Trinityheart8891
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hey guys,
kinda had a rough night tonight
I thought I was doing OK, I had gone a day without the xopenex, I had a low grade fever, but I thought it was no big deal I could have taken the xopenex this AM, but I didnt,
I decided to take it on the way into the kitchen at work because I was pretty out of breath, and my chest was tight, dumb idea! I started to feel better, but within 20 mins or so, I started feeling really crappy, more out of breath, my heart was racing, I was light headded, and my chest got tight again. I took my pulse and could barely count it, it was like 130s. I sat down, tried a valsalva, tried holding my breath, coughing, nothing helped, I decided to go to the ER. I told a few ppl in the kitchen, went into the locker room, got changed back into street clothes, I had to sit down twice in the locker room, I had someone walk to the ER with me, had to stop and sit once on my way to the ER, and oonce we just stopped and stood. I got to triage, and the receptionist did some paperwork, called a nurse over, and had me in triage within a minute, triage nurse took my pulse, and didnt even bother doing a BP, sent me straight back to a bed in a curtain area with a crash cart, nurse hooked me up to the crash cart monitor, put me on oxygen, and ran an EKG right off, this was all within 5 mins of getting to the ER. Luckily I was just in sinus tach with PVCs, by the time I got to the monitor my rate was down into the one teens, and my EKG was relatively normal , and my BP was stable. they monitored me, the doc came in, and listened to me, my breath sounds were a little diminished so they did a chest X-ray to rule out pneumonia. no pneumonia, just nasty bronchitis.
they prescribed me prednisone, and a z-pak for the bronchitis, there isnt much else I can do w/out taking B2 bronchodialators, which obviously arent a good idea, the doc wants me to just try 1 or 2 puffs of the xopenex if I have to take it, but other than that, rest fluids and tylenol.
on another note, I think I baffled/blindsided this doc, either that or he hasnt seen much, I started crying when we were talking about how to treat this, I was telling him how frustrated I was, and how little it takes to put me over the edge with getting out of breath and feeling like crap, he basically didnt show much compassion, barely changed the look on his face, didnt say much of anything, the nurses were much better about it, one even wanted to listen to my heart for the hell of it, I let her, because she actually gave a crap about ME,
I guess I cant really blame the doc, he works in a small town ER, doesnt see that much of this stuff, doesnt have much concept of what it's actually like, and his PT next to me was telling him that he didnt understand what an allergic skin reaction was (this Pt was "dying" with itching, burning and "pain" from a reaction he was having and insisting the doc had no clue what it was like :roll: ) and the patient that came in after him was moaning in pain, she had pleurisy, but it sounded like she was gonna die the way she was moaning and crying :roll: he just seemed pretty cold, I think he was sick of the frequent fliers/hypochondriacs, or he was having a bad day
anyways, its time for bed now, just thought I'd update
kinda had a rough night tonight
I thought I was doing OK, I had gone a day without the xopenex, I had a low grade fever, but I thought it was no big deal I could have taken the xopenex this AM, but I didnt,
I decided to take it on the way into the kitchen at work because I was pretty out of breath, and my chest was tight, dumb idea! I started to feel better, but within 20 mins or so, I started feeling really crappy, more out of breath, my heart was racing, I was light headded, and my chest got tight again. I took my pulse and could barely count it, it was like 130s. I sat down, tried a valsalva, tried holding my breath, coughing, nothing helped, I decided to go to the ER. I told a few ppl in the kitchen, went into the locker room, got changed back into street clothes, I had to sit down twice in the locker room, I had someone walk to the ER with me, had to stop and sit once on my way to the ER, and oonce we just stopped and stood. I got to triage, and the receptionist did some paperwork, called a nurse over, and had me in triage within a minute, triage nurse took my pulse, and didnt even bother doing a BP, sent me straight back to a bed in a curtain area with a crash cart, nurse hooked me up to the crash cart monitor, put me on oxygen, and ran an EKG right off, this was all within 5 mins of getting to the ER. Luckily I was just in sinus tach with PVCs, by the time I got to the monitor my rate was down into the one teens, and my EKG was relatively normal , and my BP was stable. they monitored me, the doc came in, and listened to me, my breath sounds were a little diminished so they did a chest X-ray to rule out pneumonia. no pneumonia, just nasty bronchitis.
they prescribed me prednisone, and a z-pak for the bronchitis, there isnt much else I can do w/out taking B2 bronchodialators, which obviously arent a good idea, the doc wants me to just try 1 or 2 puffs of the xopenex if I have to take it, but other than that, rest fluids and tylenol.
on another note, I think I baffled/blindsided this doc, either that or he hasnt seen much, I started crying when we were talking about how to treat this, I was telling him how frustrated I was, and how little it takes to put me over the edge with getting out of breath and feeling like crap, he basically didnt show much compassion, barely changed the look on his face, didnt say much of anything, the nurses were much better about it, one even wanted to listen to my heart for the hell of it, I let her, because she actually gave a crap about ME,
I guess I cant really blame the doc, he works in a small town ER, doesnt see that much of this stuff, doesnt have much concept of what it's actually like, and his PT next to me was telling him that he didnt understand what an allergic skin reaction was (this Pt was "dying" with itching, burning and "pain" from a reaction he was having and insisting the doc had no clue what it was like :roll: ) and the patient that came in after him was moaning in pain, she had pleurisy, but it sounded like she was gonna die the way she was moaning and crying :roll: he just seemed pretty cold, I think he was sick of the frequent fliers/hypochondriacs, or he was having a bad day
anyways, its time for bed now, just thought I'd update
