shoulder blade pain at higher heart rates

[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!

[Pascale]

Yes, Knotty's response was very amusing... I laughed myself. Wasn't ever suggesting I was going to ask a trainer to diagnose me, I was going to ask if he'd ever heard of anyone else having the issue.... the goal being to try to figure out which direction to seek help, if needed, because starting at a GP is just ridiculous and a complete waste of time and money.

The question was more a curiosity thing - it's been happening for years, happens when my heart rate gets up above 180, which is rare. As for Darwin Awards...thanks sunshine, but no worries, I'm not passing these genes on, I didn't breed.

[KnottedYet]

Sxn only occur p 180 bpm, s specific act rel.
Pt rpts non-distressed, loc pn.
Hx "years."

= c a r d i o l o g i s t

Love, hugs, and kisses,
"Sunshine"