That happened to me after my physical two months ago. The receptionist had no idea what the original call was about. The next day I finally talked to someone who knew something. It turned out that I was given a hepatitis A shot instead of a tetanus booster. For some reason, both syringes were in the same box in the fridge--dumbdumbdumb. So I had to go back and get the tetanus booster. In a few months I have to get the 2nd hep A shot. The clinic is giving me all of the shots free of charge because of the mixup. Of course, they're not giving me free parking for the two extra trips down there...
At least you can *get* a tetnus booster. Around here, they are in short supply, as of a year ago anyway.
Sue(tm) Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!
> Meanwhile, I continue to have pain radiating from my shoulder down my left > arm and since the test the somewhat disconcerting feeling of my left arm > going "to sleep" periodically, which is really annoying. (Don't you hate > that tingling pins & needles feeling?!)
Sure sounds like a pinched nerve in your neck to me, Jill. Sometimes, physical therapy can help, other times, the treatment of choice is surgery. Hopefully, it won't come to that, but if it does, there's a sweetie in RFC who can offer you some reassurances.
Yeah, but... a pinched nerve does not cause arrhythmia ( : an alteration in rhythm of the heartbeat either in time or force). Of course one can simultaneously have a pinched nerve AND a pulmonary condition. I would seek a second opinion, from a Cardiologist.
1. An arrhythmia is properly only an alteration in the time of the heartbeat (alterations in force, while also generally not problematic, are called something else.)
2. GP's should know enough to diagnose mild arrhythmias. If he noticed anything worrisome, he'd be sending you to the cardiologist.
In my job, I run across seventy year old women with arrhythmias freqently. Honestly, an arrhythmia isn't a serious thing, unless the arrhythmia has a particularly dangerous pattern (e.g. toussades). and the doctor should be looking for those.
That happened to me after my physical two months ago. The receptionist had no idea what the original call was about. The next day I finally talked to someone who knew something. It turned out that I was given a hepatitis A shot instead of a tetanus booster. For some reason, both syringes were in the same box in the fridge--dumbdumbdumb. So I had to go back and get the tetanus booster. In a few months I have to get the 2nd hep A shot. The clinic is giving me all of the shots free of charge because of the mixup. Of course, they're not giving me free parking for the two extra trips down there...
At least you can *get* a tetnus booster. Around here, they are in short supply, as of a year ago anyway.
As my friend in NYC said, now I can scratch one worry off the list (hep A) if I travel to a developing country.
I hadn't heard that tetanus boosters were short. Was Chiron (the company that caused the shortage of flu vaccines last year when its British plant got shut down) also making them?
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Some of you may know I had a Holter monitor (my own personal echocardiogram) attached earlier this week for a period of 24-hour monitoring. I got a message from the doctor's office a while ago. "You have some minor arrhythmias but it's nothing to worry about and doesn't require treatment unless it continues to bother you." Uh... it IS bothering me, that's why I had the test in the first place! I called back and left a message because I'm really not sure what to think.
Meanwhile, I continue to have pain radiating from my shoulder down my left arm and since the test the somewhat disconcerting feeling of my left arm going "to sleep" periodically, which is really annoying. (Don't you hate that tingling pins & needles feeling?!)
At any rate, I still don't know much of anything. I'm going in on Monday afternoon to discuss this further with my doctor.
Jill -- I used to have a handle on life...but it broke off.
If unsatisfactory - get thyself into a second opinion. Rapidamente.
