So how are YOU today?

got to the ER and get it checked out if the doc falls through, better safe than sorry

I should be checking my coverage, then.....

....... only 25 bucks! It would well be worth the peace of mind

i forget, that sucks, i don't get the hatred of national healthcare by some in your country

I don't get it either. It's 10 past 5pm.... they are closed now. Should I call them back?

That sucks. I'm afraid I can't say anything helpful about heart racing, but I agree with the "better safe than sorry" approach. If the symptoms are really bad, I'd call. Either way, let us know how it went.

After they said I might have to go to the ER (heart racing!), they said they wanted me to relax for 20 minutes and then check my pulse (it's 80/minute or so). Not bad. They wanted me to check my pulse in the morning. Both pulses get called in to a urgent care hotline (yikes!). And finally, they want me to go to urgent care at their other office in the morning (pressumably after I check my pulse and call it in). Kind of odd.

Meanwhile I saw my landlady come home and went down to meet her and her dogs out in the yard. Nothing like a little dog-therapy. And a good long talk with a woman who works at a hospital and has a long experience of ill health in family and self. She did her part to chill me out a little more.

It'll be embarassing when I come back tomorrow with news of a hardy and healthy heart......

I'd take that kind of embarassment any day of the week!

That's exactly what we're hoping for, lil'k. We would like nothing more than for you to be embarrassed!

Hey, for $25, go get it checked out. Better safe than sorry, right?

I went through multiple episodes of my heart racing a year or two ago. They call it "tachycardia." I now take a potassium supplement along with a daily pill, and it doesn't give me any more trouble. Easy fix. Is "heart racing" your symptom(s), or is it something else?

you got that right

Here's to embarrassment then! (Lifting a bottle of Diet Coke, wishing it was a decent beer instead.)

I'll lift a small handful of cranberries in salute to lilk's blush-worthy hardy and healthy heart.

I'll be thinking about you, littlek. Don't have anything handy to raise in the air.

Please report back.

I agree with the misery that is the U.S. health-care system. Feh pooh on it.

you don't have an eyebrow to quirk?

Good point all! I feel more relaxed. Still feel a little off, though. Will go and call the saturday doc in the morning to make my appt. Will also report back.

Good..

Lilk, Can you reflet on anything that you either did, or ate, or drank, that may have a common relationship to your heart rate? Often people with early panic attacks can recall that the attacks were set off by the metabolism of just a small amount of alcohol tha t they drank say 3 hours earlier. This is a common cause.

Same thing with foods with hi sugars or vitamin B.
Think think think.

Oh....I just now read this.

I'm so sorry Mr. Hamburger and Miss ehbeth.

littlek, I know exactly how you feel about someone laughing at you in the ER, or for going to the ER over this. That kept me from getting treatment for far too long.
Panic attacks are real, and nothing to laugh at.

I hope you have a good doctor, that pays attention to you. I changed doctors because when I would bring these feelings up to him, I always got the impression he thought I was just some hysterical woman. After I had a stress test, I should have felt better knowing I have a very healthy heart. But with the panic attacks (didn't have that name for them then) still occuring, I concluded the only other answer was that I was going crazy.

I went to therapy, found out I wasn't nuts, but really thank God I saw the counselor regularly for a year anyway...everyone should do it IMO. Medication got my body back to normal, therapy got my mind on the road to happier times.

I wouldn't wish a panic attack on anyone littlek, if that's what is wrong, just remember they can be treated very well.

Farmerman, I am pretty consistent in my diet. This has been ongoing for the last 6 days. At first I thought it was a stomach bug I'd picked up from one of the kids. I'd cut back on carbs lately, so I added them back in. But, I doubt this has to do with diet given that it is a periodic event happening 2-3 times per year. Stress may have a part in it. <shrug>

Chai, glad you got your body and mind sorted out. I know that it is best, at this point, to at least rule out heart issues.

Thinking of you, too, dear Beth and hamburger. These are hard days for you both, I know.