Wonder if anyone can help? I am just home after quite a frightening few days and now i'm thinking about what happenned and trying to make sense of it all. I awoke in huge pain in my sternum area tight through to my back and shoulders in very early hours friday mng. I didn't know what to do for the best; i was on my own, kids with ex-dh and whilst in pain still had that british "i don't want to disturb anyone" attitude, and as i can see now, foolishly drove myself to a&e.
Within minutes of getting there i could barely speak, i was shown straight through to ecg monitoring area, all the time the pain increasing and i was white, extremely clammy and nauseous. The doc then said to me "now don't be worried, but we are taking you straight through to resus as we need to monitor you and find out quickly what is happenning".
Roll forward to today and a nurse was asking me what had happenned, so i ran through it, when i said "and they took me through to resus" she looked a bit horrified, said i was "very lucky"? I am fairly knowledgeable about medicine, but don't have much first hand experience of a&e or how it works. Is it unusual to go to resus?
At first they said they suspected a poss heart attack, i was in too much pain to register, i'm 40, fit, healthy weight...they ruled that out after blood tests. Next they suspected a dissected aorta, and (thank god) a scan ruled that out. So by process of elimination, i actually have pleurisy, which is much preferable to any of the above. But it all happened so quickly, i suppose i'm just runnning it through and putting it to bed. I just feel i have been through a very bizarre experience. Any suggestions??
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Trying to make sense of what happenned; was taken straight to resus...
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wallaby73 · 19/07/2014 22:54
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