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So while I did meet the reflex criteria for serotonin syndrome, I have absolutely no Idea what's wrong at this point.
I was fine yesterday aside from nausea, vomiting, and Dissociation, but I woke up this morning to the WORST pressure headache I've ever felt. Ears ringing and fuzzy double vision, too.
I got up to see a a shower would help, and found that walking and going back and forth between deep breathing and hyperventilating helped. So I did that for about half an hour before my chest got tight and it felt like I couldn't get enough oxygen.
I called an ambulance and one EMT was very nice, the other was somewhat rude.
I went to the very last hospital that I'd never been to and they weren't any more help than the one I went ro two days ago.
The doctor insisted that it was anxiety and I told him that if I stopped hyperventilating, it made things worse. He didn't believe me, so I slowed down my breathing. I ended up with full-body tremors and going into a seizure, which he then started pounding HARD on my chest! He said that because I responded to stimuli, that it wasn't a real seizure. Um, no, it would be considered a focal onset impaired awareness seizure. And him pounding on my chest didn't bring me put of it like he claimed, either. It just made me scream and curl up and try to push him away and the seizure went on for about another 15-20 seconds. Also, apparently the spasming and twitching I was doing in the ambulance could possibly have been a focal aware seizure. He claims that since he was able to influence my behavior, that they weren't real seizures and instead were pseudo-seizures triggered by emotional disastress. I've had those before. They're not fun, but they were nothing like what I experienced today and two days ago.
I also had severe chest tightness. But according to him, there's no reason to think it could be brain related, despite me meeting the Cushing's Triad criteria. The doctor claimed that I didn't because my blood pressure was 157/76. Yeah, my normal resting is 90s/50-60s Even mid panic attack, my blood pressure doesn't go over 120.
He gave me ativan and sent me home, however he absolutely shouldn't have. I was visibly mentally impaired. I wasn't really aware of what was going on, had EXTREMELY shallow breathing, and couldn't stay conscious.
I had to take 3 of my Adderall to boost my heartrate and respiratory rate up enough to be safe for me to be sleeping.
Though I still might end up dying soon. Not positive, since the doctors are refusing to run the needed tests, but I'm pretty sure that I have kidney and liver failure, or at least something severely wrong with them. Same with my heart. I've been having palpations and what feels to me like arrhythmia for about 2 months now and have gone in to no avail. Then within this past week and a half, my urine has been amber and smells sickly sweet. Then the past 5 days I have had NO interest in food. And the past 3 days I have had a slight yellow tint to my skin.