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purrr said:
That’s hospitalisation levels…
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i've beaten that one by a long stretch - managed 220/140.
admittedly paramedics and ambulance carted me off at 4.30am.

from march this year- 2 heart attacks, each at differing areas of the heart - its a case of flying way too close to the sun.
we can usually withstand a heart attack in one area, and often emerge unscathed - two areas and that heart attack it creeping to cardiac arrest.
so it brings me to a total of 6 heart attacks over the last 4 years.
4 were mild. barely uncomfortable & very easily manageable. number 6 was "medium" i guess
number 5 was severe, but the ambulance had just got me into the emergency dept - nurse was busy doing an ecg when it happened. she thought the equipment was faulty and rushed off for another ecg monitor.
she thought the 2nd one was faulty as well, then it dawned on her it was not the equipment that was faulty, but instead the patient that was defective.
cardiologist comes running in brandishing the syringe from hell - a needle a mile long and its body like an eveready battery.
no time for idle chit chat & pleasantries - without warning he impales me in the abdomen with the thing.
with that, it was like living the redbull downhill challenge - being wheeled of to theatre.
i just remember the ceiling lights in the passage passing over me in quick succession - like a scene from "one flew over the cuckoos nest".
quite funny in retrospect !

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Grant said:
cardiologist comes running in brandishing the syringe from hell - a needle a mile long and its body like an eveready battery.
no time for idle chit chat & pleasantries - without warning he impales me in the abdomen with the thing.
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That's the absolute worst. 5AM, in ACU. Gently nudged awake (I hardly got any sleep because all the monitors in the ward beeping all night - I was just kept overnight for "observation"). "Mr. Voice, don't move, we're going to inject you". Suddenly I get shanked in the stomach with aforementioned syringe from hell. Bruise the size of a fist appeared shortly after.

Oh, and at that point I'd had three MIs, and they still hadn't told me.
 
turns out i was in "respiratory distress".
given the cardiologist told me (& my gp), i was heading towards either cardiac or respiratory failure, when i called my gp, he simply called an ambulance commenting "he is not buggering around".

on the day i was battling to breathe (panting - rapid short breaths) & severe chest pain.
gp called ambulance & hospital telling them tachycardia along with dropping oxygen saturation.
so into emergency dept then icu.
in icu i was put on to high flow oxygen & a ventilator wheeled in next to me ("just in case").
i declined the use of a ventilator ("just in case"), to that I was told "we may have to resort to ecmo if you refuse the ventilator".
in any event, neither ventilator or ecmo was needed, somehow my lungs recovered very quickly.

at the bottom of the monitor is respiratory rate of 31, normal is 12-20.
31 indicates critical condition.
above that is oxygen saturation of 93%, it had dropped to 87% - also critical.

somehow everything stabilised and returned to "normal" within 18hrs - i was kept for a further 3 days for observation / monitoring, then back home.

i am not sure what they gave me thru an av line, but it was like an acid trip - vision was playing tricks, but quite enjoyable. :love:

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Sinbad said:
Omron Connect with an Omron x7 smart
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How many times do you it at a time?

With my 10 year old non-smart model I find the first reading to always be a bit higher. I then do it three more times. The device has a memory function where it gives you the average of the last three. Which means doing it four times discards the first higher outlier.

Maybe time to upgrade?
 
purrr said:
How many times do you it at a time?

With my 10 year old non-smart model I find the first reading to always be a bit higher. I then do it three more times. The device has a memory function where it gives you the average of the last three. Which means doing it four times discards the first higher outlier.

Maybe time to upgrade?
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Usually just a single reading.

Every now and then I do an afib check which does 3 readings 30 seconds apart and averages them
 
Sinbad said:
Usually just a single reading.

Every now and then I do an afib check which does 3 readings 30 seconds apart and averages them
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I assume you've had it a while, so what is the best to get today?
 
purrr said:
I assume you've had it a while, so what is the best to get today?
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Sounds like the one you have works fine. It's normal for a 2nd reading to be a bit lower than the first.

Unless you're looking for smart features?
 
Sinbad said:
Sounds like the one you have works fine. It's normal for a 2nd reading to be a bit lower than the first.

Unless you're looking for smart features?
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Would be nice. Been browsing models on Takealot and most don't seem to have it.
 
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