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Feb. 3rd, 2006 11:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cybermathwitchThere's nothing like the ER the first thing in the morning. And I hope to all my gods that I'm never in a situation where I *need* to take nitrostat again.
See, I woke up this morning (ok, 4am) with some pain in my chest and my left arm. Which, yeah, I'm 25 and it was probably just gas and muscle stuff but when you have a panic attack because of the possibility of a heart attack and your chest tightens up and you start shaking and, oh yeah, your BP goes through the roof, you go to the ER anyway. They said that they didn't see anything cardiac, but that my BP was really, really high (low 200's over uppermid 100's). They did an EKG, drew blood, gave me nitrostat to get my bloodpressure down (which down it did go - it bottomed out, I may have passed out, though maybe I just felt awful enough I wanted to at that point? Actually I don't think that I passed out, I think I just couldn't move for a few minutes there. It was scary, but my mom was there.) Then they gave me fluids and did a chest xray. The lab work came back ok, so the MD (who I really liked - a rarity for me) said that best they could tell it was muscular and anxiety, but b/c of the bp that he wanted me to go to my doctor as soon as I could and have her do stress tests and so forth to check on everything, then he gave me something for the anxiety through my drip and sent me home.
The collision center is supposed to put the missing part in this morning so we can then take the car to Randal's for an oil change and to get the battery fixed. I hope. I'm not sure if I can drive this evening or if I'll have to wait til tomorrow.
I miss my Brian. :( Especially this morning, though it was good to have my mom there with me.
See, I woke up this morning (ok, 4am) with some pain in my chest and my left arm. Which, yeah, I'm 25 and it was probably just gas and muscle stuff but when you have a panic attack because of the possibility of a heart attack and your chest tightens up and you start shaking and, oh yeah, your BP goes through the roof, you go to the ER anyway. They said that they didn't see anything cardiac, but that my BP was really, really high (low 200's over uppermid 100's). They did an EKG, drew blood, gave me nitrostat to get my bloodpressure down (which down it did go - it bottomed out, I may have passed out, though maybe I just felt awful enough I wanted to at that point? Actually I don't think that I passed out, I think I just couldn't move for a few minutes there. It was scary, but my mom was there.) Then they gave me fluids and did a chest xray. The lab work came back ok, so the MD (who I really liked - a rarity for me) said that best they could tell it was muscular and anxiety, but b/c of the bp that he wanted me to go to my doctor as soon as I could and have her do stress tests and so forth to check on everything, then he gave me something for the anxiety through my drip and sent me home.
The collision center is supposed to put the missing part in this morning so we can then take the car to Randal's for an oil change and to get the battery fixed. I hope. I'm not sure if I can drive this evening or if I'll have to wait til tomorrow.
I miss my Brian. :( Especially this morning, though it was good to have my mom there with me.
