To ask if this is an emergency?

I have health anxiety and once panicked after taking too much magnesium in a day. I even made myself throw up a bit (first time I've done that) so I understand the wave of panic when you realise. I blame google that tells you everything is deadly and makes you scared if you go slightly over the RDA. The other stuff could be PMS and/or anxiety related. Apparently heartrate can go up a lot during the time just before a period and palpitations are common also. I find this page super helpful every time I get an unusual symptom (quite often these days!), it lists all anxiety symptoms and dizziness is one- https://www.calmclinic.com/anxiety-guide/symptoms

Sorry you've had a hard time on here, 111 is there to give advice, it's not your fault they sent an ambulance.

I'm glad you cancelled the ambulance op I had a heart attack 9 weeks ago and there were non available to take me I was very poorly I can't believe 111 sent one if I'm honest, gently I think it would be worth booking a gp to discuss your overall health anxiety to avoid the situation tonight x

Thank goodness you posted this instead of wasting time reading OP's replies - goodness knows where we'd be otherwise.. 🙄

I am sorry you are struggling OP and so sorry for your losses.

I definitely think see GP for some advice on symptoms but also, I think you need to review a bit what happened here. Just so you can proceed carefully around any medications. Most take time to act, some take months to help. Feeling better could have been anything from placebo to coincidence, so it’s important to understand how and when any medication you take might start to relieve symptoms. Also really get to grips with dose schedules, it really isn’t helpful or even safe to just take more of things because they seem to be or even are helping. I know it’s hard, and I hope you get some insight and support from your GP.

It does seem bizarre they sent an ambulance for such a small amount?

I remember when I broke my hip and shoulder I had to lie on the floor for fourteen hours waiting for one. My mum had a volvulus but because she was breathing they only sent one when a medic visited the house six hours after she called, it still took 4 hours to arrive!

I hope you're feeling better. Please don't take more that the recommend dose of any medicine.
Iron and multivitamins would not really have any noticeable clinical affect on you, it's not like they make you high etc.

If you got dangerously unwell and couldn't get an ambulance to come then you'd really have something to panic about.

Sorry that should say PNA (post natal anxiety). My youngest was an awful sleeper too up until recently and I’m only starting to feel normal again. I went to the GP to get my bloods done because I felt so drained, really spaced out, dizzy etc. My bloods came back normal but she did put me on an antidepressant. That helped a bit, but I started to feel so much better once my youngest started sleeping better.

111 would have sent an ambulance for the palpitations. Although you've said you've had them for a week we can't guarantee it's not because of the tablets you took. I am a 111 health advisor, but if you'd told me that I would've spoke to a clinician for a second opinion. Unfortunately the question doesn't ask do they have 'new' palpitations so we still have to go with yes if the patient has declared it. I never tell a patient we are dispatching an ambulance I usually would say it's recommended we send an ambulance. This way it gives the patient a chance to refuse it if they want. We also have to confirm the address before sending. Seems that the 111 call centres can differ.

No, I have it, and I'm not a subscriber. Logged in and viewing in a browser on my tablet.

Aha! It's a Premium option!

I haven't got that either!!

You have two different types of iron, the normal circulatory iron - which is what they test for and the iron “storage”, which is ferritin, which they don’t routinely test for. It was the latter that was low for me. I was also vegan and veggie for a number of years, so I do wonder if it’s related.

i felt so tired and unwell in pregnancy that they tested me for loads of stuff including ferritin.

I feel like it again, so I think it’s prob still low and I am using up all my energy and whatnot fighting off bug after bug from my kids!!!

it does explain it for me! I am always horribly migrainey and dizzy two weeks into my cycle (ovulation) and right before my period.

my theory is that it’s made worse by not sleeping well (baby), not drinking much water, and eating sugar too much.

but oh my god, I think I have low level anxiety all month round bit I can cope. Add a bit of stress and hormones, and a trigger will really set me off. It is the worst.

first two weeks of cycle: normal human being sometimes veering into the slightly manic over productive at times, and thinking I’m pretty awesome for juggling everything

then comes ovulation

I start to feel a bit flat

then flatter…. Then I psychically feel like I’m sinking down into a hole

then come the anxiety, feeling like I can’t cope with life, can’t do anything, can’t function.

“what is wrong with me, i feel so hopeles”, despair

Very teary and emotional

oh, my period has come! that explains it…

day or two later, I reset into a normal human being again 🙄

but yeah I seem to find my dizziness and fuzzy migrianey head seems to get worse with hormones too

also, I think my ferritin is low. It was when I had my baby and I’ve not really taken any supplements.

i need to get back on the Spatone. I swear by it. I can take a couple of those and feel like I’m glowing after a few days, like my body really wants it

OP I hope you are OK now?

I suspect from reading your posts you're suffering or have suffered an enormous amount of anxiety?

For whatever reason (I haven't read all replies) 111 chose to send an ambulance and that's on them, whether you said something which triggered a response or they inferred from your demeanour you required assistance for other matters, again they chose to send one.

If it's any consolation I had a similar conversation with 111 when they advised an ambulance would come, but fortunately I was in a position to refuse. Trust me that emergency services get mobilised to all kinds of stuff by their control rooms and sometimes it's a red herring, sometimes it's over cautiousness, sometimes its human nature! Don't worry!

I suggest for your own wellbeing and that of your kids speak with your GP as soon as possible for help with your anxiety, and if you're able to share this with trusted loved ones do so in order to get some support.

MH is no joke and your health anxiety may be a result or occuring along side other issues which your GP and trained MH staff can help with.

Get some rest firstly. But to caveat anything if you feel unsafe at risk or genuinely poorly do seek further emergency care!

Yes definitely. I have reoccurring anemia and struggle to keep my levels up. So I'm familiar with the exhaustion and feeling like crap from low iron. It's really normal to feel like this because of low iron.

To offer some reassurance op... I'm chronically anemic and I have had iron infusions via iv drip before I can't remember exact dose but it's shed loads of iron. A big couple of 100ml of iron liquid and I've been fine. Plus it's a standard treatment. So if that doesn't cause overdose 4 tablets won't.

"Possibly latched on to it as I needed something to latch onto because I could no go on like that any longer. I wish I had all the answers because two weeks ago I was at my happiest, content, not a glimpse of anxiety in sight, and now it's all I think about, it's honestly so debilitating I cannot express."

I bet you 10 quid your period comes in the next 2-3 days.

(Been there....!)

It may not be the same but I’ve been feeling nauseous and had an upset stomach for about 2 weeks and feeling decidedly unwell and fatigued. I do have IBS but suspect it’s been a stomach virus. So many bugs around. I am starting to feel better now. Whatever it is for you I do hope you feel better soon and please do keep an eye on what you’re taking. Maybe wise to write it down each time and then you have something to refer to if you forget or are confused.

1. please cancel the ambulance, this is absolutely a waste of theirs and your time
2. 80mg is not an overdose. You don’t need to worry about toxic levels until over doses of 20mg/kg which you will be well below
3. iron tablets don’t work that quickly, you need to be taking them regularly for at least a week, ideally 2 to get any effect from them.