a Catscan and a Petscan both last week.

Think · Post by **Think** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 9:01 am

You have no insurance? So how much does it cost for a doctors visit? How much does it cost for Emergency services?

I would think that having health insurance would be the most important policy to have.

Cheers and let us know what happens.

ghettoside · Post by **ghettoside** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 12:43 am

Thank you all for the support.

Special Thanks to Misty for her call today at the hospital.

I'm home. Got out around 7p, home about 9:20 p. Bought some new dietary neccessities as well as my meds. They only had 3 of my daily doses of procardia in stock, so I gotta return tomorry after 4. I called it "cardisol" yesterday- LMAO!!!

I have high blood pressure. I'm taking ProCardia XL 30 MG, baby aspirin.

I have no blockage! WooooHooooo!!! Thank God.

I still don't feel so hot. Not sure what to think yet. Not quite confident... not gonna get into it now, it's late and I need to rest.

The first test was the nuclear stress test JC talked about. That was a piece of cake.

They saw something on that test... but they also thought maybe it wasn't anything.

lol, maybe they thought they taw a puddy tat too, I dunno folks. So today I had the CAT scan w/ the iodine dye, which is relatively new technology to their center.

The other test was as Misty stated, the heart cath. I did not want that if at all possible, and luckily I didn't have to go there. Thanks to God again!

http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=2114

According to recent estimates, nearly one in three U.S. adults has high blood pressure, but because there are no symptoms, nearly one-third of these people don't know they have it. In fact, many people have high blood pressure for years without knowing it. Uncontrolled high blood pressure can lead to stroke, heart attack, heart failure or kidney failure. This is why high blood pressure is often called the "silent killer." The only way to tell if you have high blood pressure is to have your blood pressure checked.

Funny this never showed up before...

I decided to leave the hospital when I was 114/106 (I think). I was kinda pissed w/ customer care yet again at the facility.

I had both great service... and scary service. Fortunately for me, the shining angel of the floor was on duty a couple of my eves there.

I'm headed for work in the morning, or rather to see if I'm still working.

Last time I missed a day, I had a dr's excuse and the pm didn't want it, something about a dr's excuse being "not relevant"... and next time I'd be done.

That'd prolly be a blessing at this point...

9mmprincess · Post by **9mmprincess** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 12:53 am

glad you're feeling better

awesome that you don't have any blockages. Hope you get back to feeling like yourself soon <3

ghettoside · Post by **ghettoside** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 12:54 am

YARDofSTUF wrote:New kind of CAT scan with dye, that **** is so old, its been on House since the first season!

I've known you around SG a long time YoS, so I'm answering this respectfully.

What I meant was: It was a new kind of test for that hospital, they only recently acquired the technology.

I missed that was unclear. I told Misty specifically that in email yesterday before I posted...

I learned from the hospital's IT Dept that there was one terminal off the network- but online that I could access. I had my nurse escort me to the chapel.

I located the terminal in another area, which was unrestricted. Unfortunately, my heart monitor was out of range there. They searched for me, then my nurse happened along during their search... she dashed back to look for me in the chapel... then she took an educated guess where I really was. Smart girl.

I didn't do my usual once over in preview... in fact I really wasn't done. I couldn't let the angel get in trouble so I could finish a post on SG.

Now having answered that:

YoS, I know these sort of ignorant posts of yours are not limited to my threads, and btw it seems like something that's come w/ the 50,000+ post milestone.

I hereby nominate you for president of azzhole of the month club. Not just a member, but also the president. That's chopable too.

I seriously hope there's nothing wrong w/ you.

ghettoside · Post by **ghettoside** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 12:55 am

9mmprincess wrote:glad you're feeling better awesome that you don't have any blockages. Hope you get back to feeling like yourself soon <3

Thanks so much 9mm.

It's good to be back- and alive. Things could've been much worse.