I am in the US, so financial calculations need to be factored in.

For a moment, I couldn’t breathe, felt like I was going to die, then vomitted.

Now hear beating slightly off, not feeling great but not terrible, had mild chest pain earlier in evening…

Kinda feel off. Have medical insurance with large deductible.

Ignore it? Taxi to ER? Call 911? Genuinely don’t know and don’t like 911 since police are involved.

Also I feel hot, feel burning around my neck.

  • shalafi@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Taxi to ER. No medical office will touch you having complained of, even mild, chest pain and a weird feeling heart. Been there, done that. Walk in the ER talking of chest pain, and say that first!, they will throw you in a room and attach an EKG. Been there, done that.

    I don’t mean to alarm you, but taken together those symptoms smell like a mild heart attack. By some voodoo I don’t understand, the EKG can tell, even if the event is not happening in the moment.

    I say no medical office will touch you, but first time my doc sent me to the ER, second time they whipped out a portable EKG. Times change, I may be wrong.

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      4 hours ago

      In my experience, taxi drivers will refuse to take customers to the ER due to liability concerns.