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Open Question: D Dimer test and ER visit…Please read?

November 1st, 2009 | by admin | Open Question: 21 yrs old with heart and digestive problems…?
Before your read a few sentences and then tell me to go and see a doctor, please keep in mind that I just came back from the ER last night, and they were useless. Especially the one I went to. The docs spend more time joking in the lobby then dealing with patients and they assume a blood pressure test and a 2 minute EKG is enough to detect anything. Then they send you off and tell you to “follow up”, after they have looked at you like you’re a lunatic for having health problems at 21. I even heard them joking on me hysterically for bringing a stool sample in a tupperware container. They act like a bunch of kids honestly. The stool I brought them was completely black, and the “doctor” had the nerve to tell me that “it doesn’t look like any human stool she’s ever seen”… basically insinuating I brought dog feces in a tupperware container!.. It is a shame and they should all be fired.. anyways.. I know I need to schedule a real docs appointment.. I will..but I am here looking for input… not criticism!
Okay, for the past six months I have been suffering with gallbladder problems that have made it nearly impossible to consume a normal diet. The docs say this problem is very rare for someone my age, and out of the 8 or so hospitals I went to, only ONE had the courtesy to do an ultrasound and find out what was wrong with me. Due to these gallbladder problems, I am CONSTANTLY constipated and not a single bowel movement comes with ease, EVEN THOUGH IT COULD BE STRAIGHT LIQUID DIARRHEA.. IT JUST WON’T COME OUT! It is like my anus is contracted to the point where nothing will escape.. even liquid! Now, I have been eating like a health nut, consuming nothing but fish, fruits and veggies for the past couple of months and drinking nothing but water, apple juice and grape juice. ( I don’t smoke don’t drink.. not even coffee dammit).. I have even been using lemon juice on my food and all of the other recommended natural therapies. Finally within the past week I have passed a few gallstones, but the feces that the gallstones were in was complete liquid, and it was DARK BLACK.. in fact it looked like lint from someones pocket, soil, or coffee grinds. That is the only way to describe it really. now.. here is where it gets messed up.. I have been dealing with heart palpitations for a few years now, but it has gotten SEVERE over the past few days. I mean it has gotten to the point where I am experiencing pains in my left shoulder, arm and even down to my wrist and on the left side of my neck and face. When I get up to walk around my heart murmurs a lot, so much that it simply can’t be ignored, and it gets worse upon taking a deep breathe. I am experiencing pains in literally every organ in my body, even my left testicle! I burp violently even when I only drink water! I get light headed suddenly and my heart starts racing out of nowhere. And I am also experiencing tightness in the chest from time to time on the left side. I am also having pains under my mouth between my chin and my neck. Externally I feel relatively healthy musculature wise, and that is probably why docs don’t pay me much attention, but INTERNALLY I am a wreck! Name a symptom and I have probably experienced it in the past few weeks. The only thing I haven’t been doing is vomiting or running a fever, which will probably come soon if something isn’t done! Just in the time I have written this I’ve had SEVERAL heart murmurs.. no joke..Now a little background history. I have an abscess tooth on my left side, and it bleeds when I brush. I have had it for a year, and the infection has kept returning even after 3 full courses of antibiotics. I have a suspicion that this is what is causing my problems, but I am not sure.
Anyone have any useful suggestions or input as to what could be happening to me. Please tell me something.. someone.

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:34:36 GMT
Open Question: D Dimer test and ER visit…Please read?
I went to the ER on Thursday with chest pains, heart palpitations, the sweats, low-grade fever, nausea, tingling sensations in my arm and fingers….Upon arrival my blood pressure was 188/96 and my pulse was 137 which is way out of the norm for me. They ran a few blood tests and did a chest x-ray. I’m assuming my chest xray came back normal because nothing was said one way or another. My EKG showed tachycardia (rapid heart beat) and my D Dimer test showed positive. I was admitted to the hospital for 24 hour observation. The only medication I was given was (1) 81mg aspirin and some oral potassium. They did nothing about my blood pressure and said it wasn’t that bad. But to me 188/96 is pretty high. They never did a cardiac consult and I was discharged without a diagnoses as to what was going on with me. Can anyone better explain what could be going on? I’m so confused. Everything that I looked up about the D dimer test didn’t leave me feeling great about what could be wrong. And it was def positive because they ran three different test 9 hours apart.
I’m a 26 year old female, smoker 1/2 pack a day, don’t drink, about 40 pounds overweight, and a STRONG family history of heart disease.
If you need any additional info let me know and I’ll provide you with as much info as I have…Thanks in advance

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:32:40 GMT

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