Would you go back to hospital?

[ChocolatChip]

I have been in hospital for the past 2 days, I went in with breathing difficulties and bad chest pains. They took several blood tests and ECGs and examinations, everything seemed okay, although my chest was a little wheezy and distressed, so they suggested that I was asthmatic and having an asthma attack, they gave me a nebuliser which worker for about 5 minutes and then I was exactly back where I started. They then sent me home.
My condition did not improve over the next 24 hours, and was called back in for more tests to check the enzymes in my heart, to see if it was damaged in anyway. And that came back negative, and they sent me home once again.
When I got home, I began to get worse pains in my chest, at first it had been aching squeezing type pains, it then began like a stabbing agonising pains. Which lasts about 15 minutes at a time, during this time I feel completely palarysled.
Should I go back to hospital, or sit it out and hope it goes away?

[LazyGun]

Go back to hospital.

[sara3]

would you be driving yourself? I'm torn. if you feel you could manage to drive you're probably not in serious trouble but I don't know that I'd sit around in that kind pain..

your shout then! hope you feel better soon x

[haysi06]

Hi ChocolatChip, at the very least I think you should contact your local surgery or NHS24 to put your mind at rest.

[ChocolatChip]

No, my dad is with me, he would take me to the hospital.

[LazyGun]

Then go - now.

[IggyB]

i'd go to were the nearest defib is... train station maybe?

[boxtops]

Ring an ambulance, don't hang about. If you go by ambulance you shouldn't have to sit about in A&E, which you may have to do if your Dad takes you. By all means ring NHS Direct (my friend did when she had chest pains) and they recommended she rings 999.

[IggyB]

With chest pains an ambulance may well be the best course of action for you ChocolateChip but for anyone else reading this please don't follow that advice above re calling 999 just to try and jump the queue at A&E - i promise it doesn't work like that... and (I hope this never happens to you or anyone you know) if you do one day desperately need an ambulance and find they are all tied up with other people where alternative transport would have been appropriate but was not used you would be rightly angry at having to wait longer than you should for emergency assistance - it can and does cost lives

rant over - and ChocolateChip again that bit above about not using 999 is not directed at you, if you are having chest pain you should consider ambulance as they will be able to do an ECG and start treatment should it be needed.

hope it gets sorted soon

[boxtops]

Iggy, I agree with you entirely and if my post could be interpreted that anyone should call emergency services as a queue-jumping method then I apologise. I work in the NHS and we all know how many ambulance/999 calls are wasted and blocked by people ringing in inappropriately with soap in their eyes, or they need a lift home,, etc. My suggestion to ring 999 so the ambulance delivered straight into A&E was for chocchip alone, with the symptoms of chest paid he's experiencing - not as a general recommendation! I'm glad you pointed this out though, thanks, just in case it was taken wrongly by anyone.

[daffy654]

If you present at A&E with chest pains they will take you straight into the resuscitation room, it makes no difference if you turn up on foot or by ambulance.