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I've had something similar other than the heart rate stuff, and like top comment says it was acid reflux. But if an irregular heart rhythm persists more than you have felt before, then absolutely go!
Kind of sounds like a magnesium deficiency. My buddy had that exact same thing happen to him. Got really weak too.
Get it looked at soon, for sure!
Do you have any chest, arm or back pain? Do you have a pulse oximeter?
Can you go to a minor ER? If you hadn't said your heartbeat was off, I would say not necessarily a big concern at this point, but this also sounds similar to what happened to a friend of mine with an aortic dissection.
She thought it was food poisoning at first, finally went to a minor med, they refused to treat her bc her and sent her to the ER ASAP. She ended up in the hospital for several weeks.
> Makes thread asking if you should go to the ER
> Literally everyone says to go to the ER
> Doesn't go to the ER
ok
Typical
he did say hes from the us.
'Murica
The only valid reason. lol
Lemmy has made it. It’s Reddit from 10 years ago
Frame 1: “Hey USA, how’s it going?”
Frame 3: this post
Frame 4: “Jesus Christ…”
Alright. Way too many socialists in this post who don't know how 'Murica works, god dammit. Here's real advice:
You woke up, so you aren't dead yet. In most cases, that's a good sign. Give it 30 minutes. If you feel better, great! This is where I preposterously tell you to follow up with your family doctor and we both have a good chuckle.
(Edit to explain: we have no idea who our family doctor is and we haven't been there in so long we would be considered a new patient.)
If you don't feel better, might well give it another hour. Most of the damage from a heart attack or stroke is done in the first 30 minutes, so you're probably not going to get any worse.
If you're still not dead after that, you're probably clear to make it through the weekend.
Next question is do you have sick leave? If not, congratulations, you're fine! If you do have sick leave, go ahead and make an appointment first thing Monday. They won't do anything, just send you for labs, maybe or just leave that part to the specialist they will refer you to.
So now it's 6 weeks later and the specialist is calling to confirm the appointment you're forgotten about. Do you feel better or are you out of sick leave? Congratulations, you're fine.
Next, is your deductible over 10% of your annual income? (5% if it's after Nov.15. You're gonna wind up paying that whole thing for diagnostic tests this year and the actual treatment will hit you after Jan 1 and you're double fucked.) If it is, congratulations, you're fine!
If you reach this point, you probably are in need of medical attention and can afford it. Congratulations on getting the help you need.
Bask in the superiority of the best healthcare in the world, you European nancies!
Obviously the tone is meant to be humorous, but this is basically the reality. The only thing I've omitted is that you can just go to the hospital and get the treatment you need and then avoid answering unknown numbers for 7 years. I have yet to see anyone sued over medical debt.
Its actually funny (in a fucked up way, that is), because for appointments, you have to pre-pay, so if you are already bankrupt, you might as well just go to the ER where you do not have to pre-pay.
I suppose this person needs some advice from someone who actually lives in that hellhole and can judge if its not better to just die instead of fucking up the inheritance by going to the ER.
This is the best anticapitalist propaganda I have ever seen and its not even intentional.
To everyone who thinks this is a worthy system: i wont piss on you if you're on fire.
What the heck, how is this a question at all? Dude you need to get help asap!
I live in the US
We have to weigh the cost of a medical visit versus the likelihood it's nothing
If it's food poisoning and I overreact, that's a 20K overreaction in the US
As someone who lives in the US, you literally didnt need anything but the first sentance.
Welcome to America. Where medical advice is asked to a bunch of weebs on the internet over going to the fucking hospital when you feel ill because of money concerns... I hate it here.
USA, USA, USA!
Genuinely don't know and don't like 911 since police are involved.
911 dispatcher in the US here
This will vary a lot from one jurisdiction to another, I can really only speak to county I work in
But while in theory every EMS call also gets a police response, probably more than half of them the only action the police take is to tell us "not responding unless requested"
And if they do respond, a lot of time they don't do much besides sit at the end of the driveway with their lights flashing so the ambulance can find the house easier.
Things like overdoses, assaults, shootings/stabbings, psych emergencies, cardiac arrests, etc. they do of course show up to because they may actually need to do something.
And if you live in a bigger city or rougher part of the suburbs, sometimes they may even take their sweet-ass time getting to those.
And if you live in a rural area, there's a decent chance you're covered by some part time or regional police department, or state police/county sheriffs who are stretched way too thin covering a huge area with maybe 2 or 3 officers on duty at any one time, they're probably not gonna show up in a hurry if at all either.
Like I said, it varies a lot, some towns in my county I can count on police being there before the ambulance (whether or not they actually do anything once they're there in a different story) and in others the cops don't give half a fuck unless someone is actively dying.
If you do find yourself calling 911 though, for the love of God, don't tell them you don't want police on your medical call, I swear that might be the most surefire way to make sure they do actually show up in a hurry. If that ends up in the notes of the call it makes the cops think you're hiding something or I don't know, planning to jump the EMS squad or something, some cops can be pretty panicky, paranoid weirdos like that, or sometimes just spiteful.
some cops can be pretty panicky, paranoid weirdos like that, or sometimes just spiteful.
And this is why we never want the police involved.
Seek medical attention now!
Your life is worth much more than the price for emergency care <3
Seek medical attention now!
Go to ER.
In the US, they are required to provide care for actute condition (meaning chronic, aka: along term conditions like cancer or diabeted can be legally ignored), so if you are about to die, they are required by law to stop you from dying.
Worry about the debt later. Or just ignore any invoices/bills... they can't seize anything if you have no assets, debt is gone in 7 years.
Edit: If they ask for your social, say you forgot. Don't provide anything other than basic name, birthday, gender, that sort of stuff.
Medical debt in the US is an unsecured debt. You won't be thrown in jail or any impact on credit if it takes you forever to pay it off. Go to the emergency room and ask for a payment plan when the bills due. Then, do what you wish with the first sentence I wrote.
RIP I guess. Hopefully you don't reincarnate into a poor girl in a third world country.
Consider going to a walk in clinic. If it's nothing serious, you pay 100-200 and you're on your way. If you go to the ER and it's nothing serious, your insurance may deduct you hundreds more (my ER copay is $500 and I have great insurance).
If it is serious, the walk in will tell you to go to the ER. In that case, the insurance may waive the ER copay. While it is true they can't deny you care, this system of expensive ER copay was presumably put in place to stop people using the ER to provide free care. Check your insurance policy (preferably before you get sick). I believe some places also have free clinics, but I would expect them to be pretty crowded.
Good luck OP. This sounds serious and you need to take care of your health. Try to find a way you can at least get some real qualified medical advice, even if you seemingly recovered this time.