Hi guys remember me? I'm the girl who fainted in the OR twice and started a whole thread about it. I got some awesome advice and everything has been going great! I just finished the 2nd semester with a 4.0 GPA and I'm really enjoying my clinical experience despite dealing with that "I have no idea what I'm doing." jitters all new people go through.
Well today it happened again. I was scrubbed in on a case and passing instruments and everything was going awesome. Then I felt that familiar heat start to creep up. I started taking nice deep slow breathes and tried to focus my attention on other things and even began doing thigh squeezes to get my blood moving some more but, then the fuzziness started in and I had to break scrub. I just went to sit down. All I needed was some water on my face and some OJ and I would have been good to go. But, since this is a hospital after all I was put in a wheel chair and wheeled to the break room and given the usual crackers and juice. At that point I just wanted to die from embarrassment. I asked to check my sugar because I read about reactive hypoglycemia but, they said they couldn't unless they went to the ER.
My instructor came in and said that since this was the third time it has happened to me that I really need to consider continuing on this career path and that she needs to talk to another OR instructor to find out what to do with me. Pretty much I have to get medical clearance before I can continue and if it happens again I have to leave the program.
She sent me home for the day and I immediately went to my doctor who sent me for every single type of blood work and urinalysis and I see a cardiologist on Wednesday.
I really sat and analyzed everything and realized I only ever felt faint on morning clinicals and not evening clinicals. I then realized before I go to bed every night I take amitriptyline (for help with pain from endometriosis), Lorazapam (anxiety and for my IBS Which it's pretty much gone!). When I have to get up really early I add Zaleplon. I had to get up early today and I worked until 11pm the night before. So yeah I'm 100% positive taking all of those meds and getting 4 hours of sleep is crap. But I have no idea how else to quickly go to sleep when I work until 11 and need to get up at 5am without medication.
I'm just so heartbroken and depressed right now. I've just been a crying mixed bag of emotions. It's just like why is my body doing this to me now? When I worked in a factory for 5 years it was under tougher conditions and I often stood in one spot for several hours and not so much as an eyelash fluttered from me. I really hope I can pull through this. I mean I'm done in July! I understand that if it's a medical condition I can't go on because that's not good for me or the patient. I guess I'm just so tired of fighting for everything and getting kicked in the orifice at the end.
PS Are our journals back up? I have a LOT to ramble on about.
