In urgent care and feel like I've been pegged as a time waster

[QuestionableMouse]

Not sure if I should stay or go to be honest. Was at work when I started to get pain in my left chest/shoulder. First aider at work sent me to urgent care but I've been sat ages and everyone is going in before me so I feel like I've been pegged as a time waster. Chest still hurts but I'm starting to feel bad for being here.

Doesn’t mean they think you’re a time waster just that they’ve triaged lots of other cases before you.

Do you feel the same/worse/better?

Stay. It could be serious.

stay to get it checked out.
good luck.

Pain in your chest should be triaged as urgent

I feel okay, just tired (but I've been out since 9am so that's why!) Pain is the same, more really sore than anything but it's worrying me.

ask. sometimes they do not input the data correctly.

Are you okay? Didn’t you have to do something with a defribulator just yesterday?

Better to stay and get checked than to leave and potentially get worse and have to go back, and wait again. It’s not nothing - it was bad enough for you to see the first aider at work, and the pain is still there. Fingers crossed for some unexceptional harmless cause.

@WheelieBinPrincess

Are you okay? Didn’t you have to do something with a defribulator just yesterday?

Yep, but that was for my mum who is currently back in hospital. Not for me.

They know I'm here and why but there are people with sprains going in before me. Feel bad for being here honestly 😔😕

Stay. Assuming you’re female - Signs of a heart attack are much more subtle in women. Best to check it out.

You're in the right place and were told to be there by a first aider. Chest pains should always be checked out, especially as women's heart problems present differently to men's.

Sorry about your mum.

If people with sprains are staying to be seen, you with your chest and shoulder pain should stay and be seen. Anyway, regardless of people with sprains. I just mean don’t feel bad about it, you’re not a time waster.

I’m sure urgent care would rather see you and tell you you’re basically fine with whatever is the leading benign cause of chest pain, than see you and find something serious.

Have you been triaged?

Did you have your blood pressure and oxygen levels checked when you first went in? The people with sprains will be seeing a different doctor to you. I remember when my daughter hurt her eye we had to wait ages and other people were going in before her but she had to wait for a doctor from the opthalmic clinic to see her.

Maybe it might be worth asking someone just to make sure you haven't been forgotten.

Sprains before you? That's not ok. Have you had an EKG? Vitals taken? Say something if not. Though, honestly you need to be at the ER, not Urgent Care.

Don't worry about the other patients. You don't know their situation. Hospitals are crazy places and people will be triaged for all sorts of things that you can't understand just from glancing at them.

You are where you are supposed to be. Hope you're feeling better soon.

Check with the desk you havent been lost in the system. It does happen.

Happened to me just last week.

I was in A&E with a suspected ectopic pregnancy and loads of people went in before me, even though they'd arrived after. There was one guy who had been stung by a bee. He didn't have anaphylaxis for anything, it was literally just a bee sting. But he still got in before me.

I will never understand the priority system in A&E. Stay where you are OP.

Been seen and the doc said he wasn't sure what was going on but it's not my heart or lungs. He thinks it might be the start of shingles but he wasn't sure.

Just ask reception. I went in with blood clots and waited for ages and they’d just missed me off the list!

Glad it isnt your heart or lungs.

Just seen your update. Ignore my last post! Good to hear it’s not serious.

Thanks! Just really hoping it's not shingles!

@QuestionableMouse I have had shingles twice. Its not nice, but at least you get over it and back to normal. Hope it isn't though.