Enter the 8th Circle of HELL: or A trip to the ER.

Yesterday, all day, I felt like my heart was going to explode through my chest. I have been dealing with digestive troubles for about 2 years (gastroparesis..etal) and have also been diagnosed recently with high blood pressure. (What Democrat's blood pressure isn't a little high right now?)

Anyway, it got a little scary so I went to the doctor. I was really dehydrated and my heart rate was 150 so he sent me to the ER with a note to hydrate me and get my heartrate down. Actually, I took the note and went home, waited for MrG to come home, let them eat dinner and then went to the ER figuring,"Heck, it's Wednesday how busy can they be?" Answer: REALLY DAMN BUSY

First: There was the guy (22) who thought he might have the flu because he had, "kind of a headache" all day.

Second: There was the guy who had a little bit too much to drink and fell out of his wheelchair pulling it on top of himself. (actually, this one kind of pissed me off because I cannot stand the way some medical personnel treat alcoholics with such obvious disgust).

Third: There was the girl who wasn't sure she was pg, but felt like she was and thought she might be miscarrying.

Fourth: I could go on....

Anyway, there was a really great episode of "My Wife and Kids" on that had my husband and I rolling.

After six hours of fluids and listening to a drug intervention on the man in the cube next to me Mr.Idon'tknowhowIhurtmyhandbutithurtsbadandIneedsomethingevenifthexraysdon'tshowanything, I was released into the care of my husband.

Anyone know where one can purchase a doityourself I.V. kit?

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Lovely isn't it? It is the place to really get to know your human companions on this planet and it is not reassuring.

My suggestion is to drink LOTS of fluids and stay the hell away from the ER!

If your Doc put you on meds for your blood pressure have him make sure they are working properly and that you are not getting out of fluid balance. Sometimes it takes a while to get that right.

tummy doesn't move the fluids, it upchucks them if I drink too much. So I walk a thin line when it flares up and usually end up dehydrated.

Right now I am on a Diovan, which has a diuretic in it and toprolXL for the heartrate. My tummy meds came in the mail yesterday so all should be well. :hi:

meds help because you are kinda stuck! Not to be pushy or anything but please do check frequently with your Doc until this all gets in balance. Your heart rate may be taken care of by adequate hydration so you may need to adjust your meds frequently and perhaps eventually get off the heart meds. Extra fluid can screw with your pressure up or down. I have seen too many people get caught in this kind of mess. Do you have a pressure kit? You might consider keeping a journal of heart rate and pressure just to be on top of this and until you get it all figured out. :hi:

it in the AM,midday, and PM. That is how we figured out there may have been a heart rate problem. I couldn't get the darn thing to work, because it couldn't catch the rates through the heart beat.

You sound just like my husband, Muse, he has been consistently on my back over this. At times, I got irritated, but I need someone like him around. I go back today for a recheck. :hi:

patient in the world so I know just what you are talking about. I am some better since my kids have grown and I am less busy being the mom. Last year about this time I was so sick I could hardly get out of bed but was living at my barn waiting for my mare to foal. I came home one afternoon and my husband wanted to take me for a "ride" just to be together. We ended up in the ER! (I felt like my dogs when we trick them into the car to go to the vet!) I had a very bad case of pneumonia, managed to bargan my way out of an admission since my husband did not want to foal out my mare. I was plenty irritated with him but yes, some of us do need that!

Good luck on that recheck.

anyone with an elevated heart rate and over the age of... should have been treated as soon as you walked in the door- you could have had a heart attack. blood pressure of 150 is nothing to mess with..get to a heart doctor as soon as possible. i thought i was fine untill i had my heart attack. it always better to be safe than have a heart attack-the experience is so "wonderful"

me to go two days ago. Because of prior experiences I wanted to wait it out which is not such a good idea.