I'm so scared and I'm at a loss as to what to do.
He's massively down played this. Partially as he has no memory of what happened (he says oh I just fainted) and partially because that's his hyper independent personality.
I did call an ambulance and made sure he got in it. At the time that wasn't hard as he was not completely aware of what was happening.. asked me in the ambulance where we were etc.
But once at A&E he kept trying to leave in between sleeping on my lap. Any time he'd wake he'd ask why we were there, say he was fine and it was a waste of time.
I had to take his phone and car keys off him so he wouldn't drive straight home when they let us go. They told him not to drive for at least 24 hours but he was trying to drive home. I managed to prevent this for ten hours.. which tbf he did mostly sleep through only waking once and trying to leave, but easily being persuaded back to bed. Eventually he did get the keys off me and drive home which I guess we had to as we were at a friend's house in the middle of nowhere (i can't drive) and she couldn't have us staying any longer. We also needed to pick our kids up from my mum's who had already had them far longer than she had agreed to. (She's disabled so it just wouldn't have been ok to leave them there longer) I do regret giving him back his keys though. I was terrified the whole way home although he drove perfectly fine.
He then slept 12 hours over night and has been unusually tired since although won't admit this.
The bad thing is that this happened out of area so even though I got him to ring the GP the next morning they had no record of any of it. It's now been several days and they still don't have the discharge notes.
My DH is also still saying he just fainted so I'm worried they won't take it seriously.
He did not just faint.
We were at my friends house. Staying overnight as another friend was briefly visiting from the country where he lives. So we just had takeaway and were catching up and watching a documentary. We did have some drinks but no one was drunk. I had two beers for example.
I went up to bed about midnight. So did my friend who's house it was. My husband stayed downstairs with male friend watching another documentary.
Next thing I know the friend is shaking me awake, tearful, saying my husband has collapsed.
I run downstairs and my husband is laid on the floor. His eyes are wide open and his face is contorted into this kind of snarl, with one side of his mouth up.
I rush to him and obviously try speaking to him but he doesn't respond at all. His eyes don't even move when I wave my hand in front of him.
My friend says that they were just talking normally then my husband had stood up saying he was going to turn in. He had then walked towards the door but stumbled and waved his arms about. He then knelt down and leaned against the table. My friend went over and asked if he were OK. Apparently my husband did reply but was making no sense and not saying real words. He then suddenly flopped backwards into the position he was in when I came in and had been like that, eyes open but unresponsive, for 5 mins. He got my other friend up and then me up. My husband was breathing but quite heavily. My friend said he had previously made some strange sounds.
I said we need to ring an ambulance. Which I did and whilst on the phone to them my husband suddenly sat up. The woman on the phone asked to speak to him and I handed him the phone which he took.. but when he spoke it was just nonsense so I got the phone back.
The ambulance arrived and they did various tests on him including an ecg. At this point he was saying normal words but didn't seem to understand what was going on at all. He just did what they said. But when they advised he come to hospital he was suprised to see the ambulance abd asked who it was for. When we were sat in the ambulance he asked where we were. He then asked how we had got to my friends house.
After we had been sat in A&E a while he did remember how and why we were at my friends house but had no memory of what happened apart from feeling tired. So he said he must have fainted.
I do not think this was fainting.
He had another ecg at the hospital as well as some bloods and a CT scan. None of this showed anything untoward.
The doctor we saw said she would have referred him to neurology but he wasn't in area so he would have to follow up with his GP ASAP.
It's been a few days now and the notes haven't gone across yet. He told the GP he felt fine when he rang which is a lie. He also framed it as fainting.
It was really traumatic and I'm just at a loss as to how to make him take it seriously and actually get checked out.
He had this week booked off work anyway luckily. But he drives for work! Which i am very frightened about. What if it happens again??
Any advice from anyone about what could have happened here and what I should be expecting from the GP would be great.
And any advice on how to get through to my husband would also be great.