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Is anyone up? Waiting on ambulance and could do with a handhold

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YetAnotherUserNameForMe · 13/12/2021 23:32

I am so scared. I am having chest pain (not significant, just a tightening) but so many palpatations over the past 36 hours that have suddenly started happening all the time, not just when lying flat like last night.

Ambulance called (via 111) but they cant say how long it will be, which I understand.

I have DD2(14) upstairs and awake, worrying. DD1(24) is still asleep as she has additional needs and I dont want to worry her and then have to leave. DD2 is under instructions what to do in the morning if I am not here.

I am scared. Did I mention that Blush I am nearly 50, morbidly obese due to health issues and feeling that I can't breathe.

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YetAnotherUserNameForMe · 14/12/2021 00:07

I just want to go to sleep I am so tired. Got barely any sleep last night and was fully expecting to drop off straight away tonight but it is so much worse when I am laying down.

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YetAnotherUserNameForMe · 14/12/2021 00:08

@Hollyhobbi

Do you have a thyroid problem op?
I do, diagnosed underactive nearly 40 years ago. This past three years I have also been diagnosed with two other autoimmune diseases with a 3rd currently under tests. I am used to being unwell, but this is on another level.
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CalmDownBoris72 · 14/12/2021 00:09

I had similar a couple of months ago. It was awful so hand hold from me.

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Bunnyfuller · 14/12/2021 00:10

So every year we buy a real Christmas tree from a local place. You wander around, choose your tree, he cuts it and off you go. They’re gorgeous.

This year DH had been on shift at weekends so decided we had to get the tree last Monday. I WFH and as it turned out I was slammed, and couldn’t down tools during the day. DH is rather precious about the tree so decided he HAD to go and get it, without me.

I was still busy with work, and then had to go and take kids here there everywhere. When we got in, he’s on his knees in the living room, sawing the tree, it wouldn’t fit in the holder. Because it was SO FUCKING BIG. It fell over twice that evening. He cut more off it. We decorated it 3 times that evening.

2 nights later, all was calm, all was bright. I fed the pets, one of whom is an elderly, deaf cat who has dementia, an awful smell and a worse attitude. I was sat watching 4 in a bed, avoiding the news, when I noticed him moving faster than I had for about 6 months. Towards the tree. Under the tree.

Nooonooooonoo you don’t. I ran across the room and in true SAS style crawled under the tree, trying to shoo the cat out. The cat hissed, I tried making noises, the cat hissed more but gave no fucks. Couple of digging motions, the tail goes up….. and yes. He did it. I tried one last desperate lunge to put him off. He legged it, leaving quite literally his ‘present’. And the fucking tree slowly toppled over, baubles bouncing across the floor, and me still under the tree.

This is all 100% true.

Hang in there op x

CalmDownBoris72 · 14/12/2021 00:10

To the point it was the same when lying down. I never found a cause for what happened (x2). Did you have a Pfizer booster?

junebirthdaygirl · 14/12/2021 00:15

My palpitations lasted for weeks afterwards. Read that it attacks our nervous system putting it into fight or flight to fight off the virus and our bodies take a while to calm down. Mine has calmed now but it was horrible while it lasted

OutIsay · 14/12/2021 00:15

Yes, definitely mention the booster. I had breathlessness and chest tightness after my second vaccine.

Theblacksheepandme · 14/12/2021 00:18

Bunnyfuller
That is definitely a Graham Norton red chair story where you would get to walk off.

SirVixofVixHall · 14/12/2021 00:18

Hope they are with you soon OP. I get bad palpitations if my thyroid is under and I need more thyroxine, they are scary, i hope all is ok.

Theblacksheepandme · 14/12/2021 00:19

Hope they get to you soon OP and it isn't anything serious.

ShaneTheThird · 14/12/2021 00:20

How are you feeling op? Are you still breathless have you been seen? Hoping DDS are both ok as well. Flowers

Bunnyfuller · 14/12/2021 00:22

@Theblacksheepandme I haven’t seen Graham Norton/red chair..

What does ‘get to walk off’ mean?

Followthefog · 14/12/2021 00:23

Hope the ambulance is with you soon OP and that they get to the bottom of it quickly for you. Sending you well wishes. Take care

pollyglot · 14/12/2021 00:23

I developed Atrial Fibrillation at about your age. Do you have any familial heart issues? No biggie...just meds and aspirin. Stay calm, deep breathing, all will be well. Thinking of you x.

toomuchlaundry · 14/12/2021 00:25

If you have a bad story you get tipped backwards on the red chair. If you tell a good story you get to walk with your dignity in tact

Bunnyfuller · 14/12/2021 00:26

I’m hoping the paramedics are with you now op as you’ve gone quiet.

Theblacksheepandme · 14/12/2021 00:28

Bunnyfuller
Graham Norton is an Irish talk show host on BBC. At the end of his show he has guests who volunteer to sit in a red chair. They tell a funny story. He has a lever and if the story is shite he pulls the lever and the chair flips them back. If the story is good the person gets to walk off. Hope that makes sense as I'm crap at explaining stuff.

ShakeTheDisease · 14/12/2021 00:28

Good that you're highest priority OP. Sit tight now you know help is coming. But do charge your mobile as there may not be a charging point near you in A&E. (I've never found A&E has many plug sockets available, it's always better once you're on a ward.)

Yellownotblue · 14/12/2021 00:31

OP do you have long Covid? Is there any chance that the chest tightening is a result of costochondritis? This is very frequent after COVID, is not dangerous but feels like a heart attack. I’ve got that myself and it’s particularly painful when lying down. It’s an inflammation of rib muscles, particularly on the left side. It can be triggered by coughing and can last for months.

MadisonAvenue · 14/12/2021 00:33

I hope you’re not waiting much longer OP, and that it’s not anything serious Flowers

julieca · 14/12/2021 00:37

If they can't identify other issues such as muscular causing this feeling, they will keep you there for 8 hours for a blood test to double-check your heart.
There are lots of other things it could be so hopefully you will be fine, but it did need to be checked out.

SpinnersWindow · 14/12/2021 00:48

Thinking of you, @YetAnotherUserNameForMe. I think it's really good you're going to be checked over. I've had a pulmonary embolism and even the GP thought it was anxiety at first. Best to be sure.

Another Xmas tree story?

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And @Bunnyfuller, the last time we had a real Christmas tree was when, unbeknownst to us, a mummy spider was not only with child on her way to Bethlehem (as depicted on the mantlepiece natvity scene) but was with child with hundreds of the fecking things.

We came down one morning to the sight of hundreds of tiny spiders zipping up and down from the ceiling to the tree, the furniture, the floor ...

Vickles20 · 14/12/2021 00:51

Hope your ok OP x

Dancingonmoonlight · 14/12/2021 00:59

Hope you're on the way to hospital now OP and the medics are looking after you. .....hopefully it will be nothing much at all and you'll be back home in no time.

FortunesFave · 14/12/2021 01:02

The ambulance people will grab your cpap OP...tell them it's there. You'll need it as they won't let you out immediately. Hope you're ok soon.x

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