get on here and ask questions instead of going straight to the emergency room and seeing a doctor? Because with a heart attack every second counts right? My uncle and granddad died of a bloodclot to their heats. But they had no warning signs. So I need to know why do they get on here if they are that concerned for their life that they might be having a heart attack etc than getting to a hospital that will treat them if something is wrong.It could take about 20 minutes of more to get an answer on here, and only less than 5 minutes to die. I do not get it. Any reasons for that?
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I’ve often wondered that about you Leanne.
Because they want to same as you posting sick things about your bowels
Maybe wanna hear it here before getting the real deal stuff. Calm before the storm you know. Could be a psychological thing.
Most people don’t drop dead from a heart attack. Even in fatal cases, about 60% of first heart attacks, there are symptoms or signs that the person complained of for a range of 2-10 hours prior to going into cardiac arrest from which they did not recover.
Taking a few minutes here is far smarter then doing nothing. Most people are still under the impression that a heart attack involves massive, staggering ,unmistakable chest pain. Since they are experiencing something much less obvious, they feel it is minor and they have time to ask. And they actually do. Probably 90% or more then call 911 , or are taken to the ER by a family member. If they don’t, a good 60% probably join the ranks of those that won’t make it.
In my own case, I had about 5 seconds of chest pain that then disappeared, on a Tuesday. Friday I saw the doctor, and had 5 minutes of chest pain in his office. He did an EKG, which showed nothing. He said I had anxiety, and said go enjoy your vacation.
Four days later, in NICARAGUA, I began having some massive angina. A doctor there said it seemed like it could be cardiac related, so he gave me nitroglycerin tablets and a beta-blocker to take. I continued with more incidents of massive pain. My wife refused to allow an angiogram there, since her family new of someone who died during one down there. They said we’d need to wait 10 days for it to stabilize before I could fly home.
Came home, but I could not see a cardiologist for tests for two weeks, lovely HMOs. So we went to the ER, had an angiogram the following day, and a triple bypass the next day.
Two arteries 99% blocked, the 3rd 80% blocked at 4 places.
If most risk factors indicate you should not be having a heart attack or circulatory problems, tests are not usually done, and you are sent home.
It’s a stigma, dont want to be ridiculous in calling an ambulance and riding it and then maybe it was nothing. Which is ridiculous because they are willing to risk their life for some stupid reason like that.
Sometimes emergency personnel and even doctors themselves help that kind of behaviour in saying stuff they shouldnt be saying while treating patients and making them feel like they shouldnt have called or come.
People with a lot of education which didnt do anything to take their idiocy away.
And once in the hospital be careful because many doctors dont do their homework and they only get a job and its like a someone 40 years old would remember everything heshe learned in high school. Its just not the case. So many times they misdiagnose and they say stupid things like “you are perfectly ok” when you might be having a silent heart attack. So if they feel bad, they should go to the hospital and get all the tests possible.
Dont rely your life solely in a maybe a careless stranger who might be saying a lie just because dont want to do extra work. Be specially suspicious if they say they its a psicological thing.
ps (some doctors are really good people and very knowledgeable but there are many idiots out there calling themselves doctors, so be careful )
Because there’s no standard by which the public are able to judge the severiy of their symptoms , and subconsciously are afraid of being made to look like hypochondriacs by their doctor. While women are constantly made aware of the need to check for breast cancer, and other intimate things, there’s no public awarenes or even a drive, towards similar knowledge, for heart disease, which kills vastly more often.
Warning signs such as what to look out for, and checks which one can do one’s self, should be widely publicised.
Lastly, there’s absolutely no doubt that many doctors have an “attitude” about self-diagnosis, and will simply say “there, there, -there’s absolutely nothing to worry about” – “NEXT!”
And when you present again, there’s an inner groan, – “oh, no, …not you again..” – Unless you’re 18, and blonde (or hunky, of course!…sorry! lady doctors….!)
So, having been rebuffed, who can you talk to? Yahoo Answers is as good as any place to start, because there are lots of good, expert people simply dying to help and talk, and share their knowledge.
That’s why.
My next-door neighbour (84) is at this moment back in Coronary Care awaiting by-pass graft surgery. She’s been complaining about chest pains, jaw and lips & cheeks pains, tingling and pins and needles etc, for months.
What has her doctor been telling her? …”Don’t worry, … it’s OK, -quite normal at your age. Think of “happy things, and relax”
Probably because they are afraid of the hospital. Plus 60% of chest pain is not a heart attack.
Leanne M….Why do you post your health problems?
For gods sake woman i have even heard you describe the texture and color of your poo!
Maybe they are just attention seekers!
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