featherme65's Journal

I am so disturbed with our doctors and whole medical community. 

Two weeks ago I had a colonoscopy with MAC anesthesia.  I came out of the anesthesia with shortness of breath and a band just below my sternum that was a heaviness.  They took the O2 mask off.  They didn't notice I was breathing through my mouth trying to get air in.  My husband was brought in and he saw immediately I was struggling.  I tried to tell him - he got a nurse who made a thousand excuses and finally put oxygen back on.  By that time my left leg and foot were numb and stiff.  This spread to my right foot and soon I had no feeling from my waist down.  They called the doctor who was in another hospital.  She came and sent me to the ER - time elapsed one half hour.  I was only a long corridor away from the ER!

I had the sensation my bladder was about to burst but I couldn't go.  I finally was able to ask for a Foley.  They were running around about my heart being different from the EKG I had prior to the procedure and they needed to contact my cardiologist.  Meanwhile someone came to do a chest x-ray.  He asked me to lean forward and that's when I discovered I couldn't move at all from my neck down.  The nurse lifted me off the bed, he put the plate behind my back, she put me down.  X-ray taken the reverse process happened.

I was admitted to the hospital for two days.  I never saw a doctor until I was discharged.  Nothing was ever said about my "paralysis".  It did leave after about three hours.

I wanted my medical records as I was scheduled for surgery the following week.

I wanted to talk to the anesthesiologist.  The stuff I got didn't give me the info. I needed.  No where was the paralysis recorded or the fact that a Foley was used.

There was no way to get in touch with the anesthesiologist.  I made a stink about not getting all my records and was assured I would have them.  They came the day after my next surgery!  Big help.

For anesthesia they decided to not use profonol - just versed and fentynal. I came out of that screaming with chest pain like I never experienced before.  They kept telling me my heart was all right and that could have been but my pain was saying something was wrong!  They gave me nitro pills - 3 in all and a shot of morphine.

I was in a surgery center so they had to call the ambulance and take me to the hospital.  My troponin level was 0.54.  Out came the nitro paste and all the other stuff.  My dystonia was set off by something and that took a while to leave. I spent another two days in the hospital.  This time they did a heart cath - not too pleasant.

The final outcome - nothing wrong with my heart, it was absolutely perfect.  All the tests I've had the last five years - all wrong.  All the EKGs that were abnormal were abnormal due to poor lead placement.  I don't know what excuse they would give for the ECHOs that showed first trace and then mild regurgitation and aortic insufficiency.

The doctor said the next time I had chest pain I should realize it is not my heart and just ignore it!  And then you wonder why more women die of heart attacks than men and many do because they don't go to the hospital in time!

I have to go back and see this man in two weeks.  God has a work to do in me because I want to let him know what a jerk I think he is and the harm he is handing out all the time thinking so highly of himself and his polished appearance and talented way with women. He actually thought he was doing me a favor.