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You can request a patient advocate, if need be. That makes them listen to the patient, so I've been told. RONALD L PRACHT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hey yall, I was in the hospital getting my colonoscopy 2 years ago and the iv they put in me caused me to go into dysreflexia. I watched my blood pressure go up on the machine right b4 my eyes. I was scared as hell and neither the people prepping me for the colonoscopy or my mother believed anything was wrong. It was a very scary momment for me because they were putting me asleep. With the grace of god I made it through, but Im kinda bitter because noone ever believes anything I say when I go in the hospital. Ron c7 St Louis - Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games.
Re: [QUAD-L] Quads and Hospitals that almost killed me!
That is why I try my best to make sure that I only go to hospitals that are extraordinarily familiar with SCI. I had some difficulty some years back and had to take an ambulance to the hospital. My brother tried to hand them, the EMTs, a card on dysreflexia, but they had no idea what the hell it was. Quadius Derrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was almost killed at our local hospital after recent sugery. I went in for sugery to remove 2 hemmhroid. 1 bleeding internal and 1 outside I printed out 5 pages of info on AD and took it with me to the hospiital because I knew that dysreflexia would happen. I was to stay overnight because they were to put packing in my rectum to stop any bleeding. Well when I awoke from the sugery and ate something, my blood pressure(bp) spiked to 190 over 130. it usually is around 90 over 70. I showed the nurse the papers about AD and told her that I wanted to see a doctor. I told her to take the packing out and see if the blood pressure would drop. This was around 4pm. She called the doctor and he told her to put me on pills every 15 minutes and IV'ed another blood pressure medications every 1/2 hour. Plus they gave me morphine and other pain meds for my headache. Well, this went on untill 9 pm. My b.p. finally lowered. An emergency room doc showed up at 9:30pm. [5.5 hours later] He asked, Why did I think I needed a doctor. I told him about AD and sked him if he ever treated it before. He said yes and that is all i remember because i was so drugged up. So, around 10pm, i felt funny and i asked the nurse to check my bp. She did and it was 60 over 30. So, they put me on drugs to raise my bp. Around 2:30am, my bp was around normal. They never removed the packing until sometime after this. Then my bp stayed normal and I went home at 11am. There is alot more to the story that blows me away on how healthcare officials do not listen to their patients and they think they know it all. I had the systoms and causes in black and white. Wow! Please let me know of any good website links to info about AD. I am making it a mission that this does not happen to anyone else. Derrick Winegardner c/5 - Original Message - From: RONALD L PRACHT To: quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 3:36 PM Subject: [QUAD-L] Quads and Hospitals Hey yall, I was in the hospital getting my colonoscopy 2 years ago and the iv they put in me caused me to go into dysreflexia. I watched my blood pressure go up on the machine right b4 my eyes. I was scared as hell and neither the people prepping me for the colonoscopy or my mother believed anything was wrong. It was a very scary momment for me because they were putting me asleep. With the grace of god I made it through, but Im kinda bitter because noone ever believes anything I say when I go in the hospital. Ron c7 St Louis - No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.29/673 - Release Date: 2/6/2007 5:52 PM - Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit.
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Ron, they told me that while i'm getting ready for an operation and getting IVS put in and blood drawn that my blood pressure sometimes shoots up also but said after a little while it slows back down...they said this happens a lot and is usually due to nerves and anxiety. However like during my recent bladder stone removal, I did get disreflexia but the Urologist is very familiar with that and knows about meds and how to help control it. Him and the anestesiologist woke me up twice during the surgury to see if i was feeling OK. They kept me completely out but just enough that I could be awoke easily and fast.it worked great for me. Dan H. Dan Tessiatore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you can, go to a teaching hospital where they have experience with SCI. Or were you at a teaching hospital? You really have to advocate for your self when getting medical treatment even if you are not disabled. Hope everyone is more informed and things go better next time. Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for that info Ron. But now you know that should be covered in the pre-op meeting with your doctor and doctors about your precondition and have it written into the doctor's report. The surgical team, must read the pre-op report before they begin to prep you. Ask LindaF, if I'm correct. W In a message dated 2/7/2007 2:37:49 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey yall, I was in the hospital getting my colonoscopy 2 years ago and the iv they put in me caused me to go into dysreflexia. I watched my blood pressure go up on the machine right b4 my eyes. I was scared as hell and neither the people prepping me for the colonoscopy or my mother believed anything was wrong. It was a very scary momment for me because they were putting me asleep. With the grace of god I made it through, but Im kinda bitter because noone ever believes anything I say when I go in the hospital. Ron c7 St Louis
Re: [QUAD-L] Quads and Hospitals that almost killed me!
I was almost killed at our local hospital after recent sugery. I went in for sugery to remove 2 hemmhroid. 1 bleeding internal and 1 outside I printed out 5 pages of info on AD and took it with me to the hospiital because I knew that dysreflexia would happen. I was to stay overnight because they were to put packing in my rectum to stop any bleeding. Well when I awoke from the sugery and ate something, my blood pressure(bp) spiked to 190 over 130. it usually is around 90 over 70. I showed the nurse the papers about AD and told her that I wanted to see a doctor. I told her to take the packing out and see if the blood pressure would drop. This was around 4pm. She called the doctor and he told her to put me on pills every 15 minutes and IV'ed another blood pressure medications every 1/2 hour. Plus they gave me morphine and other pain meds for my headache. Well, this went on untill 9 pm. My b.p. finally lowered. An emergency room doc showed up at 9:30pm. [5.5 hours later] He asked, Why did I think I needed a doctor. I told him about AD and sked him if he ever treated it before. He said yes and that is all i remember because i was so drugged up. So, around 10pm, i felt funny and i asked the nurse to check my bp. She did and it was 60 over 30. So, they put me on drugs to raise my bp. Around 2:30am, my bp was around normal. They never removed the packing until sometime after this. Then my bp stayed normal and I went home at 11am. There is alot more to the story that blows me away on how healthcare officials do not listen to their patients and they think they know it all. I had the systoms and causes in black and white. Wow! Please let me know of any good website links to info about AD. I am making it a mission that this does not happen to anyone else. Derrick Winegardner c/5 - Original Message - From: RONALD L PRACHT To: quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 3:36 PM Subject: [QUAD-L] Quads and Hospitals Hey yall, I was in the hospital getting my colonoscopy 2 years ago and the iv they put in me caused me to go into dysreflexia. I watched my blood pressure go up on the machine right b4 my eyes. I was scared as hell and neither the people prepping me for the colonoscopy or my mother believed anything was wrong. It was a very scary momment for me because they were putting me asleep. With the grace of god I made it through, but Im kinda bitter because noone ever believes anything I say when I go in the hospital. Ron c7 St Louis -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.29/673 - Release Date: 2/6/2007 5:52 PM
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PVA provided online AD manual http://www.pva.org/site/DocServer/AD2.pdf?docID=565 On 2/8/07, Derrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was almost killed at our local hospital after recent sugery. I went in for sugery to remove 2 hemmhroid. 1 bleeding internal and 1 outside I printed out 5 pages of info on AD and took it with me to the hospiital because I knew that dysreflexia would happen. I was to stay overnight because they were to put packing in my rectum to stop any bleeding. Well when I awoke from the sugery and ate something, my blood pressure(bp) spiked to 190 over 130. it usually is around 90 over 70. I showed the nurse the papers about AD and told her that I wanted to see a doctor. I told her to take the packing out and see if the blood pressure would drop. This was around 4pm. She called the doctor and he told her to put me on pills every 15 minutes and IV'ed another blood pressure medications every 1/2 hour. Plus they gave me morphine and other pain meds for my headache. Well, this went on untill 9 pm. My b.p. finally lowered. An emergency room doc showed up at 9:30pm. [5.5 hours later] He asked, Why did I think I needed a doctor. I told him about AD and sked him if he ever treated it before. He said yes and that is all i remember because i was so drugged up. So, around 10pm, i felt funny and i asked the nurse to check my bp. She did and it was 60 over 30. So, they put me on drugs to raise my bp. Around 2:30am, my bp was around normal. They never removed the packing until sometime after this. Then my bp stayed normal and I went home at 11am. There is alot more to the story that blows me away on how healthcare officials do not listen to their patients and they think they know it all. I had the systoms and causes in black and white. Wow! Please let me know of any good website links to info about AD. I am making it a mission that this does not happen to anyone else. Derrick Winegardner c/5 - Original Message - From: RONALD L PRACHT To: quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 3:36 PM Subject: [QUAD-L] Quads and Hospitals Hey yall, I was in the hospital getting my colonoscopy 2 years ago and the iv they put in me caused me to go into dysreflexia. I watched my blood pressure go up on the machine right b4 my eyes. I was scared as hell and neither the people prepping me for the colonoscopy or my mother believed anything was wrong. It was a very scary momment for me because they were putting me asleep. With the grace of god I made it through, but Im kinda bitter because noone ever believes anything I say when I go in the hospital. Ron c7 St Louis No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.29/673 - Release Date: 2/6/2007 5:52 PM
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Darrick, I experienced a similar situation. In 2005 I was experiencing extreme spasticity and my blood pressure was 230/130 and I ended up in the ER where they gave me two doses of morphine and other meds of which I am not sure. It turns out I had a UTI and was admitted. Later that night the nurse could not get a blood pressure on me and couldn't initially wake me up. I don't remember what my BP was what it was but it low and I ended up in intensive care for several days and I had one nurse their from hell but that is another story. It's wise to learn your injury and advocate for yourself medically. Hypereflexia can cause stroke or death. Glad it wasn't our turn Derrick. Dan T. Derrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was almost killed at our local hospital after recent sugery. I went in for sugery to remove 2 hemmhroid. 1 bleeding internal and 1 outside I printed out 5 pages of info on AD and took it with me to the hospiital because I knew that dysreflexia would happen. I was to stay overnight because they were to put packing in my rectum to stop any bleeding. Well when I awoke from the sugery and ate something, my blood pressure(bp) spiked to 190 over 130. it usually is around 90 over 70. I showed the nurse the papers about AD and told her that I wanted to see a doctor. I told her to take the packing out and see if the blood pressure would drop. This was around 4pm. She called the doctor and he told her to put me on pills every 15 minutes and IV'ed another blood pressure medications every 1/2 hour. Plus they gave me morphine and other pain meds for my headache. Well, this went on untill 9 pm. My b.p. finally lowered. An emergency room doc showed up at 9:30pm. [5.5 hours later] He asked, Why did I think I needed a doctor. I told him about AD and sked him if he ever treated it before. He said yes and that is all i remember because i was so drugged up. So, around 10pm, i felt funny and i asked the nurse to check my bp. She did and it was 60 over 30. So, they put me on drugs to raise my bp. Around 2:30am, my bp was around normal. They never removed the packing until sometime after this. Then my bp stayed normal and I went home at 11am. There is alot more to the story that blows me away on how healthcare officials do not listen to their patients and they think they know it all. I had the systoms and causes in black and white. Wow! Please let me know of any good website links to info about AD. I am making it a mission that this does not happen to anyone else. Derrick Winegardner c/5 - Original Message - From: RONALD L PRACHT To: quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 3:36 PM Subject: [QUAD-L] Quads and Hospitals Hey yall, I was in the hospital getting my colonoscopy 2 years ago and the iv they put in me caused me to go into dysreflexia. I watched my blood pressure go up on the machine right b4 my eyes. I was scared as hell and neither the people prepping me for the colonoscopy or my mother believed anything was wrong. It was a very scary momment for me because they were putting me asleep. With the grace of god I made it through, but Im kinda bitter because noone ever believes anything I say when I go in the hospital. Ron c7 St Louis - No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.29/673 - Release Date: 2/6/2007 5:52 PM
[QUAD-L] Quads and Hospitals
Hey yall, I was in the hospital getting my colonoscopy 2 years ago and the iv they put in me caused me to go into dysreflexia. I watched my blood pressure go up on the machine right b4 my eyes. I was scared as hell and neither the people prepping me for the colonoscopy or my mother believed anything was wrong. It was a very scary momment for me because they were putting me asleep. With the grace of god I made it through, but Im kinda bitter because noone ever believes anything I say when I go in the hospital. Ron c7 St Louis
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So far I have been through six colonoscopies and they haven't had to put me under for any of them. I had a sensation in my bowels, but it isn't extreme enough to cause me to many problems. I don't know what it would be like to go under knowing that my blood pressure was spiking just as they were about to put me under. It must have been petrifying. Thankfully everything turned out okay for you. Quadius RONALD L PRACHT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hey yall, I was in the hospital getting my colonoscopy 2 years ago and the iv they put in me caused me to go into dysreflexia. I watched my blood pressure go up on the machine right b4 my eyes. I was scared as hell and neither the people prepping me for the colonoscopy or my mother believed anything was wrong. It was a very scary momment for me because they were putting me asleep. With the grace of god I made it through, but Im kinda bitter because noone ever believes anything I say when I go in the hospital. Ron c7 St Louis - Need a quick answer? Get one in minutes from people who know. Ask your question on Yahoo! Answers.
[QUAD-L] Quads and Hospitals
Thanks for that info Ron. But now you know that should be covered in the pre-op meeting with your doctor and doctors about your precondition and have it written into the doctor's report. The surgical team, must read the pre-op report before they begin to prep you. Ask LindaF, if I'm correct. W In a message dated 2/7/2007 2:37:49 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey yall, I was in the hospital getting my colonoscopy 2 years ago and the iv they put in me caused me to go into dysreflexia. I watched my blood pressure go up on the machine right b4 my eyes. I was scared as hell and neither the people prepping me for the colonoscopy or my mother believed anything was wrong. It was a very scary momment for me because they were putting me asleep. With the grace of god I made it through, but Im kinda bitter because noone ever believes anything I say when I go in the hospital. Ron c7 St Louis
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If you can, go to a teaching hospital where they have experience with SCI. Or were you at a teaching hospital? You really have to advocate for your self when getting medical treatment even if you are not disabled. Hope everyone is more informed and things go better next time. Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Thanks for that info Ron. But now you know that should be covered in the pre-op meeting with your doctor and doctors about your precondition and have it written into the doctor's report. The surgical team, must read the pre-op report before they begin to prep you. Ask LindaF, if I'm correct. W In a message dated 2/7/2007 2:37:49 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey yall, I was in the hospital getting my colonoscopy 2 years ago and the iv they put in me caused me to go into dysreflexia. I watched my blood pressure go up on the machine right b4 my eyes. I was scared as hell and neither the people prepping me for the colonoscopy or my mother believed anything was wrong. It was a very scary momment for me because they were putting me asleep. With the grace of god I made it through, but Im kinda bitter because noone ever believes anything I say when I go in the hospital. Ron c7 St Louis
