In my last post I mentioned that I was experiencing rapid heartbeat. Last week it got so bad that I was stressing myself out even more and I couldn't sleep. My husband wasn't helping either. He kept telling me that it was basically in my head.
I probably slept less than an hour and got ready for work. I really wanted to kick my husband while I was getting our son ready for school because I felt out of breath along with the rapid heartbeat. My husband was just sleeping without a care in the world. It was a struggle getting my son to school. I'm so glad we didn't have to walk upstairs to his classroom because his teacher was still downstairs. When I got to work I still felt awful. My co-worker checked my blood pressure and it was a little elevated. I felt like I needed to go to the emergency room, but I was more concerned with helping out at work. As I've mentioned, the girl I work with is not very bright. I have to pretty much babysit her and tell her how to do her job. After an hour I couldn't handle it anymore. My co-worker drove me down the road to an urgent care and dropped me off. The nurses got me back quickly and the first thing they made me do was take off my shirt to take an EKG. It was scary. I never had one before. The doctor came in and told me my heart rate was 136 which is double the time it should be beating. He made it seem like I was stressed out and that I would be ok. However, he wanted me to go to the Emergency room to get medication that would help slow down my heart. I waited for my co-worker to pick me up. Once I got to work I picked up my things and told the Dr that I would be out for the rest of the day. I am so glad that my boss is very caring and understanding. When I got to the emergency room, there were not a lot of people. I was hopeful that I would be in and out within a couple hours. It was about 10:30am. I kept thinking once I got my medication, I was going to eat lunch and take a nap. The nurse took me back for another EKG. She was fumbling a lot and it was annoying because she was over vocalizing all the things going wrong with the machine. Unprofessional. Once she finally figured out what she was doing, the EKG went faster than when I was at urgent care. Back out into the waiting room. The blood test. Back to the waiting room. Then the xray tech came out to tell me the Dr ordered a chest xray. Back to the waiting room. Another nurse came out to get another blood sample. She explained the Dr wanted to check my thyroid. What? My thyroid? I have never had issues with it before as far as I knew. The nurse told me I would get an ultrasound to check my thyroid. Again to the waiting room. Lots and lots of waiting. Finally another nurse walked me into a room with a bed. "Great. This is going to take longer than I thought." She gave me a TV remote. She then gave me a pill to take and stuck a needle in my wrist to check my blood again. It was painful. Then I had to give them a urine sample which was gross since I was on my period. I turned on the TV and watched Big Bang Theory. The first episode was fun, but almost 2 hours of waiting for someone to check on me was stressful. There was a sign on the wall that said lab results take 90 minutes and if you feel like you're waiting to long then feel free to ask what's going on. The front desk people seem to just brush me off by saying "I'll check with your nurse." and then nothing. A new nurse walked in. "Hello, I'll be taking over. I'll be your nurse for tonight." My heart dropped. "Oh no. How much longer will I be here?" I asked. She shrugged, "I don't know." That seemed to be the popular answer... I don't know... And then she rolled me into another room to have my thyroid ultrasound. It was freezing. The ultrasound nurse rolled me back into my room. As soon as the nurse walked out the room. I called my husband and son. I really missed them. I was annoyed the reception sucked so I couldn't video chat. I told my husband that I have no idea when I'll be going home and started to cry. I could tell my husband felt bad for not taking it serious the night before. He asked if I wanted him with me, but I told him no since I didn't know what the covid restrictions were anyways. Speaking of masks, I have been wearing mine for almost 8-9 hours by this point. I was so done with my mask that I just left it hanging on my ears. I imagine that they sterilize the rooms after people leave. Finally the Dr came in. He told me he was going to get a prescription ready for me and they I would be discharged. He explained to me to follow up with my Dr and that I might have to see a specialist in the future. Once I had my prescription, I ran out of there so fast. I cried the whole way home. I don't understand why I have to be dealing with this. I hope that I can learn how to ease my hyperthyroid symptoms with supplements because I don't want to have to be taking a ton of meds.
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