shoulder blade pain at higher heart rates

[ny biker]

I did experience something similar when I had pulmonary hypertension secondary to pulmonary emboli. I don't mean to be alarming, but I have learned not to fool with anything chest/upper back pain related, especially if heart rate is a factor (i.e., it comes and goes with heart rate elevation). It may be nothing, but it is always better to have something like that looked at by a professional - not a trainer, a medical doctor.

I believe what she's saying is that you could wind up in an emergency room or worse. You might want to go to an urgent care clinic if you can't find an internist.

[Crankin]

This is not something to mess with, as Sarah said. Go straight to a doctor.

[KnottedYet]

Here's what you do:

1. Get your fitness trainer to retrieve the gym's AED and ask him to hold your cell phone.

2. Clamber up on your favorite machine, and get your heart-rate up to the point you feel the shoulder blade pain.

3. Keep your heart-rate up until you go into full cardiac arrest.

4. Your fitness trainer can then call 911 as he's applying the AED.

5. Voila! You get medical attention without ever having to see a primary care physician!

6. Assuming you don't die, you've also just gotten a free stress test, and any cardiologist (whom you could have gone to directly, anyway) will have nice records to study.

DARWIN AWARD WIN!!!!!!

[Crankin]

Oy.

[moonfroggy]

Here's what you do:

1. Get your fitness trainer to retrieve the gym's AED and ask him to hold your cell phone.

2. Clamber up on your favorite machine, and get your heart-rate up to the point you feel the shoulder blade pain.

3. Keep your heart-rate up until you go into full cardiac arrest.

4. Your fitness trainer can then call 911 as he's applying the AED.

except cell phones take a lot longer to reach 911 or they used to. so maybe is better to use a regular phone at gym and not the cell phone?

[OakLeaf]

I think she was being facetious about the procedure to make a point about how serious the situation could be...

No one can even get cell signal inside my gym, it's a concrete block building. But there's a house phone in every room.

Pascale, please take them (and the risk to yourself) seriously.

[Pascale]

LOL, I am a 911 op - funny people - cell phones reach 911 just as fast as a landline...just be sure to know where you are, cuz we don't! I get cell service in my gym.

Thanks for all the opinions...wasn't really quite what I was asking, but I know how these things take on a life of their own!

[kjay]

GREAT, creative, and to-the-point answer by KnottedYet. Loved it!

[maillotpois]

I believe what she's saying is that you could wind up in an emergency room or worse. You might want to go to an urgent care clinic if you can't find an internist.

Right. That was what I was trying to say. I probably should have been more direct.

My doc is an internal medicine specialist, which is I think what NY Biker was suggesting.