My current medical disaster 

tHE mAD dENTIST

      September 11, 2008

I finished my supper a lamb and orange stew with Garlic Nans followed by a filter Arabic coffee and an apple.
I started feeling faint and clammy. Sweat started pouring out of my forehead. I felt I was fading away which is  really the only way to describe it.

My left arm went numb and my little finger was "sort of" paralysed.. I couldn’t even slide out the chair to get my ‘phone , in case.
After about 45 minutes I was able to stand just, and wobbled to bed. I  felt hot. Difficult to describe. I got  to bed, heart racing and slept like a log for maybe 10 hours and woke this morning feeling ok-ish. I turned all the lights and the TV off now!!

I thought I had had a heart attack and I went to the GP today and had an ECG which was inconclusive.

Some part of the scan was “wider than it should be” What ever that “reassuring” comment means??

The practice nurse tried to send me to Dr Kahan but I refused to see her and was saying so in no uncertain terms when Dr Kahan walked in the room, so she now knows what I feel about her.
I now have had my blood pressure taken, 140/80, stethescopic examination of chest front and back, heart and lungs sound OK, an ECG, as above, A search for pulses revealed none in either arm.

I asked about the lack of pulse in my left arm and been told that maybe the artery has been sclerosed and therefore would not show a pulse but blood is flowing to my arm.

This was shown by the test of clenching the palm and opening quickly watching the speed the skin goes from white to pink, Which was about the same as the right.

SO both are equally buggered by no pulse. I  asked for something to be done about my RIGHT pulse, but was ignored.

BUT the Doctor, Dr F Gama organised a blood test for some unexplained reason. I asked to see a Cardiac Consultant to no avail.