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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Hope things turn out ok for you, op.

Hope it's all ok. Better to check than assume it's nothing. It's probably ok but I'm not a doctor.

Thank God you and DH are going to A&E OP

You just can't risk something like that

Fingers crossed it's nothing serious

Hope it isn't serious and you're back home soon

Good. Hope he's ok & it turns out to be nothing major.

I was going to say A&e. He needs an ecg to rule out heart problems and a neurological examination to rule out stroke. Pretty shocked the paramedic didn't say the same.

Hope all OK OP

Hopefully it turns out to be nothing but you're doing the right thing by going.
OH ignored chest pains and breathlessness for 4 days before I told him not to come home if he hadn't been to see the dr. Turned out that he had a collapsed lung

Hope to hear that it's nothing to worry about soon xx

I woke up hoping you'd gone in last night.

I'm glad you're there now at least ... hope everything is ok.

Great triage nurse did blood pressure and said slightly low but normal and then tells him that he's more than likely overdone it and is overreacting !
Waiting for ekg and bloods but dh now wants to go home and not waste resources

Flump Triage nurses do not know everything... Please wait and get seen by a doctor - as amazing as triage nurses are their job is to triage not to diagnose.

I'm trying to his hands are clammy and cold ? Don't know what that means but it's scaring him enough to stay

He's in the right place. Don't read to much into what the triage nurse says, until the test results are back and he's been examined it's too early to say what's going on. She's probably trying to be helpful and keep him calm.

In October my husband woke me at 2am and said he didn't feel well. Slight heaviness in his chest, and just not 'right'....we called 111 (after waiting a while to see if it settled) who sent out an ambulance. ECG, blood pressure etc were all normal but the paramedic was not happy and they took him in for blood tests. 4am and toddler at home so I went to bed expecting him to be home in a taxi later on (a similar incident a year before when I dropped him off at A&E came to nothing)
At 7am I woke and he wasn't home. The short of this is that his blood tests showed troponin t levels that indicated it was a cardiac event.
He had an angiogram 2 days later and a stent fitted to an artery.
We could so easily have dismissed the odd feeling and chest heaviness to anxiety or tiredness. If we had he might not have woken up the next day. Or the next episode could have been much worse.

I'm glad you managed to get your DH to hospital and I hope you get answers soon. The waiting is hard, so hard and frustrating.

You are in the best place, stay there, don't let the nurse dismiss his symptoms. My wonderful grandfather dropped dead in front of me with a heart attack which we and he thought was just indigestion. I was 12 & he was my best friend. He is not wasting resources!!! He needs to stay. Hope it's all fine.

Did the nurse actually say he was overreacting? That's quite bad if she did.
DH needs to stay and get all the proper tests done.

No tbf she didn't say it outright but both dh and I got the message very clearly

No experienced a and e nurse would imply someone with chest pain and a numb arm shouldn't be there. Either you're both reading what they said incorrectly (maybe because that was what he thought before he went) or they need a talking to from a colleague.

She may be trying not to stress him out. Your DH needs to get checked out properly. It could just be as simple as a bit of indigestion & a trapped nerve in his shoulder from sleeping on it wrong, but it's better to be sure.

I hope it is nothing serious.

Glad you're in A&E, even if it turns out to be nothing it was still the right thing to do as the symptoms he's having are so similar to heart attack ones, something that's always worth getting checked out. With a history of angina in the family it may well be that but getting checked out could lead to a diagnosis and angina meds (my dad has it and other heart issues which led to a triple bypass).

Ignore what the triage nurse said/implied - maybe she's had a bad day with timewasters or is new to the job and not so keyed up on heart symptoms. Hope you get tests and results quickly.

Bit shocked at the nurse tbh. The few times I've been to hospital (always either pregnancy or baby related) they've always been at pains to point out that I did the right thing. One said to another patient, we'd rather see you 100 times for nothing than not see you one time when it's serious.

'Wasting NHS resources' is about going to A&E for a persistent cough you've had for weeks, not for unusual arm/chest/indigestion feelings which can be a warning sign of something much more serious and need a medical professional to rule that out!

Yy nurse could be having a bad day. One was v rude to me once and I burst into tears, whereupon she did the same, apologised, and said the last two patients had been horribly abusive to her!

Good luck OP - hope everything checks out ok. You're in the best place.