Saturday, August 24, 2013

I GIVE UP

This heart shit is getting old. I've just about come to the point of saying to hell with the frigging doctors and just let what happens happen I'm tired of all of it.
 I go to the hospital thinking I'm gonna get another stint and all will be well again, HELL NO I don't get another stint, my system is different than most peoples, my body has to do weird shit to get everybody excited but me. I'm laying on the operating table with my heart Doc showing me my artery's and where the last 2 stints were put in last year and how nice they were doing,he says to me ,"see how nice the blood is flowing through here" and I say why yes that sure is nice. He then points out this other artery and tells me this is the one I told you was 40% clogged but as you can see its flowing real good through that blockage and I say why yes it is, so he says while I'm in here I'm going to run a wire up into that artery and see what the blood pressure is on each side of that blockage and we will know for sure that is not your problem He says he needs to put my heart under some stress and I my feel a little discomfort. We get started and sombitch my chest is burning like hell and I'm curling into a fetal position and can't breath for crap, I'm having a damn heart attack and the doc says to his sidekick did you see that all excited and then looks at me and wants to know if I'm OK which I tell him hell no I'm not OK I'm having a damn heart attack, they give me some nitro and put me under some more stress and bam I'm having another heart attack and the doc is all excited asking his side kick if he saw that again and gives me some more nitro. The last place you would think your doctor would be like a kid in a candy store is when he is all up in your heart, he says to me look at this all excited, they recorded all of this so I get to see a replay of what got him and his side kick all excited, he says look at this artery below that 40% blocked one and I study it and it looks like a nice healthy artery just pumping away and then all of sudden it just looks like its empty for a few seconds and then fills up and is pumping again. He says that I'm having a spasm that shuts the artery down for a few seconds and then opens back up causing a heart attack. I'm thinking now if this ain't the shits, I just developed this problem here on the table because I damn sure wasn't having that kind of chest pains when I complained about not being able to breath the past few months but he says that just might be the problem and I say I wasn't having heart attacks when I came in and he says it was the stress he put my heart under that gave me the heart attacks now I'm thinking this guy is full of shit and he goes ahead telling me we can control the spasms with pills, more damn pills to take. They get out of my heart and are cleaning up when his side kick tells me that he had only seen in books and on video what my heart was doing on that table. I ask how long has he been doing this heart stuff and he tells me thirty years.Thirty friggin years and this is the first time he has ever seen this happen in real time that's just great they ought to pay me.
 I get my pills the next day and the wife starts reading all the side effects of this drug off to me, headaches,dizziness, your man parts will fall off and start growing out your forehead and a ton more side affects if you know what I mean. Then she starts reading what will happen if I quit taking them ,I tell her I ain't taking it that I would rather die. Later that day she convinces me to take it. Holy crap right off the bat I get a headache and then the next morning I wake up like I have the flu, all my joints and muscles hurt and I still have a head ache and can't breath very good. I sleep most all day not knowing if I have the flu or if its those damn pills so I take another that night and wake up the next day feeling like hell and sleeping most of the day in my chair with the TV on thinking I'm sick I take another that night and tossed and turned all night with my muscles aching the next morning still with the headache and muscles hurting like heck I'm starting to think its those damn pills knocking me on my butt instead of being sick so I tell the wife last night I ain't taking no more of those damn pills that they are killing me and that if I'm gonna die by not taking them at least I'll feel good when I die and not be sick as hell when I do so I quit taking them last night and slept like a baby and feel a hell of a lot better. Those are some brutal pills.
The pills did nothing for my breathing which is what I went in for so I'm right back where I started.








18 comments:

  1. Ugh! Sorry, Jim, to hear all this. One suggestion, have you consulted another physician?

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    1. This doc is supposed to be one of the top doc's here.
      Thanks for stopping by.

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    2. I am going to talk with another Doc an another until someone can tell me what the hell is going on.

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  2. Don't you just love doctors?!?! The drug companies give them there required seminars to update them on the lates. . . drugs, of course. The blood specialist I was told to go see told my I was dying of CCI, a form of leukimia and there was nothing that could be done for me. Then he wanted me to make an appointment to come back to see him. I asked him why, if there is nothing you can do for me, I ain't coming back that soon!! So he told me to get blood work done at my regular doc's and come and see him when I was ready. I just may not go back, he can't do anything for me anyway, just wants anohter car paymen.

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    1. Sorry to here that about you, Dizzy and hope they made a mistake about the cancer. It seems the Doc's are getting like politicians now, they don't give a damn about you just how much money they can rape you for.
      Thanks, for stopping by and God be with you.

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    1. Jim for the life of me, I can't remember what it was that I typed here, that you had to delete.....

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    2. Matt it was a double of your first post. Intead of having 2 of the same post I just deleted one.

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  5. Sorry to hear of your experience. What was the medication that was causing trouble and it's dose? Was it a beta or an alpha blocker? Usually they don't cause the issues you describe but are often prescribed to prevent issue like yours

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    1. It's called IMDUR 60mg er tab looks like its used for Angina. Here are the side effects
      http://www.drugs.com/sfx/imdur-side-effects.html

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    2. I'd probably stop that one to...

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  6. IMDUR is a Nitrate and that's a pretty heavy dose of that med. they do have lower doses of that if it making you feel that bad.

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  7. I am so sorry to hear about that Jim. I hope you are able to get a second opinion. Best of luck.

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  8. Hey Jim, I had a chemo stress test yesterday and the heart doc said I oughta let him run a catheter up some big artery starting in my groin to go up to the heart and check for blockages, then put in a balloon or stent if needed.

    Guess I'll do this next week...hope it wont make me worse.

    Bigfoot

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    1. Bigfoot I've had 2 stents put in so far and the Doc back up in there looking again.
      Good luck and I really do hope everything turns out well.
      Thanks for stopping by.

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  9. Dang Jim! Hope you get better and the Docs figure out what you need to feel good again!

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