I was hurriedly dosed anti-anxiety rx before knowing what is was or why
friday night 1-17-20, after hours sitting and laying down, having a fever-like pressure-cooker head with choker sensation from neck upward so i took BP read: 200/120. then i called the advise nurse, noted ER visit on 1-11-20 (6 days prior) for same, drove to town and took a Tylenol at 11p then took nurses advise and checked into ER 15min later vs wait till morning.
ER admitted me with 201/107 and I told them i anticipated BP would start coming down. they confirmed it was dropping over next two hours, yet at 1a they dosed me Atarax as an accelerator "to help bring it down and sooth things". I didn't get a full explanation then but I deserve one now.
i thought ER was dosing me an Rx for when BP spikes over 160/100 like the one my GP prescribed for me the following monday. that's what it sounded like as it was vaguely described to me as it was matter of factly persuaded into my system.
I told my GP they gave me atarax and she confirmed it was anti-anxiety so asked if I was anxious. I was not at all anxious before the pressure buildup, just relaxing reclined watching TV in bedroom until tired, was switching bw law-n-order and a cop show, nothing gory or upsetting like other shows I avoid ex criminal minds.
I said I wasn't consciously anxious, that any/all stress in my system is always physical (ex enzymic) not mental in origin, all due to crossed neuro-signals to autonomic sensory and motor nerves. i said that and mentioned the 'refinery restart flaring particulates' to her, like I did at the ER, casually, as my best hunch based on official facts.
with clear EKG/blood, the ER decided that making factual references to refinery pollutants was enough to warrant 'anti-anxiety' meds and quasi-trick me into taking it believing it was something else. it's as if the medical establishment were part of a wider industrial complex.
while i had one arm incapacitated by the pressure band and the other hooked up to a thermometer/oxygen reader (which wasn't pressing), the good-natured nurse with a harmless looking tiny pill said 'this will make you feel better, settle things down' and offered to dose it for me, a clever 'hurry-up' tactic that made me feel guilty and want to do my best to do it myself. she only mentioned how it 'includes a little anti-anxiety' after a cup water helped wash it down, too late to interrupt and spit out.
such cordial tactics that seem harmless are still essentially fundamentally sneaky. had i known it was anxiety rx i would have wanted a compelling explanation and would have opted instead for a 2nd tylenol.
that on top of the ER doctors on last 2-3 visits all echoing same obviously textbook advise: dont take BP readings in the pm or when your head feels like it's going to burst (no matter that reclining or lying in bed relaxing for hours should not spike it to 200/120) because the numbers will get you worked-up.
excuse me: the numbers came after the fact, to confirm status and did not increase after the reading. What a crock of dung.
if ER doctors think it's ok to have 200/120 while lying in bed or sitting still in a chair for hours, or that i should just take 2 tylenol, they should just say so. instead they look at my insurance plan, and ER history, then infer i am anxious and imply that is the root cause, then they hear my pollution hunch and slip me an anxiety pill. I already know the root issue is neuropathy aggravated by extra refinery particulates.
any anxiety is a byproduct of suboptimal physical/chemical/electrical neuropathy. imagine that.
ER docs make me feel guilty for taking my BP 200/120 during a pressure tension headache from the neck up with swelling 'choker' throat sensation and driving myself to an open clinic to verify. the last time i took my BP reading was mid november so i'm not at all obsessed with taking readings.
the insurance advise nurses sends you to ER where the docs needlessly treat you for anxiety. the anxiety-inference, the sneaky rx doses, and faulting the patient for coming, these are why i try my best to avoid the ER. i only go to ER after trying a few other remedies that dont seem to work and feel like things are borderline and waiting till 8a seems risky.
please share an explanation as to why i was dosed atarax in this way to regain my faith.
divergent body temp
Another ER visit on 1-11-20 (6 days prior) for same plus frigid limbs and feverlike heat from the neck up, highlights another example of how ER miss/misdiagnose key root issues entirely. It is a key vital sign that should not have 15f+ variables go unnoticed and ignored.
body temperature and BP are top 3 vital signs, yet tools at hospitals/clinics can't identify the subtle markers of many ailments typical of neuropathies ex lower body temp and temp differentials head to toe, they get at best 'mean body temp' and can't see or track divergences that anyone can measure accurately with a $12 hardware store tool.
1-12-20 after many hours laying in bed watching TV cop shows unable to fall asleep as i do by midnight daily, by 4a i realize the pressure/heat in my head, so i sat up to take my BP, take an epsom footbath, a baby aspirin and let blood settle for an hour before taking another reading, while my head from the neck up was fever-like warm, the rest of my body was trembling and my limbs were cold, frigid hands/feet.
i said this to ER nurses, but ER/clinics can't measure temp differentials like this and never touch your cold hands or hot forehead, so based on their antiquated 'mean body temp' reading, they're missed it. It's no wonder they ignored my claim as irrelevant and went on to assume one is anxious aka it's all in your head. a simple misdiagnosis can be deadly.
some doctors might shake your hand, but nobody bothers to touch your forehead anymore.
imbalanced/low body temperature can cause many of the symptoms i have, and i'm not sure anti-anxiety pills get to the root of it or balance my body temperature differentials.
Just to prove to doctors and family that i'm not making it up and the establishment is missing the obvious, i captured video evidence on my phone as i measured my toes feet calves forearms and wrists on more normal days at 90-95f and when frigid at 70-75f.
i had to get my GP to remove a 'malignant cancer' code from my record last year that didnt belong there.
my dead grandmother's last blood tests and steroid injections were not accessible to the emergency physician on duty when he most needed access to all those records to avoid making wrong assumptions about her potassium levels etc and to better assess best options vs risks. she was 94 and ready to go so it's not about blame, but problems need to be identified/shared and corrections made to prevent avoidable repeats.
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