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Title: knowledgeable ER doc Post by kevmd on Mar 3rd, 2008, 5:32pm actually came across one last night. Went in for chest pains I've been having for a week that seemed to get worse. Actually had a 2 minute conversation with him about CH and he knew what he was talking about. Asked if I was using high flow oxygen. I was very impressed. No problems with the ticker....ekg/chest xray were normal. Blood test showed some high lvels of things due to the prednisone but thats it. Still don;t know why I had pain but at least all the years taking verapamil hasn;t done any damage. Need to get a stress test done but I'm not worried. Only got hit once yesterday and once today. Alot less shadows. ALOT more of the clearness in the head that I haven;t felt in a while. Hopefully this means things are settling down. Trying to stay positive. You guys are starting to rub off on me I guess. Wishing everyone well |
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Title: Re: knowledgeable ER doc Post by Guiseppi on Mar 3rd, 2008, 5:39pm Damn, stumbled accros a diamond in the dung heap! Maybe all of our educational attempts are paying off finally! Glad to hear thngs are easing up on you. Guiseppi |
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Title: Re: knowledgeable ER doc Post by Linda_Howell on Mar 3rd, 2008, 5:57pm What a great thing...and this was a Cardiologist who was so knowledgable???? |
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Title: Re: knowledgeable ER doc Post by Jackie on Mar 3rd, 2008, 6:06pm That's encouraging....maybe the word is getting out :) Glad you're doing better too.... Jackie |
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Title: Re: knowledgeable ER doc Post by kevmd on Mar 3rd, 2008, 6:07pm It was the ER doc. I don't think he was the cardiologist. THough I did not think to ask at the time. Refreshing none the less. Giuseppe.....I thought of OUCH immediatley after talking to him. |
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Title: Re: knowledgeable ER doc Post by DennisM1045 on Mar 3rd, 2008, 8:31pm Always good to hear the word is getting out. I'm finding more Drs that at have at least heard of CH. Most still don't know the first thing about how to treat it though. Except my Neuro. He's on top of things... Glad to hear things are easing up Kev. How long have you been on that pred taper now? -Dennis- |
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Title: Re: knowledgeable ER doc Post by kevmd on Mar 3rd, 2008, 8:42pm been on predisone for about a month. I have 2 days left at 10mg each. I didn't know that the predisone raised your sugar. Also had a high white cell count. I think Potasium was high as well. It was 2am and i was very tired. Tried to absorb everything he said but I'm sure I missed something. But I still hope I;m headed in the right direction. I think todays hit had something to do with my sleep schedule getting screwed up. |
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Title: Re: knowledgeable ER doc Post by thebbz on Mar 3rd, 2008, 9:34pm Freakin prednisone raises about everything. Well not everything. :-/ all the best thebb |
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Title: Re: knowledgeable ER doc Post by BarbaraD on Mar 4th, 2008, 8:38am I'm sorry but I've got to tell my predisone story. My late hubby had to go into the ER one night and they gave him a large dose of predisone. Then they admitted him. During the night his blood sugar went up the point he almost went into a coma. The next morning the doc came in and told him he was a diabetic.... He looked at the doc and yelled at him, "Well I damn sure wasn't when I came in here!" :) They gave him all the diets - insulin, the testing kit, etc. turns out it was just the predisone and he actually wasn't a diabetic. He was still bitching about them trying to MAKE him a diabetic up till the day he died. Hugs BD |
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Title: Re: knowledgeable ER doc Post by wanna_swap_brains on Mar 6th, 2008, 5:42am on my first visit to a&e was seen by a german doctor who mentioned ch,he gave me o2 and some injection?that was mid november,on my latest visit to gp she narrowed my condition down to 2 things,ch or tn and told me all the pills she and the other docs had gave me wunt touch it(like i dint know already) i gave her this web address and the ouch uk one,if it helps her help me then maybe im on the right path.she also gave me 1 sumatriptan injector to give it a try.stuart |
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