In hospital worried and also bored

[flippyflapper]

Hey everyone

35yr old female, pretty healthy wise eat well, not over weight etc but I do/did smoke. Won't be smoking again after this.

Tuesday morning had a weird pressure feeling in chest, it went down my arms and up my face. It wasn't painful just weird ache, took the kids to school as normal came home felt fine.

Spoke to a friend who insisted I went to doctor, I went wa a told heart burn.
Went home and just planned to have a lie down.
About 12.30 friend and DH both wanted me to go to A&E I didn't see the point I felt fine?
After an hour of been told i went. Waited 2hrs to be seen, saw doctor who said oh it sounds like a virus we will take some bloods.
Felt incredibly stupid being in there for nothing.

Then same doctor came out rather flustered took me to trauma ward got me and bed and said, we think you may of had a heart attack.

That was Tuesday now Thursday, have had blood tests, tablets, injections, 24hr heart monitors.
I'm waiting on a CT to have dye put through to check my heart.

Sorry long post I'm fed up, anxiety is sky high and I'm scared

Sorry for to say, really comes with breakfast cereals, fruit, yogurt, toast. They then use a iPad to ask what you want for lunch and dinner, I can't remember what was on offer today but I chose none and went for a sandwhich.

It's perfectly fine to get take away delivered to your ward fyi. Pizza is best, minimal clear up & no cutlery required.

This is going to sound silly but re food , ask if they have a dementia friendly menu or light diet , we used to have that at my workplace and was stuff like fish fingers , beans, pork pie, veg sticks , pizza fingers , stuff you can come back and forth to rather than a huge pie or mince or something . We also did cakes and doughnuts for that menu and wee cheesecakes etc .. worth a try maybe ? Other option is to see if they do GF options , sometimes they’re nicer as need ordered in specifically .

Oh I was thinking about a takeaway of some sort but then I second guessed as on a cardiac ward and eating junk, I prob would get told off. ;)

I'm wide awake, anxiety off again, every time i fall asleep I jump awake thinking I can't breath, or I've stopped breathing. ECG apparently fine, so its all anxiety.

I've been 9 years without any anxiety attacks and now it looks like they have hold of me again. Nurses and doctors have been great trying to help me through them reassuring me it is anxiety and not my heart but they are coming all the time now.

Have, thank you I will definetly ask tom. Although I've been told i will be able to move about more tom.

As soon I have this CT scan I will no what happened and I may even be aloud home

Hope you managed to get a good nights sleep. Ironically as environment in which you need to be recovering, hospitals are the WORST for sleeping in aren’t they!

Sorry to hear your anxiety is kicking your butt, it’s totally understandable in this situation though. Stop, think, breathe is an app with some guided mindfulness on it. Really short ones, just a few mins each. I have found it very helpful. It’s amazing how recharging just being fully relaxed for a few minutes can be. I think Headspace does a couple of free ones too although you have to pay for most of theirs.

Hope you get some reassuring results from your scan today. Take care.

Good news here, I'm aloud to walk to the toilet! And I have a portable monitor now.
I also can wear my own jammies too.

Waiting for doctors today to find out if I can have my CT too.

Booked in for echo scan also.

Awful night sleep. Very tired today.

Hi jingle, crossed post there.

I tried everything last night, I was convinced my monitors were going to go off, but nothing which reaaauesd me it was anxiety. I just wish it would go away

Breakfast time now, toast jam and yogurt

Really feel for you flippy, had an emergency admission to hospital last week myself. It's so stupid, we're busy all of the time, just wanting a little time to ourselves, then get ill, enforced bed rest and you'd think we'd relish the time to recuperate (read, watch, plan) in peace. BUT NO! We live there, worried, bored, feeling poorly.
Mumsnet really helped, O2 should be better today (anything nice planned to watch?). I wrote out my Christmas food shopping list, planned EXACTLY how I was going to decorate the tree and read lots of AIBU threads.
There is also a free Mindfulness App (little blue icon, white person on it) that was brilliant, with guided sessions, which really helped.
Phew, what an essay! Good luck for today.

wrt anxiety
listening to uplifting things help me when I can't sleep (racing thoughts due to stress)
gardeners question time is good. calm and uplifting. or youtube babies laughing.

Veb, are you feeling any better now?

Today it seams ok, mostly at night, I feel like someone sits on my stomach, then I panic something is wrong and it goes from there.

Thank you for all the tips I will give them a try!
Dh will be here soon:)
I have nothing planned to watch really, strangely enough I have no interest in watching or reading much at all.

Had echo, all looks great. ECG, have all been fine. Bloods come back that the marker has gone right down.

Just waiting on CT machine but only emergencies I think at weekend, so I think if I can't have it today I may be aloud home later as everything else looking good. I am off monitoring now too. Free to walk around my room for a little bit

Brilliant that all tests are so positive. So what do they think is going on?!

Goodness how scary!

Have you got audible? Audiobooks can be good if you can't focus on a film/TV. You can do something that doesn't need thinking at the same time like fiddling with bluetac or doodling.

I hope you're released soon

Ok so good news, I'm home!!

CT machine broken still and will be app till at least Monday.

All my ECG, blood, scans, and blood pressure are all perfect.

It's strange as all the googling I've been so it about what was found in my blood only shows up when a heart attack has caused damage.

So I'm home, got to rest, still anxious as well still don't no what is wrong and every little pain I get I worry.

That's good. Did they send a dietician to talk to you?

Yay! Decent food again

Make sure you take it easy

there is nothing quite like sleeping in your own bed!
wishing you a great recovery

Thank you all.

No dietician, I guess once seen if there's a prob or not maybe then go from there?

So the anxiety is still driving me nuts.
Tried sleeping last night same think, lots of body jerks and then feeling I can't breath. I took some paracetamol as that's what the nurse gave me when I told her and weirdly enough they stopped then and stopped last night. So had about 5 hours last night.