Stephanie,
So worried about you please continue to keep us informed.
Big hugs
thanks Jo i havent had my heart rate that high the highest it has gone is 160. i know that pain from the plursey doesnt help. in fact at time i wish i could just stop breathing just so the pain will stop.the drs have to me well its just your anxiety and i told them no its not i just want this pain gone and for u to give me a medication to keep my bp and heart rate under control. i keep telling them that these heart issues started b 4 i got plursey. if u ask me my high bp and heart rate probably help cause the plursey.
well now just to make things so much better i have a stomach bug. how many things can one go through at one time. last night i had a migraine from hell it a little better today. i didnt get much sleep and was woke up by my stomach. i am hoping after i write this and go back to bed i will just sleep the day away and wake up feeling better. well at least from my head and stomach. i cant do much about the heart rate and blood pressure. i was told that plursey was caused by a viral infection but when i did some research i found out it could b from a bacterial infection too. my white blood cell count has been high every time i was in the hospital but i was told it was justt from the steriods i was given for the plursey. but i am wondering if i do have a bacterial infection too. i know i have had fevers off and on. oh and part of the reason i did research was to see if there was anything i could do to help the pain of the plursey and i found out that laying on the side that hurts or holding a pillow against u will help. i have been using a heating pad with a pillow against me and it seems to help. i just thought i would add that since i know others on this site suffer from plursey at times. well off to bed i will let u know how things r later. i hope better i am not sure how much more i can take my body just seems to want to keep making me feel worse than i already am. so far its like fighting battle. i know i cant give up but somedays its just so hard to keep fighting. thank you for everyone who has been helping me throught this it reallly means alot. i dont know where i would b without all of you.
Oh my goodness, just read up on your saga and it's awful! I'm really worried about you and hope you get the help you need. Yes, by all means go to another ER to be seen if you still are suffering from the high bp and heart rate. I'm not a medical person but YOU know how your body feels and what feels normal and what doesn't. THEY don't. They get paid no matter if they fix you or not. You def need another opinion if you are still suffering. Please don't be bullied into staying home if you are still sick. And take someone with you to advocate for you, if you can. Or maybe have your doctor write a note or call up someone there to give them the heads up on how sick he thinks you are.
Please update us on your condition. This is very upsetting!
the dr at the last er said he couldnt give me a script for blood pressure medication because u have to b monitored. i told him that the last too times i was at the dr i just ended up in the er. and if i didnt a medication to get my vitals under better control i would probably not b able to get it from my dr cause my vitals would b high and the chance of being sent to the er again was high.the the problem with having my dr call the er is that i go to a clinic and cant always see the same dr and if they called the clinic would not know me or whats going on with me. it sucks cause i cant afford to go where i only see one dr cause i dont have medical insurance and the clinic doesnt charge much. i have applied for the medical card and got denied and the same for disablity. i dont have all my symptoms listed and if i did u would b suprised that i have gotten denied cause my drs r. i dont see how i will ever b able to work even part time cause i cant see the drs i need to get everything under control. i feel that if i could fibro my under control that some things would b better. i also wish i could just have one primary dr and not just see whoever at the clinic i go to. i know i need more than a pcp to help manage my health issues but seeing only one pcp and building a relationship with them i feel would help alot.
well i was able to take a nice long nap. however upon waking up i was dizzy and my bp and heart rate were high. also my chest was hurting so much i wanted to cry. i took the narco got my heating pad and headed for the couch. i am really hoping i can see a dr monday who will not just send me back to the er. i dont know why they wont listen to me and just give a medication to bring my bp and heart rate back to normal. continually sending me to the er is not helping they just keep running the same test and telling me my heart is fine and i dont have a blood clot and they say just calm down its my anixety. i told the drs over and over this is not my anixiety. i just need medicine. why is this so hard ? how long can my heart take being like this i am a little worried about that but its not causing me to have anixety attacks.i feel like once we get a diaginosed with anixety and depression the drs want to blame all our problems.
I was so sorry to read about your ordeal. I hope that when you are next on line you are feeling a little better or at least have had some considerate attention. Looking at your visits to and fro, it seems that there is very poor if any communication between dr's. Of course you are anxious and depressed. So would anyone else be in your situation. I absolutely agree that a diagnosis of anxiety and depression is often taken as a catch all to cover all eventualities and it can take real persistance to get across that the problem is in addition to and not caused by....You are in my thoughts and in my heart......Let us know how things are going with you
Come to think of it, Eeyorelover, I know someone else with fibro who has an irregular/fast heart rate. In her case, she had to have it electrically shocked back into the proper rate. I don't know what your situation is but just wanted to share her experience.
Yes ur so right, "Oh its the fibro" or "oh its the anxiety" Give us a fricking break! One of my faves is "oh insomnia will not make you ill" - You try going 4 months with only 2/3 hours a night you beeeeeeeep!
well after about losing it at the drs office i finally got a perscription for my high blood pressure. the dr i saw was the same dr i saw last monday (the only one available today) and she tried telling she gave me a script and i told her no u didnt u just sent me to the er and they did nothing. then she tried telling me to see a heart dr and i told her i wasnt working and couldnt afford to see one i said all i need is a script to lower my blood pressure. i said the ers have run test my heart is fine. then she wouldnt tell me what my bp or heart rate was even though i asked all she said was after taking each is that they were high. she then went on about me seeing my phyc dr and i said why r u so concerned about me seeing her all she does is ask me a few questions write me a script and then i am out the door in less than 15 minutes. i said isnt it more important so continue to see my therapyst who spends an hour with me a week. and she just said i needed to see her. the dr is going to do a blood test for my thryoid cause i woke up today after sleeping 31 hours straight. i cant believe i slept that long. it seems like ever since this started with my heart i have been sleeping more and more. i am very concerned about the fact that i slept that long there is no way sleeping for 31 hours can b good or normal no matter what is going on.
well anyways the pharmasist said the meds should take anywhere between 12 and 24 hours to take efffect. so i am hoping that this time tomorrow i should feel better. the only problem is i think that the plursey is still causing me alot of pain and i read that it can b caused from a bacterial infection and its been a week with no improvement from that. but the dr today was in such a rush that i had no time to even bring it up. i just hope that getting my bp under control might help the plursey since i figure having my heart working so hard that having that under control might help. the dr put me on a low dose of the bp meds so i hope it enough to help. i just really want this whole thing with my heart to get back to normal. i think that if this medicine doesnt help i am going to go crazy. 2 1/2 weeks of having a high heart rate and high blood pressure that has been causing severe dizzy spells and neasua i just cant take much more and having the plursey that has been causing severe chest pain its just too much.
i know part of me should not worry too much about the sleeping cause all the blood test for my heart have come back fine but i do worry a little cause there was no ultrasouds of my heart or the artiery in my neck. also i have been having alot of pressure in my head which i have been told could b from the heart issues but what if its not. what if there has been some brain issue that has devoleped along with all this. could there b something wrong in my brain that has been causing me to sleep so much? i have been having horriable migraines for the past few days and its like the excridine will help with the mirgaine for a few hours then the pain just comes right back. well i guess i will know if the sleeping is ralated to my heart in a few days. i will b updating everyone on how and if the medication helps. thanks for all the support and prayers.
stephanie
So happy u have meds! I think all this trauma is making you exhausted!
Hugs,
Sunny
Yeah I can relate to this - my doc blames it on anxiety tho I’m not anxious! I’m tired and in pain!
i dont know if u read it wrong but my blood pressue has been very high along with my heart rate being high. the reason i dont think its my anixiety is cause the hospital has given me has given me two different anixiety meds on different visits and it did nothing to bring down my heart rate. one med was atavian the other was valium and i was given that twice on the same visit with no relief. i also dont think its my anixiety cause i have been told my heart is fine and i have just been tring to get the drs to give me a medicine to lower my heart rate and bp. i guess i could b having some anixiety but i am not going through anything that would b causing anxiety in my life.
yes i do have asthma but the meds i am on for it i have been on for years. i dont think there would b a problem now with them i havent had any med changes on anything alse i take i havent had any new meds added or have had any dose changes. i am on cymbalta,sybicort,singulair, and zertec.
i havent had any chest pain from my firbo so far but i guess things can change. usually the only time i have chest pain is when i have broncitus cause of the inflamation caused from couging and struggling to breathe. as soon as the infection starts to clear the pain goes away.
the er on thursday did do a ct scan of my chest and i have had mulitiple chest x-rays. the only thing showen on them is the plursey. no blood clot or anthing else.
thanks for letting me know if this contiues which i hope it doesnt i will ask the dr about it.
i really hope u r right about all this sleeping is just being caused from my heart working so hard. cause if all problems with my heart have caused a problem somewhere else i will b very upset. i have repeatly asked the drs at the hospital to do a scan of my brain due to the pressure and also check the artiery in my neck and neither have been done. i have not been told why these test were not done even though i was experiencing these problems for over a week. maybe i am a litte parinoid but it seem that after a fews days of my heart issues starting i started having all these other issues like the pressure in my head and the pressure in the artiery in my neck and sleeping ALOT. i really hope all these symptoms will go away in the next fews days now that i am on medication. i really hope the dose i am on works. the only places i have been in the last few weks is to the dr or the hospital. otherwise i have just been in bed or on the couch. well i guess i just haave to wait and see what happens.
i have been doing alot of thinking since i got home from the drs office today. if the symptoms that have developed since this whole thing with my heart rate being very high and not going down at all and the fact that my blood pressure has continued to rise over the last two weeks do not go away in the next few days and i find out there has been damage done to the artiery in my neck or those around my heart or any brain related problems i am going to go a wall on the drs and hospitals who didnt check these things out. just because someone has anixiety or depression does not mean that they cause every problem a person is having. while the hospitals did run standard test on me like ekgs and heart enzyimes and checked to make sure there wasnt a blood clot i do not believe thats all that should have been checked.
maybe i am just mad it has takien this long to get a simple perscription but i cant help but wonder what is going to happen in the next few days. i have felt so crappy from all this and i just want my life back. granted with fibro we dont have the life we used to have but its alot better than mine has been in the last few weeks.
do i have a right to feel this way? since this has all started sometimes i dont know what to feel but i know i have felt alot of anger due to the fact that till today i havent had even a glimmer of hope to go on. ya the drs saying the blood test on my heart r fine and the ekgs just show a fast heart were good to hear but how much does blood work on your heart really tell drs? i guess i dont understand why last thursday while at the drs office the nurse took my bp and heart rate and an ambulace was called and the nurse told me he called them because it was too dangerous to send me home but at the hospital they came down some and i was sent home. how was it that in a matter of a few hours i went from not being able to go home due to my vitals and then told by the hospital that since they were able to get them down some i was safe to return home? i told the nurse who discharged me that my vitals were just going to go right back up and all she told me was i was stable then and fine to go home.
i am so lost. while i am happy i was finally put on a medication that should help i am a little worried about the effects that having my blood pressure and heart rate so high for so long might have done damage that needs attention. ya i am pretty sure the dizzy spells were a direct result of my vitals being high and should go away once they even out but i am not so sure about the rest. it didnt help that the dr i saw today was rushing everything and i dint get any answers to any of my questions. i know i shouldnt let these things bother me and just wait to see if they clear up in the next few i know worring about them can only cause more problems but its so hard not too. i have so much happen in such a short time. i havent thought much about it till tonight.i guess maybe i would get some answers from the dr today and i didnt maybe thats why all this is running through my mind. i have to focus on something else but i still feel so crapppy. sorry to go on i have no one else to talk to and all of u have been with me through this. i hope to be in a better mood soon and feeling better too.
i really hope to have good news for everyone soon and b able to say i am better. thank you all who have been following this and checking on me. i think i would have ended up in a phyc ward by now without this site. i do do my best to respond to others blogs and discussions when i think i can help in anyway. i want to help others as much as all of u have helped me. well goodnite i will let u know how i am doing tomorrow provided i dont sleep 31 hours straight again.
well finally good news. the medication is working and no bad side efffects. i am so happy to finally not feel like my heart is going to come out of my chest. i am very sorrry for the last few post. i was really depressed last night and in alot of pain from from the pleursy and i guess i just had too much going through my mind. i am sorry i just kept going on and on.
i just want to thank every one who stuck by me through this health battle and kept encourging me.
Awww that is good news. i'm glad you are feeling a lot better. It's hard sometimes to cope with it all and feel like you're not being listened to or treated properly by the professionals. It happens all too often. But we get there in the end because we are all fighters and there to support each other. Bless you.