I always ask myself, “is this worth driving across town and waiting in a gross lobby for 4 hours?”
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Taxi to ER. No medical office will touch you having complained of, even mild, chest pain and a weird feeling heart. Been there, done that. Walk in the ER talking of chest pain, and say that first!, they will throw you in a room and attach an EKG. Been there, done that.
I don't mean to alarm you, but taken together those symptoms smell like a mild heart attack. By some voodoo I don't understand, the EKG can tell, even if the event is not happening in the moment.
I say no medical office will touch you, but first time my doc sent me to the ER, second time they whipped out a portable EKG. Times change, I may be wrong.
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Do urgent care instead, if that's an option where you are.
Urgent care will just tell you to go to the ER if you come in with something potentially serious like chest pain. They're useless for anything but the most minor issues. They don't even do stitches or blood work.
Go to the ER. As someone with heart problems herself I always say that you only have one heart so I would absolutely get it checked out. At least get an ECG workup done. Nausea and vomiting alongside an irregular heartbeat can be a symptom of atrial fibrillation which would be confirmed with an ECG. I hate to worry people but the symptoms you mentioned can also be a sign of a heart attack and the longer that goes on the more damage this could be doing to your heart. Get to the hospital ASAP!
Can you ask somebody to drive you?
No
I could just get a cab
The point is the ER costs a lot
Sorry that I don't understand the financial situation in your country.
But I think your health situation absolutely needs some professional to have at least a thorough look. Today.
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Sounds like heat illness. Did you sleep too hot?
this could be a number of things, some of which can be fatal. lab tests or imaging for these things are cheap, but only available at hospital and what else do you expect from random internet people than "haul your ass to hospital and ask someone irl that actually knows"
So, are you still alive?
Damn... Sounds like literally you just had heart attack...
Yes. I personally wouldn't call a wee-woo wagon, but it's def not normal.
You okay?
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!