Today, I almost died after getting an epidural in my neck. The medicine paralyzed my entire body, including my diaphragm and lungs. The doctor tried to say it was a panic attack. I had turned blue. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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Today, I, a man in his 40s, had to be taken to the hospital because I was laughing so hard at an old Disney movie that my diaphragm went into spasms. I stopped breathing and passed out for a few minutes, and my son had to call an ambulance. FML
Today, I'm recovering from an emergency room visit. I was vomiting, sweating, shaking, crying, and couldn't even speak properly. I was scared of that, and scared of hospitals after a routine surgery nearly killed me two years ago. Most of my family are convinced I was faking all of it. FML
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BurnInDemonFire 39
Medical malpractice! That doctor needs their license revoked!
ohsnapword 21
You can make the doctor change colors too. Just imagine the shade of white he'll turn when you hit him with a malpractice suit.
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Tim Carver 9
and that's why they have you sign the paper that "this shot may help you... but it also may **** you up"... you signed it... they helped...
Marie Hallenbeck 8
It was a panic attack. The procedure has several common complications including anxiety reaction/panic, lasting 5 minutes to 30 on average. Global paralysis is not an associated complication with this procedure. Focal paralysis can occur, mostly with lumbar injection per NCBI and takes up to 9 hours to resolve. Focal weakness can occur with respiratory depression but it lasts around 2 hours and cannot be treated with anxiolytics. Paralysis of the diaphragm has occurred in patients with multiple cervical procedures, but in case studies it did not onset for years and is not reported to have occurred acutely in any patient who survived. Mild depression of respiratory functions can occur when the anesthetic reaches the nerves at C3, causing some anxiety for around 10 minutes. Persisting anxiety following return of baseline function can lead to panic. Cyanosis, that blue coloring described, would have resulted in critical interventions and admission for observation and panic attack would not have been even considered. Cyanosis is observed in complications where the patient goes into cardiopulmonary arrest, and the likelihood of being awake and alert enough to recall the incident is near impossible. The doctor was only wrong in that they didn’t explain why it was an anxiety reaction. Doctors tend to explain risks and have you sign consent indicating you understand the risks prior to any procedure.