Yesterday at about 12am in the morning i had a really frightening & weird episode
i was going to have a quick bath i was bent over the bath when i had a sharp pain in my heart area, then i stopped and had shortness of breath, i sat down and said to my partner i really didnt feel well i felt funny. It hurt when i inhaled. Then i started to feel really cold although it wasnt that cold in the room. I started shaking and i felt so strange i felt like i was losing consciousness, my partner was kneeling down in front of me trying to talk to me he said look me in the eyes and he told me later i couldnt do this i was staring off into space and he said my eyes were rolling up.
I felt out of it and my heart started racing fastly, I was trying to stay calm and it wasnt a panic attack i dont suffer from those. Then i felt a bit hot and really dizzy so asked my partner to take me to the front door for some fresh air. Then i remember kind of collapsing to the front my legs kind of gave way and my heart started beating incredibly fast. I was terrified i was going to have a heart attack or something. I felt like if i had been left any longer i might have lost consciousness my heart would have given in.
I begged my partner please get me help!!!! so he rang an ambulance and he said later on i was really shouting but at the time i thought i was just talking. Then i remember really shaking not just shaking like you do from being cold but really trembling, i remember vaguely the ambulance staff were walking up the drive and i was aware my hand was shaking alot, like back and forth in the air and my legs were like squirming about on the floor.
I could hear them asking me questions but i could not answer them i was like zoned out. I couldn't get up and needed pulled up. They then monitored my heart in the ambulance and my partner said that my heart rate was about 113 bpm, it had slowed down since i got in the ambulance. They then asked lots of questions and took me to A&E, where they gave me an ECG, Heart blood test, blood test, urine sample and chest xray i was in there from about 1am to 6am and the tests came back normal.
They couldn't explain what it was and basically just said take painkillers. I have fainted before when i was younger but this did not feel like a faint. So i dont know what to do, i am not sure what this was? was it a mini-seizure or tachycardia? or to do with PCOS?
I think my PCOS has been getting steadily worse recently, my hirstism is really bad, and my hair has been thinning something i had never suffered from before, also for a while now i've felt like an elderly lady, i am aged 30 and slim, active but get tired and out of breath from walking up a small flight of stairs. And i have had alot of vertigo/dizziness and sharp head pains recently. I have also put on an extra stone.
I am not currently taking any medication for this, i have just moved and am trying to register with a new doctor. I really do want to get myself on some medication to control this but am not sure what is best? I have been on dianette for a few yrs before but came off it and i was on cilest.
I havent had any blood/hormone tests done for a couple of years so probably should get them done, 9they always came back mostly normal)
should i be asking for a brain MRI (because of pituatory growths?) i have never had one but have had an adrenal gland MRI, MRI of ovaries, transvaginal scan which showed 11 cysts on each ovary.
Can anyone advise please? i would really appreciate any info or similar stories. What does this strange episode sound like?
thanks :0)