Scared out of my mind!

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Man o man. It's been an interesting few days for me. A few nights ago I

noticed my pulse acting strange...and started taking my blood pressure again.

It want really really bad. My blood pressure got into the real red zone and my

heart beat was so irregular I got plenty scared.

After a couple of days of this and my BP close to 200 over 117 and premature

beats every few heartbeats I called my doctors office and she said go to ER.

Man...a painer in an ER! Last thing I ever wanted to do!

You know how they treat painers.

Well...we use what is called " Urgent Care " with the particular hospital my

insurance uses. They are smaller then a typical ER and not connected to the

hospitals. They are scattered around the Reno area so you can get to them

pretty fast.

You're not gonna believe this. I was treated wonderfully. *disbelief* *gasp*

I was seen really quick...reassured before being called in...and guess

what....they have a tv set in the treatment room so you can watch while you wait

so you can relax some...I was still so scared. You ever hear of that?!? That

was a big wow for me.

I went in for the high blood pressure and strange pulse and did not complain of

the pain....A PA saw me there and we went over my history and pain history and

my BP was really up there....we did a 12 lead EKG.

My pain has reached such a constant state and I was trying to control on what I

had without complaining. That was a big mistake. My pain had gotten into such

a constant state I stopped knowing when I may be ok and not so ok. It was like

all blended together.

The PA concluded it was all from pain. The PVC's were from body stress from

pain and BP was high because of it. The Tylenol #3's were not doing it well but

I was really afraid to complain to anyone that it was getting really hard to

control things.

I was chasing pain around without adequate meds to cover a day and night at all.

3 Tylenol #3's in a 24 hour period....not much. I still have a low tolerance.

I just felt lucky that I had any treatment at all. I explained this to the PA

and he understood the poor treatment we all get and how we're not trusted to be

honest and drug seeking etc..

He prescribed Percocet to start right away. He wanted me to make an appointment

with my doc and get adequate pain management and meanwhile use two percocets

every 4 to 6 hours so I started them last night and the blood pressure started

dropping almost right away.

By morning the pulse went regular. That is this morning as I write.

If anyone ever says that pain cannot kill you....slap 'em. It can. It can

leave you stroked out.

Anyway...I'm writing up everything for my doctor...all the vital signs from when

I started taking them...what the PA said. The pain meds he prescribed and the

pharmacy I got them from which is different from my routine pharmacy that gives

me the Tylenol #3's.

I wrote out names, pharmacy, addresses, meds...all of it and will give it to my

Primary doc. That way everyone knows everything even the pharmacies. When and

how much Percocets I took which is every four hours one or two...enuff of this

brave, tuff it out crap. That's gonna kill me someday.

This urgent care unit treated me with such care and respect I plan to send them

a Christmas card thanking them. The PA and I talked about how CPer's are

treated and this guy just said he really understood that and knows I'm not a

druggie and not to worry at all. Then told me what to call 911 for should

symptoms of severe headache happen or chest pain. Wow...these guys were tops.

Anyway...my Primary and I will have to work out a new pain management. The PA

at the Urgent Care and I talked about the possibility of using a drug like

Oxycontin or MScontin with break thru meds for pain management. We'll see.

It'll be up to my primary. I hope he doesn't send me to a pain doc....I like

working with him as I have been for the last 10 years.

I'm just so glad the Blood Pressure is down and my heart beat is back to a

normal beat.

Take care guys. Merry Christmas.

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