Hoping for the best for you Pal I don't understand how they would make you wait for almost 2 weeks with the symptoms your showing
Thats just unacceptable
Thats just unacceptable
Coughing up blood?
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I'm sitting at the ER now. Long wait. If I can't be seen in a couple hours I may leave and go to urgent care first thing in the morning. Thanks for all your support everyone.
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Didn't even think of that one, but in this age it's certainly a possibility once more.
I have had that problem a few times in my life. Every time it was ruptured capillaries in the throat due to excessive coughing as I was getting over a cold. I am hoping this is a similar case for you since it will heal and go away on its own in a day or two. Keep us posted.
Much better to go to hospital for the opinion of the experts. But mostly coughing of blood might be a sign of infection of your lungs.
You poor thing! OMG ---A year ago you were coughing up blood? How did that situation resolve?
Hope you're ok! did you get help yesterday?
Are you swelling and short of breath? 6 years ago at 23 i started hacking up blood, getting short of breath, felt like hell and started retaining water. Long story short congestive heart failure due to dilated cardio myopathy. I havnt read the other responses but do take it serious and go to the dr even tho its likely nothing. Best wishes
I only read the first line of the OP. Not going to bother reading any more. All I have to say is, April 21? If I were coughing up blood I'd go to the ER or to a Dr I could see right away... I mean really? "Hey Doc. I've been coughing up blood for two weeks."
She updated a little bit later indicating that she did NOT tell the doc that she'd been coughing up blood when she called for the appt.
I too am concerned she stated that she coughed up blood a year ago, but has not mentioned how that issue resolved.
I've been through St. Louis many times, but never needed medical treatment there. So I don't know what the rules are for emergency rooms there, but in Georgia and Colorado, if you walk into an ER and tell them you have either discomfort in your chest or difficulty breathing, they take you in IMMEDIATELY - no sitting in the waiting room. To my knowledge it's not law, just the rules of a level 1 or 2 trauma unit. (I was married to two medical professionals. No, not at the same time. 
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The reason for that rule is because either of those symptoms can indicate an imminent heart attack or a pulmonary embolism. Now, either of those usually kills in minutes, but these symptoms over time can still result in the same events when you least expect them. For instance, you could have chest pains for weeks - or even months - and then have a heart attack. I'm not saying "skim the rules" to be seen more quickly in the ER. I'm saying you actually do need to be seen more quickly in the ER.
You're having BOTH of those symptoms, and that's not even considering the part about expectorating blood. If you tell the ER staff when you first walk in that you have tightness/pain in your chest and difficulty breathing, they should really let you back to see a doctor immediately. Even if they are very short on doctors, and a doctor is back there setting a broken arm, for instance - even if it's the only doctor there - he/she will walk away from that patient to treat you. The broken arm (assuming no presence of a fat embolus or of crush syndrome), will not kill a patient in minutes, like your symptoms could. It's a triage issue.
I'm not trying to scare you. It's just that the symptoms you're describing can be INDIVIDUALLY very serious. You've got all of them. PLEASE, if at all possible, don't let the ER staff let you sit in the waiting room for even a minute.
)The reason for that rule is because either of those symptoms can indicate an imminent heart attack or a pulmonary embolism. Now, either of those usually kills in minutes, but these symptoms over time can still result in the same events when you least expect them. For instance, you could have chest pains for weeks - or even months - and then have a heart attack. I'm not saying "skim the rules" to be seen more quickly in the ER. I'm saying you actually do need to be seen more quickly in the ER.
You're having BOTH of those symptoms, and that's not even considering the part about expectorating blood. If you tell the ER staff when you first walk in that you have tightness/pain in your chest and difficulty breathing, they should really let you back to see a doctor immediately. Even if they are very short on doctors, and a doctor is back there setting a broken arm, for instance - even if it's the only doctor there - he/she will walk away from that patient to treat you. The broken arm (assuming no presence of a fat embolus or of crush syndrome), will not kill a patient in minutes, like your symptoms could. It's a triage issue.
I'm not trying to scare you. It's just that the symptoms you're describing can be INDIVIDUALLY very serious. You've got all of them. PLEASE, if at all possible, don't let the ER staff let you sit in the waiting room for even a minute.
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I agree and disagree. Weird right.
I disagree mainly cause she would still be waiting for the 21st to come before going to a professional if she didn't ask for advice here.
And,,,, I agree for the obvious reasons
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