Facepunch Medical Thread V1 (I don't need a doctor it's not that bad)
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[QUOTE=Drsalvador;35146536]Remember that elevated heartrate/sternumpain/tightness of the chest i got a few months back?
It's back.
It's not worse or better now just worrying, I'm gonna speak to my mother about going to the doctor when she gets home but until then, any advice/suggestions, FP?[/QUOTE]
Do you know your current Blood Pressure?
[editline]15th March 2012[/editline]
tachycardia coupled with either low or high BP can be two completely different issues.
[QUOTE=DrJenkins;35146456]There's fur on my Dick do I use scissors and cut it off coos its mouldy?[/QUOTE]
Cut the whole thing off
I have been getting headaches a lot recently, I think its mass effect 3 causing them, they started when I started to play it 3 days ago. I never got headaches from any game before, so I'm just linking the two since that's the only thing that has changed in the past 2 weeks.
[QUOTE=Intoxicated Spy;35151083]I have been getting headaches a lot recently, I think its mass effect 3 causing them, they started when I started to play it 3 days ago. I never got headaches from any game before, so I'm just linking the two since that's the only thing that has changed in the past 2 weeks.[/QUOTE]
Are you drinking upwards of 2 gallons of water/liquid a day? Because if not could be dehydration causing it.
[QUOTE=Governor Goblin;35148301]Do you know your current Blood Pressure?
[editline]15th March 2012[/editline]
tachycardia coupled with either low or high BP can be two completely different issues.[/QUOTE]
tachycardia and averaging 150/100, woooo!
My right shoulder has been aching for the past 2 days, I've tried stretching and massaging it but it's not helping.
[editline]15th March 2012[/editline]
Somebody help me, I'm in great discomfort :(
[QUOTE=Da_Maniac_;35151591]My right shoulder has been aching for the past 2 days, I've tried stretching and massaging it but it's not helping.
[editline]15th March 2012[/editline]
Somebody help me, I'm in great discomfort :([/QUOTE]
What kind of pain is it? Have you been using it more than usual, or awkwardly in the last few days?
[QUOTE=Da_Maniac_;35151591]My right shoulder has been aching for the past 2 days, I've tried stretching and massaging it but it's not helping.
[editline]15th March 2012[/editline]
Somebody help me, I'm in great discomfort :([/QUOTE]
cut it off (it's the universal solution)
j/k
[QUOTE=Da_Maniac_;35151591]My right shoulder has been aching for the past 2 days, I've tried stretching and massaging it but it's not helping.
[editline]15th March 2012[/editline]
Somebody help me, I'm in great discomfort :([/QUOTE]
To much fapping. Use your left arm from now on.
[QUOTE=Dysgalt;35152149]To much fapping. Use your left arm from now on.[/QUOTE]
Fapping gave me a numb dick.
[QUOTE=MisterSjeiks;35152776]Fapping gave me a numb dick.[/QUOTE]
Which should fall off very soon
[QUOTE=Autumn;35151586]tachycardia and averaging 150/100, woooo![/QUOTE]
Better than tachycardia with a-fib, and 220/180, got to see that the first time i actually took a BP on someone that was actually "sick"
I was like "holy balls".
or better than someone i heard who had 60/40, but they were pretty much coding, got to clean the bi-pap they used on the guy an hour later. Speaking of BP, i really need to get a job that puts me in the position where i can take vitals, as i need to practice doing them.
[QUOTE=ScoutKing;35157457]Better than tachycardia with a-fib, and 220/180, got to see that the first time i actually took a BP on someone that was actually "sick"
I was like "holy balls".
or better than someone i heard who had 60/40, but they were pretty much coding, got to clean the bi-pap they used on the guy an hour later. Speaking of BP, i really need to get a job that puts me in the position where i can take vitals, as i need to practice doing them.[/QUOTE]
Vitals are easy especially if you're working in a 21st century hospital with Welch Allyns. You shouldn't need THAT much practice :P
[QUOTE=InvaderNouga;35157685]Vitals are easy especially if you're working in a 21st century hospital with Welch Allyns. You shouldn't need THAT much practice :P[/QUOTE]
To be able to do them as accurate as possible you need to do them more then a few times in a class room and more than a few times in the back of a cramped ambulance. + Just a job doing something be nice. Too bad I am like one year shy of being able to be certified in anything.
By practice, i need to be confident that my readings are accurate 100% of the time.
[QUOTE=Dysgalt;35151279]Are you drinking upwards of 2 gallons of water/liquid a day? Because if not could be dehydration causing it.[/QUOTE]
My room was filled with water cups and bottles since I was too lazy to empty the garbage. I am getting a bad headache right now, that damn ending pissed me off, so its making it worse, at least I won't be playing it anymore.
[QUOTE=Intoxicated Spy;35159057]My room was filled with water cups and bottles since I was too lazy to empty the garbage. I am getting a bad headache right now, that damn ending pissed me off, so its making it worse, at least I won't be playing it anymore.[/QUOTE]
are you playing at the correct resolution and settings for your monitor?
Right leg is constantly stiff and feels like it has a huge knot inside of it, occasionally it's really painful and it gives me a slight limp. It feels like the muscle is always flexed/tense all the time too.
[QUOTE=ScoutKing;35157457]Better than tachycardia with a-fib, and 220/180, got to see that the first time i actually took a BP on someone that was actually "sick"
I was like "holy balls".
or better than someone i heard who had 60/40, but they were pretty much coding, got to clean the bi-pap they used on the guy an hour later. Speaking of BP, i really need to get a job that puts me in the position where i can take vitals, as i need to practice doing them.[/QUOTE]
Take your equipment and practice on a friend, You'll get the hang of it like it's nothing after a while.
[editline]16th March 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=ScoutKing;35157809]To be able to do them as accurate as possible you need to do them more then a few times in a class room and more than a few times in the back of a cramped ambulance. + Just a job doing something be nice. Too bad I am like one year shy of being able to be certified in anything.
By practice, i need to be confident that my readings are accurate 100% of the time.[/QUOTE]
Well, you really shouldn't be doing them in an ambulance, unless it's Rapid Trauma. Base Vitals should go in Primary Assessment A.B.C.
[QUOTE=madman770;35159192]Right leg is constantly stiff and feels like it has a huge knot inside of it, occasionally it's really painful and it gives me a slight limp. It feels like the muscle is always flexed/tense all the time too.[/QUOTE]
Go walk or something, sitting on your ass all day does not help that.
[QUOTE=Dysgalt;35151279]Are you drinking upwards of 2 gallons of water/liquid a day? Because if not could be dehydration causing it.[/QUOTE]
Pretty sure 8 liters is not the minimum amount of water to drink every day...
Body contains 6 litres of blood.
You would be drinking twice the amount of blood that is in your body.
[editline]16th March 2012[/editline]
That's a fuck load of water.
[editline]16th March 2012[/editline]
And that's terrible.
[QUOTE=Governor Goblin;35159285]Take your equipment and practice on a friend, You'll get the hang of it like it's nothing after a while.
[editline]16th March 2012[/editline]
Well, you really shouldn't be doing them in an ambulance, unless it's Rapid Trauma. Base Vitals should go in Primary Assessment A.B.C.[/QUOTE]
1: I dont see the use in practicing on someone who has the same vitals every time, feels like cheating.
2: I knew, i [B]REALLY[/B] shouldn't of been allowed to take vitals on the ambulance, (or in the hospital) but the medic was extremely laid back. When i was doing it I was thinking "how many rules am i breaking by doing this right now?" and the medic ran the vitals right before i had a go to make sure they had the correct vitals, so they didn't go blindly off what i got.
[editline]16th March 2012[/editline]
also 9-13 cups of water a day is recommended, but i drink around 5-8, and i feel fine.
[QUOTE=ScoutKing;35157457]Better than tachycardia with a-fib, and 220/180, got to see that the first time i actually took a BP on someone that was actually "sick"
I was like "holy balls".
or better than someone i heard who had 60/40, but they were pretty much coding, got to clean the bi-pap they used on the guy an hour later. Speaking of BP, i really need to get a job that puts me in the position where i can take vitals, as i need to practice doing them.[/QUOTE]
yes, it is indeed better than someone with a-fib and 220/180. and it's probably why i'm not actually in a hospital right now and actually lead a perfectly normal life!
[QUOTE=Autumn;35164965]yes, it is indeed better than someone with a-fib and 220/180. and it's probably why i'm not actually in a hospital right now and actually lead a perfectly normal life![/QUOTE]
Why do you have a high baseline anyways? I remember you said they didn't know a few pages back, did they ever find out?
they still don't really know, or if they do it hasn't been important enough for them to tell me before i'm due my cardiologist appointment in a month or so.
they did a bunch more tests around christmas, mostly looking at my lungs for clots, but since i've not heard anything i assume they've found nothing. one of the nurses doing my second ECHO said it looked like there might be a bit fused at the top of my heart or something, but *shrug*
at the moment it's just a sinus tachycardia that they don't know what's causing it, and i also have high blood pressure. i don't know if they're related (it would seem to make sense that they were) but they've never spent too much time concentrating on the BP.
so uhh... who knows!!
[QUOTE=ScoutKing;35164350]1: I dont see the use in practicing on someone who has the same vitals every time, feels like cheating.
2: I knew, i [B]REALLY[/B] shouldn't of been allowed to take vitals on the ambulance, (or in the hospital) but the medic was extremely laid back. When i was doing it I was thinking "how many rules am i breaking by doing this right now?" and the medic ran the vitals right before i had a go to make sure they had the correct vitals, so they didn't go blindly off what i got.
[editline]16th March 2012[/editline]
also 9-13 cups of water a day is recommended, but i drink around 5-8, and i feel fine.[/QUOTE]
Well, you gotta do vitals ever so often on the ambulance, but you have to do your base ones before they're in. Again, unless they're load and go.
[editline]16th March 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Autumn;35165088]they still don't really know, or if they do it hasn't been important enough for them to tell me before i'm due my cardiologist appointment in a month or so.
they did a bunch more tests around christmas, mostly looking at my lungs for clots, but since i've not heard anything i assume they've found nothing. one of the nurses doing my second ECHO said it looked like there might be a bit fused at the top of my heart or something, but *shrug*
at the moment it's just a sinus tachycardia that they don't know what's causing it, and i also have high blood pressure. i don't know if they're related (it would seem to make sense that they were) but they've never spent too much time concentrating on the BP.
so uhh... who knows!![/QUOTE]
My god, how are you still alive?
[QUOTE=Governor Goblin;35165256]
My god, how are you still alive?[/QUOTE]
Dude, it's not the end of the world, yeah it is something that you can't ignore, but one of my friends has something exactly similar (tachycardia with high BP), and i've seen a ton of other young people that have wacky vitals, it's not good, but not the end of the world, got to keep on top of it though.
Also if you think your doctor is holding back, or not doing everything to the best of their ability, it doesn't hurt to heckle them about it. Christ it is your body and your life, don't be so passive with your doctors guys. Next appointment get on your doctor's ass about finding out why you have high BP as well, they shouldn't be concentrating on just one symptom.
(i think he was being sarcastic...)
and it's not that i think they're holding back, i just don't think they've found anything or any conclusion that means they can do anything yet. for a while they were considering putting me on beta blockers but then my palpitations decreased a lot by themselves so they didn't, and another option was to put a small heart monitor under my skin to record for several months, but the doctor said with me being so young and the procedure scarring he wouldn't be overly happy to do it.
it's just been carrying on same old for the past few years. if i start passing out or anything like that then i'm sure they'll step up their game
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*so young by comparison, seeing as most of the other patients i've seen in the department have been 60+ with the occasional 40 year old
[QUOTE=Autumn;35165494](i think he was being sarcastic...)
and it's not that i think they're holding back, i just don't think they've found anything or any conclusion that means they can do anything yet. for a while they were considering putting me on beta blockers but then my palpitations decreased a lot by themselves so they didn't, and another option was to put a small heart monitor under my skin to record for several months, but the doctor said with me being so young and the procedure scarring he wouldn't be overly happy to do it.
it's just been carrying on same old for the past few years. if i start passing out or anything like that then i'm sure they'll step up their game
[editline]16th March 2012[/editline]
*so young by comparison, seeing as most of the other patients i've seen in the department have been 60+ with the occasional 40 year old[/QUOTE]
I still wouldn't be so passive about it as you seem to be by your posts.
[QUOTE=Dysgalt;35159646]Go walk or something, sitting on your ass all day does not help that.[/QUOTE]
I do. Usually ill walk around the neighborhood for about an hour or do a 30 min run on medium resistance on my treadmill. (I am a lazy son of a bitch most of the time,would stretching every couple hours/hour help?)
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