A friend of mine emailed me about a problem her husband is having. Below is a copy of the email.
Any idea what this could be, nurses?
(Please, no flames! )
My husband is having frequent bouts of dizzy spells where he gets lightheaded and just doesn't feel right .... it happens whenever it feels like it .... whether he's been having a hectic day doing lots of work or a day of doing absolutely nothing but laying on the couch watching football .... whether he's eaten full meals or just picked .... it happens a lot when he bowls {every sunday night} when he gets to the approach line and like i said, quite a few times during the week ....
I have taken him to the ER worried that it was signs of a stroke or something, and to the regular MD .... we got absoluetly NOWHERE at the Er ... after sitting there for more than 3 hours and NEVER seeing a DR, we left. The MD says he wants to run some tests {EKG, Stress, heart monitor} but hasn't given us any further info yet {almost 3 weeks have gone by}. He did get blood work done, but we can't even get the info from that.
The strange part is that his Bp is perfectly normal everytime - at the ER, at the MD before he started complaining about these episodes and even after we went back. If we stop at a machine - it's normal .... even during an episode.
The only thing he was diagnosed with about 2 mos ago, was high cholesterol and he's taking crestor. But he says that this was happening before he started taking any meds ... it's just getting worse. P.S. He just turned 40 last week .
Oh yeah - the triage nurse at the ER said something about male menopause. When I mentioned this to the MD, he said that male menopause is a bunch of BS and that that nurse was "wrong" and "out of line" for saying that. Is there such a thing as male menopause? Any ideas? Should I be so worried that he's going to have a heart attack or something?
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