It Was a Heart Attack in Waiting
Hypovolemic shock is an emergency condition in which severe blood or other fluid loss makes the heart unable to pump enough blood to the body. This shock can cause many organs to stop working.
Without treatment measures, the body will completely lose its ability to pump blood and maintain oxygen delivery once losing about 50 percent blood volume. The heart will stop pumping, other organs will shut down, and one will likely be in a coma. ~ Source: MedlinePlus.gov Encyclopedia
I woke to the third day in a row of losing so incredibly much blood that I gazed at my situation and thought .. surely I can't be making all this blood back. It's just not possible. I was unable to get off the toilet .. there was no break. At all.
It was a lot.
When I arrived at emergency, walking perfectly fine on my own, I was guided there entirely by logic. There was no way I could build that back after three days now.
I sat down and Triage assessed me. I said going in I must be 70ml or maybe 60 circulating. I did get used to living on less blood because fibroids never let me build it back well.
Within minutes I was in a room getting a blood level test. And literally 3 minutes later the nurse came back and told me I had to have an emergency blood transfusion.
I woke to the third day in a row of losing so incredibly much blood that I gazed at my situation and thought .. surely I can't be making all this blood back. It's just not possible. I was unable to get off the toilet .. there was no break. At all.
It was a lot.
When I arrived at emergency, walking perfectly fine on my own, I was guided there entirely by logic. There was no way I could build that back after three days now.
I sat down and Triage assessed me. I said going in I must be 70ml or maybe 60 circulating. I did get used to living on less blood because fibroids never let me build it back well.
Within minutes I was in a room getting a blood level test. And literally 3 minutes later the nurse came back and told me I had to have an emergency blood transfusion.
I was suddenly on heart attack watch. But I felt fine.
The nurse told me I had lost 65% of my blood, almost nothing was circulating. Surely that I had spent the last few years with less blood tricked me into feeling fine when I was minutes short of a heart attack, other organ failure and death.
This story brings me full circle back to the fact that my death would have been listed as Heart Attack.
But my death would actually have been due to Fibroids.
Women, hear me. You need to ensure you never get used to your situation to the degree where "I feel fine" dictates your day. Use logic. Think about your week, your month.
The nurse told me I had lost 65% of my blood, almost nothing was circulating. Surely that I had spent the last few years with less blood tricked me into feeling fine when I was minutes short of a heart attack, other organ failure and death.
This story brings me full circle back to the fact that my death would have been listed as Heart Attack.
But my death would actually have been due to Fibroids.
Women, hear me. You need to ensure you never get used to your situation to the degree where "I feel fine" dictates your day. Use logic. Think about your week, your month.
Take care of yourselves. We will never know how many heart attacks of young women could be prevented by getting Fibroids and heavy bleeding under control.
