Or is Dh for not getting checked out

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Just that really, my dh feels like his left arm is numb/heavy for the last 2-3 hours with slight pins and needles in hand. He has a tendency to think the worst but normally he won't go to the Drs unless it's really bad but this time he called 111. They got a paramedic to call him back who said our nearest out of hours dr had closed their books but he could be seen 35miles away at another one. They also said he needs to be seen, but hubby is now saying if it gets worse I can take him to A&E but he's not dragging the kid out to drive 35 miles for nothing or to be told they are keeping him there. Part of me thinks he's right but I do think he should just let me take him
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If he won't go Op, time to phone an ambulance. My dad spent a week in hospital with a heart attack that he'd put down to indigestion.

I second the ambulance.

Are you awake still? Just to say, the thing that would push him maybe is to present him with a fait accompli - get the kids up, get them in the car with iPads as per pp, snacks etc, engine running, headlights on, you will probably find he will sulkily follow you into the car ... I've had similar conversations (although DH then insisted we stay put and he drove himself complete bollocking from the triage nurse).

Remember to keep it light for the children (and remind DH that they need to be as unworried as possible, so he needs to put on his best "mum's just worrying, she's ridiculous" script...).

I really hope you're OK. Friend of DH died this year in similar circumstances, and it has really made DH much more sensible. Sad that it took that.

How is DH this morning? Did you get much sleep?

Hope he's feeling better this morning op

I had that once, years ago, 20 weeks pregnant. Was driving, my left arm went numb, tingles in my fingers, left side of my face went numb. Flashing lights in my eyes. Rang 111 and then sent me to hospital.

Was a migraine! Only one I've ever had!

How's he doing?

Hope all worked out ok.

Morning little to no sleep for me dh a little more. Trying to get him appointment now with out of hours, he seems ok but still heavy arm and now his chest is a little tight but he thinks that's the cold coming back.

Hope he is OK my DH is awful with medical stuff his arm would be hanging off and he would think it was a flesh wound

jeez OP please get him to A & E now cant believe hes still messing about

Trying to get him appointment now with out of hours, he seems ok but still heavy arm and now his chest is a little tight but he thinks that's the cold coming back

That is a heart attack until proven otherwise. He absolutely must go to see a doctor.

If you phone 111 and tell them tight chest with numb arm they will send an ambulance. Seriously, he has to see someone now.

Hope he's ok. I thought maybe a stroke until I saw the bit about the possible trapped wind. That and the being stubborn (the classic "feeling of doom" apparently often translates into digging in the heels, apparently.) My DH is stubborn, too. Bloody hate it when he's dismissive of his health.

Bloody hell please try to convince him OP.

Friend's DP died of heart attack at home aged 40. Only symptom was bad (and then excruciating) shoulder pain. He was otherwise healthy.

If you ask for an appointment for soneone with a heavy arm and tight chest you will be told to phone an ambulance. It will be treated as an emergency.

Wow, I assumed with no update that you'd taken him / he'd gone to hospital. X-post. Agree it's got to be treated as a heart attack until proven otherwise. I'm a first aider. Please get on the phone to 111 right now! If it is a heart attack, it sounds like it's still early stages, he could have very some time left & if he gets correct treatment he'll be fine. But without treatment he really won't.

OP I'm actually seriously worried now.

Please call 111 for advice (if that's the correct number where you are).

My friend's DP left two small children behind.

If it's something else, which it hopefully is, the medical staff will not be cross. It's THEIR job to diagnose, not your DH's (or ours!)

I'd be telling him that for your sake and the DCs sake you are sending him in. Imagine if it intensified in front of DCs. Tell,him you have no intention of sitting back and watching him traumatise the DCs.

I hope he gets immediate medical attention. I never met my FIL, he died of a heart attack at 46 years old which was before I met DH.

On way to A&E

Excellent-I hope it turns out to be something innocuous.

Glad you're going- good luck

Hopefully it's the reflux!

Just read - glad you're on way to A&E! He will likely be seen straight away.

Like many pps my dad also died of a huge heart attack he thought was indigestion, it's always the right thing to go to A&E for symptoms, because the price of not can be dying.