Contradictory Symptoms

Mid-Forties male, 30lb overweight.  Moderate hypertension (140/90 daily).  Asthma, Sleep apnea.  Family HX of Heart disease, stroke, etc...  Smokeless tobacco user.  Mild to moderate  ETOH.

RX:  HCTZ 25 MG QD.  Prior to event, also took Coreg CR 10 MG PO QD for two days as well as BP had still not decreased.

While at work, I was experiencing a headache for approximately one hour prior to a medical event.  Additionally, my ears became visibly flush and felt very hot.  My colleagues, listening to me provide information on a client of ours, were also commenting that I wasn't "making sense".  Although I was using correct vocabulary and not speaking in a "word salad", apparently the context and chronology of the report were mixed with that of another client. Soon after, I felt the sensation of the onset of syncope yet I never lost consciousness.  I became naseaus, very dizzy and felt an incredible weight on my chest.  After feeling the weight, a sensation of heat began in the center of mt chest and radiated out to all limbs.  A co-worker, at the onset of the event, said I turned "grey". I was also sweating profusely and completely saturated my clothes. At the same time, I had the overwhelming sensation to purge my bowels but was able - some how - to save myself that embarassment.  Being I worked in a psychiatric facility, the medical staff tried taking my vitals.  They couldn't locate my BP, my pulse was over 120 and my O2 was 80%.

I was trnasported to the Hospital via Ambulance.  While in the ambulance, after receiving O2, my thoughts cleared and my vitals came back to WNL's.  

At the ED, I was placed on an EKG and also had a CT scan.  Being that I have 1.) Ferrous metal in my chest and am 2.) Allergic to contrast, an MRI or contrast study could not be done.

I was admitted for three days and had Nuclear stress test, various sonagrams (heart, corotid, etc...).  They also monitored enzymes.

No evidence of cardiac arrest, disease.  No post event issues suggesting a stroke.  I was finally D/C'ed and was told perhaps my RX was the cause.

After D/C, I have had a persistent, low grade headache (daily) in the upper/top region of my head.  I am fatigued.  I also experience (after physical exertion) a sensation in my chest that is similar to the very onset of syncope (Lowering of BP?) yet never actually get dizzy of faint.

My GP is mystified.

Any ideas?