The email said to cough hard every second taking a deep breath in between coughs until the heart rhythm got back to normal or until help arrived. Is this true?
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I received this same email and I showed it to my husband that is a Paramedic.  He said it wouldn't work.
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Yikes, quick ask a doctor!  Sorry, but tightness in the chest is a serious symptom so don't look for an amateur explanation.
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I wish Doctors would tell people, but they definitely just soak up the money! I have a friend who is a definite hypochondriac. Evvvery day it's something new. And sometimes it gets ridiculous..she coughs once and thinks she has bronchitis! Then off to the doctor she goes. If she saved all the money she's dropped into Co-pays & prescriptions...she could buy a house and pay in cash!
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Question: As a child did you ever run a really high temp? My brother ran a sudden high fever(cause never found, of 105 and soaring)that nearly killed him. He was wrapped in towels and buried in a tub of ice to bring the fever down. But while waiting on the ice to be brought he was bathed from head to toe in rubbing alchol. At that time the doctor did the only things he knew to do. The fever came down but my brothers normal temp of 98.6 was changed to 96.0. So a temp of 99.0 is not low grade fever anymore; at least not for him.  Are you under great amounts of stress? Stress can do wild things to your body. Under tremendos stress  the muscles literally separated from the bones in my chest area. Doctor's at first thought it was a heart attack but my pulse did not indicate such to be the case. I felt as if a huge weight had been droped on my chest, but it was stress. Vicatin would not even allow my body any relief, and the doctors had said if it didn't help that morphine was the next step.Fianlly, after several months of just letting nature run its course; I finally stopped hollering with every breath. I would shake like I was in a ice house on min. and feel normal the next; but my temp. was up and down like a yoyo. Do you have any other symptoms, coughing, sneezing,dizzy spells, black outs, nausea? Have you been to a doctor yet? If not; I strongly reccommend you go see one immediately. Keep in mind not all diseases or illness's cause the same reaction in a person. You can take 50 people with the flu. Some it turns into more upper respitory infections, and some of those can be fatal. Others just feel crappy and tired. While some can't see much difference in the flu and what most people would call a bad cold. My temp. runs 98.6; 99.0 is low grade, and any thing more than 102.6 I start calling the doctor. As I said I strongly reccomend you go straight to a doctor and have them check you out. I wish you well.
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The best thing you could do in a situation like that is to report it to the one in charge of management in the hospital. I'm sure thy would love to know who they hired on. You may save someone's life in the process. You never know?  Let me know what happens. God bless.  :) Oh, and my niece had a problem with her lung collapsing and they gave her oxygen pressurized into her lungs every so often to open the lung back up. Only because she couldn't do the regular breathing treatments.
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Did you recently have a cold?  If so, this cough can be the final stage of your cold, which in itself, is a virus.  This cough can linger for a long time (as much as 6 months!)  You may need to get something to suppress your cough.  As with all virus's, you will have to wait it out.\ngood luck!
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Please have your heart checked out. I had the same symptoms and they told me in the ER it was indigestion. I had a heart attack.
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Dear lady, you seem to be a net freak who won't refuse to sign off come what may. \n\nI hope the emergency has been resolved. \n\nPlease if anything of this sort ever happens again, rush your loved one to the nearest emergency center before it becomes fatal. \n\nDon't waste time in posting a question, then wait for an answer which one cannot be sure, is correct.
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When you sneeze, it is said that your heart stops beating. \nWhen you cough, your heart is not affected.
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Pretty scarey stuff. \n\nI had never heard of COPD when the pulmonologist said I had it. I also was diagnosed with the asthma. According to all the info I could find, COPD was either emphysema or chronic bronchitis. The pulmonologist assured me I had asthma COPD. Then I tried to find information on the life expectancy; all I could find was that it's the 4th leading cause of death in the U.S. and did, indeed, sound as though my time left was seriously short. After a lot of exploration and talking with others having COPD, I determined that everyone is different. Johnny Carson died of emphysema at 85. He had had it for at least the past 20-30 years.\n\nI was diagnosed three years ago and the doctor suggested from my history of pneumonia, colds, etc, that I had had this condition for many years. In 1996 I had to have a company physical and flunked the spirometry test. I was told that people often have the condition for years before it is properly diagnosed. As HMOs are prone to do, they determined a specialist was unnecessary and the family practitioner prescribed inhalers, steroids, asthma medication, etc. for every incident of flareups. \n\nI would have told you three years ago my time was very limited. Would have bet no more than a year or so. Actually, now that my medication has been adjusted to necessary levels, I feel better than I have in years. I went from oxygen 24/7 to now only when I sleep and exercise. I go to the healthplex and use the treadmill and pool often. I amaze myself at how much I have improved with a little exercise. \n\nMy doctor does recommend I keep my pnuemonia and flu shots up to date and steer clear of anyone with a cold to lessen the chance of exacerbation. The asthma medication can have a side effect of depression, so be alert to that. We especially don't need to slump into a depression. I do take an anti-depressant because finding out I had the condition really hit me hard and coupled with the medication, well, I need it. Attitude is a big determinant in COPD's severity on a person.\n\nAbsolutely no one can tell you how much time you have left whether because of COPD or anything else. You're not going to be doing any more mountain climbing or run the Boston Marathon, but it is so important to live each day to the fullest.  There's still plenty you can do, and you will probably live a long, productive life as long as you aren't your own worst enemy and just give up.
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Possibly.  And it is something that needs to be checked.  We use the same technique in patients that are experiencing a heart attack.  We call it the brady method.  When someone is having a heart attack, we tell them to cough forcefully or to bear down as if to have a large bowel movement.  This coughing process slows the heart rate, which would explain your sudden dizziness.  As for the headaches and the chest pain, that is quite understandable, since you are exerting high amounts of pressure on those muscles.  When you feel the cough spells coming on, see your doc and ask about a cough syrup such as guaiffennisen because one of these days, your coughing episodes may literally cause you to pass out, and if you are driving at the time, well, I don't need to tell you how dangerous that can be.
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In my opinion you don't mess around when you talk about when it hurts to breathe and not going away because it could be something serious. Go see your doctor tomorrow.
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What he/she said. Ask your doctor for advice on the right thing to do. My Mom is a nurse and I will ask her for you when she gets home! :) \n   (I'll just click "Edit message" and rewrite my whole answer. She will know for sure!)\n\n   But until then, Have a nice day and remember to drink lots of fluids to help you get better. WATER AND SPECIAL DRINKS ONLY!
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take it 1 hr apart from your meds. I have a cough today, got meds from the doctor.  I had my coffee first before I went to see the Dr.
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That can happen. Its just a reflex from the coughing, nothing to worry about. Now, the coughing could be something. Is it just a cold or have you had it awhile...if so, see a doctor, pronto.
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If your friend had to be resucitated then I'm not surprised her chest hurts.  The shock that jolts a heart back into rhythm affects all the muscles of the chest, not to mention any CPR that was likely done would also have left her sore.  Restarting a heart isn't like changing a battery in the back of your watch after all.  The nose bleeds are probably due to irritation from the tubing placed to evacuate her stomach, and the mucous membranes will heal in a few days as well.   All things considered, if her worst physical problems are a sore chest and nose bleeds, then she is considerably blessed- considering the other option was death.  She is fortunate that whatever had to be removed from her stomach didn't do any damage.  It's not the usual procedure to remove things that aren't hazardous, so I'm guessing she took an overdose of something.  I hope if that's the case she is recieving some sort of mental health counseling as well.   Physically speaking, the things you are listing are normal after what she had done, and the time frame the doctors are giving you is about right.  But if she is nervous about it, she can always ask another doctor for a second opinion.
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yes, I had this about 14 years ago...It was terrible!  like this really big cold and extreme cough.  You are so congested in your chest and lungs and you have no control over your coughs.  I would sit up in bed coughing like crazy and phlegm you just come out (sorry, not to be gross but that is happens).  Thank God I was old enough because if you catch this as a baby you have to check on them so they can breathe and not choke.  I cant remember exactly what I took as medecine but something was given to me to help.