SV: Back again and I hope someone can help me

[Guest guest]

Hi Margie, I do feel for you, why are we so misunderstood when so ill? I

am swedish and the same happens here. I get these dizzy attacks, when I

cant breath, pulse felt in my body and like loosing counscious, pains

sometimes at the same time. The dizzyness, goes on for hours. It feels

as I am fainting, scary. Do yours occur the same way? All the best Sonja

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Från: Margie Hoffmann

Skickat: den 14 mars 2004 19:55

Till: pancreatitis

Ämne: Back again and I hope someone can help me

Okay boy do I have a story for you but I am hoping someone can give

me some helpful suggestions or advice as to what I should do next.

This has been ongoing since Tuesday night.

Okay Tuesday night I go to the ER with chest pain but no other

problems and my EKG was normal and I am not sure what the blood work

was so they sent me home. Now it is Wednesday Morning and the chest

pain is getting worse so I cal my heart doctor and the nurse says to

go to the ER!!!! SO, I do and this time they see something in the

blood work they don't like so they admit me. Not sure what they saw

but correct me if I am wrong here but isn't it true that some of

these blood tests for heart and pancreas can be the same.

Anyways, on Thursday they tried to do n ultrasound for a stress

test but my veins were too bad so on Friday they did a nuclear

stress test and it was negative for heart problems so they sent me

home. However my triglycerides were super high like 549.

So I get home around 8pm Friday and then around 2am Saturday, I get

up to go to the bathroom and I am having chest pain and nausea and

dizziness so I call my primary care doctor and the on call for him ,

which is also the PA , I see everytime I go there tells me to go back

to the ER. Okay so I go back and here is where it gets interesting

because some of the blood tests were abnormal. And from what I

looked up on the wed it says could be a heart attack, pancreatitis.

Oh, and along with that even though I tell them I don't use drugs

they do a drug screen. I am assuming they see all the bruises and

needle marks from my stay in the hospital which I was honest about

and they jump to conclusions. Anyways here are the abnormal ones:

Lipase -244(norm is 0-243

LDH- forgot the exact number and hubby has it because he was talking

to a GI doctor who goes to our church.

WBC- was high

RBCS from urinalysis -12 ( normal is 0.0 to 2.0.

I forgot some of the others but I do know they probably should have

admiitted me instead of sending me home. Oh, then he tells me to

take advil even though I am allergic to Ibuprofen sso I got the

generic form of alieve instead. Now at this point I thought it would

be over with. But Saturday afternoon around 2:30 I am having really

bad chest pain, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and dizziness so I

call the on call again and he says go back to the ER and tell them I

said you should be admitted. So I go back by ambulance cuz this was

the only way I could get there this time and I tell the doctor there

what my PCP said and he instead implies I am a nut case, that I love

hospitals and that I must have put my finger down my throat and made

myself vomit.

Now, they prescibed Ultram which would be fine but I have to be very

careful with it cuz it says if you have a severe allergic to codeine

do not take. Well, I am allergic to codeine but it has never been

severe so I figure I am safe and it has been okay so far. So they

dischare me with the instructions to come back if it persists or gets

worse and I am thinking to myself why you would probably admit me to

the psych ward.

So that is my story and if anyone has any suggestions I would

appreciate it.

I also have GERD and a hiatal hernia and I am going to try and see

either my surgeon or my PCP.

Margie