Medical crisis

[sytaylor]

God last night was scary.. id had a massive headache all day yesterday in tandem with a viral infection.

So i went to bed quite early, hoping to sleep it off...

..next thing i know im being woken by paramedics, trying to usher me into an ambulance!!!

My step brother had called the ambulance because id had what looked like a fit, seemingly for very low glucose levels. What scares me is if he wasnt there what would have happened to me. Soon as they got me in teh ambulence i was injected with glucose and came round quite a bit.

I got out of hospital about 2 hours ago after a whole night of tests. I was a spectator but that may have been the closest ive come to dying and :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Anyone else had any scares like that?

[Sazar]

Originally posted by sytaylor
God last night was scary.. id had a massive headache all day yesterday in tandem with a viral infection.

So i went to bed quite early, hoping to sleep it off...

..next thing i know im being woken by paramedics, trying to usher me into an ambulance!!!

My step brother had called the ambulance because id had what looked like a fit, seemingly for very low glucose levels. What scares me is if he wasnt there what would have happened to me. Soon as they got me in teh ambulence i was injected with glucose and came round quite a bit.

I got out of hospital about 2 hours ago after a whole night of tests. I was a spectator but that may have been the closest ive come to dying and :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Anyone else had any scares like that?

well.. I have twice when I was younger (early teens) and still had asthma BAD been taken to the hospital strapped to oxygen machines since I could not breathe (anyone who has had a serious asthma attack will know what I am talking about)

fighting for every breath that you take is not fun... :( especially if you have no external impedence such as a pillow or happen to be drowning...

both times... had rather painful needles poked into my veins on the tops of my hands (extremely painful) to allow for rapid dissipation of whatever drug they use to open up your oesophagus...

btw... glad yer doing better sytaylor...

:)

[saturnotaku]

I once had such a bad allergic reaction to penicilin that one morning I woke up completely paralyzed. You have no idea how excruciatingly painful it was to even move. I don't think I would have died per-se but it was quite scary nonethless.

At least you're doing better, which is always a good thing. :) I assume you're on some kind of treatment to avoid such an incident again?

[sytaylor]

Originally posted by saturnotaku
At least you're doing better, which is always a good thing. :) I assume you're on some kind of treatment to avoid such an incident again?

Well since the whole thing was caused by me not eating (due to feeling extremley ill the whole day), theres nothing really i can do but make sure i get plenty of energy in my diet.

I know what sazar means about all those stupid needles though, the blood sugar test arent too bad but when they put you on an IV drip, or take a blood sample thats PAINFUL.

[UDawg]

Originally posted by Sazar
well.. I have twice when I was younger (early teens) and still had asthma BAD been taken to the hospital strapped to oxygen machines since I could not breathe (anyone who has had a serious asthma attack will know what I am talking about)
:)

Ya I whent to the hospital a couple of times for asthma but they put me on that ventilator with the medicine misting in. I was playing in a field during the spring and got all worked up with my allergies and had the attack.

[Sazar]

Originally posted by UDawg71
Ya I whent to the hospital a couple of times for asthma but they put me on that ventilator with the medicine misting in. I was playing in a field during the spring and got all worked up with my allergies and had the attack.

yah I had that thing too.. I always just though the ventilator machine was purer oxygen to help you get it into your blood stream...

[digitalwanderer]

Most of my medical emergencies have involved violent trauma, like going thru a windshield at 60MPH and broken bones and such.

My sister came down with Rhys syndrome when I was 16 and up late one night tripping with some friends. Thank god we were up or she would have died, as it was I was tripping in the emergency room with my Mom and my 11 year old sister chained down to a table and a doctor grilling me about if I had given her any PCP or anything. :mad: :rolleyes:

(Oh, my sis is just fine today. She lost a couple (literally, about 3) IQ points from the brain damage and was in a coma for about a month and then in and out of hospitals for about a year and a half afterwords...but she's just peachy today. :cool: )

[LORD-eX-Bu]

I've never had any medical problems, the only time I've really ever been to the hospital for myself was to be born:lol:

but I know a few people that have had close calls from diabetes or serious bacterial infection(i.e, flesh eating bacteria - 30min to 1hr later and the person would have been dead:eek: ).

I also know a few people who were not so lucky to receive the medical attention or help they needed in time to save their lives, such as my brother who died after having a seizure and choking on his tongue after he fell of his bed and fell on his back in his apartment in Chino. His soon to be step daughter was the first one to find him on the floor a few hours later and his fiance called the paramedics. When they got there it was too late.

So yeah, consider yourselves lucky:D

[vampireuk]

Good to hear you are doing better, now eat some damn chocolate:p

I remember when they were doing my blood test, damn doctor forgot to take the tube thing out, I had it in my arm for around 14 hours. The nurses would bitch at me because I would turn the tap thing and let the blood flow now and again:D

[b00bie]

Well, when I was young I had an allergic reaction to some insect that bit me on the neck. I was in school at the time and it happened during a break. I knew something was wrong as I had some trouble breathing. My neck was very slowly swelling and that is what was blocking my air. Nobody even noticed anything as I was trying to stay in class until the end of the day as it was my last class. I was getting weaker by the minute. After the class I went to my mums office which was closer to my school than my house. As soon as I walked in, everyone started looking at me strange. Well, I don't remember much from then on, but when I got to the hospital the doctors told me if I got there one hour later, I would have been dead. :eek:
But as if that wasn't enough, I find out later (as I don't remember this myself) that as I got to the hospital, they put me on the bed and give me a shot. After the shot my face kinda went green and I fell off the bed. So my mum calls the doctors, who don't know what happened, so they call some more specialists or somethin from the top floor... Well, turned out that they gave me an overdose and I fainted. So close to death not once, but twice. :eek: :eek:
As for what bit me, I have no clue as I don't seem to be alergic to any insects that I know of. :confused:
Well, that's my story...

[UDawg]

Originally posted by Sazar
yah I had that thing too.. I always just though the ventilator machine was purer oxygen to help you get it into your blood stream...

No it includes a steroid to help open your lungs. I knew exactly what you meant tho.

[stncttr908]

A few weeks ago my dad had a stomach ulcer and lost 1/3 of his blood. Of course we didn't know, but he finally forced us to call the ambulance around 10:30 that night. He was in the hospital for a few days. Thankfully we got him some help.

[deejaya]

I woke up once thinking I was having a heart attack, with a pretty bad pain on the left side of my chest, like a knife being twisted round in it. I was breathing heavy, about twice as fast as normal, but I hate doctors and so I (stupidly, looking back) picked up my half spliff from the night before, smoked it, and fell back to sleep. Next I know my gf is waking me, telling me I'm all white, and the pain was even worse than when I fell back to sleep, so against my will she called an ambulance. I got rushed in and had x-rays, after they stuck those drug receptors in, to find my left lung had collapsed to the size of a small plum. :o I then had to have a big needle and pump stuck through my chest cavity to try and pull my lung back up, but this failed twice. I had to wait to have a chest drain, which ended up happening at about 2am in the morning, which was a little disturbing. The needle was huge, and I had to sit on the bed and push to the Doctor to get it to puncture all the way through, while they slid the tubing into my lung cavity. Then I spent 2 weeks walking around like a Robocop extra, with my drainage box.

At least I got some opium after the drain, which wasn't bad at all. :)

Hope they sort you out anyway, anyone going into Hospital gets my sympathy. ;)

[UDawg]

Originally posted by deejaya
I woke up once thinking I was having a heart attack, with a pretty bad pain on the left side of my chest, like a knife being twisted round in it. I was breathing heavy, about twice as fast as normal, but I hate doctors and so I (stupidly, looking back) picked up my half spliff from the night before, smoked it, and fell back to sleep. Next I know my gf is waking me, telling me I'm all white, and the pain was even worse than when I fell back to sleep, so against my will she called an ambulance. I got rushed in and had x-rays, after they stuck those drug receptors in, to find my left lung had collapsed to the size of a small plum. :o I then had to have a big needle and pump stuck through my chest cavity to try and pull my lung back up, but this failed twice. I had to wait to have a chest drain, which ended up happening at about 2am in the morning, which was a little disturbing. The needle was huge, and I had to sit on the bed and push to the Doctor to get it to puncture all the way through, while they slid the tubing into my lung cavity. Then I spent 2 weeks walking around like a Robocop extra, with my drainage box.

At least I got some opium after the drain, which wasn't bad at all. :)

Hope they sort you out anyway, anyone going into Hospital gets my sympathy. ;)

What was the reason your lung collapsed?

[deejaya]

Originally posted by UDawg71
What was the reason your lung collapsed?

Apparantly it's "common" in blonde haired, blue eyed, slim, tall, young males. My dad had the same thing happen when he was about 30, but I was only 22ish. :confused:

[Geforce4ti4200]

"My sister came down with Rhys syndrome when I was 16 and up late one night tripping with some friends."


wow man what was that? PCP or some impure psychadelic drug? I heard you can get Rhys from alcohol and aspirin, maybe she drank or took aspirin while tripping? Tripping is quite safe, I have experence and so do my friends