@@Ashley__Rose The rhythm his heart was in V-TAC (Ventricular Tachycardia), will degrade to V-FIB (Ventricular Fibrillation) which is a lethal, but shockable arrhythmia, so our poor friend is about to ride the lightning. and there are types of welding done with electricity.
I was told this by my cardiologist and I’ve remembered it ever since “The heart is a muscle, you should work to help it get stronger. But you shouldn’t work it till failure.”
Yknow, I actually had this happen. The paramedics gave the "hmmm" of someone DEEPLY confused by the situation. "Well, everything says you're having a heart attack, but if you were, everything we've given you should have helped by now sooooo...lets just go ahead and get you to the hospital" Turns out I have pretty awful chronic Pericarditis, and every time i have an EEG I have to tell them or the results look like a coloring book done by a 2yr old
Same. It is no joke. I have stage 4 cirrhosis and my mom had a mile long list of things for me to do. I went to the store bought a bunch of monsters and red bulls. I would drink a monster redbull mixed every Am and every 4 hours while i was doing this work. On the 6th day my PCP(my Dr lives 2 houses from my mom) he said what are u drinking. Long story short ..after 6 days of drinking those i was in literally kidney failure. I thought my back hurt cuz i was working hard. Needless to say i am done with them drinks.
"Is he going to be able to go back to work ?" "No, he needs to rest for 4 weeks after that slurry energy drink and if you give him another one of those.. You will be arrested for murder."
@@CerealExperimentsMizuki for real, I have known bosses that would bail out their employees just so they'd be on the job site. Death would just be an inconvenience, they'd find a way around it.
I remember getting a tilt table test, and my heart rate skyrocketed so fast it set off the emergency alarm. I'll never forget the tech's face when she looked up at it and went "....hm!"
I had tilt table test too, but I just passed out on mine 😅 The tech was quite apologetic/panicked but I remember slurring out "it's good data!", which calmed them down 😂
Ah yes, the tilt table test- aka- "We might have to almost kill you in order to diagnose you." My techs didn't say "hmmm..." but they did have the "hmmm..." look on their faces. At least, they did while I could still see them, before my vision blacked out (I didn't black out, unfortunately, but my sight was kaput). I've never gone so quickly from mildly fine to wanting to vomit out my brain and/or pass out. After they got me horizontal again I could barely move. Anyone else have hyperadrenergic POTS? The flood of norepinephrine pumped into my body when it felt like it was dying sort of... how to explain... shorted out my nerves? Including those of my autonomic system. So I had to consciously think about breathing, my heart was sort of freaking out for a while, and my muscles all felt like lead for the rest of the day. But hey, at least it confirmed my POTS diagnosis!
Yeap. I had to take week off work because the muscles in my back knotted so badly that it was pulling my spine out of alignment. Was like for two days before for I went to a chiropractor (at my R/N MiL’s suggestion). Got a medical leave note from the chiropractor for 7 days off work and light work for a week after. I worked in a ice cream shop where i had to haul multiple gallons of ice cream around eight hours a day, 5-6 days a week. Plus having to put together an ice cream Machine with parts that weighed almost a third my weight. (I’m five ft 3in and 105lbs). Boss did not provide any kind of back brace for lifting heavy objects. Three days into my medical leave, my boss tried to call me in… while I was at the chiropractor again. My chiropractor ripped him a new one over the phone. Same boss also got pissed when i would not do all the usual stuff at work (which led to my back issue to begin with) for that next week. I told him he could go call the chiropractor. For those wondering why I didn’t go to the hospital: the hospital would have been SO Much more expensive. Also they would have given me muscle relaxers that may have worked and wouldn’t have realigned my spine. The chiropractor performed acupuncture, heat therapy and minor electro therapy to unknot my back muscles then very gently worked to realign my spine. Four visits to him ran me about $200 where i would have paid thousands at a hospital
@@wolflinggon5664 Yeah sounds about right. I had minor surgery on my foot and could barely walk. It was my day off, and I limped in to hand my doctors note to management and when I asked to speak with one of them, another manager spoke for me, which pissed me off. Told them that I surgery on my foot not my mouth and could speak for myself. Then I told them that I wouldnt be in for a week. Worked at Walmart at the time in the Electronics' Department. Holy shit, the mess I came back too almost made me quit but I had some bills that needed to be paid
I fondly remember going to the doctors one time thinking I had strep throat. Doctor walks in takes a look at my throat and says "Ah...That explains it. You don't have strep--You have Bronchitis." with the most nonchalant and driest delievery ever. He looks at me and says "Are ya working tomorrow?" I nod and say "Yeah." And then he just says "Yeah I wouldn't. You working Sunday?" I nodded once again and he was like "Maybe sunday..."
@@wolflinggon5664I imagined that the ice cream tubs were heavy (mostly gallons of frozen processed milk, and a couple tons of steel [is that metaphorical or literal, how much do those tubs weigh?] duh) But damn, I did not expect Ice Cream Man to be in the list of the kind of jobs where you need to do eight to twelve kinds of CrossFit to not be shredded in the torn-to-pieces kinda way.
I experienced a vtach once. 250+ bpm for 3-5 min before a doctor punched me in the chest. It felt like my whole body was vibrating. Fun times and luckily no lasting issues.
It's called a Precordial Chest Thump. It is usually done from a distance of approximately 20 centimeters to the lower third of the sternum. Last I knew it was a recommended initial treatment by the AHA in ventricular tachycardia and for ventricular fibrillation. There are mixed results from studies on this. In some reports it has also been stated to be useful in asystole. As a note: There is actually a phenomenon called Commotio cordis in which a hard blow to the chest at the right moment, and right location, stops the heart. It is most commonly seen in sports, such as someone taking a baseball to the sternum. This causes ventricular fibrillation. It is usually fatal if not treated very quickly with CPR and the proper use of an AED. (VF is a shockable rhythm.) This is likely the source of the idea of the "death touch/fist of death/death punch" in martial arts. The more you know... (Yes, I am a nerd and an EMT. lol)
No, he probably wouldn't actually fire you, but he'd in no uncertain terms tell you that he needs you to work, so you can't take off for the appointment and instead schedule it on a day you don't have work or after hours with the threat of firing you.
I mean, these types of people can try, but as long as you get evidence showing no reason from the past (as we don't know if he's gotten in trouble before), like written warnings in your file and you went to the proper people with even evidence you were having to go to the doctor, it'd blow up in the person's face
When my husband was in EMT school, they taught them "the face". The "holy crap this isn't good" panic look to be the "you'll (probably) be fine" fake look :)
My partner's dad is a doctor who's normal take on medical stuff is "ah, you're fine. Take an ibuprofen and sleep it off." But sometimes he gets all smiley and relaxed and says stuff like "oh! What kind of pain?" And that's when you know something is wrong. So bear in mind the face might work on the general public, but it won't fool people who are close to you.
@@eldricgrubbidge6465 yep, and it doesn't work well on people who know about it. I called that look on a paramedics face and then told him not to worry, my blood pressure is normally that. At which point I freaked him out after he realized I couldn't see the monitor and was going solely off the look on his face. He'd started to explain to me that it wasn't normal blood pressure until he paused mid word, looked between me and the monitor a few times, and then asked "What's your normal blood pressure?". Like "100/60, so 90/55 ain't far off". Apparently I was only 2 points off on one number and dead on for the other. He relaxed and continued on with whatever I was in the ambulance for.
and if they can't, we are going to need to guilt trip the other employees into gifting him their PTO, instead of us just taking the hit. Really need a fifth vacation home, ya know?
Employer when he doesn’t show up the next day: “call him and tell him he’s fired for not having PTO to cover the absence because he’s only worked for us two months and employees don’t start to accrue PTO until they’ve been here at least four months. Then, when he files, tell unemployment he quit because he chose not to come to work.”
Kid I went to high school with died this way. He was funny as hell, wish he was still around. Always be aware of what you're putting into your body and what it can do.
@k4fr366 maybe sepsis infection? I know when I had a kidney infection that turned sepsis do to the antibiotics not working and it spreading I techincally had 2 kidney infections in 1 week and my body was shutting down. I was in hospital for well over a month and couldn't even walk to bathroom.
OK first of all ventricle tachycardia is not a heart attack it is a elevated more than elevated heart rate which they give you a combination of different heart medication’s to slow your heart rate down to a regular beat
And kidney and bladder stones and failure, liver issues etc, etc Be careful what you put into your body. It determines what your body is willing to do for you!! Love y'all ❤❤❤❤❤
I had kind of a reverse of that. I do IT security consulting and we had a new client to fly out to. We got an email over the weekend that he had to push the start time on Monday from 9:00 to 10:00 for a doctor's appointment. When we got there, we learned it was for a follow-up from the heart attack he'd had *the previous Thursday*. He didn't tell us about it because he didn't want us to have to change our schedule and rebook travel. We told him that we would gladly have changed it up so he could rest a bit. Our billable hours aren't more important than the client's life. (Besides, if he dies, we might have to start the sales process over from scratch.)
@@TheGraveyardWriter shit dude. I'd personally tell them to fuck off but I know every situation is different. That sucks. Sorry you have an employer like that
I had a health teacher tell a story about when he was in college. He had stayed up all night studying for an exam, so to stay awake for it, he binged a bunch of caffeinated drinks. In the middle of the exam, his heart stopped and he had to go to the hospital.
I caffeine-binge-studied for a final in college. During the test I lost my sense of time. I answered 3 questions in 12 seconds, then stared at the next one for 5 minutes before I realized I wasn't reading it.
ems showed up hooked me up told me my heart rate was 250-270 bpm and my blood pressure was apocalypse levels the look in his face before he radioed the hospital was priceless
Fr i had a nurse look at me like that at a blood bank once lmao. Had just gotten out of gym and drank a rockstar energy 3 hrs before... 230/250 is apparently not good for a 5'5" 160lbs 16 y/o with a high possibility of having heart proplems later 🤷🏼♂
Damn guys im 180 pounds 6ft maybe more, 15yo oldie. And i had the same problem😂 i drank a monster energy drink 3 days in a row before the test while walkin to school at fresh hours and working out, even tho it was extra cold outside😂😂😂. If i recall correctly my bpm was 220 and pulse 100, overally i wasn't feeling bad nor shitty. My ass just was tired half a week into the month😂❤
Fun fact, when something is wrong with your insides, your body doesn't quite know where to send the signals to, it will send pain signals to your back, chest, or both
Got a call for a "Cardiac Arrest." We arrive on scene and the guy who called walks out perfectly fine. I ask him "Whats going on? why did you call 911?" He tells me he thinks hes having a heart attack. I ask him " have you had a heart attack before?" he says no. I ask " how do you know youre having a heart attack?" He tells me "Because after I did Coke, I started feeling my heart beat real fast...." Ah....very well, lets get you on the monitor.
I think that I had a heart attack about two years ago. Extreme chest arm and back pain out of nowhere, got real sweaty for about 20 minutes. Never went to a hospital or told anyone about it. But I thought that was it for me there when it was happening.
I had a fever that quickly spiked to dangerous levels while I was on break. I went from just being miserable to not being able to walk up stairs and hallucinating within half an hr. They still wanted me to finish my shift. Never seen a paramedic go pale quite that fast. Turned out I had bery bad walking pneumonia with complications and shouldn't have even been conscious days before thanks to a broken rib that I thought I had only cracked and was ignoring (there's not much they can do for cracked ribs anyway, figured I'd save myself the 14hrs waiting for a doctor to see me in the er).
I was electrocuted at work once and my entire arm went numb, and my boss insisted I keep on working for an additional 20-25 minutes afterward until I could be replaced.
Yeah, I remember when my tachycardia kicked in once while I was in school. I got sent to the nurse's office, the one who saw me being one of those "don't come to me unless you're actively dying" sorts. She took my pulse and her whole demeanor changed. After a minute, she looked over at the other nurse and said "I can't get a proper count, his pulse is too fast." Needless to say, I was off to the hospital very quickly.
I was at lunch in first grade and the girl in front of me SAW my heart beating fast and told the monitor. She was no nonsense and thought she was freaking out over nothing, and was rolling her eyes when she put her hand on my chest for like 3 seconds... then bodily lifted me out my seat and ran to the office. Fun, isn't it? I had SVT.
At least y’all got treatment I got told to suck it up when I had fluid in my lungs, my buddy was watching ice packs melt on my head in a matter of minutes and yet it was no big deal to the nurses.
As a "Brittle" type 1 diabetic, who also had too many of /those/ types of nurse on shift from elementary to high school.. they are at times the utter worst. especially cuz I'd have to go to the office /a lot/ that was part of the brittle in brittle t1 diabetic.. I was also prone to nosebleeds that would take ages to stop regardless of how much pressure one put in the "right spot" (they would say i was not holding it right) like I get it they prob get a bunch of kids trying to ditch class but I was one'a those odd ducks that actually enjoyed school (not that they would believe me). I still remember going to nurse in high school once with a extremely stubborn 3.2 blood sugar (Canadian diabetic #. multiply by 18 to get USA. it's really low, some pass out at 4.5) an she didn't believe me till I showed her the kit, and then made me take another reading in front of her... only then was it get the glucagon kit and a trip to the hospital cuz the kit was outdated and juice boxes I'd downed where doing absolutely nothing.
My heartrate gets to 180 because of my tachycardia i have to take beta blockers for it. Whenever paramedics or hospital stsff see my pulse above 115 they freak out to which i say thats normal for me
@@jellifish9389 Capitalism was even worse in the past. Working-class made a lot of gains for safety. The whole system is still generally exploitive and shitty, but workers now at least don’t have it as bad as workers did in the Industrial Revolution.
@@jellifish9389 Oh please. Was communism better? Socialism? Mercantilism? Feudalism? Greedy bosses have existed ever since Chief Ragrag tossed Thugthug out of the cave and told him to come back with a deer or not at all.
"Well sir, your hear WAS in the front, but some of those beeps we're hearing are actually your heart bouncing all around like a pinball because whatever you drank is not something anyone should ever drink."
@@Mygg_JeagerI think what he meant by that was, that this dudes heart is basically about to move so fast, that the heat energy it puts out is gonna cause it to start glowing red-hot... kind of like a welding rod. The faster something moves, the more heat energy is generated.
Those power drinks are no joke. They make your heart rate go up if you drink a lot of them. I lost a good friend to him drinking several power drinks at once.
That or hearing the medic exclaim “oh, sh!t!” After hooking you up to said monitor while you’re in the middle of telling the nice EMT lady that you’re cold… Idk what happened after that- I was told I was 2 BP points away from not having a BP, which I suppose explains the whole being cold, losing consciousness and “oh sh!t” comment from the medic. On the bright side, I was too sick to care and used to being too sick to care @ the time.
Yeah happens to me a lot. Actually got told by my nerologist to get it looked at (adhd meds can impact heart rate and as he put it better to be told your over reacting than wind up dead) and turns out I have non serious things like extra PVCs that are not constant, a mital valve flap thats a little too long and bows slightly, and a stronger than normal connection to I think it was the sinus nerve? Or am I thinking of the Vagus nerve? The thing that controls heart rythm.
You're such a good actor! You make it easy to forget that you're all of these characters! I hope your channel is successful, you deserve it! I found you from your video on what to do if you're alone choking. That video was excellent and good information but I had no idea how humorous the rest of your channel was going to be! Much love and respect to you!
I took ecstasy and literally was sent home just to have more seizures with a bpm 245 and they were like whatever 😅 it may have been fake molly but also i have health issues and ecstasy now is being cut with bath salts and meth often
Had a buddy I Iraq shotgun three 5hour energy and two monsters. Mid patrol he collapses and the medic can't find a pulse because his heart was beating so fast you couldn't feel it in a vein. Medic gets a monitor on him and then you hear a quiet "holy fuck". Medic jabs him with morphine and we have to carry him back to the trucks and we drove straight to Balad because we knew our aid station couldn't handle this. Long story short, 5hour energy was banned in our battalion and only water could be used on patrol. We got inspections before patrol for "contraband". Guy lived by the way.
@@mike4402it took about exactly a decade from me first seeking help for my heart to now finally getting help with it... it's so annoying how doctors don't really listen. I'd get episodes of super high heart rates that'll go on for 30 sec to ~2hrs, but bc no monitor could catch it I was dismissed. Recording the episodes on the EKG on my watch is what helped. Try to see if the HeartWatch app helps, and some sleep tracker where it can track your heart + breathing, and try to catch it with an EKG if possible. You've likely done this but if you haven't, highly suggest.
Can confirm from too Many drugs on an 18th birthday. All I can say is the words “pain” and “shitty” don’t do it nearly enough justice. Wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy.
@@tessamarie8698 See, I saw someone say the other day "Ya know, I *would* wish these things on my worst enemy," and then gave the reasoning behind it, and... after seeing that video, I tend to agree. I don't know if a parasite can have a bad day, but I would one hundo percent wish that kind of pain on malaria! (John from VlogBrothers was talking about TB, was a funny video)
if I remember correctly it was VTAC that my father was experiencing on the night we took him to the hospital. I remember sitting at the foot of his ER bed watching the heart monitor go from 90-something to about 200 in under a minute. It was terrifying and he nearly died, but thanks to the ambulance crew that listened to my mom and sister and I and took him to the hospital and the hospital’s amazing staff, he’s still with us nearly a year later.
My heart rate hit 240 when I went into SVT. That was a weird feeling. Didn't hurt, but my vision started going white after 10 minutes, and the flutter felt like my shirt was going to fly off. Thank God for CathLab.
Shit! Never had my vision go *white*. I've had it go black and I've seen the stars, but if my vision goes white I'm about to say "Father into your hands I commend my spirit, if anyone can hear me tell my family I love them."
I have SVT too and that's about what I hit too. It went on for 6 hours while I was working (at a doctor's office) because he insisted it was probably anxiety 🙄 another nurse finally got sick of it and just did and EKG and brought it too him in a room with a pt. He walked out and told me we can either call an ambulance or have one of the girls here drive you over to the ER (it was basically across the street) Like mofo you had me dealing with this for 6 hrs!! 😑 Ended up having to get adenosine twice 🥲 12/10 do not recommend lol
@@adhdhamster Same, I have SVT as well, I don't get blurred vision or anything like that, my heart just beats extremely fast out of rhythm. Sometimes its only a few minutes, but one time in high school it went all night. Had to try to sleep with my chest just pounding.
@@jordanhunter3375 No, what’s happening is that there is something in the “pre-work out slurry” that he was given that is driving his heart into a crazy fast rate (normal heart rate : 60-100; his is in excess of 200). Jason has described a Ventricular Tachychardia (V-Tach) and one of the ways to treat this; especially when a patient is unstable, is to defibrillate. That means putting two electrical conducting pads on your chest and running a current somewhere between 200-1000 volts, hoping it will “reset” your heart and let it beat normally again. Hence the pun on “welding”. I’m not sure about the back pain but I think it’s meant to be an atypical symptom of V-Tach. Most people with complain of chest or generalised symptoms.
For anyone confused, "Pre-workout" is apparently a supplement that you take well, pre-workout, which is basically energy drink + other stuff. I was trying to figure out why an energy drink before a workout was bad. So dude was basically mixing caffeine with more caffeine.
My neighbor complained of back pain after using pre workout powder for a while and came over to tell me (any doctor or anyone in the medical field you know when people know your job ask random questions about their health) and I told him he should stop using it, get an appointment with a cardiologist and then make sure his kidneys are alright. He then told me “it’s not kidney pain I’ve had kidney issues in the past” I stood there slack jawed. People are so weird sometimes. He did eventually go to the ER because I called EMS because he drank his usual caffeine death smoothie but his body was fed up, went into VT thankfully he works out in his garage with it open and I was checking the mail.
@@private-local-enemy yeah it’s the same logic I’ve dealt with when I had patents that said “it’s impossible to get into a crash I’ve already been in one!” When I begged my patient to stop drunk driving after he drove himself to the ER because of chest pain and he was stone cold drunk and having an anxiety attack from the antidepressants he took while drinking -.- some people can’t be helped I’m sorry to hear about your parents but I love your sense of humor. Dark humor is the way us healthcare workers cope! You either are one or you’d be a great one you got the stomach for it!
I told someone that I was going to drink half of a 5 Hour Energy. She almost yells at me, "Don't drink those! They're dangerous! My niece drank THREE of them and ended up in the hospital!" My friend overheard this and interjects, "Yeah, if you're stupid enough to drink three of them, you deserve to go to the hospital."
Three 5 Hour Energies is 600 mg caffeine (720 if they were extra-strength) which is a lot, but not "need to go to the hospital" levels, at least for most people. I once had twice that (in caffeine pills) within 2 hours back in undergrad, and I was . . . pretty weird for a while, but not in any sort of distress. Of course, my caffeine tolerance was pretty nuts at that point . . .
@@logitimate 1800mg of caffeine is definitely way more than enough to be in the "need to go to the hospital range". up to 400mg a day is considered safe, and "The FDA estimates toxic effects, like seizures, can be observed with rapid consumption of around 1,200 milligrams of caffeine"
@@picgmr1575 I took 1200 mg (twice 600), not 1800, and as for the FDA estimate, that undoubtedly depends heavily on tolerance (and lean body mass, for that matter).
Very glad my work is understanding of medical issues. I was working at camp this summer, and during a long outdoor activity I started to feel quite faint. Told my boss he needed to take over with the kids cause I was feeling so poorly and he was like "It's OK, I got this, go inside, cool off, and get checked out at the nurse's office." Nurse figured I got heat exhation. I felt really bad that I basically had to stop doing my job an hour early, but the higher ups were just like "No, you had to take care of yourself, that comes first!"
Dude I work at a summer camp who practically did the same thing for me, although my issue was electrolyte depletion. I love it when people are actual humans
Damn that's sounds nice. I worked at a charcoal plant till they recently layed me off, so glad that happened. Someone shut the door to an enclosed space I was in, cause some corporate asshat was coming thru and they wanted it to look nice. Started feeling dizzy from lighter fluid fumes from instant light charcoal, walked out to find the door shut, no oxygen. When I went to the on site nurse I was blatantly accused of taking drugs. I'm 19 and don't even drink much. Ended up having damage to my throat and lungs.
In my country this is the norm. If you tell your boss that you're not feeling well, and they say something that isn't along the lines of "do you want the day off?", they could lose their job for that. Same with calling off sick from work. you don't even need to call them, you can just text, and all they're allowed to say is "feel better". They don't even ask you when do you feel like you could get back to work, they'll usually just call a couple of days later to ask you if you're feeling any better, and if you say "yes", then they'll ask you if you feel well enough to come back to work this week.
@@asingularkriegsman3316hope you sued. My dad worked at a plant where there was some type of safety device in use for some reason I don't remember. They wanted him to remove the device. He wouldn't do it. If he would have done what they said, he would have killed somebody. He also saved the plant from a fire and they were mad at him that he didn't refill the extinguisher.
I absolutely LOVE all these "real things" vids. Not only funny but also the portrayal abilities of this dude!! Keep 'em coming, please! My late Ma was an LPN & I enjoyed hearing her stories of the 11p-7a shift at the county hospital. Thank you for giving me that same thrill of medical stories of the ER. You rule!
My mom recently began having heart problems like this. First time it happened she thought maybe our pulse ox was going crazy cause it was bouncing back and forth from 80 to 240. She had me check her pulse and I had to say, "Nope, it's right. I can't even count as fast as your heart is beating. Time to call the ambulance." They've got it under control with meds now but it was pretty wild.
@@user-wr3vt8uq4s energy drinks and a heart rate over 200 is more likely cardiac in nature than kidney stones. The rate means the heart is likely to have some ischaemia, causing pain. This can be chest pain, shoulder, arm, jaw, backache or even stomach
I wish more people knew how often back pain has links to cardiac problems. Like we sometimes learn about it wrt women having heart attacks but it's not just women this can happen to.
I was in an accident where I died for a second, came back to life, helicopters flying over, radio announcing the accident, on t.v. - call into work, IN THE VAN, not yet removed from it - "so are you coming in?" - turn on your tv and tell me am i coming in - "so you'll be in tomorrow?" - i'm going to the hospital
Lol the welding/ICD reference was funny. It is crazy how some people can be so stable in VT and have no idea, whereas others pass out. Gotta love the human body
@@zedmelon Implanted Defibrillators can pick up the welding energy as noise and inappropriately shock the patient thinking that it is a deadly heart rhythm. One of the reasons why welding is contraindicated in patients with ICD’s.
@@Joy21090 if gets an ICD implanted, yes. Most likely he's going to the hospital for electric synchronized cardioversion (according to AHA guidelines)
@@zedmelon actually, "welding" is a slang term for cardioversion or defibrillation of the heart by use of an electrical shock. The purpose of the shock is to interrupt a troublesome rhythm and allow normal rhythm to return. In slang, paramedics say they are welding the patient.
My resting heart rate normally was under 50 BPM before I got Leukemia. I'm in a doctor's office that's a floor beneath the floor I get my chemo. This female nurse isn't allowing us to leave because " No, we need to get these reading. " ... She didn't know my Dad is a paramedic and is intimately aware with how my body performed medically before I got Leukemia, so she hooks me up to a monitor... and it says my BPM is 195, I'm feeling nauseous and dizzy and my skin is feeling like it's tightening down around me. So, this lady keeps going " No, it's fine. Stay here. I said it's fine. " Dad gets pissed off, stands up and says " Don't you try to feed me that bullshit. I'm an ex medic and that is NOT OKAY. You can hurry up and get this done in the next five minutes or we're getting ahold of his doctor. " So she dragged her feet, five minutes went by and she peeks into the room to say " It'll be another ten. " Dad was furious. Called the doctor just upstairs and said what's happening. He heard what my BPM was and screamed " WHAT!? GET HIM UP HERE NOW! " over the phone loud enough I could hear him while laid out on the little exam table barely able to stay conscious. We get up there and turns out I was in the danger zone for dehydration and blood loss from chemo. I had to get two transfusions and a full bag of fluids, plus a shot of morphine for the pain because my skin was beginning to burn and I didn't have my painkillers on me, so the doctor goes " Get him a full dose of morphine, now. " ( Normally he started out with half but everybody there knew me pretty well and that I had a high tolerance to opiates and other forms of pain control. Kind of obvious someone's not faking pain for a fix when their heart rate is skyrocketing from their body trying to keep up with all the rapidly dwindling resources. ) And hoooo boy was my doctor furious. My doctor was a good elderly man. Good at his job. He's no longer a doctor, but... still not gonna say his name because I actually kept in touch with him after he treated my cancer because we considered him family. - That guy was so furious that " his nephew " ( Because I jokingly called him " Uncle Doctor *His name* " and he insisted I just call him Uncle *his name* and he just called me his nephew. ) - that I suddenly didn't see that nurse working on the fourth floor or any floor for that matter. Legit think he got her fired for nearly putting me in the dirt. Frankly? Good. She was working at a Children's hospital. Imagine if her stupidity got a child killed rather than an 18 year old being treated as a pediatric case that at least was able to hang in there for a fair bit longer. That scares me idiots like that person sometimes somehow bumble through nursing school.
@@brookeggleston9314 Excellent point that often is overlooked. I've known several nurses personally. I've known some professionally. Yes, it can be a terrible job for varied reasons & many work very hard &/or are very caring...but that doesn't equate to: actually knows what they're doing. I can think of exactly TWO that were amazing. The rest, in a word, nope. Having said all that: Pretty much every profession has good & bad & all in between.
When I became CNA on one of me first shifts during the education (in Germany it switches between going to school and working in a hospital/nursing home). Most of the nurses on this floor were rude and when I did my round to measure the vital signs of the patients one men had a Puls of 120 or 140. I wasn’t sure if I should report it or not. I didn’t want to be yelled at for disturbing them, cause I wasn’t sure if it would be that big of a deal. Like one hour or later, I checked again and it was the same. This time I went to one nurse and she contacted the doctor. I was scared that because I didn’t tell them right away he might suffer the consequences. But as it never came up that his Puls wasn’t normal, I guess he is fine. Later we got taught in school more about vital signs but this situation taught me to always tell other medical staff when something concerns me about a patient.
@@larafranke1802 I was speaking with a friend Just This Morning about how terrible it is that we have to be afraid to "do good" or "the right thing" for fear of over-the-top negativity.
Ah... I am so glad I left that job. 😌 I kept having major stomach problems and the doctors didn't think it was stress-related, but it all went away once I quit. It's been 7 years, but I still think about how much better my life is now.
Dude I worked with used to drink monsters like water and had this same thing happen. will never forget the instant change of demeanor of the ems when she checked him.
my step dad will drink crazy amounts of energy drinks when he's driving. he says it has no effect on him, whereas sometimes I'll drink a glass of tea and shake. truckers have got it rough man
@@scissor_raceEveryone chooses what job to work… I just hope they take a moment to watch their health. They could easily end themselves, and others, by combining one too many of these, suffering a major heart attack while on the road.
"I have good news and bad news. The good news is I just heard the best grindcore blast pattern I've ever heard. The bad news is it's coming from your circulatory system."
A single 5 hr energy drink sent my sis to the ER. They found out she had mitroval prolapse, which had gone entirely undetected before. But she went fully unconscious, and they went full panic mode to get her back, raising her legs up and shaking while they got medicine. She never knew she had any heart problems at all. That stuff is no joke! I could've lost her to a tiny lil bottle of energy drink...
I'm so sorry to hear that she went through all that😮 I stopped drinking monster energy Java not too long ago, after drinking one of those and two coffees in the same day. My heart was not happy. Now the 5-Hour energy. If I take one of those I will literally take the tiniest little sips during a 6-10-hour. Making sure that I drink water in between, eat when I'm hungry and take plenty of rest breaks. I pulled an all-nighter last year decluttering my yard and front porch. I literally had maybe one and a half to two bottles throughout the entire evening into the next morning. I can never drink a whole bottle or even half a bottle because it's too acidic on my stomach. I asked people with heart problems should not take any of these energy drinks. Oh and just an update.... I haven't had any energy drinks in a while. Their last resort for me. But I still do enjoy coffee and espresso
I have a condition where my heart rate frequently spikes to 120bpm when I'm at rest and it's not a fun time. I can't imagine being conscious with a heart rate of 240, that sounds awful. Just knock me out at that point
i have SVT my resting is like that as well but i’ve gotten to 235 before I thought I was dying I saw my chest move a little near my heart you can hear it in your ears it’s gross
I have POTS and without beta blockers my resting will be 100-120, standing goes to 160-175. So far I've just gotten dizzy, nauseous, greyed out (presyncope), and sweat profusely. 10 years ago I was in a car accident and adrenaline drove me up over 220bpm.... really don't want to ever experience that again -_-
I was recently put on propanol because my heart rate was 120 at rest, nothing like constantly being out of breathe, having upper back pain that feels like your spine is broken, and pounding behind your eyes 😅. My heart rate is back down to 70-80 (depending on my pain level) resting and I feel a lot better.
Reminds me of when we did the heartrate tracking stuff in gym class back in the day and the guys going over our heart rates and gets to mine like "I don't know how you're living right now but alright." That's stuck with me for a long time. Apparently my resting was too low but my at work was way too high.
That sounds like your blood vessels had problem moving from contracted to relaxed and back. Or I just talk out of my ass. Thats also a strong possibility haha.
Yeah my heartbeat goes absolutely nuts when I do strenuous activity. It's why I don't run anymore. 190+ BPM. If I keep it up for long enough I get real nauseous. My resting heart rate is really high too, but I'm healthy.
Mine is like that too - Postular Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome and Ehlers Danlos - Hypermobile Type. Resting HR often gets below 60, and my HR after strenuous activities often exceeds 180. It's crazy.
My team of doctors and specialists think I may have the same problem as you = EDS. Being sent to a thoracic physician and a rheumatologist... My dad has to drive me around an hour to go to the nearest city for it over a road that makes my back spasm and then we gotta get home while my back is in spasm. Hoping we can do both in one day when I can get to them. Blessings from South Eastern Australia, Dot
Reminds me when I was officially diagnosed with PSVT. For years I had issues where my heart would abruptly start beating incredibly fast, and I would have to sit down and breath to get it to go back to normal. Rather than see a doctor I just lived with it, until I got covid. Covid itself wasn't bad, but it must had made my condition much more severe cause I ended up having a really bad episode that sent me to the hospital. My heart had been beating 200+ bmp almost non-stop for what must have been close to an hour. They had to give me multiple doses of some strong medicine. About a month or two after I got an ablation done and I haven't had any issues ever since.
Sadly even though I stopped taking my beta-blockers for several days before my ablation appointment, when I went in to get it done, for some reason they couldn't induce the SVT in my heart to find the area they needed to ablate. Woke back up to the news that they couldn't find it to fix it :( Maybe one day I can have a different hospital try it? Not sure.
@MrPerson61 same thing happened to me to. The surgeon said we can try again under sedation but I've been too scared to try. I hate worrying about going into svt again though.
@@jeanettedennis2473 Same, though they did put me under while trying to induce the SVT, so maybe that's why it didn't work? I've moved out of state since then, so maybe one day I'll try another hospital to see if they can do it. I'd encourage you to try it again sometime if you're able. Having to worry about taking a beta blocker, or going into SVT all the time sucks.
Doctors literally didn’t take me seriously with bpm 240 and i started talking slowly and seizing medical field is a joke also they gave me a pill topamax for migraines i fell on floor stopped breathing everything went black
This speaks to me. I recently went to the Emergency Room for a hypertension emergency. My pressure was 194/128. Apparently my GP was continually upping a migraine med cause the headaches werent going away. Turns out the meds also acted like pressors and I had undiagnosed hypertension and tachycardia. Gas on fire situation. This is why testing should be done before medicating people. Im just lucky I didn’t have a stroke or heart attack.
@@diggoran It was an open secret that no one would ever cop to. One could tell from a person's response to the coffee (--constricted-- dilated pupils, etc) that it had a little "extra" kick. Lots of folks use stimulants to excess (cigarettes, coffee, yerba maté, Red Bull, etc). But, I have never worked for a company where anyone warned me against partaking in food and beverages provided by management.
@@emmettdonkeydoodle6230 I worked on residential and commercial construction. Met a lot of union reps and I worked with former port workers. The port is a tightly controlled world unto itself, much like the railroads, except their overall safety is better than the railroads. Logistically, good luck getting a sample out and getting anyone to believe you (chain of custody). Then loose your job and get blacklisted. An easily avoidable situation like the coffee in one area is the least of a worker's concerns.
When I had my heart attack my body locked down and I could hear everything going on around me. But It lasted 18 hrs. 17 hrs inside the cathlab. They had to shock me and do cpr 8 times. The last time they shocked me my heart rate was 490 a minute. When they shocked me that last time I felt it. It also caused my mouth to cl3nch tightly N it broke a tooth. But it also let my body relax and the pain left. Although I did sit straight up and came nose to nose with the surgeon. 😂😂 it felt good though to be able to move and talk again after that. I love the fact that you guys can and did do so much for me. It was the emts that basically kept me alive long enough to get me to the Dr's. So thank you for all you do.❤
Rules for stupid people (not derogatory I mean this categorically) 1. If a doctor is conducting a test and their machine starts going off like crazy, it's bad. 2. Doctors can't snitch to the cops. Unless you tell the doctor you intend to kill people, they literally aren't allowed to snitch. 3. Don't be afraid to ask a question(s). No, your question probably isn't the dumbest question the doc has heard. It's better to know than not to. Thank you from coming to my Medtalk.
Wish to add to this list If a doctor asks you if you are taking anything, be truthful. If not, whatever you are taking whether it’s an antibiotic or an illegal substance doctor needs to know because it could have a terrible reaction to other medications or might be causing your problems to begin with.
As someone with ADHD I would have written five chapters of a book, finished an art piece, and seductively danced in nothing but compression shorts all in the span of two hours with that much caffeine, taurine, vitamin b6, vitamin b12, and creatine in my system. I would then have become suddenly completely nonverbal as someone with incredibly masked autism, becoming insanely active online to cope with being physically incapable of speaking. The migraine wouldn't be fun either.
@@UnicornGuru Well I mean I could spend the time explaining what VT is, but considering most people couldn't identify what a ventrical is, it would probably be at least 3-5 paragraphs long, and at that point it's easier for people to search for it themselves so they can learn as much or as little as they'd like. My comment was just to save people some time scrolling through search results of colleges and childrens toys looking for a heart condition. I mean, I could have said "heart go brrrrrrr" but then people born before 1980 wouldn't understand either.
Hearing all these tachycardia stories reminded me of the time i wasnt feeling well and my friend (who was in St Johns Ambulance) was taking my pulse. He comments "woah, it felt like your heart rate just spiked!" And i replied, "yeah, it's coz im having a panic attack" 😅 he was not prepared for that answer but handled it great 👍
@@mariuszmoraw3571bro 240 is beyond zone 5. You’d have to overdose on meth while sprinting for hours to get to a HR as high as that. And even if you did that and your heart didn’t go into CA for some reason, your kidneys would probably shut down from rhabdomyolysis.
@@jacobc8036if im not mistaken welding while having a pacemaker isn't the smartest thing to do because welding naturally involves lots of wild electricity, that or welding is involved in the pacemaker process but hell if I know for sure
Resting for me is 50-70 depending, 187 was my absolute highest from a run. Thought my heart was gonna pop XD Thankfully took only about a minute to get down to normal though
His heart isn’t beating. It’s vibrating
Naw that’s Vfib
Frfr
Fibrillating
That's Vfib. Vtach is different
Yall missed the joke they're saying it's beating so fast it might as well be vibrating
"Well this is simple. Your back is hurting cause your heart is trying to exit your body via your spine."
@@Ashley__RoseI think they have to cut open his chest to stop the heart attack and when they do that they weld your skin back together.
Updated MORTAL KOMBAT 1 fatality.😮
😂😂😂😂
@@Ashley__Rose The rhythm his heart was in V-TAC (Ventricular Tachycardia), will degrade to V-FIB (Ventricular Fibrillation) which is a lethal, but shockable arrhythmia, so our poor friend is about to ride the lightning. and there are types of welding done with electricity.
@@Urziel99 ohhh I see! Sounds so scary!
I was told this by my cardiologist and I’ve remembered it ever since
“The heart is a muscle, you should work to help it get stronger. But you shouldn’t work it till failure.”
yeah, the ol' rookie mistake thinking the heart is a skeletal muscle you can "work out" 😂
@@sophronielCardio works out your heart, you can work out your heart, just not the same way you work your arms.
Bros trying to make you skip heart day!
@@Puddingskin01 yeah but I need to skip heart day anyway 🤣
Also fun fact,
Your heart is a muscle the size of a rat
If my paramedic ever just says "hm" like a mechanic looking under the hood of a car that will never be driven again, I'll just start crying lol
Yknow, I actually had this happen. The paramedics gave the "hmmm" of someone DEEPLY confused by the situation. "Well, everything says you're having a heart attack, but if you were, everything we've given you should have helped by now sooooo...lets just go ahead and get you to the hospital"
Turns out I have pretty awful chronic Pericarditis, and every time i have an EEG I have to tell them or the results look like a coloring book done by a 2yr old
@@CyberGenesis1 funny
I laughed too hard
"Hmm"
"Doctor, that sounds expensive."
"Well, will ya look at that" ok tell my mom I love her lmfao
The moment he said energy drink I thought that "back" pain was his kidneys crying for help
Same
same
Same. It is no joke. I have stage 4 cirrhosis and my mom had a mile long list of things for me to do. I went to the store bought a bunch of monsters and red bulls. I would drink a monster redbull mixed every Am and every 4 hours while i was doing this work. On the 6th day my PCP(my Dr lives 2 houses from my mom) he said what are u drinking. Long story short ..after 6 days of drinking those i was in literally kidney failure.
I thought my back hurt cuz i was working hard.
Needless to say i am done with them drinks.
samedt
My thought was displaced heart attack pain
He drank 5 5 hour energies and unlocked the infamous forbidden hour of the day.
Badger would be proud
I understood this reference
Fricken love it 😂
Based
5x5 is 25 hours
Yeah the forbidden hour of the day is the hour you die of heart failure
"Is he going to be able to go back to work ?"
"No, he needs to rest for 4 weeks after that slurry energy drink and if you give him another one of those.. You will be arrested for murder."
Period.
Actually he might still be arrested for attempted murder and they still have to get him to the hospital
Honestly that wouldn't even concern him, hed just complain that his worker isn't coming in and will blame him going to prison on the worker.
@@CerealExperimentsMizuki for real, I have known bosses that would bail out their employees just so they'd be on the job site. Death would just be an inconvenience, they'd find a way around it.
I had a boss who'd activitly mock an employee behind her back because she needed chemo and part time hours. So not surprised at this point.
I remember getting a tilt table test, and my heart rate skyrocketed so fast it set off the emergency alarm. I'll never forget the tech's face when she looked up at it and went "....hm!"
"Things that make you go, hmm"
- C&C music factory
"Hm!" is one of those things you *never* want to hear a medical professional say. Kinda like "Oh crap."
@@Hyacentcongrats you win the big stuffed bear prize!
I had tilt table test too, but I just passed out on mine 😅 The tech was quite apologetic/panicked but I remember slurring out "it's good data!", which calmed them down 😂
Ah yes, the tilt table test- aka- "We might have to almost kill you in order to diagnose you."
My techs didn't say "hmmm..." but they did have the "hmmm..." look on their faces. At least, they did while I could still see them, before my vision blacked out (I didn't black out, unfortunately, but my sight was kaput). I've never gone so quickly from mildly fine to wanting to vomit out my brain and/or pass out.
After they got me horizontal again I could barely move. Anyone else have hyperadrenergic POTS? The flood of norepinephrine pumped into my body when it felt like it was dying sort of... how to explain... shorted out my nerves? Including those of my autonomic system. So I had to consciously think about breathing, my heart was sort of freaking out for a while, and my muscles all felt like lead for the rest of the day.
But hey, at least it confirmed my POTS diagnosis!
every Contractor boss and retail manager on the planet
"He's dying? Well....will he be able to come in tomorrow?"
Yeap. I had to take week off work because the muscles in my back knotted so badly that it was pulling my spine out of alignment. Was like for two days before for I went to a chiropractor (at my R/N MiL’s suggestion). Got a medical leave note from the chiropractor for 7 days off work and light work for a week after. I worked in a ice cream shop where i had to haul multiple gallons of ice cream around eight hours a day, 5-6 days a week. Plus having to put together an ice cream Machine with parts that weighed almost a third my weight. (I’m five ft 3in and 105lbs). Boss did not provide any kind of back brace for lifting heavy objects. Three days into my medical leave, my boss tried to call me in… while I was at the chiropractor again. My chiropractor ripped him a new one over the phone. Same boss also got pissed when i would not do all the usual stuff at work (which led to my back issue to begin with) for that next week. I told him he could go call the chiropractor. For those wondering why I didn’t go to the hospital: the hospital would have been SO Much more expensive. Also they would have given me muscle relaxers that may have worked and wouldn’t have realigned my spine. The chiropractor performed acupuncture, heat therapy and minor electro therapy to unknot my back muscles then very gently worked to realign my spine. Four visits to him ran me about $200 where i would have paid thousands at a hospital
@@wolflinggon5664 Yeah sounds about right. I had minor surgery on my foot and could barely walk. It was my day off, and I limped in to hand my doctors note to management and when I asked to speak with one of them, another manager spoke for me, which pissed me off.
Told them that I surgery on my foot not my mouth and could speak for myself. Then I told them that I wouldnt be in for a week.
Worked at Walmart at the time in the Electronics' Department. Holy shit, the mess I came back too almost made me quit but I had some bills that needed to be paid
I fondly remember going to the doctors one time thinking I had strep throat.
Doctor walks in takes a look at my throat and says "Ah...That explains it. You don't have strep--You have Bronchitis." with the most nonchalant and driest delievery ever.
He looks at me and says "Are ya working tomorrow?"
I nod and say "Yeah." And then he just says "Yeah I wouldn't. You working Sunday?" I nodded once again and he was like "Maybe sunday..."
@@wolflinggon5664I imagined that the ice cream tubs were heavy (mostly gallons of frozen processed milk, and a couple tons of steel [is that metaphorical or literal, how much do those tubs weigh?] duh)
But damn, I did not expect Ice Cream Man to be in the list of the kind of jobs where you need to do eight to twelve kinds of CrossFit to not be shredded in the torn-to-pieces kinda way.
BRO FOR REAL
As a paramedic buddy of mine once said "Your heart rate shouldn't be measured in Hertz..."
A little bit of irony there, as the word "hertz" means "heart" in German...
Am I the only one amused by that fact?
@@xscaliersolid1194Well now I know!
@@xscaliersolid1194I mean it's Herz and not Hertz, but the sound is pretty much the same.
Ha!
Hertz is still a measurement in German! Herz means heart!
When your aorta is knocking on your spine, it tends to cause back pain.
“Lemme out! Lemme out! Lemme OUT!!!”
For some reason, the ‘That’s Amoré’ song popped in my head reading your comment…
Yeah.. like a water balloon!
@@battlebear437 Thanks, I was hoping someone else said it first.
Then you should have just let me in right?? Geez
I experienced a vtach once. 250+ bpm for 3-5 min before a doctor punched me in the chest. It felt like my whole body was vibrating. Fun times and luckily no lasting issues.
A doctor punched you??? Did it help?
Lucky your heart didn't explode
I don't think that was a doctor, I think that was just a man in a long white coat. XD
Holy shit man! No lasting damage?!? Daaaammnnn you're LUCKY! (Good doc, too, getting it to "reset" like that!)
It's called a Precordial Chest Thump. It is usually done from a distance of approximately 20 centimeters to the lower third of the sternum. Last I knew it was a recommended initial treatment by the AHA in ventricular tachycardia and for ventricular fibrillation.
There are mixed results from studies on this. In some reports it has also been stated to be useful in asystole.
As a note: There is actually a phenomenon called Commotio cordis in which a hard blow to the chest at the right moment, and right location, stops the heart. It is most commonly seen in sports, such as someone taking a baseball to the sternum. This causes ventricular fibrillation. It is usually fatal if not treated very quickly with CPR and the proper use of an AED. (VF is a shockable rhythm.) This is likely the source of the idea of the "death touch/fist of death/death punch" in martial arts.
The more you know...
(Yes, I am a nerd and an EMT. lol)
This is the type of guy to fire you after requesting off because you made a doctors appointment
No, he probably wouldn't actually fire you, but he'd in no uncertain terms tell you that he needs you to work, so you can't take off for the appointment and instead schedule it on a day you don't have work or after hours with the threat of firing you.
Well, that doesn't seem like a team player. ;-)
@@danielmeuler2877 yeah imagine having a stroke, truly a selfish prick that doesnt care about his family huh? (we are a family btw)
I mean, these types of people can try, but as long as you get evidence showing no reason from the past (as we don't know if he's gotten in trouble before), like written warnings in your file and you went to the proper people with even evidence you were having to go to the doctor, it'd blow up in the person's face
@@karinafantomu6698 depends what state your in and how much and employer is willing to lie and Fudge paperwork.
When my husband was in EMT school, they taught them "the face". The "holy crap this isn't good" panic look to be the "you'll (probably) be fine" fake look :)
My partner's dad is a doctor who's normal take on medical stuff is "ah, you're fine. Take an ibuprofen and sleep it off."
But sometimes he gets all smiley and relaxed and says stuff like "oh! What kind of pain?"
And that's when you know something is wrong.
So bear in mind the face might work on the general public, but it won't fool people who are close to you.
@@eldricgrubbidge6465 yep, and it doesn't work well on people who know about it. I called that look on a paramedics face and then told him not to worry, my blood pressure is normally that. At which point I freaked him out after he realized I couldn't see the monitor and was going solely off the look on his face. He'd started to explain to me that it wasn't normal blood pressure until he paused mid word, looked between me and the monitor a few times, and then asked "What's your normal blood pressure?". Like "100/60, so 90/55 ain't far off". Apparently I was only 2 points off on one number and dead on for the other. He relaxed and continued on with whatever I was in the ambulance for.
Med school need that lesson... My very expresive face don't help😅
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"If he goes to the hospital, can he come back tomorrow for work? I really need him."
and if they can't, we are going to need to guilt trip the other employees into gifting him their PTO, instead of us just taking the hit. Really need a fifth vacation home, ya know?
Employer when he doesn’t show up the next day: “call him and tell him he’s fired for not having PTO to cover the absence because he’s only worked for us two months and employees don’t start to accrue PTO until they’ve been here at least four months. Then, when he files, tell unemployment he quit because he chose not to come to work.”
Whoa, I didn’t know they could try that 🤯
"Oh by the way were taking this out of your paycheck and your going to be working free over time"
Shouldn’t have told him anything. Just slap the pads on and zap!!! Maybe some versed afterwards
Kid I went to high school with died this way. He was funny as hell, wish he was still around. Always be aware of what you're putting into your body and what it can do.
"my back hurts"
"Yeah that's your kidneys shutting down sir"
Had that happen to me a few weeks ago. Wasn’t a fun experience. Twice in one week.
@@jameshersom2536 Now im just curious to know how that happened twice a week sounds quite impresive
@k4fr366 maybe sepsis infection? I know when I had a kidney infection that turned sepsis do to the antibiotics not working and it spreading I techincally had 2 kidney infections in 1 week and my body was shutting down. I was in hospital for well over a month and couldn't even walk to bathroom.
@@YvonneNonYaI'm amazed anybody survives sepsis. Were you at home and then got admitted to the hospital? Congratulations on surviving that!
@@jameshersom2536Patterns help us figure things out. Hope you found an alternative that works better for you.
You know what’s worse than your worker being out for a day? Getting sued by him because you gave him a heart attack
If you knowingly accept it and have been doing it repeatedly the court isn’t going to feel to sorry for you
It’s not a heart attack
@@BryanM86He could argue he was being pressured by his boss.
OK first of all ventricle tachycardia is not a heart attack it is a elevated more than elevated heart rate which they give you a combination of different heart medication’s to slow your heart rate down to a regular beat
And kidney and bladder stones and failure, liver issues etc, etc
Be careful what you put into your body. It determines what your body is willing to do for you!!
Love y'all ❤❤❤❤❤
*Mans heart explodes out of his chest.*
Boss - “you’re still coming in tomorrow right?”
I had kind of a reverse of that. I do IT security consulting and we had a new client to fly out to. We got an email over the weekend that he had to push the start time on Monday from 9:00 to 10:00 for a doctor's appointment. When we got there, we learned it was for a follow-up from the heart attack he'd had *the previous Thursday*. He didn't tell us about it because he didn't want us to have to change our schedule and rebook travel. We told him that we would gladly have changed it up so he could rest a bit. Our billable hours aren't more important than the client's life. (Besides, if he dies, we might have to start the sales process over from scratch.)
I’m having a valve replacement next week and my employer asked me if I’ll be able to come into work after.
@@TheGraveyardWriter shit dude. I'd personally tell them to fuck off but I know every situation is different. That sucks. Sorry you have an employer like that
@@5tarSailor it is what it is man , some people are just stupid.
Capitalism at its finest.
Imagine you drink a preworkout mix slushie and your heart decides to be a speaker playing an extremely bass boosted song
I had a health teacher tell a story about when he was in college. He had stayed up all night studying for an exam, so to stay awake for it, he binged a bunch of caffeinated drinks. In the middle of the exam, his heart stopped and he had to go to the hospital.
Did he pass?
@@EGRJ I think the term is "expire"
@@EGRJ I like the way you think.
I caffeine-binge-studied for a final in college. During the test I lost my sense of time. I answered 3 questions in 12 seconds, then stared at the next one for 5 minutes before I realized I wasn't reading it.
@Drew Kime of all the times I've done those "fun times"... I'll pass and stick with a different life, thank you!!!
“The heart is a muscle and therefore should be worked until failure” -Some gym bro probably
Underrated comment 😁😆👌
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HAHAHAHA
This is hilarious. UA-cam left a little rating thing on your comment, and I gave it an "excellent" rating with the reason being "funny"
The liver is a muscle I'm attempting to exercise till failure
ems showed up hooked me up told me my heart rate was 250-270 bpm and my blood pressure was apocalypse levels the look in his face before he radioed the hospital was priceless
Fr i had a nurse look at me like that at a blood bank once lmao. Had just gotten out of gym and drank a rockstar energy 3 hrs before... 230/250 is apparently not good for a 5'5" 160lbs 16 y/o with a high possibility of having heart proplems later 🤷🏼♂
I had mine over 240 nurse freaked lol
@@Bttrycd my guy I don't think 230/250 is good for anyone unless you're a shrew
@@BttrycdAre you sure it was 230? That's fucking INSANE for anyone that size.
Damn guys im 180 pounds 6ft maybe more, 15yo oldie. And i had the same problem😂 i drank a monster energy drink 3 days in a row before the test while walkin to school at fresh hours and working out, even tho it was extra cold outside😂😂😂. If i recall correctly my bpm was 220 and pulse 100, overally i wasn't feeling bad nor shitty. My ass just was tired half a week into the month😂❤
Fun fact, when something is wrong with your insides, your body doesn't quite know where to send the signals to, it will send pain signals to your back, chest, or both
My hip!
My back!
My hearts in V-Tach!
OH MY GOD LMAO I am going to be singing that in my head with my next vtach pt.
This comment!
LOL
Im assuming this dudes midoverdose on caffeine
V-Tach just kicked in yo
Got a call for a "Cardiac Arrest." We arrive on scene and the guy who called walks out perfectly fine. I ask him "Whats going on? why did you call 911?" He tells me he thinks hes having a heart attack. I ask him " have you had a heart attack before?" he says no. I ask " how do you know youre having a heart attack?" He tells me "Because after I did Coke, I started feeling my heart beat real fast...."
Ah....very well, lets get you on the monitor.
I feel his anxiety though 😂
Your "Ah" explains it all. Lol so many questions suddenly answered
At least bro is honest
@Tristqn Ejdjeh Hey man, with people cutting fentanyl into everything now, better safe than sorry.
I think that I had a heart attack about two years ago. Extreme chest arm and back pain out of nowhere, got real sweaty for about 20 minutes.
Never went to a hospital or told anyone about it. But I thought that was it for me there when it was happening.
A boss asking if his employee can still go back to work when he is almost having a heart attack is the most accurate boss shit ever
I think that that's his parent
I had a fever that quickly spiked to dangerous levels while I was on break. I went from just being miserable to not being able to walk up stairs and hallucinating within half an hr. They still wanted me to finish my shift. Never seen a paramedic go pale quite that fast. Turned out I had bery bad walking pneumonia with complications and shouldn't have even been conscious days before thanks to a broken rib that I thought I had only cracked and was ignoring (there's not much they can do for cracked ribs anyway, figured I'd save myself the 14hrs waiting for a doctor to see me in the er).
…and when they find out dude is really sick they say “It’s not my fault! Can I get sued for this?”
I was electrocuted at work once and my entire arm went numb, and my boss insisted I keep on working for an additional 20-25 minutes afterward until I could be replaced.
That's how you know these are all true
"... and welding is gonna have a hole different meaning to you soon". Made my day! :D
I don't get it
@@jakemelinko When someone gets shocked with the paddles it’s sometimes called welding
@@phoenixfire8978 Thank you for this explanation!
@@phoenixfire8978 thanks, dude...
@@phoenixfire8978thanks. I didn't get it either
Yeah, I remember when my tachycardia kicked in once while I was in school. I got sent to the nurse's office, the one who saw me being one of those "don't come to me unless you're actively dying" sorts. She took my pulse and her whole demeanor changed.
After a minute, she looked over at the other nurse and said "I can't get a proper count, his pulse is too fast."
Needless to say, I was off to the hospital very quickly.
I was at lunch in first grade and the girl in front of me SAW my heart beating fast and told the monitor. She was no nonsense and thought she was freaking out over nothing, and was rolling her eyes when she put her hand on my chest for like 3 seconds... then bodily lifted me out my seat and ran to the office. Fun, isn't it? I had SVT.
At least y’all got treatment I got told to suck it up when I had fluid in my lungs, my buddy was watching ice packs melt on my head in a matter of minutes and yet it was no big deal to the nurses.
As a "Brittle" type 1 diabetic, who also had too many of /those/ types of nurse on shift from elementary to high school.. they are at times the utter worst. especially cuz I'd have to go to the office /a lot/ that was part of the brittle in brittle t1 diabetic.. I was also prone to nosebleeds that would take ages to stop regardless of how much pressure one put in the "right spot" (they would say i was not holding it right) like I get it they prob get a bunch of kids trying to ditch class but I was one'a those odd ducks that actually enjoyed school (not that they would believe me). I still remember going to nurse in high school once with a extremely stubborn 3.2 blood sugar (Canadian diabetic #. multiply by 18 to get USA. it's really low, some pass out at 4.5) an she didn't believe me till I showed her the kit, and then made me take another reading in front of her... only then was it get the glucagon kit and a trip to the hospital cuz the kit was outdated and juice boxes I'd downed where doing absolutely nothing.
My heartrate gets to 180 because of my tachycardia i have to take beta blockers for it. Whenever paramedics or hospital stsff see my pulse above 115 they freak out to which i say thats normal for me
Well you sure showed her
When your boss is trying to literally kill you.
been there, honestly not fun
Modern capitalism is ethical and cool and good
@@jellifish9389 Capitalism was even worse in the past. Working-class made a lot of gains for safety. The whole system is still generally exploitive and shitty, but workers now at least don’t have it as bad as workers did in the Industrial Revolution.
@@jellifish9389 Oh please. Was communism better? Socialism? Mercantilism? Feudalism? Greedy bosses have existed ever since Chief Ragrag tossed Thugthug out of the cave and told him to come back with a deer or not at all.
@@notcrazy6288 maybe the fact that their all shitty means we need a better system?
Nothing that ends in "slurry" will ever enter my body.
Immortality slurry?
@@ffkkekednddndn2078fuck no, I don't wanna live forever and have to watch all that I love and know fall away from me over and over again
@@specimenx4139 you can share it
@@specimenx4139 superman power slurry
@@ffkkekednddndn2078 Now that one I see far less issue with
“And to answer your question, no he isn’t gonna be able to go back to work, you can go ahead and clock him out”
"What do you mean my heart? I said my back hurts. My heart is in the front..." probably.
😂 We hope so…
Literally what my mom said when she had a heart attack.
His kidneys processing those drinks: 👀👀👀👀
To be fair the heart is posterior to the sternum
"Well sir, your hear WAS in the front, but some of those beeps we're hearing are actually your heart bouncing all around like a pinball because whatever you drank is not something anyone should ever drink."
“My back is hurting” Yes sir that’s because your heart is about to trigger a flashpoint event and enter the speed force through your spinal cord.
I love Flash references
Same
I feel like this is the place to ask, I understood all of these jokes except the welding reference.
Since when so body parts "weld" ?
@@Mygg_JeagerI think what he meant by that was, that this dudes heart is basically about to move so fast, that the heat energy it puts out is gonna cause it to start glowing red-hot... kind of like a welding rod. The faster something moves, the more heat energy is generated.
@@Cheeto_Fingerz
Never in a million years was I gonna get that lol
Those power drinks are no joke. They make your heart rate go up if you drink a lot of them.
I lost a good friend to him drinking several power drinks at once.
So sorry for your loss
Sorry for your loss
Kathy, did your friend have a heart attack & pass away? 😱
I’m so sorry for your loss …
Did you ever find him?😂😂😂
“Um, that’s your heart using your spine as a door knocker.”
I don't think there are many more terrifying noises in healthcare than hearing a paramedic giving a slightly surprised "...hmm".
Especially after they say something like "at your age this shouldnt be be a worry" then they take a the long hmmmmm, hits wrong
That or hearing the medic exclaim “oh, sh!t!” After hooking you up to said monitor while you’re in the middle of telling the nice EMT lady that you’re cold…
Idk what happened after that- I was told
I was 2 BP points away from not having a BP, which I suppose explains the whole being cold, losing consciousness and “oh sh!t” comment from the medic.
On the bright side, I was too sick to care and used to being too sick to care @ the time.
@@fludderkiddiebro are you ok? (now)
Try hearing your heart beat but it is the only thing you hear 😂
@@fludderkiddiethat sounds like hypotension
My favorite is when you feel your heart beat skip and stop for just like 2 seconds, and then just carry on like nothing every happened. Amazing.
Yeah, the PVCs! Isn't that such a wild feeling? It's really distracting though.
😮
I slipped on one of those magnetic building blocks and i felt my heart skip a beat, it didn't stop though
Ok so it’s not just me. It almost feels like flutters. Like an excited feeling
Yeah happens to me a lot. Actually got told by my nerologist to get it looked at (adhd meds can impact heart rate and as he put it better to be told your over reacting than wind up dead) and turns out I have non serious things like extra PVCs that are not constant, a mital valve flap thats a little too long and bows slightly, and a stronger than normal connection to I think it was the sinus nerve? Or am I thinking of the Vagus nerve? The thing that controls heart rythm.
When you're heart is a metronome for heavy metal... it's probably a good thing you listen to metal. You know what's coming.
The breakdown?😅
I’m thinking either Chop Suey or Don’t fear the Reaper.
@@alertsquirrel haha yes
@Jake from Space both good choices. I'm going with reaper though. Fits the situation way better
I'm thinking double bass drum speed metal
You're such a good actor! You make it easy to forget that you're all of these characters! I hope your channel is successful, you deserve it!
I found you from your video on what to do if you're alone choking. That video was excellent and good information but I had no idea how humorous the rest of your channel was going to be! Much love and respect to you!
“What’s that mean?” “It means we’re lucky your heart hasn’t exploded yet.”
I took ecstasy and literally was sent home just to have more seizures with a bpm 245 and they were like whatever 😅 it may have been fake molly but also i have health issues and ecstasy now is being cut with bath salts and meth often
@@HurlingMongroachdamn
@@HurlingMongroachgotta have a test kit for that stuff i don't take anyones word for it.
@@angel2jimenez219or you just take ectasy
Had a buddy I Iraq shotgun three 5hour energy and two monsters. Mid patrol he collapses and the medic can't find a pulse because his heart was beating so fast you couldn't feel it in a vein. Medic gets a monitor on him and then you hear a quiet "holy fuck". Medic jabs him with morphine and we have to carry him back to the trucks and we drove straight to Balad because we knew our aid station couldn't handle this.
Long story short, 5hour energy was banned in our battalion and only water could be used on patrol. We got inspections before patrol for "contraband". Guy lived by the way.
Yeah sounds like the army guys I know
Okay thats on the list of phrases of things you DONT wanna hear the paramedics day
@@elvingearmasterirma7241 yea, and that goes double for combat medics.
@@Shaun_Joneshow much caffeine and sugar did this guy consume????? you shouldn't consume 2 of either of those in short time span let alone 5 of em
Dudes heart was going so fast it went past The Fast & The Furious stage and made him witness The Event Horizon. 😮🤯
This could also be on an episode of "Things you don't want hear the EMTs say".... "Hmmm"😂
I've had to train myself not to say that. Also "Interesting".
I would assume "uh-oh" is also on the things you never want to hear an emt say
“Oops” is another word that you never want to hear.
"Welding is going to have a whole different meaning to you soon".
It's right up there with "huh..."
"Oh yeah bro. Right to the Dome!" I love this line.
I'll never forget the paramedics face as he told me my heart was very angry. It was bouncing between 40 and 150 every second.
Whoa. That doesn't sound good :0
@@snjert8406not good is something I would not say how in the name of god is his heart is still functional
Yeah same, I'd get sleepy and check my smart watch and my bpm is in the 30s, freak out, jump up and it spikes up to 160, cardiologist just shrugs.
@@mike4402it took about exactly a decade from me first seeking help for my heart to now finally getting help with it... it's so annoying how doctors don't really listen. I'd get episodes of super high heart rates that'll go on for 30 sec to ~2hrs, but bc no monitor could catch it I was dismissed. Recording the episodes on the EKG on my watch is what helped.
Try to see if the HeartWatch app helps, and some sleep tracker where it can track your heart + breathing, and try to catch it with an EKG if possible. You've likely done this but if you haven't, highly suggest.
Why was that though?
Being cardioverted while conscious is rare, and not pleasant. It’s like having an angry Clydesdale kick you in the chest.
Can confirm. It sucks *major* big time.
That just sounds like an ugly time. Hope you're feeling better!
Can confirm from too Many drugs on an 18th birthday. All I can say is the words “pain” and “shitty” don’t do it nearly enough justice. Wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy.
@@tessamarie8698 See, I saw someone say the other day "Ya know, I *would* wish these things on my worst enemy," and then gave the reasoning behind it, and... after seeing that video, I tend to agree. I don't know if a parasite can have a bad day, but I would one hundo percent wish that kind of pain on malaria! (John from VlogBrothers was talking about TB, was a funny video)
I hate the smell
if I remember correctly it was VTAC that my father was experiencing on the night we took him to the hospital. I remember sitting at the foot of his ER bed watching the heart monitor go from 90-something to about 200 in under a minute. It was terrifying and he nearly died, but thanks to the ambulance crew that listened to my mom and sister and I and took him to the hospital and the hospital’s amazing staff, he’s still with us nearly a year later.
Glad everything turned out fine!! 😊 any issue like that is terrifying to be in!
Synchronized cardioversion in the field. EMS GOLD!!!
A medic is one person on this planet you never wanna hear go "Hmm...."
Holy crap, 10k likes. 🤣
Yep 😂
"that shouldn't be in there..."
When they start triple and quadruple checking their monitor electrode placement that you personally watched them place correctly
"Oh no, that's wrong" probably would scare me more
Oh no, and uh oh, also.. even worse, when they walk in a look at your chart for a minute then says, oh God okay..
I was born with a whole heart, i am gonna use the whole heart!
“I paid for the whole heart rate range so I’m going to use the whole heart rate range.”
Born with a whole brain too. People tend to ignore chunks of that thing.
Lmao this was the best comment 🤣
The whole thing….all at once.
My heart rate hit 240 when I went into SVT. That was a weird feeling. Didn't hurt, but my vision started going white after 10 minutes, and the flutter felt like my shirt was going to fly off.
Thank God for CathLab.
Shit! Never had my vision go *white*. I've had it go black and I've seen the stars, but if my vision goes white I'm about to say "Father into your hands I commend my spirit, if anyone can hear me tell my family I love them."
I have SVT too and that's about what I hit too. It went on for 6 hours while I was working (at a doctor's office) because he insisted it was probably anxiety 🙄 another nurse finally got sick of it and just did and EKG and brought it too him in a room with a pt. He walked out and told me we can either call an ambulance or have one of the girls here drive you over to the ER (it was basically across the street)
Like mofo you had me dealing with this for 6 hrs!! 😑 Ended up having to get adenosine twice 🥲 12/10 do not recommend lol
@adhdhamster Six hours?
A lot of people would run out of electrolytes in under one hour and die.
@@stephenballard3759 I wasn't sweating or anything. I was just in SVT the whole time. It was pretty awful.
@@adhdhamster Same, I have SVT as well, I don't get blurred vision or anything like that, my heart just beats extremely fast out of rhythm. Sometimes its only a few minutes, but one time in high school it went all night. Had to try to sleep with my chest just pounding.
“Welding is going to have a whole different meaning to you soon!” Hahahahaha! Loved this
They gonna weld a pole to his back?
@@jordanhunter3375 No, what’s happening is that there is something in the “pre-work out slurry” that he was given that is driving his heart into a crazy fast rate (normal heart rate : 60-100; his is in excess of 200).
Jason has described a Ventricular Tachychardia (V-Tach) and one of the ways to treat this; especially when a patient is unstable, is to defibrillate. That means putting two electrical conducting pads on your chest and running a current somewhere between 200-1000 volts, hoping it will “reset” your heart and let it beat normally again. Hence the pun on “welding”.
I’m not sure about the back pain but I think it’s meant to be an atypical symptom of V-Tach. Most people with complain of chest or generalised symptoms.
For anyone confused, "Pre-workout" is apparently a supplement that you take well, pre-workout, which is basically energy drink + other stuff. I was trying to figure out why an energy drink before a workout was bad. So dude was basically mixing caffeine with more caffeine.
Im more confused about why welding would have a different meaning to him. Am I the only one who didnt get the joke?
@@Crocoroar I guess that's what the thingys they put in your arteries are called. Not sure tho
@@Crocoroarpresumably referring to severe spinal treatment of fusing adjacent vertebrae
caffeine-ception
Bro found the infinite caffeine glitch
My neighbor complained of back pain after using pre workout powder for a while and came over to tell me (any doctor or anyone in the medical field you know when people know your job ask random questions about their health) and I told him he should stop using it, get an appointment with a cardiologist and then make sure his kidneys are alright. He then told me “it’s not kidney pain I’ve had kidney issues in the past” I stood there slack jawed. People are so weird sometimes. He did eventually go to the ER because I called EMS because he drank his usual caffeine death smoothie but his body was fed up, went into VT thankfully he works out in his garage with it open and I was checking the mail.
lol that guy
>“it’s not kidney pain I’ve had kidney issues in the past”
this same logic got both my parents a one way trip to the crematorium
@@private-local-enemy yeah it’s the same logic I’ve dealt with when I had patents that said “it’s impossible to get into a crash I’ve already been in one!” When I begged my patient to stop drunk driving after he drove himself to the ER because of chest pain and he was stone cold drunk and having an anxiety attack from the antidepressants he took while drinking -.- some people can’t be helped
I’m sorry to hear about your parents but I love your sense of humor. Dark humor is the way us healthcare workers cope! You either are one or you’d be a great one you got the stomach for it!
@@private-local-enemy Bro mine too, old people are different...
@@private-local-enemyI'm so sorry for laughing as hard as I am at that last sentence
@@private-local-enemy generally, all trips to the crematorium are one way.
you never wanna hear a paramedic make that specific 'hmm'
or a "uh" also if your medic got a look that says "that's weird" yeah, not really a good thing for you.
"Welding is going to have a whole different meaning to you!"Lol 😉
I told someone that I was going to drink half of a 5 Hour Energy. She almost yells at me, "Don't drink those! They're dangerous! My niece drank THREE of them and ended up in the hospital!"
My friend overheard this and interjects, "Yeah, if you're stupid enough to drink three of them, you deserve to go to the hospital."
Three 5 Hour Energies is 600 mg caffeine (720 if they were extra-strength) which is a lot, but not "need to go to the hospital" levels, at least for most people. I once had twice that (in caffeine pills) within 2 hours back in undergrad, and I was . . . pretty weird for a while, but not in any sort of distress. Of course, my caffeine tolerance was pretty nuts at that point . . .
@@logitimate I'm sure it's all subjective I drink one can of Coke after 2pm, and I can't fall asleep until 11-12...
@@logitimate gonna be a body weight issue
@@logitimate 1800mg of caffeine is definitely way more than enough to be in the "need to go to the hospital range". up to 400mg a day is considered safe, and "The FDA estimates toxic effects, like seizures, can be observed with rapid consumption of around 1,200 milligrams of caffeine"
@@picgmr1575 I took 1200 mg (twice 600), not 1800, and as for the FDA estimate, that undoubtedly depends heavily on tolerance (and lean body mass, for that matter).
Very glad my work is understanding of medical issues. I was working at camp this summer, and during a long outdoor activity I started to feel quite faint. Told my boss he needed to take over with the kids cause I was feeling so poorly and he was like "It's OK, I got this, go inside, cool off, and get checked out at the nurse's office." Nurse figured I got heat exhation. I felt really bad that I basically had to stop doing my job an hour early, but the higher ups were just like "No, you had to take care of yourself, that comes first!"
Dude I work at a summer camp who practically did the same thing for me, although my issue was electrolyte depletion. I love it when people are actual humans
Unheard of, God bless them. Gotta value such wonderful people.
Damn that's sounds nice. I worked at a charcoal plant till they recently layed me off, so glad that happened. Someone shut the door to an enclosed space I was in, cause some corporate asshat was coming thru and they wanted it to look nice. Started feeling dizzy from lighter fluid fumes from instant light charcoal, walked out to find the door shut, no oxygen. When I went to the on site nurse I was blatantly accused of taking drugs. I'm 19 and don't even drink much. Ended up having damage to my throat and lungs.
In my country this is the norm. If you tell your boss that you're not feeling well, and they say something that isn't along the lines of "do you want the day off?", they could lose their job for that. Same with calling off sick from work. you don't even need to call them, you can just text, and all they're allowed to say is "feel better". They don't even ask you when do you feel like you could get back to work, they'll usually just call a couple of days later to ask you if you're feeling any better, and if you say "yes", then they'll ask you if you feel well enough to come back to work this week.
@@asingularkriegsman3316hope you sued. My dad worked at a plant where there was some type of safety device in use for some reason I don't remember. They wanted him to remove the device. He wouldn't do it. If he would have done what they said, he would have killed somebody. He also saved the plant from a fire and they were mad at him that he didn't refill the extinguisher.
I absolutely LOVE all these "real things" vids. Not only funny but also the portrayal abilities of this dude!! Keep 'em coming, please! My late Ma was an LPN & I enjoyed hearing her stories of the 11p-7a shift at the county hospital. Thank you for giving me that same thrill of medical stories of the ER. You rule!
My mom recently began having heart problems like this. First time it happened she thought maybe our pulse ox was going crazy cause it was bouncing back and forth from 80 to 240. She had me check her pulse and I had to say, "Nope, it's right. I can't even count as fast as your heart is beating. Time to call the ambulance." They've got it under control with meds now but it was pretty wild.
If you need a cattle auctioneer to count your heart beats, you've got an issue on your hands.
Hope that guy found a better job. Or at least a better boss.
In construction, you really won’t.
Well, actually it’s three times the same guy…
@@Stadtpark90so better meds
@@Stadtpark90 They're based on real stories
Yeah that backache is likely cardiac in nature 😂
I was thinking kidney issues, like stones.
@@user-wr3vt8uq4s energy drinks and a heart rate over 200 is more likely cardiac in nature than kidney stones. The rate means the heart is likely to have some ischaemia, causing pain. This can be chest pain, shoulder, arm, jaw, backache or even stomach
If his heart rate is that high, his BP is likely through the roof as well and the renal artery gets about 1/4 of the cardiac output going through it.
I wish more people knew how often back pain has links to cardiac problems. Like we sometimes learn about it wrt women having heart attacks but it's not just women this can happen to.
Also, with that kind of blood pressure, aortic aneurysm is a possibility, which can present as back pain
I love how you really feel like there are 3 people in this room.
"Well, if all his problem is with his heart, why didn't he just say so? I have a slurry for that!"
"Oh, heart problems? Two more servings of slurry should make that stop!"
@@alexw.7097 Yeah, I don't think he'd have heart complaints ever again.
if i ever need a paramedic, he's gotta be as humorous as this guy
Most are. Dark humor is a coping mechanism for Emergency Responders.
I was in an accident where I died for a second, came back to life, helicopters flying over, radio announcing the accident, on t.v.
- call into work, IN THE VAN, not yet removed from it
- "so are you coming in?"
- turn on your tv and tell me am i coming in
- "so you'll be in tomorrow?"
- i'm going to the hospital
Holy crap.
me: why do i have a slight headache
google:
Lol the welding/ICD reference was funny. It is crazy how some people can be so stable in VT and have no idea, whereas others pass out. Gotta love the human body
I don't understand the welding reference. Would you explain it for me?
@@zedmelon Implanted Defibrillators can pick up the welding energy as noise and inappropriately shock the patient thinking that it is a deadly heart rhythm. One of the reasons why welding is contraindicated in patients with ICD’s.
@@cardiacdrummer5443wow. Thx for explaining. I guess his welding days are over?
@@Joy21090 if gets an ICD implanted, yes. Most likely he's going to the hospital for electric synchronized cardioversion (according to AHA guidelines)
@@zedmelon actually, "welding" is a slang term for cardioversion or defibrillation of the heart by use of an electrical shock. The purpose of the shock is to interrupt a troublesome rhythm and allow normal rhythm to return. In slang, paramedics say they are welding the patient.
My resting heart rate normally was under 50 BPM before I got Leukemia. I'm in a doctor's office that's a floor beneath the floor I get my chemo. This female nurse isn't allowing us to leave because " No, we need to get these reading. " ... She didn't know my Dad is a paramedic and is intimately aware with how my body performed medically before I got Leukemia, so she hooks me up to a monitor... and it says my BPM is 195, I'm feeling nauseous and dizzy and my skin is feeling like it's tightening down around me. So, this lady keeps going " No, it's fine. Stay here. I said it's fine. " Dad gets pissed off, stands up and says " Don't you try to feed me that bullshit. I'm an ex medic and that is NOT OKAY. You can hurry up and get this done in the next five minutes or we're getting ahold of his doctor. " So she dragged her feet, five minutes went by and she peeks into the room to say " It'll be another ten. "
Dad was furious. Called the doctor just upstairs and said what's happening. He heard what my BPM was and screamed " WHAT!? GET HIM UP HERE NOW! " over the phone loud enough I could hear him while laid out on the little exam table barely able to stay conscious.
We get up there and turns out I was in the danger zone for dehydration and blood loss from chemo. I had to get two transfusions and a full bag of fluids, plus a shot of morphine for the pain because my skin was beginning to burn and I didn't have my painkillers on me, so the doctor goes " Get him a full dose of morphine, now. " ( Normally he started out with half but everybody there knew me pretty well and that I had a high tolerance to opiates and other forms of pain control. Kind of obvious someone's not faking pain for a fix when their heart rate is skyrocketing from their body trying to keep up with all the rapidly dwindling resources. )
And hoooo boy was my doctor furious. My doctor was a good elderly man. Good at his job. He's no longer a doctor, but... still not gonna say his name because I actually kept in touch with him after he treated my cancer because we considered him family. - That guy was so furious that " his nephew " ( Because I jokingly called him " Uncle Doctor *His name* " and he insisted I just call him Uncle *his name* and he just called me his nephew. ) - that I suddenly didn't see that nurse working on the fourth floor or any floor for that matter. Legit think he got her fired for nearly putting me in the dirt. Frankly? Good. She was working at a Children's hospital. Imagine if her stupidity got a child killed rather than an 18 year old being treated as a pediatric case that at least was able to hang in there for a fair bit longer. That scares me idiots like that person sometimes somehow bumble through nursing school.
Always remember: 50% of all doctors and nurses graduated in the bottom half of their class! 🤔⚡🤦
@@brookeggleston9314 Excellent point that often is overlooked.
I've known several nurses personally. I've known some professionally.
Yes, it can be a terrible job for varied reasons & many work very hard &/or are very caring...but that doesn't equate to: actually knows what they're doing.
I can think of exactly TWO that were amazing. The rest, in a word, nope.
Having said all that: Pretty much every profession has good & bad & all in between.
How do you suffer blood loss from chemo?
When I became CNA on one of me first shifts during the education (in Germany it switches between going to school and working in a hospital/nursing home). Most of the nurses on this floor were rude and when I did my round to measure the vital signs of the patients one men had a Puls of 120 or 140. I wasn’t sure if I should report it or not. I didn’t want to be yelled at for disturbing them, cause I wasn’t sure if it would be that big of a deal.
Like one hour or later, I checked again and it was the same. This time I went to one nurse and she contacted the doctor. I was scared that because I didn’t tell them right away he might suffer the consequences. But as it never came up that his Puls wasn’t normal, I guess he is fine.
Later we got taught in school more about vital signs but this situation taught me to always tell other medical staff when something concerns me about a patient.
@@larafranke1802 I was speaking with a friend Just This Morning about how terrible it is that we have to be afraid to "do good" or "the right thing" for fear of over-the-top negativity.
Ah... I am so glad I left that job. 😌
I kept having major stomach problems and the doctors didn't think it was stress-related, but it all went away once I quit.
It's been 7 years, but I still think about how much better my life is now.
Dude I worked with used to drink monsters like water and had this same thing happen. will never forget the instant change of demeanor of the ems when she checked him.
Watching a trucker mix redbull, 5 hr, and caff/diet pills at the gas station counter is one of my weirdest experiences.
my step dad will drink crazy amounts of energy drinks when he's driving. he says it has no effect on him, whereas sometimes I'll drink a glass of tea and shake. truckers have got it rough man
@@scissor_raceEveryone chooses what job to work… I just hope they take a moment to watch their health. They could easily end themselves, and others, by combining one too many of these, suffering a major heart attack while on the road.
Snorts ritalin
He just wanted to die tbh
Hope the ambulance followed his truck
bro's heart was singing free bird💀💀💀
Bro’s heart was playing free bird on double time
@@obiwankenobi4252 Nah its the DDR remix
Darude Sandstorm... 😅
Backache // heart trying to exit through spine。
The face Jason makes when he goes "...hm..." goes through my head at least twice a day 😂
As a metal drummer any time my heart rate goes high enough for my brain to think of it like a metronome I know it's time to call someone
lol, same. I can usually nail mine without reference from a quick neck press. It is a stupid, useless talent.
@@lh3540 if it can save a life it ain't useless.
"I have good news and bad news. The good news is I just heard the best grindcore blast pattern I've ever heard. The bad news is it's coming from your circulatory system."
A single 5 hr energy drink sent my sis to the ER. They found out she had mitroval prolapse, which had gone entirely undetected before. But she went fully unconscious, and they went full panic mode to get her back, raising her legs up and shaking while they got medicine. She never knew she had any heart problems at all. That stuff is no joke!
I could've lost her to a tiny lil bottle of energy drink...
I'm glad she ended up okay!
@@AutumnTehKitty ty for that! She's good now.
I once had a doctor tell me no amount of caffeine would cause heart issues.
I guess they failed to take pre-existing conditions into account.
I'm so sorry to hear that she went through all that😮 I stopped drinking monster energy Java not too long ago, after drinking one of those and two coffees in the same day. My heart was not happy. Now the 5-Hour energy. If I take one of those I will literally take the tiniest little sips during a 6-10-hour. Making sure that I drink water in between, eat when I'm hungry and take plenty of rest breaks. I pulled an all-nighter last year decluttering my yard and front porch. I literally had maybe one and a half to two bottles throughout the entire evening into the next morning. I can never drink a whole bottle or even half a bottle because it's too acidic on my stomach. I asked people with heart problems should not take any of these energy drinks.
Oh and just an update.... I haven't had any energy drinks in a while. Their last resort for me. But I still do enjoy coffee and espresso
those things are crazy! i have never tried a 5-hr energy drink because i'm afraid i'd react this way.
I have a condition where my heart rate frequently spikes to 120bpm when I'm at rest and it's not a fun time. I can't imagine being conscious with a heart rate of 240, that sounds awful. Just knock me out at that point
i have SVT my resting is like that as well but i’ve gotten to 235 before I thought I was dying I saw my chest move a little near my heart you can hear it in your ears it’s gross
I have POTS and without beta blockers my resting will be 100-120, standing goes to 160-175. So far I've just gotten dizzy, nauseous, greyed out (presyncope), and sweat profusely. 10 years ago I was in a car accident and adrenaline drove me up over 220bpm.... really don't want to ever experience that again -_-
I was recently put on propanol because my heart rate was 120 at rest, nothing like constantly being out of breathe, having upper back pain that feels like your spine is broken, and pounding behind your eyes 😅. My heart rate is back down to 70-80 (depending on my pain level) resting and I feel a lot better.
I took ecstasy with bpm 245 and doctors were like whatever till i started talking slowly and had a couple seizures
@@kimberlyheredia538 you were put on propranolol, propanol would kill you
Ive seen this four times now and it gets better every single time. Unironically one of my favourite musicals.
Reminds me of when we did the heartrate tracking stuff in gym class back in the day and the guys going over our heart rates and gets to mine like "I don't know how you're living right now but alright." That's stuck with me for a long time. Apparently my resting was too low but my at work was way too high.
That sounds like your blood vessels had problem moving from contracted to relaxed and back. Or I just talk out of my ass. Thats also a strong possibility haha.
Yeah my heartbeat goes absolutely nuts when I do strenuous activity. It's why I don't run anymore. 190+ BPM. If I keep it up for long enough I get real nauseous. My resting heart rate is really high too, but I'm healthy.
Mine is like that too - Postular Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome and Ehlers Danlos - Hypermobile Type. Resting HR often gets below 60, and my HR after strenuous activities often exceeds 180. It's crazy.
My team of doctors and specialists think I may have the same problem as you = EDS. Being sent to a thoracic physician and a rheumatologist... My dad has to drive me around an hour to go to the nearest city for it over a road that makes my back spasm and then we gotta get home while my back is in spasm. Hoping we can do both in one day when I can get to them. Blessings from South Eastern Australia, Dot
can be a symptom of "an enlarged heart" (no idea the medical name). very low pulse at rest, but heart races when put to work, and you tire real quick
"You blended five Red Bulls with a cup of pre-workout? Before wielding?"
"Yeah...? Is that bad?"
"Ask your heart when you try to go to bed"
Heart: *(PANICKED SCREAMING)*
@@weldonwin (you can faintly hear the sound of muffled speedcore and terrorcore inside of your chest cavity)
He was dual wielding
Reminds me when I was officially diagnosed with PSVT. For years I had issues where my heart would abruptly start beating incredibly fast, and I would have to sit down and breath to get it to go back to normal. Rather than see a doctor I just lived with it, until I got covid. Covid itself wasn't bad, but it must had made my condition much more severe cause I ended up having a really bad episode that sent me to the hospital. My heart had been beating 200+ bmp almost non-stop for what must have been close to an hour. They had to give me multiple doses of some strong medicine. About a month or two after I got an ablation done and I haven't had any issues ever since.
Sadly even though I stopped taking my beta-blockers for several days before my ablation appointment, when I went in to get it done, for some reason they couldn't induce the SVT in my heart to find the area they needed to ablate. Woke back up to the news that they couldn't find it to fix it :(
Maybe one day I can have a different hospital try it? Not sure.
@MrPerson61 same thing happened to me to. The surgeon said we can try again under sedation but I've been too scared to try. I hate worrying about going into svt again though.
@@jeanettedennis2473 Same, though they did put me under while trying to induce the SVT, so maybe that's why it didn't work? I've moved out of state since then, so maybe one day I'll try another hospital to see if they can do it.
I'd encourage you to try it again sometime if you're able. Having to worry about taking a beta blocker, or going into SVT all the time sucks.
Doctors literally didn’t take me seriously with bpm 240 and i started talking slowly and seizing medical field is a joke also they gave me a pill topamax for migraines i fell on floor stopped breathing everything went black
@@HurlingMongroach god that makes me sick im sorry
This speaks to me. I recently went to the Emergency Room for a hypertension emergency. My pressure was 194/128. Apparently my GP was continually upping a migraine med cause the headaches werent going away. Turns out the meds also acted like pressors and I had undiagnosed hypertension and tachycardia. Gas on fire situation. This is why testing should be done before medicating people. Im just lucky I didn’t have a stroke or heart attack.
The delivery on these skits REALLY sell everyone"s opinion perfectly 👌🏿
"Presenting to the emergency room..." ☝🏾
LMAO LOOKED FOR THIS! I hope they know -emia means presence in blood.
@@phthalogreenbeanglucose emia
Reminds me of how the steamfitters union warned their members never to drink the free coffee provided at the shipyard.
Assuming you’re implying that the coffee is laced, you have just given me a new paranoia.
@@diggoran It was an open secret that no one would ever cop to. One could tell from a person's response to the coffee (--constricted-- dilated pupils, etc) that it had a little "extra" kick. Lots of folks use stimulants to excess (cigarettes, coffee, yerba maté, Red Bull, etc). But, I have never worked for a company where anyone warned me against partaking in food and beverages provided by management.
If you had it tested, you’d probably have a lawsuit on your hands
@@emmettdonkeydoodle6230 I worked on residential and commercial construction. Met a lot of union reps and I worked with former port workers. The port is a tightly controlled world unto itself, much like the railroads, except their overall safety is better than the railroads.
Logistically, good luck getting a sample out and getting anyone to believe you (chain of custody). Then loose your job and get blacklisted. An easily avoidable situation like the coffee in one area is the least of a worker's concerns.
@@janinawaz4596 surely difficult, but not impossible. I see what you mean though. Most people wouldn’t take the risk for good reason
When I had my heart attack my body locked down and I could hear everything going on around me. But It lasted 18 hrs. 17 hrs inside the cathlab. They had to shock me and do cpr 8 times. The last time they shocked me my heart rate was 490 a minute. When they shocked me that last time I felt it. It also caused my mouth to cl3nch tightly N it broke a tooth. But it also let my body relax and the pain left. Although I did sit straight up and came nose to nose with the surgeon. 😂😂 it felt good though to be able to move and talk again after that. I love the fact that you guys can and did do so much for me. It was the emts that basically kept me alive long enough to get me to the Dr's. So thank you for all you do.❤
Rules for stupid people (not derogatory I mean this categorically)
1. If a doctor is conducting a test and their machine starts going off like crazy, it's bad.
2. Doctors can't snitch to the cops. Unless you tell the doctor you intend to kill people, they literally aren't allowed to snitch.
3. Don't be afraid to ask a question(s). No, your question probably isn't the dumbest question the doc has heard. It's better to know than not to.
Thank you from coming to my Medtalk.
Wish to add to this list
If a doctor asks you if you are taking anything, be truthful. If not, whatever you are taking whether it’s an antibiotic or an illegal substance doctor needs to know because it could have a terrible reaction to other medications or might be causing your problems to begin with.
5. There's no point lying. Just say you got curious and just stuck it up there.
@@tianqi5008 hamster or hot wheels? Lol
Thank you Teddy, means a lot coming grom a talking teddy
As someone who is taking the national exam for doctors in a week. Yes ask questions and yes he is right. Your is probably not the dumbest question
**hearts beating at 240bpm**
Him: 👁👄👁
As someone with ADHD that much caffeine would send me straight to sleep 😂
Yessssss. Then as a pre diabetic, the sugar crash would send me straight to the shadow realm
Same 🤣
but before your slumber your ass is gonna be an nuke launcher
Oh yeah, one of those heavy naps too
As someone with ADHD I would have written five chapters of a book, finished an art piece, and seductively danced in nothing but compression shorts all in the span of two hours with that much caffeine, taurine, vitamin b6, vitamin b12, and creatine in my system.
I would then have become suddenly completely nonverbal as someone with incredibly masked autism, becoming insanely active online to cope with being physically incapable of speaking. The migraine wouldn't be fun either.
"Youre in VTAC"
"VTEC? Sweet! I'm a literal Honda engine man!"
His heart is going so fast it’s gonna reset the DC Universe
Ventricular tachycardia for those that aren't familiar with what v-tach or VT are short for.
Somehow I don't think that's gonna clear it up very much.
@@UnicornGuru Well I mean I could spend the time explaining what VT is, but considering most people couldn't identify what a ventrical is, it would probably be at least 3-5 paragraphs long, and at that point it's easier for people to search for it themselves so they can learn as much or as little as they'd like. My comment was just to save people some time scrolling through search results of colleges and childrens toys looking for a heart condition.
I mean, I could have said "heart go brrrrrrr" but then people born before 1980 wouldn't understand either.
Hearing all these tachycardia stories reminded me of the time i wasnt feeling well and my friend (who was in St Johns Ambulance) was taking my pulse. He comments "woah, it felt like your heart rate just spiked!" And i replied, "yeah, it's coz im having a panic attack" 😅 he was not prepared for that answer but handled it great 👍
Yeah, that'll do the trick.
There’s going to be a whole different meaning to wielding got me cracking 😂
“Right to the dome” got me LMAO 🤣🤣🤣
What does his dome even have to do with it?
I didn't understand that reference 🤔
@@anio1349I don’t think there is a reference, I just thought the way he said it was hilarious 😂 😂
You never want to hear your heart beats at more than 240 per minute while you sitting.
That's not even a good number for if you're running from a pack of dingos....
@@araeshkigal If somebody is not 100% healthy, yeah... it kinda justifes that stress. But if you are at 240 just sitting, any exercise can kill you.
@@mariuszmoraw3571bro 240 is beyond zone 5. You’d have to overdose on meth while sprinting for hours to get to a HR as high as that. And even if you did that and your heart didn’t go into CA for some reason, your kidneys would probably shut down from rhabdomyolysis.
"Welding is going to have a whole different meaning to you soon."
... I can't get that out of my head.
ICD - putting in a pacemaker thing...
I don’t get it
Opening the chest and then welding the ribs back together when they are done.@@jacobc8036
@@jacobc8036if im not mistaken welding while having a pacemaker isn't the smartest thing to do because welding naturally involves lots of wild electricity, that or welding is involved in the pacemaker process but hell if I know for sure
I think it means using a defibrillator.
These are actually very educational!
Hooooly. I have a high resting heart rate (like 100-115) and even after a heavy workout or run I've never broken 200.
Resting for me is 50-70 depending, 187 was my absolute highest from a run. Thought my heart was gonna pop XD Thankfully took only about a minute to get down to normal though
You should get that checked out. It shouldn't be that high when you're resting.
@@solidhyrax I mean, yeah. Going to the doctor is how I found out lol.
@@Crocogator Same. Got put on bisoprolol.
@@retinapeg1846 Got it too for years until my doctor told me not to get pregnant when taking that pill. I then switched to another one.