Earlier this week I had chest pain and went to A and E. They did an ekg and said it was fine, but refused to do bloods, I wasn’t feeling very reassured but I’ve had benign chest pain before so I hoped for the best.
The next day, I had a scary palpitation episode where my heart fluttered for about 10 seconds straight. I’ve never experienced this before, and the fact it happened the day after having chest pain really scared me.
My heart rate has been high since and I feel breathless. Been to a and e twice so far and both times they just did an ecg and told me they were not doing bloods as I had labs done in October and they felt no need to test me. Understandable I guess but that doesn’t help me at all.
The dr at the latest a and e was pretty cheeky and basically implied I was making this up for attention and that it was the same stuff I have been in with before. I repeatedly explained to him that this was new onset symptoms and I’m really worried about ventricular tachycardia (it felt like this, and was started with a PVC) but he didn’t care and kept saying go back to your GP and get referred to a specialist - which will take weeks if not months. Meanwhile I am sitting here terrified of feeling those palpitations again and not knowing if there actually is structural damage to my heart because I need the blood test to know. I’ve even considered booking a troponin test privately but I would have to travel to another city and it’s very expensive, and would take another week for results.
I’m so tired, I understand they think nothing is wrong and don’t think it’s worth investigating, but the fact I’m having these new scary flutters that last 10 seconds, the day after having chest pain, is too coincidental to ignore. My GP surgery doesn’t even have an ecg machine or blood tests ffs, they can’t do anything for emergency medicine, I feel totally helpless and let down.