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Posted 14 Mar 2015 at 17:05

Geez Steve,
You are certainly going through it mate, I feel for you.
Here's hoping that the pains are nowt too serious and you will be back home in the blink of an eye.

As always, I'm thinking of you,

Kevin

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Posted 14 Mar 2015 at 17:08

Steve

I sent you a PM the other day which made it before your inbox was full I think. I was worried that a recent new poster may have upset you.

While you are in the hospital seek their help and advice. You need everyone batting for you just now.

User

Posted 14 Mar 2015 at 17:58

Thinking of you Steve, you can come through this

Arthur

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Posted 14 Mar 2015 at 19:08

Steve, everyone wants you back to the way you were, we are all rooting for you, contact any if us if we can help. Kev

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Posted 14 Mar 2015 at 19:23

Just posting to send regards and love.

As others have posted, sometimes it is a good idea to really open up, there are lots of caring supportive people out there and there must be sources of help and advice for you. With regard to you saying you felt there was less energy in the family for you, I remember feeling so very negative about my partner many times. I loved him to bits it's just that I was so tired ! It's easy to see everything negatively if you are in a difficult place, your emotions are bound to be skewed by what is happening to you. Remember, so many on the forum are with you in spirit and care greatly about your situation !

Fiona. x

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Posted 14 Mar 2015 at 19:25

Rooting for you Steve, get better and get some help my friend xxxx

User

Posted 14 Mar 2015 at 20:03

Hi Steve,

You are in the best place to get help. Make sure you tell them everything that is going on.

atb

dave

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Posted 14 Mar 2015 at 20:15

Hi,

Thanks for the messages.

Admitted into the Acute Care Ward now. Seems everyone has decided to get ill on the same day.

Started to get really bad chest pains just after 11am which didn't go away. Ambulance took me into a very crowded A&E to carry out the usual tests. They couldn't decide if it was another heart attack but are treating it as if it is. The Cardiac Care Unit beds are full so having to spend the night in the Acute Ward instead. They won't get the important test results back until tomorrow when I'll either be kicked out or transferred to the Cardiac Unit, if there's space.

I hope they can sort things out. I just feel a little fed up of things not getting better.

Steve

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Posted 14 Mar 2015 at 21:55

Phew - relieved to hear it might 'only' be a heart attack!!! From the wording of your last post, I thought you had harmed yourself. Your poor wife will have gone home to a message from me on the answering machine!

Previous advice still stands - if you don't know how to explain how you are feeling, show someone medically trained your last few posts on here.

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

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Posted 14 Mar 2015 at 22:34

Hi Lyn,

Really sorry if it came out that way. A lot was going on around me at the time. I was lucky to post anything. I'll will try to be more careful next time.

When I saw how much worry it created, I reread my message and realised how it might have sounded. Tried to post a bit more info as soon as I could but it was a bit difficult.

Don't worry, I'm sure.things will be sorted.

Steve x

User

Posted 14 Mar 2015 at 22:52

Hi Steve really hope you get some good news from your tests all the best Andy

User

Posted 15 Mar 2015 at 00:24

Nothing to apologise for Steve ..... and look how good we all are at caring about each other! Ah, some day we will all look back at this and laugh :-E

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

User

Posted 15 Mar 2015 at 07:46

Morning Steve,
Hope you had peaceful night with not too many disturbances. Thinking of you today, and hope your results are ok and you get to go home. Hopefully you have found someone good to explain how you have been feeling lately, so that you can get some support and reassurance.
Go steady and take things easy,
Miss x

User

Posted 15 Mar 2015 at 09:14

Hi Steve,

It's ok to have people worry about you, honest !!

Fiona. x

User

Posted 15 Mar 2015 at 09:26

Steve.

Thinking of you , I know it is easier to say than do, but stay positive.

Thanks Chris

User

Posted 15 Mar 2015 at 09:30

Hi ,

Woke up at about 4am. By 5am I had chest pains again. Had another ECG which was fairly normal. In November my ECG was also fairly normal in spite of the heart attack.

Was given medications which reduced the pains. By 7am the pain returned again. Yet another ECG which again looked fairly normal. More medications including a needle in the stomach. That worked in greatly reducing the pain. It's now gone.

I'm really not sure what's going to happen. If it's not my heart, I want to know what it is. They should have the results of my troponin test this morning. The normal level is less than 14. In November my level was 1018 which is when they decided I just possibly might have had a heart attack (I think I could worked that out).

Anyway, should know more by lunchtime.

Steve

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User

Posted 15 Mar 2015 at 09:46

Hi Fiona,

I think I've worried enough for everyone.

Steve x

User

Posted 15 Mar 2015 at 10:37

Steve

how strange that your ECGs are normal have the doctors got a theory on why that might be? Have you had a recording monitor fitted that you wear for 24 - 48 hours the data from it is then downloaded and analysed it is much more accuarate than the snapshot of an ECG.

Just a thought

It is impossible for you not to worry but please do seek some help from the staff at the hospital, ask if you can have a chat with a Macmillan nurse while you are there Most hospitals have them in residence and you may get some more specific help that way.

Bri if you are reading your PM box is full so I cannot reply to your message

User

Posted 15 Mar 2015 at 11:26

Hi Mo,

It is strange about the ECGs. I mentioned my 24hr monitor several times since being here that I'm supposed to be getting one but no progress it that direction yet. I think it would answer a lot of questions.

I just need someone to find a reason for what's happening to my heart even if it's not a heart attack (which I hope it isn't). The way I felt yesterday morning (and this morning) I can't cope with that happening too often because I wasn't capable of doing anything and the pain was pretty bad. I couldn't stand without support, I still can't, I've not been able to leave my hospital bed without a nurse holding my arm.

In terms of my full inbox problems, I tried moving my messages into the archive, thinking it would clear things, but it didn't. I didn't want to delete my messages but is that the only way?

Anyway, I'll update when I know more.

Steve x

User

Posted 15 Mar 2015 at 12:48

Steve, if it eased with an injection, is it perhaps angina? Hope so as I have friends who find life perfectly manageable once they have the little lozenges you put under your tongue at the first sign of an attack.

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

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