Symptoms: slightly runny nose, fever, throat pain, stabbing pain in chest when taking in one half of normal breath(specifically a very low capacity in the right lung), sudden flair up of acid reflux. There is no major spitting up of substance yet, but there very well could be soon.
Now here's my question. Should I just make a doctor's appointment for tomorrow or go to the ER?
What are your thoughts?
Just drink a beer and go to sleep.
Okay, new symptom. My chest is squeaking. Spit up is beginning. I think I'll get my dad to take me to the ER.
And would you guys stop hoping I die please? I can feel it.
Pussy.
Well wasn't that cute?
Thanks for your help!
Smoke some tar.
Well in all seriousness that is not a good reason to go to the emergency room. Emergency room visits are expensive, and you can get same-day doctor's appointments if you call first thing in the morning. I hate to be the bearer of a complementary opinion to people who want you to die, but quit being a bitch and just wait a few hours.
An ER visit would be just as much as an office visit for me. Nothing.
And I'll just have to go to the doctor's tomorrow.
That must be nice, what kind of fucking insurance is that? Obviously it is not on a copay model, did you guys pay off your deductible already or is it some sort of ridiculous insurance where everything is free?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pepsi
It's called welfare.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. E
Save the emergency room for people who actually need it.
Nobody's more important than I. :shifty:
Please God, answer my prayer and smite Tidus.
Only to end his suffering of course...
Hypercondriac?
It would be "hypochondriac".
And yeah, spitting out bucketfuls of mucus is faking it.
Get out.
Common sympton of being a "hypochondriac" is over exaggerating symptoms.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pepsi
I am not hoping you die fyi
Serously. You are such a pussy. Worst case scenario you have bronchitis. Make a doctors appointment and get some medication. Get some Tussinex from the doctor, just tell him nothing helps your cough, not even delsym. I said that when I had bronchitis and he gave me this shit, it has a bunch of hydrocodone(vicodin) in it and allows for some relaxing days. Can't take too much of it but it will stop your cough and relax you.Quote:
Originally Posted by nighthawk
Killuminati have you ever considered stepping down from your high horse?
I postulate that you have not, primarily because I have not seen evidence to the contrary.
What high horse? Because I told him he was a pussy for overreacting so much? After I said that though I told him how he might be able to get some good medicine that will actually help. Fuck you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. E
Who is to say he is overreacting? Who is to say the emergency room isn't for him? For all we know his lungs could be calcifying and filling with mucus as we speak.Quote:
Originally Posted by Killuminati
Get some tussinex and send it to me, then go to another doctor and get some more and consume it for your sickness.
This is also Tidus were talking about. He made a thread crying about how his foot hurt because a fat girl stepped on it or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. E
Of course there is a slight chance it could be super cereal and he could just die but I mean really what are the odds of that. Or he could make a doctors appointment for today or tomorrow at latest and figure it out without going to the emergency room where people have more serious problems.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. E
Wait I saw someone else say bronchitis and I read a few of your symptoms but are you coughing? I just kind of assumed you were coughing after seeing a few key words. If you are then I mean everything I said so far. If not then wait for me to change my opinion and consider me misinformed.
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Originally Posted by mr. hypocrite
I'm just messing with Killuminati. As one could notice I, myself, also criticized Tidus' tenacity, but the lure of annoying Killuminati was too grand.Quote:
Originally Posted by ozzy
EDIT: lol, he noticed
Oh man you got me good. :rollseyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. E
edit: I changed it from the smiley because it reminded me too much of tidus.
I wasn't trying to 'get' you, I was trying to annoy you.
I succeeded.
Yeah, the ER's out in God's country have lines out the doors of people waiting to be treated for drive by shootings and knife wounds. They're super busy, and him going to the ER will totally deny other people treatment. Mmhm.
Do what you want, you idiot. Don't sit around waiting for a room full of people who hate you to tell you what to do.
It's not that him going to the er will kill anyone (most likely) or make anyone have their treatment denied. He will however make other people who may be in real pain or real trouble wait longer when he could just make an appointment. I don't know I have a problem with that. If he really believes that if he is in trouble then by all means go, but with his track record and the fact that he would even ask the question on this forum makes me inclined to believe he doesn't need to go. Too bad he probably already went anyway and this whole discussion is pretty much unnecessary.Quote:
Originally Posted by MalReynolds
Well, fluid in the lung and massive amounts of sputum along with stabbing chest discomfort lend themselves to pneumonia. But he could have just googled the symptoms and all that. Besides, if he goes to a doctor and they think he has pnuemonia, he gets to go to the hospital anyway to get a chest x-ray to confirm, and all he did was add an extra step.
Not all ERs are super busy like the ER in the television program ER. The last time I went to one - for shooting chest and leg pain, which I thought might be a DVT but turned out to be nothing - there was no one in the waiting room at all. This was in the sticks, in Missouri, so I can't imagine wherever the hell he is being much busier. Especially this early in the morning.
It's AIDS. That's not me wishing you would die, that's me wishing you would live a long fulfilling life. Just with AIDS.
Also lol Tidus just wants to go to the ER to meet George Clooney (I don't know the names of any actors who are in it now, I haven't watched it in years.
EDIT: Fuck, Mal beat me to the TV show reference. Curse thee Tetris.
In all seriousness, its not an emergency as such, all they will likely do is advise you go to your doctor, or atleast give you the same treatment as your doctor would, but without wasting the time of Doctors who could be treating people with emergency like injuries like broken bones or trauma.
Well I mean I don't know where he is but in my experience in the ER there was a substantial amount of people in there, nothing crazy but it took a while for me to get in every time. I don't know exactly where tidus lives though so for all i know maybe it's like your experience.Quote:
Originally Posted by MalReynolds
I thought most places have walk-in clinics. If I get sick, I go to a walk-in clinic, wait in the lobby for about thirty minutes, and then see a doctor.
Well, luckily someone canceled an appointment with my doctor...so I'll be going in at 11:00 tomorrow. I'm hoping it's just bronchitis. In that case, I'll just get some amoxycillin, some of that hydrocodone cough medicine shit that killuminati recommended, and some prilosec because my fucking acid reflux is going wild from this.
Thanks everyone.
Oh, and Jem, thanks. :)
Most walk-in clinics don't have doctors on staff all the time, and you're more likely going to end up seeing a nurse practitioner. The Patient First here refers so many patients to our office to deal with things like dullness in the lungs and incomplete lung capacity that you would think the patient would just come here first.
But no. Walk-In clinics are easier, but not always the best choice.
KT I have an idea. Why don't you, I don't know, shut the fuck up or something.
The walk-in clinic I go to has at least two doctors on staff at all times and I always see a doctor when I visit.
Well, congrats. The three Patient Firsts and two Wal-Mart Quik-Sick clinics we have around here only employ nurse practitioners or weekend docs who need or want extra cash.
Now, did it occur to you that the reason they might be quick-sick docs is because they couldn't get a job as a PCP or family physician, and had no specialty? Those are both very real logistical reasons as to why they're working at a walk-in clinic.
hey, only smiles and sunshine in my thread please.Quote:
Originally Posted by Absolution
Smile raping sunshine?
eh, i suppose i'll allow it.
Have you dick licks ever heard of "triage"? If Tidus goes to the ER and is deemed to be the person currently there most in need of care, he will get care. If, however, there is a person being shocked back into sinus rhythm on the waiting room floor and someone trying to disentangle their bowels from the automatic door, those people will go first.
Not necessarily. You obviously haven't heard of the woman who died in the ER waiting room because of the inattentive staff. She was the only person there, as well. Some of the time, it boils down to insurance, and that's a sad truth that many people won't look at. Triage or not.
First of all what mal said is true. But even assuming that doesn't happen too often(which I don't know about but I hope so), there are still a lot of people who could easily be in much more pain or with a more serious problem that wouldn't necessarily need the attention at that moment but they deserve it more. Why make other people wait for care when you can just as easily make an appointment and be no worse off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cryptic
Yeah, I didn't realize Redicare doesn't exist everywhere. I mean, I can drive 15 minutes, wait another 15 minutes in a small room then see a doctor who is super strung out and hasn't slept in 3 days or been paid in 4 months, but he'll still write me a script for something. As far as I'm concerned I ain't going to the ER unless it's in an ambulance. Although ambulance rides are not fun, I swear they hit every possible pothole along the way.Quote:
Originally Posted by KT.
Dude, you're making no sense. If someone is in more pain than a guy with a chest infection, the pain guy goes first. If they have a more serious problem than a guy with a chest infection, they go first. A guy who slammed his hand in a car door isn't going to die, whereas a guy with pneumonia will, though hopefully not in the next 10 minutes. But, the guy with the mashed fingers is in more pain than a guy with pneumonia so they'd at least get him into a room and give him something to make him feel better first, thereby, oh, I dunno....giving him care first.Quote:
Originally Posted by Killuminati
And yeah, there's ER horror stories everywhere and yeah, they are true. But they are exceptions to the rule and not what we are talking about here.
man tidus doesn't have pneumonia. he isn't gonna die even if he doesnt go to the doctor.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cryptic
While keeping in mind Tidus's track record, you really don't know that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Killuminati
This thread has now given me a headache.
I'm off to the Emergency Room.
This post was repped with the comment of 'lol'.Quote:
Originally Posted by simonj
This shit isn't funny. I live in England where our healthcare is oversocialised. And being a pinko-commie-long-hair that's not a term I use very often.
Me going to the Emergency Room would more than likely wind up in a much bigger emergency at a later date. Like death.
lol.Quote:
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I thought about living in sunshine land for a little bit, but I opted for the real world.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cryptic
How's that working out for you?Quote:
Originally Posted by MalReynolds
yea but with tidus its worth taking that chance, no matter how slim.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shinysides
I got neg repped. I'm feeling suicidal. I'm going to the ER too.
Have my 2000th post as consolation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cryptic
For some reason I felt the need to put you back in the green. It was my good deed for today.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cryptic
Not to change the subject or anything, but I advise getting it checked out. My friend and classmate had pneumonia and an upper respiratory infection for a while and had not shown improvement. He was finally sent to hematologist and found out he had leukemia. He starts chemo tomorrow. Now I know this most likely isn't the case for you, but i'm just saying.
You're coming home in a body bag.
stop being so red. LOL. Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by djwolford
You know, I've decided I don't particularly like killuminati.
And I like most people.
90% blows, 10% good times, 10% margin of error, 10% percentages.Quote:
Originally Posted by simonj
I just got back from the doctor. I have cancer.
You're coming home in a body bag.
No really what was it.
It is a small viral infection
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Originally Posted by srsinternets
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Originally Posted by MalReynolds
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fuck
this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. E
I should be better in a couple of days.
I'm about 5 times better than I was yesterday...but damn did it hit hard.r
What a surprise.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pepsi
Killuminati, do you always have to be such a twat about everything? Why can't you just shut the fuck up and not demand everyone's attention while you're on your pedestal? I didn't realize that taking precautions was a bad thing.
How am I up on a pedestal and demanding attention. I said exactly why you shouldn't go to the hospital and I stand by that. You are just a little bitch about everything.
I think Pepsi was going for high horse, but we've already been over this.
I didn't want to beat a dead high horse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. E
Also, I forgot to mention that on a streak of 5 or 6 years, I've had either pneumonia or bronchitis.(Pneumonia being the reason I failed some classes last year, thus making me take a year off.) I guess that would have validated my reasons a bit more.
Uh yea I think that is pretty important information. Pneumonia is no joke and if you get it like that then you going to the hospital is justified.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pepsi
here is the answer fill up your bathtub and immerse your head underwater for 10 minutes
if you feel you cannot make it, hire someone to hold your head for the requisite time
Cussing is not cool sir.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pepsi
Well originally that word meant nuns clothing and what with Tidus being so God-fearing and all I can only presume that was what he meant.
Now the phrase, "I'm going to fuck you," makes sense.
It really means, "I'm going to put nuns clothing on you."
Given that definition, I fuck a lot of people.
Yes, except the word was twat. So therefore when you say to a girl "can I see your twat?" and she slaps you, you can respond with "Oh, I thought you were a nun." and then enjoy the bamboozled look on her face.
Well, that just makes me odd for putting nuns clothing on people.
I mean, I fuck their twats, too, which is even weirder.
Have you tried putting nuns clothes on nuns clothes? Expect your world to be sufficiently rocked.
EDIT: Also asking to see a girl's twat is a bad habit. Eh? No? Go away.
Fun fackt:
The word fuck was originally an acronym for 'Fornication Under Command of the King' in a time where people weren't having enough sechs.
I never said it was a bad habit but it will get you slapped. Unless you're in Essex/equivalent American place full of drunk easy whores.Quote:
Originally Posted by MalReynolds
Habit is the contemporary name for a nun's outfit.
Nun is a contemporary name for what you are getting tonight
I've had both and I think someone is being tad melodramatic.
Tonight is the contemporary phrase for the section of the 24 hour cycle that you will not live to see, motherfucker.
That's right mother fuckers.Quote:
Originally Posted by MalReynolds
pretty sure this is a myth.Quote:
Originally Posted by simonj
Try marijuana.
Has anybody recommended a bullet yet?
Killuminati is one of the few people I like on this website.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pepsi
He's much better than you, you're just a humongous faggot.
yes, because your opinion apparently matters.Quote:
Originally Posted by Absolution
What?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pepsi
Surely Sexcetera's SEX FACTS wouldn't steer me wrong...Quote:
Originally Posted by gwahir
Definitely wasn't expecting that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Absolution