Normally, I come home from work to change and go to the gym. Last Thursday I felt really tired after work, lay down and slept for an hour. That night, I went to go to bed in the evening and got a thunderclap headache while I was getting ready. This was accompanied by blurred vision and nausia. BM was up at around 9, which is quite high for me. The headache persisted all night, so I called the doctor in the morning and made an appointment. My blood sugar levels were back to normal by this time.
A doctor called me back five minutes later, went over the symptoms that I spoke about above and sent an ambulance out for me. Within no time at all I was in hospital. The did some tests, took loads of blood and kept an eye on my vitals (all of which were fine, resting heart rate was around 50 and blood pressure was around 120/70). Eventually, later on that day I was sent for a CT scan as they were worried that I had bled in the brain. I thought I would have been home by lunch time. It was 9pm before they came back to tell me that my scan was clear but that they wanted to keep me in until Monday until they did a lumber puncture.
Not realising what this was, I agreed. Spent a miserable night in the hospital. The next day a different doctor came along to do the procedure. When he explained what this was, and was getting ready to start I kind freaked out and would not let him do it. at 5pm that night I signed myself out AMA.
I know that was probably silly, but I honestly could not stand another minute in the hospital. I know that was probably silly, but I felt that I was getting no treatment at all (yes, I turned down the procedure) that I could not give myself back home. I can check my own blood pressure, pulse and blood glucose levels myself. I can give myself paracetamol and I can feed myself a lot better (I lost 4 pounds the short time I was in). I had felt fine for ages.
Does signing myself out AMA mean that the NHS has washed their hands of the issue now, or should I expect to hear back from my doctor? I'm still feeling fine, but last night went to the gym for the first time since and really struggled. Today I'm back to work and feeling very tired again.
A doctor called me back five minutes later, went over the symptoms that I spoke about above and sent an ambulance out for me. Within no time at all I was in hospital. The did some tests, took loads of blood and kept an eye on my vitals (all of which were fine, resting heart rate was around 50 and blood pressure was around 120/70). Eventually, later on that day I was sent for a CT scan as they were worried that I had bled in the brain. I thought I would have been home by lunch time. It was 9pm before they came back to tell me that my scan was clear but that they wanted to keep me in until Monday until they did a lumber puncture.
Not realising what this was, I agreed. Spent a miserable night in the hospital. The next day a different doctor came along to do the procedure. When he explained what this was, and was getting ready to start I kind freaked out and would not let him do it. at 5pm that night I signed myself out AMA.
I know that was probably silly, but I honestly could not stand another minute in the hospital. I know that was probably silly, but I felt that I was getting no treatment at all (yes, I turned down the procedure) that I could not give myself back home. I can check my own blood pressure, pulse and blood glucose levels myself. I can give myself paracetamol and I can feed myself a lot better (I lost 4 pounds the short time I was in). I had felt fine for ages.
Does signing myself out AMA mean that the NHS has washed their hands of the issue now, or should I expect to hear back from my doctor? I'm still feeling fine, but last night went to the gym for the first time since and really struggled. Today I'm back to work and feeling very tired again.
