Some sort of instant paleness and other stuff I don't know the words to describe.

[Ghost_Wheel22]

The same reason I don't run Type 1 fires when I'm only an IC4?

[Shazaam]

Glad to see this time i'm not being trolled for finding him insanely stupid. Why would someone EVER join a profession in the medical field if they're not willing to put up with people in uncertainty of what's going on with their bodies.

Yea some people have hypochondria, that doesn't mean we all do.

I am perfectly willing to put up with uncertainty. The problem is: you already called 911: the medics said you were fine but took you to an ER to be doubly sure. Then the ER physician and staff said you were fine to be doubly sure. This is NOT uncertainty, you have already been evaluated multiple times, IN PERSON, by many medical professionals.


Yet you are pushing the issue as if modern medicine has not already given you an answer. They already did. Your symptoms alleviate when you take deep breaths.

So take a deep breath. Most likely that numbness came from you sitting still and remaining mostly inactive for a long period of time.

I am not a doctor. I am a medic/RN.

If you already went to a doctor, and already called 911 and were fully examined... then why are you asking for more advice? That's what makes me want to switch professions at times... the people who can't accept that they have already been treated, and come back 5 minutes later expecting a different answer. Or those who simply doubt that there is any validity to the information they have already been given, and choose to go to a random internet thread as opposed to trusting the REAL LIFE professionals who treated them. I couldn't give you any better advice than you were already given over a thread, and nobody else in the world could either. It's the WebMD phenomenon, and although it is leading to better informed patients (a very good thing), it is typical of the information age in which misinformation runs rampant.

If you wanted you could get a Primary care doctor to aid you. And don't tell me it's because you don't have health insurance, there are plenty of programs that will help you without insurance. In my area its called PCAN (primary care access network).

I think i've proven my ignorance many times in the past. If you can't get over it now, you might have a problem.

You prove it once again here. It doesn't mean I have a problem either.

[Nephlite]

I worked in an ER for a bit and I gotta tell you, a hospital doctor doesn't diagnose shit. Oh they check to see if you're dying or what could be causing you to die but anything complicated or won't kill you quickly, you'll never find out from those assholes.

Sounds like to me an early onset of diabetes. Low blood sugar can cause episodes like that (happens to me but i'm not quite a diabetic yet). Go see a physician and get a full check-up with blood work and cultures. Don't rely on a hospital visit to diagnose your problem.

[Shazaam]

Wow, you're a pretty shit medical professional, if you ARE actually a doctor of any sort. Where do you practice? I need to know so I don't ever wind up near you.

Seems like you know nothing about the profession. I never said I was a doctor, I stated my licenses many times previously.

When someone willfully says they are ignorant, followed by a statement of ignorance, then decide that they should question their medical professionals without a follow up to a primary care doctor...... YES it makes me question why I got into this. Why bust my ass to help people who have ALREADY been helped, require no further help, yet still ask for help?

If you changed tires for a living, and changed the same man's tire every day for a month, and the guy kept driving over a nail in his driveway... wouldn't you kinda question why you wanted to change tires for a living? THIS SHIT HAPPENS.

It's not all unicorns shitting rainbows in the medical field. But every now and then I get to see the miraculous, and that is priceless.

[Shazaam]

never encountered a doctor who has properly diagnosed me with anything without the waste of your money trial and error bullshit.

haven't been to the doctor in 6 years.

Yep. Absolutely true. That is how it works.

It's like people expect to go to a mechanic and have them tell them what is wrong with their car by looking at it. You need to run tests. Then you run more tests.

Hell, it's like creating a new dish in a restaurant... you have a general idea of where you are heading, but until you continuously test the spicing you don't really know the end result.

That is simply how medicine works. It's not magic, it's science.

Science is trial and error.

When your have completed your trial/error and everything is normal, then everything is normal.

[Shazaam]

One thing every ER checks nowadays is the possibility of any blood glucose abnormalities. It is part of a basic CMP.

Again, like I said, if you have further qualms about your treatment in an ER, go to a PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN. That's what they are for. It is NOT what 911 or an ER is for. Again, there should be a network of people who don't care about your insurance in your area. Look it up.

[Talus]

Thanks to EMTALA, ERs are becoming more and more alternate primary care for people who do not have a PCP. I volunteer in an ER, and have seen a bunch of definitely non-emergent patients. It's pretty funny when they come in at 3 a.m. on a Sunday morning/night needing a doctor's note to get out of work that morning. Or the homeless looking person who complains of vague, nonspecific pain and really just wants a sandwich and a bed to sleep in.

I haven't crossed EM off the list of specialties I'm interested in, that stuff doesn't bother me. OB/GYN on the other hand... hahah... no way in hell. Malpractice premiums are too high, etc etc etc

[Melena]

Thanks to EMTALA, ERs are becoming more and more alternate primary care for people who do not have a PCP. I volunteer in an ER, and have seen a bunch of definitely non-emergent patients. It's pretty funny when they come in at 3 a.m. on a Sunday morning/night needing a doctor's note to get out of work that morning. Or the homeless looking person who complains of vague, nonspecific pain and really just wants a sandwich and a bed to sleep in.

I haven't crossed EM off the list of specialties I'm interested in, that stuff doesn't bother me. OB/GYN on the other hand... hahah... no way in hell. Malpractice premiums are too high, etc etc etc

This is the reason why I hate people. In February I was dealing with some bad pain in my stomach area. After a few days I went to my doctor and after some tests, my appendix was ever so slightly enlarged. I was told I can wait it out a few days but it will have to come out. 8 hours later, I have my dad take me to the ER. I got there at about 1am. 8 Hours later I am finally admitted to a room, and 4 hours after that I'm in surgery. They still have no idea how it never ruptured, but due to all the dumb shits who go to the ER for the flu, took me forever to be seen cause I wasn't dying -_-

[Mojo]

stuff

I see this attitude carried a lot and to be honest, you're putting way too much faith in the cursory examinations of a couple of paramedics and who knows who in the hospital. It took me about 3 or 4 trips to various doctors and specialists to finally have my GERD properly diagnosed (before that they were telling me that there was nothing wrong with me even after having barium tests run and the like) and treated. You've made it clear that it's best guess with doctors. They're not always going to get it right or even identify a potential problem the first time around, especially if it's something odd or uncommon. A 911 call and subsequent trip to the hospital is far from modern medicine being conclusive.

OP: Don't worry about it unless it happens again. It sounds like you're out of shape to me, tbh.

[SubzeroDiabolos]

Shazaam you're a tool if you think they diagnosed me anything. I told em I "thought" it could be something related to the heart since my familly run heart disease. They checked that, nothing else.

The rest is what they think it was. If you re-read my question at the bottom of OP and I will quote:

They told me it was "probably" too much Carbon monoxide in my blood, but how the fuck did that trigger..?

I'm not asking if i'm gonna die, i'm not asking should I see a doctor or am I okay. Don't try to cover up your douchebaggery over me.



Mojo: Yeah nothing happened since when I posted that. Not exactly worried, more curious. I'm not top shape, I admit, but that's only due to my poor eating habbits. I walk and stay active about 8 hours a day every day of the week since I don't work sitting on a chair.

[Shazaam]

They still have no idea how it never ruptured, but due to all the dumb shits who go to the ER for the flu, took me forever to be seen cause I wasn't dying -_-

This is why I hate you subzerodiabolos.

This fucking right here.

You suck up a system that you have NO fucking place being in.

Call me a 'tool' all you want. You are the bane of EMS and emergency medicine.

I'm not asking if i'm gonna die, i'm not asking should I see a doctor or am I okay. Don't try to cover up your douchebaggery over me.

THEN WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU ASKING?

[Shazaam]

This is the reason why I hate people. In February I was dealing with some bad pain in my stomach area. After a few days I went to my doctor and after some tests, my appendix was ever so slightly enlarged. I was told I can wait it out a few days but it will have to come out. 8 hours later, I have my dad take me to the ER. I got there at about 1am. 8 Hours later I am finally admitted to a room, and 4 hours after that I'm in surgery. They still have no idea how it never ruptured, but due to all the dumb shits who go to the ER for the flu, took me forever to be seen cause I wasn't dying -_-

I feel you man. It doesn't matter how fast that shit is diagnosed, it takes FOREVER to get a room on a floor for our patients that really need it. At least in the meanwhile you were probably waiting around with IV access in a hospital. I apologize to you personally for how fucked up our current emergency medicine programs operate. But we HAVE to deal with every guy who wants a sammich as well.... Your nurses and doctors probably were acutely aware of your illness and were probably fighting to get you into a room and surgery as soon as possible. The sad fact is, we really do have people come in who are dying at that very moment where you are still stable, and they require that bed or surgeon before you do. It sucks, but that's how it is.

[Shazaam]

I see this attitude carried a lot and to be honest, you're putting way too much faith in the cursory examinations of a couple of paramedics and who knows who in the hospital. It took me about 3 or 4 trips to various doctors and specialists to finally have my GERD properly diagnosed (before that they were telling me that there was nothing wrong with me even after having barium tests run and the like) and treated. You've made it clear that it's best guess with doctors. They're not always going to get it right or even identify a potential problem the first time around, especially if it's something odd or uncommon. A 911 call and subsequent trip to the hospital is far from modern medicine being conclusive.

OP: Don't worry about it unless it happens again. It sounds like you're out of shape to me, tbh.

You are right about the OP.

Did you call 911 for the GERD? I didn't think so.

And shit, GERD is like fibromyalgia... it's just a diagnosis that is made up so you feel like you have a legitimate disease. The cure for your disease is to eat some Tums because you get stomach acid coming back up. (I have GERD as well... when that shit happens while I am sleeeping it is scary as hell... it's like I am dying and can't breathe)... honestly though, there isn't a disease here so much as simply poor life choices. I drink, I used to smoke, and I eat food that I KNOW is terrible for me. That is the disease, not GERD. It's not a disease, it's the consequence of a lifestyle. I have it too, and shit, if I didn't eat right before bed, I wouldn't need that prilosec...

[Mojo]

I've had GERD since I was 13. Must have been all the heavy smoking, drinking, and poor eating habbits.

[SubzeroDiabolos]

This is why I hate you subzerodiabolos.

This fucking right here.

You suck up a system that you have NO fucking place being in.

Call me a 'tool' all you want. You are the bane of EMS and emergency medicine.



THEN WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU ASKING?

LOL. You hate me? Fuck man... I was hoping to be your friend after this argument.

1- I'm not in the USA. Our health care isn't clogged in the small town I live in. Outside of the analyzis of my blood wich took a couple of hours. I actually had a doctor for a whole 10 mins max, and I wasn't in a room, I was in the waiting hall.
2- I had all the place I wanted
3- I will call you a tool all I want, tool.
4- I even QUOTED my question, if you still can't see it.... and you're a doctor... How the fuck did you get there? Actually I guess it doesn't matter if you can't read, all you have to do is scramble stuff on prescription papers that nobody can read.