Hi everyone,
Not sure if this is the correct place to post this thread if not sorry and please move to correct forum.
Monday afternoon I was sitting at the dining room table and started getting stomach pains quickly followed by feeling sick. I went to the bathroom as I thought I was going to vomit. Suddenly I had a pain in the middle of my chest just below the rib cage so I laid down on the bed. The pain then spread across my chest accompanied by pins and needles in both arms. I called my wife, when she came into the room she quickly sat me up and the pain subsided a little. My back and chest was clammy but my hands and feet were white and very cold.
I had a strange feeling in my neck and jaw and was shaking and confused. I kept feeling like I was going to pass out and was very unsteady. The wife phoned the NHS help line and I spoke to adviser. He was very reassuring and then said "stay on the phone the ambulance is on its way". The adviser kept chatting to me until the ambulance arrived.
I was immediately placed on the ECG machine. The paramedic said my ECG was ok but they were taking me to hospital.Once at hospital I was given four more ECG and blood was taken. I did notice after the last ECG they moved me next to the nurses station.
When the blood results came back I was informed they were transferring me to a ward for observation. I was given aspirin,warfarin and injected with heparin before being moved. On the ward I was connected to a heart monitor overnight.
My BP and HR were quite erratic. HR was ranging from 90 to 49. I had two more ECG tests,bloods and another injection of heparin. I heard the nurses talking they said "keep an eye on bed 14 he has crohn's and was admitted with chest pains" .
The hospital discharged me after 22 hours and I now will return as an outpatient for further tests. I was not given a diagnoses but they said it could be angina. But my symptoms don't match correctly for angina. Also I had a exercise treadmill ECG only 36 months ago which showed no heart problems.
Still taking aspirin as prescribed and trying to take things easy but quite tired and chest still feels a little tight. The consultant prescribed Nitrolingual spray which I have to take if I get any pain and if the pain does not subside its 999.
At least my crohns is behaving itself for now anyway.
Not sure if this is the correct place to post this thread if not sorry and please move to correct forum.
Monday afternoon I was sitting at the dining room table and started getting stomach pains quickly followed by feeling sick. I went to the bathroom as I thought I was going to vomit. Suddenly I had a pain in the middle of my chest just below the rib cage so I laid down on the bed. The pain then spread across my chest accompanied by pins and needles in both arms. I called my wife, when she came into the room she quickly sat me up and the pain subsided a little. My back and chest was clammy but my hands and feet were white and very cold.
I had a strange feeling in my neck and jaw and was shaking and confused. I kept feeling like I was going to pass out and was very unsteady. The wife phoned the NHS help line and I spoke to adviser. He was very reassuring and then said "stay on the phone the ambulance is on its way". The adviser kept chatting to me until the ambulance arrived.
I was immediately placed on the ECG machine. The paramedic said my ECG was ok but they were taking me to hospital.Once at hospital I was given four more ECG and blood was taken. I did notice after the last ECG they moved me next to the nurses station.
When the blood results came back I was informed they were transferring me to a ward for observation. I was given aspirin,warfarin and injected with heparin before being moved. On the ward I was connected to a heart monitor overnight.
My BP and HR were quite erratic. HR was ranging from 90 to 49. I had two more ECG tests,bloods and another injection of heparin. I heard the nurses talking they said "keep an eye on bed 14 he has crohn's and was admitted with chest pains" .
The hospital discharged me after 22 hours and I now will return as an outpatient for further tests. I was not given a diagnoses but they said it could be angina. But my symptoms don't match correctly for angina. Also I had a exercise treadmill ECG only 36 months ago which showed no heart problems.
Still taking aspirin as prescribed and trying to take things easy but quite tired and chest still feels a little tight. The consultant prescribed Nitrolingual spray which I have to take if I get any pain and if the pain does not subside its 999.
At least my crohns is behaving itself for now anyway.
