Heart rate

[Les5]

My heart rate dropped to 30bpm while paramedics where trying to sort my server chest pains out. Was being sick quite a lot once on the ambulance had 3 ecg done not one of them matched each other. On the way to hospital my bpm went up 2... 160bpm spent 2 days in hospital and still no one could tell me what happened feel so tired and no energy has any one had this. I've had a few ha and 2 cardiac arrests in the last 2 years and feel it's not getting any better but no one seems to be in a rush to do any thing just give me more tablets to take. Many thanks for taking the time to read this I feel like giving up.

[Buzzy-Beans]

You poor, poor blighter, sadly I know how you feel with regards to the ineptitude and general inability of certain departments in the NHS ??

I have suggested on here several times before that you need to become an annoying, persistent person at your surgery and insist that they take action, don't accept a 10 min. appointment, sit there and insist on a proper consultation as you are above all else, your surgeries patient. And on reading your post you arguably need to have some appointments an in so doing your doctors MUST and you MUST insist that any appointment request is marked as URGENT.

At the hospital, you might just have the name or names of some senior secretaries and I have discovered that some of these can be enormously helpful in (dare I say it) speeding things up and from my experiences, every single one of them is fed up to the back teeth by the lacklustre performance of admin departments getting the entire NHS a bad name!

[Les5 in reply to Buzzy-Beans]

When I call the doctors I can not get a face to face appointment. Been told to just phone 999 all the time have said if I do it every time I have slight chest pain I would spend more time in hospital than at home. I do have frequent visits to the local hospital nearly every 3 to 4 weeks . Always with blues and two's. Spend a week to 10 days in there while they do test. Stay on a infusion drive for 24hrs or till I feel better . Speak to a number of consultants. Just to be told my heart has not improved. So they give me a few more tablets to take. So my heart will race like mad .at rest it can be 35bpm to 172bpm .I can feel my energy levels drop to where I can not stand up ,and still they can not give me any answers. Thanks 4 your reply

[Buzzy-Beans in reply to Les5]

It sounds like you have a surgery with a power crazed admin department! Some surgeries that were once brilliant are now truly dire due to these ever blocking people.

If I were you I would go to your surgery and ask to see the manager and as this person if their every answer to your phone calls is the same "call 999", then why does the surgery employ doctors? You want and need an appointment, and not a 10 minute NHS palm off one, you need to discuss your very extensive problems before it might be too late to do so.

If that fails, be prepared to take your actions further

[Hidden in reply to Buzzy-Beans]

Sorry but this is the worst, misinformed advice I have heard! Thank goodness the next post answers with more accurate info.

[Les5]

Hi happy jo I take lots of medication to control heart rate and blood pressure a cocktail of drugs. Have been to see loads of different specialists. Told by different heart doctors that my heart is very damaged due to the heart attacks and the cardiac arrests. Have been told that I will be in and out of hospital due 2 this. So when I call the doctor for advice then told to call 999 .to me it seems that they just don't want to deal with it. The hospital staff are brilliant if it was not for them I would not be here to tell the tail. I just wish someone would tell me where we go from this point here as I'm worried one day it will be 2 late

[Les5]

My heart nurse that I speak to once a month has been of ill for 2.5 months. Have spoken to cardiac staff and they say we will get some one to call you with no avail. The only time I see any one is when I'm blue lighted in.then I'm to ill to ask them what's going on .have had loads of test mails scans just to be told the can stable it. For how long they never say. Went for a heart test to see if I was up for a operation then told was 2 weak for one then told by a different doctor some thing different. I just can not make sense of it

[Qualipop]

With your history I would be demanding to see the cardiologist for a complete explanation of what's going on, the state of your heart, why you've had so many heart attacks and what exactly can be done to improve it. I'd even change GPs if they are so bad. You really need to push and get some answers. Ring the consultant's secretary, explain your history an d insist.

[Maskt3]

Hi Les5 it sounds as though you have coped with a lot of issues in recent years I'm not surprised you are anxious. I can't understand why your cardiac team is slow to help. I I had a scarey time during this last month and a radiologist who did my last Echo told me 'if you don't get answers within 2 weeks ring the consultants secretary. So I did, she was so helpful and kind. It might be worth asking for a review after your hospital stay. Good luck.