Partner in agony.. but won't let me take him to hospital!

[itsoneofthosethings]

Last night at around 7pm, my DP started to get chest pains similar to heartburn. We kept an eye on it, and he took some heartburn relief gaviscon to try to ease the pain (which he said didn't touch it)

Come 9pm and he was doubled over in agony.. he's been up all night, sick every 45 mins / an hour and is white as a sheet, shaking like a leaf and really clammy. His chest is agony he says, and nothing I've tried to give him has eased the pain whatsoever. His back and shoulders are now hurting, too.
I've just woken up to find him lying on the bathroom floor to try to help his back. I've never heard him be sick like he was last night.. and he's almost in tears with his chest.

For context, he had gastric sleeve surgery in February this year, and I'm concerned it could be connected to this? I wanted to take him down to A&E but he insists he doesn't need to.

I'm really concerned..

All the medical professionals recommending 999 - why are you not recommending 112? On a recent first aid course I was told to always call 112 instead of 999, as it is the same emergency service but it is sent via satellite so can pin point you on a mobile phone making it easier for paramedics to find you.

Please make the use of 112 more widely publicised, as it could save a life when phone signal is poor or patients are difficult to find. It also means that if they are shown to be in a difficult to reach area, the correct vehicle can be sent, saving time when a first response car can’t get to the patient.

Because chest pain is considered an emergency

112’s availability via satellite is only useful when using a mobile phone that doesn’t have reception. 999 as an emergency number is the correct procedure to report chest pain.

I don't understand why you would post this on mumsnet, wasting precious time when he might be dying. People can be very strange.

Did he get assistance? Did you call 999? How is DP?

Hope you got help in time.

Noellefreeman wtf. Reported.

Disgusting!

@Noellefreeman get some help.

Thankfully Night Watch are on it.

@itsoneofthosethings are you serious right now? TAKE THAT MAN TO THE HOSPITAL BEFORE HE DIES! He could be having a heart attack and you are going to listen to him? He is progressively getting worse! What is anyone on the Internet going to do? NOTHING! Get him to a hospital and stop playing around before he dies!

Because presumably OP knows her own address?

I am struggling to see your issue with this post @OhRiRi

Does it occur to you that not every one lives in properties that can very easily be located? Rural areas, unmarked roads, split long driveways… I could go on.

People posting made up stuff on here ?
Never !
Pity there isn't a sarcasm emoji innit

Don't know if you have received help yet have you called your husbands surgeon? As someone who has had a gastric sleeve and a stomach bug I can honestly say it is perhaps 10 x the pain I was normally in with d and v. It was horrendous and waiting in a and e was awful so I rang my surgeon he said unfortunately it is because everything is so small now and still healing it will be very painful but not something they are overly concerned with. The bath helped immensely! I also took codeine and ondansetron n really rested. The pain was like contractions. Hope he is feeling better now and it's just a case of bad timing.

How you arrive makes no difference to how quickly you’re seen.

How quickly you’re seen is based on your condition and the assessment at triage not on how you get to A&E. It is quite a common misconception that if you arrive in A&E by ambulance you’ll be seen more quickly-you won’t.

And this is why men’s life expectancy is shorter than women’s. They have a warped sense of pride when it comes to their health. I hope everything turns out ok.

The same thing happened to my brother, it was cardiac related.

I hope he's been seen now by a dr @itsoneofthosethings

I noticed from your other posts that you say you are 25 - so you're pretty young to be dealing with these horrible emergencies.

Is your partner the same kind of age?

Your post did show he was having some of the classic signs of a heart attack although it could be related to his previous surgery.

Please, if all is well, listen to all of the posts and if anything like this happens again, don't wait 12 hours before posting on a forum. call an ambulance or drive him to A&E, or get a taxi, if an ambulance can't come for hours!

112 is an emergency number - you’re thinking of 111

It’s worrying that the op hasn’t come back.

Not really. They post big popular posts and get bored fast.

Anyone posting on Mumsnet isn't exactly in the throes of a genuine emergency.

I don't disagree with you at all btw on the myth element of 'queue jumping' iykwim.

However, to me, being in an ambulance IS being 'seen' - it's receiving emergency medical attention, from skilled paramedics. They provide pre-hospital stabilisation of lots of medical crises.

If I ever have another pulmonary embolism (not pleasant) I'd be happier and safer surely in the back of an ambulance with paramedics and oxygen than in a waiting room without them?

Mind you, my local A&E 'booking in' system is bloody awful. If you arrived on your own and were really ill, you'd just die in a corner before anyone noticed. Casualty on the BBC it ain't.