Posted by Essie at 3:41pm Mar 5 '10Go to a doctor. You need a 12 lead ECG, troponin and CK-MB drawn. You need to be on a heart monitor (telemetry) too. Each time you're feeling that pain, your myocardium (heart muscle) is being deprived of blood flow. Your coronary arteries are not adequately perfusing blood to the heart muscle. That means the muscle is dying.
You need an intervention NOW. That intervention might just be medications, or it might mean a stent. This isn't something you can fix on your own or wait it out. Your pulse being "squishy" may indicate that you've got damaged heart muscle near the papillary muscles that hold the valves of your heart closed and prevent regurgitation. You need to be on telemetry to monitor your ekg and determine that you aren't going to lapse into a fatal dysrhythmia.
I might sound like I'm overreacting, but this is one area of healthcare you don't fuck with. It pays to be overreactive here, because it can be the difference between life and death. It may very well be nothing, but if anyone around me were presenting like you are, I'd have their ass in an ambulance.
Also, the fact that you're diabetic and feeling the symptoms worries me. Lots of diabetics don't feel the symptoms of a heart attack. May mean nothing, but it may mean that you're having significant damage.
Doctor. Today. Emergency room if necessary.
You need an intervention NOW. That intervention might just be medications, or it might mean a stent. This isn't something you can fix on your own or wait it out. Your pulse being "squishy" may indicate that you've got damaged heart muscle near the papillary muscles that hold the valves of your heart closed and prevent regurgitation. You need to be on telemetry to monitor your ekg and determine that you aren't going to lapse into a fatal dysrhythmia.
I might sound like I'm overreacting, but this is one area of healthcare you don't fuck with. It pays to be overreactive here, because it can be the difference between life and death. It may very well be nothing, but if anyone around me were presenting like you are, I'd have their ass in an ambulance.
Also, the fact that you're diabetic and feeling the symptoms worries me. Lots of diabetics don't feel the symptoms of a heart attack. May mean nothing, but it may mean that you're having significant damage.
Doctor. Today. Emergency room if necessary.
Jesus Christ - Essie