"Prolonged intermittent angina"

My first 2020 admission into Ayr Hospital for Prolonged intermittent Angina over 4 days!

Starting on Thursday October 15th I felt the familiar sensation that required I reach for the nearby GTN spray for the first time I can recollect this year since the heart attack of last Hogmanay!

The spray did not appear to take immediate effect but upon resting the pain soon lessened. First thoughts of my wife was to call 999 but I wanted to see if it passed as if it did, what would the point of calling an ambulance be?

Luckily it passed, but the sensation was still in the background. As indeed it was during Friday and Saturday, but never came to any real pain. So o Sunday, almost 15 hours with little sensation and no pain, I was disappointed to feel the pain return again as much as on Thursday!

After much resting I took some GTN spray which as usual for me did seem to take sometime to work. So a call was put into NHS 111 for advice which always before meant say chest pain and the ambulance was dispatched!

Covid 19 must have changed all that as questions were asked before the big button was pressed. This time I got a paramedic and an ambulance, jackpot. 

Both the paramedic and the ambulance staff were excellent, and calming, and the inevitable request to be taken in was soon delivered. 

Journey was quick, straight into the admissions area, and quickly into a cubicle. Soon after I received the ECG, and stats checks, and it was not that long before I saw a doctor. A second blood test followed at 9pm, which showed a level of 11 hence the repeat so I was told. 

Currently at almost 4am, how time flies, I am in a room on a recliner style bed, not being able to rest with the constant 'ping' of mine and other monitors. 

I wanted to say how my treatment was from call to where I am now, awaiting a cardiologist visit hopefully in a few hours, and after breakfast, so that I ken if I am to have an angiogram and or angioplasty procedure either the day or as an outpatient. 

 

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