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Does anyone else have the same problem I do?  I ask questions because i have an interest in health matters and always have.  Because I do I have been labelled by some doctors as panic stricken, anxious, etc.

My most recent adventure those in charge marked me down as being calm and I was even though very strange things were going on with my body.  I had the peace that passes understanding, but I'm still curious.  I was SOB and had most of my pain in my midthoracic back.  I also had neurological things going on which left me paralyzed for a couple of hours.  They admitted me from the endoscopy unit to the ER.  One ER doc shouted across the room - Your ekg is different than the one you had before your procedure.  We're calling your cardiologist."  Never heard from him again.  They did medicate me and the pain and SOB eased but meanwhile I had to lifted up to have the X-ray put behind my back as I was unable to move.  I had to have a Foley put in as I felt my bladder would burst.  She asked me to move my leg - what leg?  I couldn't feel it.

They admitted me.  I never saw a doctor until I was to be discharged and I started asking questions and then got labelled anxious, he had to convince me I wasn't having a heart attack - all I did was ask to see the ekg!  As far as I can see my records show no reason for me to have been admitted.  Sorry, I've gotten off track.

Do you get honest information out of your doc?

[darkphoenix]

I know what you mean, i was admitted to the hospital before christmas after telling them that im getting severely short of breath and nauseous when i exercise.  They kept me in a week while they tried to decide if i needed a pacemaker or not.  Eventually they decided that they needed to think about it and sent me home.

I have now recieved the report from their case meeting implying that at my first appointment i told them that i had been fainting and then changed my mind.  I feel like I am being accused of making stuff up.  Or playing my problem down to get out of having something done

They have now decided to close some veins by a cardiac catheter then admit me for a pacemaker sometime after that (which will be major surgery because they will have to cut my chest open, as i have a very complicated body).  Now i think that they are only doing this because they are imagining that I said somethign I didnt!!

I just wish that i was one of those people that wandered around with a tape recorder so i could play my conversations with them back when they start talking rubbish.  If you figure out how to get honest info let me know.  sigh.