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Topic: chest pain, port problems and ER

achey
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 6284

posted

ok, I can finally talk abt this.

Last wed my port stopped working. 5 days after installation. I had very tight pain in my upper right quadrent extending into my neck and arm.

The nursing service and my LLMD's office told me to call an ambulance and get to the ER. The nursing service called the ER and told them they were sending me for port problems and to pls to a dye test to make sure it wasn't blocked. LLMD's office asked me to have ER duck call them.

Told ambulance that I wanted to go to hospital X. Heartbeat got irregular and had to go to hospital Z cuz it was closer.

ER duck did labs and cat scan to make sure no embolism, then offered me pain meds. HE didn't want to call LLMD cuz different state(CT) I live in NH, but I told him I wasn't leaving until he did.
He refused to touch the port because it was no installed in his hospital.

I was a traumatic night! Turned out I was having muscle spasms in my inner chest and had possibly had a small heart attack?
The next day I got a blood draw on the port myself. when the nurse came the iv was ok, then stopped again. I now do my drip w/ a heat pac on my chest, and all is ok
Thanks for listening

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lymesux
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 6248

posted

Achey,

I went thru that for 8 or 9 months of having my port in with severe nerve pain and probably inflammation due to when the port was installed.

I'm truly sorry thishappened to you, i know how bad it can be.

I am glad they figured it out for you - i had to go thru many months of testing and now that its out still have problems. So i'm happy this shouldn't be the same problem with you.

Please never fool around with chest pain.
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