...Sternum rubs really hurt. I have simple partials and can't move afterwards and I remember them poking me in the chest and another dr saying "no, you're doing it wrong. Do it HARDER." Damn it hurts. I hate it when they test your level of consiousness and you can feel everything but can't stop them.
Your warning at the end is justified. The medical world hates pseudo seizures and they also hate being proven wrong. Well, at least ERs hate pseudoseizures. They want to save people's lives and then they feel someone continually coming in for these wastes their time and prevents them from helping people with "real" problems...
I'm never speaking to my mom again.
She calls me again and again the day I wake up after what I can only guess was a sleep seizure.
I don't remember anything when I'm unconscious. I've never "faked" any seizure.
Why the eff would anyone want to "fake" a seizure anyway?
does the medical community think there are that many with Munchausens?
I told her I was in pain and needed to sleep and be in calm and quiet, so she calls me incessantly and basically tells me an ambulance is on the way.
What a dumb person.
I don't care >what< I have. What I do know is when I'm in pain and when I'm not. When my mental state feels compromised and when it doesn't. When my mental state is compromised beyond my reasoning is when there is cause for concern. When my pain compromises my reasoning is when there is cause for concern.
The only times these have occurred is when I've woken up with paramedics in my face, and I don't recall what happened.
Why do hospital staff do this sternum rub maneuver anyway? I never wanted to be in the fucking ER to begin with. If they're trying to ease their work load by dismissing those with whom sternum rubs/torture brings rise to some criteria that brings about reason for dismissal of patients
Is sternum rub supposed to be the "10" on the "scale from 1 to 10 rate your pain"? What a stupid scale anyway. Can I please just describe what I'm experiencing instead of trying to be a "Dancing with the Stars" judge all of a sudden?
"Using the color wheel, could you please give your pain a color?"
how arbitrary
how about instead you fuck off and let me leave the fucking ER?
yeah ok, so I'm often a chain smoker. Thank you medical community for telling me that smoking is bad for my health. I've never heard that before. Except every time I pick up my pack of cigarettes and read the warning. Do I need a doctor to hold my hand as I cross the street too?
How about instead, you just make sure I'm not dying immediately and let me leave the fucking ER so I can have a cigarette.
I don't know about you, but in the short term, after hours without a cigarette, a smoke sure helps to calm my nerves. Beeps, buzzes, alarms, noises, clamor, chaos - doesn't help when someone is sick.
I recall someone saying "we've all done this" just prior to what I guess was a sternum rub.
I'm sure we've all stubbed our toe before - so, does that justify my breaking into someone's house and crushing their toe in a pliers while they're asleep with a migraine?
According to the medical community I guess that's a "yes".
I'm never going to the ER postictal again. I'm never trusting my mom again.
I don't care what causes my seizures anymore. I know what helps me and what hurts me.
I am not in a good mood.
Since reading about sternum rubs it has been an awakening.
You know docs, there's a difference between having "awareness" and "clarity" when acknowledging procedures going on with you.
What an evil vile world when people in obvious need of help are dismissed as frauds. Fuck hospitals. Fuck ambulances, doctors, paramedics... fuck the world.