POV: Gen Z paramedic
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Does not represent correct practice
*I don't deal with pain management (PM) IRL as it’s out of my scope of care. Given that, I know situations do exist where PM was withheld and it probably shouldn’t have been. That is bad. However, this represents the incredibly niche instance where someone is clearly not in distress. Thank you for coming to my ted talk *
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I dont deal with pain management (PM) IRL as it’s out of my scope of care. Given that, I know situations do exist where PM was withheld and it probably shouldn’t have been. That is bad. However, this represents the incredibly niche instance where someone is clearly not in distress. Thank you for coming to my ted talk
g if u did ted talks, people would listen 🤣
I work in PM and I can say that it is not *that* rare for our patients to go to the ER for meds. It's been happening less since the Pandemic, surprisingly, but we used to get dozens of calls from people who "accidentally" lost their medication.
One time someone called because they claimed they dropped an entire (open) bottle of Oxy-Acet 10-325 into their cat's food bowl. After being told they would have to bring the cat food pills in for proof, they suddenly realized the bottle was closed. 🙄
@@psn64sat63speaking as both a former EMT and a guy suffering from chronic neuropathic pain issues (and someone who tried to refuse opiates when they put one of my bones back together with a bunch of metal hardware) the issue is that pain is a subjective experience not just in between different people but within all of our own lives as we experience different levels of pain for the first time which is what makes it difficult for people to quantify the level of pain they are experiencing relative to everyone else
@@ImNotACatLawyerButIPlayOneOnTV In their cat's food bowl? How can they not understand that literally ALL of their credibility with the provider is GONE at that point? If they had 3 brain cells to rub together at that point, they would actually dump the meds into the cat's food and bring it in like they were told to... Shit like this is why when I heard a LOUD popping/snapping sound in my left shoulder followed by a burning sensation that got worse with any use of the arm and I proceeded to FUCKING BEG the Doctor to order a fucking MRI for my shoulder... Despite never mentioning pain medication, I was written off as drug seeking, told they had to do an x-ray first, then that the x-ray showed my shoulder had nothing wrong and was in perfect condition. How an MRI was unnecessary as the x-ray would have shown then if an MRI was actually needed and nothing was wrong. It took me over a year of going to different doctors before I found one who didn't dismiss me as drug seeking. Would you believe I had a massive tear in my labrum? Funny thing about that...
I get left in pain for over a year because they are so scared about someone having access to an opioid they refuse to even make the tiniest effort at diagnosing a patient.
Fucking Bullshit "War on Drugs" that does nothing but ensure the government has a steady flow of addicts to maintain the USA's #1 rank in both number of people incarcerated per capita and total number of people incarcerated. The USA has more people incarcerated than fucking China, a communist state with 1.4 BILLION people.
@@psn64sat63always happens at the ED. People will come in 0 distress, ask them how much pain they are in, and its 12/10.
But last week this young lady came in who fell and broke her hand, not only was she clearly in distress, her finger was bent backwards. It was so bad you didn’t even need an x-ray to know it is 100% broken.
I asked her what’s her pain level she mutters “i dont know… 8/10?”
She is my all time favorite patient. Bless her soul.
"If you're worried abt dirt on the floor it isn't a medical emergency" is so accurate
I was being wheeled away from my house on a stretcher by paramedics, I was gasping for breath and all I could think about was my newborn baby who was screaming and hungry in my panicked husbands arms. I remember pleading for him to feed her. I guess it depends what your priorities are
Not at all. Some can people become severely distressed over pointless things during medical emergencies. Or they could have OCD so dirt on the floor would be super distressing
@@aa-oy9il Baby's survival is a more important concern than having to sweep the floor later.
@@aa-oy9ilthat’s normal mom stuff tho
I think the problem is that they're coherent enough to stop the guy on the rug and be like "take your shoes off"
If they're already walking on the floor and the patient starts flipping out that's regular panic
I love how the "gen z paramedic" is just a regular ass paramedic.
Oh you sweet summer child. This is a regular ass paramedic that is 25 or younger. They speak in a direct and no beating around the bush manner while calling out nonsense, but often correcting their behavior the second they realize its serious. Tbh I'd rather have a gen x + gen z team for paramedics bc both gens dealth with abuse and neglect in the home and learned to cope and survive (generalized observation of capable humans in those age brackets) so i feel i can trust that team well lol.
@@thefckigaveflewawaywithu6904Would you say that those things don't apply to millenials and baby boomers? I mean this in the most genuinenly interested way
@@ellem8990 As I've observed, and as they seem to agree with, more people since the baby boom have been under prepared parents having children without a reason. This just naturally leads to negative behavior toward the child, and decent development in... most of the children.
@@ellem8990
there's a little less of the "I do not care about your bullcrap" vibe
they uh
did not grow up on a diet of stupid people filmed and liveleaks.
Paramedics can’t afford to be gen Z, they have work to do unlike the pink haired losers sitting in mom’s Lexus tiktoking about how they cannot possibly handle the stress of a 9 to 5 or they will LITERALLY die.
Had what I will call a small electrical fire in our attic, seven-ish years ago. Had to call 911 at like 7am, firefighters came, they had to call backup, the whole shebang. Thankfully, the fire was contained and there was no structural damage. We were talking with a couple of the guys afterwards and one of them went to apologize for the fact that they’d tracked mud through the house and across the carpet on their way upstairs. My mother and I were both like, “what are you talking about? There was a fire you were trying to put out? Who cares if you didn’t take your boots off, you’re fine.” I have never seen a group of grown men so close to crying.
sounds like it was a rough night for them, I hope they are doing well
@@Garnetlioness i don’t keep up with all of them, anymore, but i know some of them are! Thankfully, everybody was okay at the time.
Oh hey, you guys gut mud on the side of my house that wasn't burnt
Yeah, if it's bad enough that you're calling professional help, who then themselves call help, and you still have floors worth worrying about, the professionals fixed the shit out of the problem you called them to fix.
Send whatever 'thank you' is within your means, and then, you can worry about your new, much smaller problem of 'dirty floors'.
honestly this is an understandable reaction, my firefighting instructors told us a story about how they responded to a fully involved house fire and when they were entering the building the owners screamed at them to take their boots off because they had white carpets. my instructors were like dude, your entire house is burning and these are reinforced fireproof boots that allow us to do our job
Lil bro is having a coherent conversation and has the lights on but somehow has an 11 migraine 😅
Yeah the times I’ve been at a 7+ I have as little light as possible coming into my room, the fan is usually on high and I’m laying in bed waiting for the pain meds to kick in, and in 11 would have me crying probably and throwing up
To be fair not all of us respond super poorly to light. I make up for it by responding exceptionally badly to sounds and smells though.
@squishyushi since lvl 10 pain is "arm just torn off in an industrial accident & no pain meds yet", something tells me a lvl 11 migraine would only last a fraction of a second before its traumatic aneurysm mortally resolved.
I've been getting migraines for years. The lights are turned off as is every sound, and my happy ass is wrapped up in a burrito blanket covering my head and ears and I snap at anyone who makes even a small sound clas it causes more pain. The lights would not be on with an 11 level migraine I promise you 😂😂
I was at a 10 with a kidney stone. The way I knew I was a ten was because I was writhing around on the bed trying desperately to get the pain to be less intense and the only way to get me to stay still was for the nurse to give me the ketamine. Once my brain stopped freaking out and the radial pain receded I was able to go Oh! It feels like a cramp! Can you give me something for a cramp?
Ten you can't speak. 11 you would be frothing at the mouth or paralyzed with pain
PSA
If you ever have what you would describe as "a severe migraine that's the worst you've ever experienced," call 911 or have someone drive you to the emergency room, especially if it comes on suddenly. You could be experiencing a stroke or brain hemorrhage. Those are life threatening medical emergencies. Don't try to "wait out the pain" if it feels unbearable. If you feel like you're dying, it's best to have doctors make sure you're not
Agree as a migraine suffer and having 2 friends that that had brain bleeds. One of them died leaving 2 small children and the other lived having rehabilitation for 3 years. None of us want to have to take pain medication but there were no other options. Not all migraine suffers are after drugs.
Definitely a good PSA. I wasn't having a migraine, but passing gallstones and I waited out the pain all night as they usually passed. The next morning I was in so much pain I physically could not sit still and started throwing up bile. The stone was stuck in my bile duct and had started causing my liver to fail. Learned my lesson that day on actual pain severity and listening to my body when it's screaming at me something is very wrong here!
Thunderclap headache! It "strikes as fast and hard as a clap of thunder."
I had two of them less than 24 hours apart. Both triggered by laughing. I had explain to the EMT why I was concerned I was gonna die, and then had a great experience with an ED doc that told me no one dies of a headache 🙄
It was the harbringer of my genetic disability finally catching up with me.
For those who are unsure: Level 10 pain means you are on fire. You have been skinned alive. You have been run over by a car.
😂😂😂 giving birth without an epidural, being cut open down stairs without any numbing meds. Worst pain of my life.
Or your appendix is bursting, I’ve heard that’s a 10
Or passing a kidney stone…I assure you, it’s THAT bad.
I tell my patients it's like you just cut your finger off...they quickly come up with a number less than 10.
I had a patient that skydived and the parachute failed. She didn’t pull the emergency parachute either. She NEVER complained but the person I have to get off the phone to answer is a 10?
Last year I had the worst migraine I've been having them for 27 years now. Drove to the hospital with vision going blurry and vomited in the car on the highway. Pulled into a police only spot and an officer came up and started to ask me if I needed help then ran off inside the hospital before finishing. Came back out with a team of people. I knew something was definitely wrong at that point. My blood pressure was 280/120. When we got in they were rushing me straight past everyone im the waiting room and the speaker overhead was calling a code and for a Stroke team to assemble. Didnt end up having a stroke, spent a week there getting flooded with IV fluids, and resting a lot. Cops even moved my car for me so it wouldnt be towed.
Stand up cops!
As a frequent migraine sufferer, that wasn’t a migraine - that was a thunderclap headache* and is considered a medical emergency because it is more likely to indicate something very wrong (like your incredibly high blood pressure).
*a headache that comes on intensely and is either the worst headache you have every had (for a headache sufferer) or the first headache you have ever had.
@@scarborough5612 some people don't get headaches at all?
@@lettuce7378 so I hear!
@@scarborough5612 those lucky bastards...
As someone with severe chronic migraines, "sit on iv fluids" and "think of different ways to bill your insurance" is exactly what it feels like happens.
Edit: It's late, but a couple things. 1: If you don't know, there are many types of migraines and help for those. I have cluster migraines, and not much helps those besides a drug I can't afford. If other things help you, great! I'm really happy that some people can find relief as I understand your pain.
2: Absolutely no hate to Healthcare workers. They work hard and tend to hate the profit motives of their administration.
3: I went to the hospital after 5 days of continuous waves of pain, to make sure I didn't have brain damage (I did not).
Thank you and I hope everyone has a good holiday season.
Because as much as migraines suck, it really isnt a medical emergency and theres nothing they can really do lol.. They cant deny you care either so they do the minimum cause again there isnt much else you can do
@@andresvillegas5203
Welp about 12yrs ago I went to the ER for a migraine that was so bad my Dad had to carry me inside (I was 24 at the time but he was a big guy). I was puking, sweating, and moaning in pain. I don’t know what they gave me, but they gave me SOMETHING bc on the way home, the pain was gone and I was talking my Dads head off since I was high as hell 😂 so yes they USED to actually treat migraines with pain meds, but I’m guessing they don’t anymore 🤷🏼♀️
Exactly. While you're puking from pain, can't see cuz of eye aura and are in excruciating pain. Some ignorant people think its just a headache....gggrrr
The concoction they give in the ER for migraines is absolutely awful and I don't recommend it. It's like anxiety in an IV I immediately started shaking and got a very upset stomach. My headache was actually because of high bp after childbirth though.
In a room with lighting that just makes things worse
As an emt you don't take your boots off just so you don't puncture or cut yourself or get in contact with bodily fluid
I can't imagine telling an EMT to take their shoes off regardless of the kind of emergency I or a family members was having. I'll mop later
@@ppleeatpple 100 % agreed plus by the time they take to untie them and take them off you could have been saved
@@ppleeatpple Never had someone dumb enough to ask me. They would get an eval for possible brain damage though.
You don't take them off period.
I'm baffled that anyone would request this. I know that it's a really big deal in certain households, particularly in certain cultures so I suppose I can't speak to that but it does shock me if those people would still insist. If it's an emergency that they have been called to respond to, they're working. The property becomes their workplace and it's a workplace requirement and expectation that they keep their shoes on for a multitude of reasons. It's also unbelievably disrespectful to demand something like that of these professionals. I can clean or replace the floor, I can't replace a life and probably can't afford to replace a house.
If you can say "11", it's not an 11
11 is death due to pain shock
That's why I say 9.
At worst, they think I'm speaking German due to the pain.
Exactly 10 is unbearable
11 is passed out due to pain
I had sweatily white knuckled through 12 hours of intense stabbing agony due to a twisted small intestine. Soon my adrenaline was wearing off and my legs were giving way. I was admitted and walked myself from room to room being checked out and that was a mistake. My colour totally left, my hair was plastered to my head with BULLETS of sweat, I was throwing up and collapsing in writhing pain. A nurse asked me, finally after they got me in a bed; “what is your pain level from one to ten?”
I wasn’t able to answer at first because I was in the middle of a moan that would make any pron star proud and was about to say “uhh ehh eighhhh-niiiiinn-“ and she cuts me off and said “let’s call it a ten sweetie, because it looks like an 11”
“K”
If you're really in "number 10" pain you can't talk..the most you'll get from a patient is a moan or groan...
ER care of migraine varies greatly. I had a family member who was on Medicare, due to disability, go in to the ER for a migraine. And they treated her like she was trying to score drugs. They gave her Tylenol and an IV and tried to discharge her. She couldn't keep her eyes open in the light, she could barely talk, because she was in so much pain. But they just rolled their eyes at her and scoffed at her. Ironically, she hated to use traditional meds and always fought using pain meds, so for her to go to the ER and even consider narcotics, showed how bad her pain actually was. But they didn't want to her it. Then I went in with a family member who was an executive director, and they immediately gave her narcotics. And kept her for over 8 hours to "help her get ahead of the pain" with continued narcotics. The doctor told her to follow up with a neurologist to come up with a preventative plan. She did NOT follow up with a neurologist. And did this same ER visit every 3 months or so. And they still treated her like queen, didn't even question her on why she hadn't followed up with neuro. Eventually I noticed a pattern. Every time she went out for meals, multiple days in a row, she would get these "migraines". I asked the doctor if it could be hypertension headaches from too much sodium, instead of neuro issues. They did a workup and sure enough, she had high blood pressure. But they never caught that because they assumed the elevated blood pressure was due to the pain of the migraine, instead of triggering the pain. She is lucky she never stroked out!
But it was so frustrating how quickly they judged my family member, just for being on Medicare from disability and how little they held the other family member accountable just because she had a certain job title.
I dont have much patience for those who try to abuse and use an already overburdened healthcare system. On any level. There should be a charge for straight up bullshit.
Bro that's like the majority of the calls we get lol
pretty much.. i also hate that some doctors will wtite you off as faking it. i have a rare muscle disorder that effects my neck.. its extremely hard to function some times when its in full flare. i went to see a neurologist once that essentially just said i was drug seeking.. a real fuxking azzhole.. he didnt see the 2-3 months of daily pain and difficulty functioning.. i ended up going to the next state over, back to the neurologist who first diagnosed me in 2003.. rare disorder meaning less than 200,000 people in the world have it.. the healthcare industry has gotten exponentially worse than it was 20 years ago.. and i hear that from almost everyone.. just more money for worse care.
Missuse of emergency services
You don't work in healthcare if this bothers you lmao
@@MH-nc5jdwhat is this condition? I’m in medical school and remember hearing someone else talk about the same thing and how it was misdiagnosed for years. Don’t want to forget it.
This is so frustrating, my wife has migraines so bad that she blacks out from the pain and wakes up screaming. Still can't afford an ambulance for that, so I drive her myself. Tons of fun to sit in the ER while the doctors try to figure out why the IV isn't working and they might have to actually take her seriously!
I got an IV for ovarian torsion. Worse it was the right ovary and they faffed about until it didn't go away and morphine only dulled the pain.
@@tiryaclearsong421 😱😱😱😱😱 Horrendous!!!! 😢
my friend had a recent episode that was practically full paralysis once it was in full swing. started with vision so blurry she could hardly see. she told me later she had the passing thought that she'd have called for an ambulance but couldn't really afford it.
she was... "mostly" sure the worst symptoms might fade off like the last time and that in hospital they mostly just gave fluids and painkiller.
but it's so sad about not being able to pay an ambulance ride.
I DO love it when the ER docs look at me like I'm an **addict** for wanting a friggin Nurtec when my BP is crashing in at 215/135 for a solid 4 hours of their miraculous "Benadryl and Saline curative" (how DARE I want AcTuAl TrEaTmEnT?!?)
This is the reason I no longer even try to go to any immediate care or ER when they hit me. I'd rather suffer through the pain (had them since starting my period 36 years ago) than be judged and mocked by healthcare "professionals". And seeing as I've worked in healthcare my entire adult life until very recently, that's saying something. Not a good something. Also the very reason I've recently left the field almost entirely. I no longer believe in the farce that the United States healthcare system has become. No, I've never been an addict and avoid prescription pain meds like the plague. Can't drink either because of a transplant I received when I was 7.
Almost a month ago my husband had a massive heart attack. We live in the country and I did CPR for 8 minutes as the paramedics raced to get here. They burst through my door like storm troopers and did everything in their power to save him. My house filled up as the sheriff’s department arrived, followed eventually by the Judge. Every single one of them was professional and did an outstanding job. My husband was pronounced dead and I was shown his ekg. After everyone was gone and it was just some of my family and me, I removed his Apple Watch. The next day, as I was given a message on my watch that it was time to check my ekg, I thought about his watch. I checked his health report and discovered that his heart had never beat once after I reached him, seconds after his heart attack. During my frantic attempt at CPR he was already gone. My health report showed that my pulse reached 179 bpm as I frantically tried to save him. Those who call for paramedics unnecessarily should be ashamed of themselves. For many, the services of these professionals is a matter of life or death.
I am so sorry for your loss
I'm so sorry you had to experience all that. That sounds very traumatic.
I am so very sorry
I'm so sorry
I'm so sorry. I can't even imagine going through that.
“…so no ket?”
🥺 no ket 👉👈
I know, no ket. Sad right?
“Dome piece in distress” is officially how I’m labeling my migraines from this point forward. (Yay for chronic migraine syndrome!) 😒
Me too lmao 😂😂😂
Same! Funnily enough, since he mentioned it, the Ketamine infusions I get for nerve pain have reduced my migraines by A LOT.
The rest was controlled by a preventative medication, but with the medication shortages ATM I can only get a different brand, which doesn't work as well as the one I'm used to, and now I'm having 2-3 migraine days a week again.
😂😂😂 fr, I'm definitely using this on my hood counterparts cause they're too illiterate to understand
Yeah, as someone with chronic migraines I do not go upto the hospital. The bright lights, the continuous beeping and the inability to rest due to people coming and going all the time would just increase my hell. Dark, cold room, no movement and drink lots of water and any medications recommended by your neurologist
Diabetic guy having emergency... Did someone say pizza?!!?!
Yup, too much in the past
gross
*Sudden happiness feeling floods in*
but pizza is waaaaaay too slow to go into the bloodstream! except of course when you factor that in bc it's a quantum-diabetic object and the way you inject your insulin for it will change the way your body absorbs it q-q
I suffer from migraines. When I do get them, I am in the bathroom, crying, trying not to start slamming my head on the floor & constantly puking IN THE DARK.
Scares the crap out of hubby who hates Dr's. He was ready to call 911.
THAT is an 11 pain, but still, I've been told by Dr's it isn't a big deal.
I have 7 kids & when I tell you I would prefer labor over one of my migraines, I MEAN IT!!
I'm sorry to hear it, migraines are awful - I've only had a handful, but they are emotionally charged memories! You have surely done plenty of research on triggers.. have you come across Dr. Stasha Gominak? She is a retired neurologist who worked with a lot of chronic headache and migraine patients. She and Dr. William Davis both have a ton of excellent information available.
I know the pain of these migraines. Vomiting in the dark wanting to die. Some people know your speaking truth. It's the only time I would actually wish a doctor can have the experience themselves so they learn some empathy.
@@Lisa-pw2hePlease do not just wish your pain on people
@@KingHeroKinniewe can wish bad stuff upon bad people as much as we want to, thank you.
@@Lisa-pw2heI'd rather never meet someone who understands my pain, than knowing someone else is going through the same hell.
If you speak factually and objectively with doctors and ASK them to explain their decisions and views you will much more likely get what you want from them. They hear people exaggerate and whine all day, ofc they get numb to it. So instead of "my pain is off the chart" and "I have no life" say "the pain can get up to an 8" [that's the highest realistic number on a bell curve and doesn't sound like you're exaggerating 😉] and "it's negatively affecting my everyday life and relationships". If you are professional, they will be professional.
I, as a paramedic, will never take my boots off. If I slip or fall during work and hurt my feet I don't have insurance.
I will, if the "customer" want it, step out of the house happily and clean my boots thoroughly on the doormat, but I won't take them off.
Yeah, it seems like a major OSHA violation. I hope no-one does give in.
A paramedic without health insurance? That's just shameful.
@@belladonnatook8851 Think next time before you comment. I never said that.
@@xxdomixx1085 "If I slip or fall during work and hurt my feet I don't have insurance." Perhaps you should acquaint yourself with the English language.
@@belladonnatook8851 If I intentionally took off my protective boots. I wrote that in the comment.
I used to deal with chronic migraines. One night, I didn't have any kind of medication, so I thought I would just go to sleep and pray I'd be better in the morning. Woke up about 2am, barely made it to the bathroom before throwing up. Turned on the bathroom nightlight to wash my face and realized my nose was bleeding. Talk about scared. I called my ex (he was the only one I knew would be awake) and asked if he could bring me medicine and then take me to the ER if it didn't get better. He came and sat in my living room in the dark with me, not speaking, for an hour until I felt ok enough to be alone. Even after he left, I only made it halfway down the hall before laying on the cold (I needed cold) tile and staying there until dawn. I never considered it before, but if he hadn't answered, I probably would have called for EMTs. I lived alone and couldn't drive because of the migraine, and the pain was so bad.
I appreciate that he came when you needed him.
@cb6651 Yeah. We may not have been meant to be a couple, but he was a good guy. We had been broken up for 2 months and hadn't spoken at all during those 2 months. We didn't really talk after either, but he came through for me when I needed him. He could have ignored me, pretended to be asleep, or just said no, but he didn't. I'll always appreciate that.
@@cassandrahepp6445aww, i hope you both find the people you're meant to be with
@sunlightshadow013 thank you. Idk where he is in life now but I hope he is doing well. Less than a year after he and I broke up I started dating the man I'm now married to. We've been together just short of a decade and I love him more with each passing year. We welcomed a beautiful healthy little boy into the world last year. I consider myself very blessed.
@cassandrahepp6445 awwwww that's amazing!
I've had a migraine that was pretty much "off the scale." In the hospital, they had to put comforters taped over every window, and warnings on the door[be careful opening due to light; painful for patient], everyone has to refrain from speaking and even music with headphones, and I HOLLERED in pain every time the little light on the IV pump blinked.
It took several layers of miscellaneous tape and multiple medical professionals to cover that stupid thing.
Technically, still can only be a 10, but that was a very certain "10."
These instances are the exact reason I keep an eye mask in my purse 😔 I remember being in the hospital for another reason, but I still get chronic migraines, so I wrapped hospital socks around my eyes because I couldn't deal with any type of light 🧦😂
They don't cover the windows in he ER. They can't even turn off all the lights because the medical staff need to see what they are doing. They put a towel over your eyes. No hospital will work in the dark. That's not realistic. Even when I came in vomiting with migraines they covered my face for the light. Every different hospital.
Psychosomatic symptoms are a hell of a drug
@@sweetfreeze5528yep, I keep a moulded foam nap-mask & a pair of Mack's plugs in my hosp. go-bag.
It has the added advantage that I can snooze just cozily even in the ER.
I had the opposite happen. Doctor refused to turn off lights and insisted on speaking in her loudest voice in order to "prove" that I was drug seeking. She had access to my medical history and I had brought my migraine meds with me (because they weren't working), but no, I was clearly faking it. Half the time it is like this, so if I am willing to go to urgent care, you know it is BAD.
Ketamine bandits at it again
Sudden very painful headache can be an indicator of an aneurysm that just ruptured.
"bill your insurance"..... accurate.
Godammit 😂 the doorbell noise set off my dogs
Same 😂😂😂😂
As someone who has gone to the ER with a migraine that went on for 72 hours despite taking my prescription meds: accurate. They just hooked me up to an IV, pushed their Headache Cocktail drugs, and let me hang out for a couple hours before releasing me. Drugs didn't actually kill the migraine, but it did take the edge off and allowed it to slowly fade away over the course of the next twelve hours.
if i was at an 11/10 migraine, im pretty sure i wouldnt be able to talk
If you aren't silently giving the paramedic the "shush" sign, it's probably not an 11. On the flip side, if I was told that all that was gonna happen for chronic pain was IV fluids and a large medical bill, I would "miraculously get better" too.
now you gotta make “dome peace in distress” merch
Dome piece
@@Joy21090 no ☮️ not piece😂
@@wegetup598 I like your pun but the 911 call was about a dome piece in distress.
@@Joy21090 my whole comment was about the pun buddy that’s why it’s spelled that way the joke flew right over your head 😂😂
@@wegetup598 guess so. Not sure of the source of your confidence. If you are correct in your interpretation, then I have to say it's not the worst pun ever.
as a migraine sufferer who goes blind,violent vomiting and such my drs immediately have a special concoction they actually call it the Mimi fixer. Anti-nausea,antihistamine,and usually a strong painkiller (not morphine since im allergic and causes rebound), and 1 more thing I can't remember at the moment. It used to happen once maybe twice a year. Thankfully after Aimogov injectable. I maybe have 1 every 3 years its great
Aimovig is a lifesaver.
That’s so good for you!!!
My unit got a call to see the patient at a restaurant, when we arrived she calmly walked to the hostess stand & told us that she couldn't go right then because they had just ordered their meals 😮 told us to come back for her in an hour or so. She claimed to be having intense pain from opening the heavy restaurant door & "desperately " needed a doctor & xrays. I was quite happy to tell her that if she wanted to go to the hospital then we go RIGHT NOW. She refused & we left. She was also billed for her little stunt😂
As a person whos had more "11" migraines than I can count, I can say many times I've seriously considered calling 911. You're in so much pain you feel like you're quite literally dying. But he right about sitting on fluids while they think of ways to bill inaurance. There's no help.
Get progesterone levels tested. Bio identical progesterone helped me. Stopped migraines. Sublingual tabs at night
Had a grade 4 kidney laceration, 10/10 pain when I lean an inch forward or backward. Pissing out a litre of clotted blood was an experience, morphine FTW.
omg. That's horrible.
How did that happen?
Last time I went to the ER with excruciating kidney stone pain I found out morphine did nothing to relieve it. Toradol to the rescue!
As a genZ medic, this is a regular occurrence in terms of conversation
I CAN CONFIRM! I’ve had to go to the ER multiple times for migraines, usually after 5-8 days and several failed meds at home. this last time I got a migraine cocktail (fluids, Benadryl, decadron and zofran) and I owed $532 out of pocket.
My dog thinks that the video is someone at the door, I don’t know how to tell him it’s just a video.
I had a really bad migraine once that my left eye stopped working and I was at work they called the ambulance and the hospital gave me fluids and what the very nice nurse called "the miracle migraine cocktail" which was I think either Tylenol or ibuprofen mixed with benadryl. Ever since that happened every time I feel like it might happen again I take benadryl and ibuprofen and have not had the issue since
Waait...so benadryl and ibuprofen together help migraines?? I literally have both and suffer from migraines on a daily, I may have to try this :)
It’s usually Toradol, Benadryl, and then a third one. That third one can vary depending on where you are, but compazine, phenergan, and reglan are a few options. Also common in those IVs is magnesium and fluids. Hope this helps!
Side note don’t take Benadryl for prolonged periods of time it causes pretty bad memory loss/brain fog. I took it my last winter term and can barely remember anything from that period.
I literally just got diagnosed with migraines and currently waiting on my dozens of meds to combat it... the "dome peice in distress" killed me 😂😂😂😂😂😂
All I know is, “Worst headache of my life,” sends alarm bells off in my brain.
I have chronic migraines and a migraine would have to be *really" bad for me to call the ambulance. For reference I go blind and can't speak properly when I get migraines.
This is exact treatment of people who actually have cluster migraines. It took them three years to figure out that I had an adrenal insufficiency and me going into a near coma but yeah, this guy nails exactly what the healthcare industry does for people with migraines.
When you are in severe pain, you can only grunt one word at a time! There's no one alive who could fake trying to pass a kidney stone.
I just caught this channel a couple of weeks ago. Been binging since. I've turned a lot of my e.r. coworkers and some of the paramedics onto this channel.
I like to call this one the “drive to the ER, then toradol and chill”
Yep. If my own meds aren't touching it, toradol is the answer. I have no idea what it is or does, but it fixes things. And you don't have to worry about throwing it up.
Edit: looked it up and it's a very, very strong NSAID. you can't take it normally because it can give you renal failure and massive GI bleeds. But it's a life saver to potentially stop a migraine in its tracks.
Emgality once monthly injections have been a lifesaver for me. It has significantly reduced the amount of migraines I get now. And if you apply for the Lilly savings card can reduce or make your copay 0. I don't pay anything. Insurance pays a big chunk and the savings card pays the rest.
@@amandaradke2257I take Emgality and have been for the past 3 years. It's definitely been my lifesaver as well. I've not been able to get $0 copay, but it does cost me $160 a month. My husband says it's worth it because it keeps me out of the hospital, which is more expensive in the long run. We have met our out-of-pocket max a couple of times so I don't have to pay for it in November or December 😊
What I love are these commercials showing ppl going about their daily life while they have a migraine. I've only had a few migraines in my life but they were the throwing up type. I know that while experiencing them there is no way I was able to function. 😮😮
I mean, I feel like those ads are more about "Going about life only to have a migraine come on suddenly in the middle of you doing things." Not so much the "I have a migraine but I'm still merrily going about my day" kind of experience.
Plus, based on the folks I know that suffer migraines, while you go straight to the vomiting levels of pain/nausea, some of them seem to have a level where the pain/nausea/other symptoms are something they can function with, though it's unpleasant, and it's only when it exceeds the threshold that it becomes a problem. Like walking on a twisted ankle...for a while, it might not be too bad, but at some point, the swelling and pain is going to peak and make it impossible to bear weight.
Goddess forbid I ever need a paramedic, but if I do, this guy can show up. Keep it calm. Keep it moving.
“Scale of one to ten it’s an 11” would make me think ic bleed but this person clearly wanted drugs the way you wrote them lmao
Medical field, the only job where the customer is never right and we're allowed to cuss and visually be mad at them. Love it
I hate pain meds!! Literally, the nurse at the ER had to distract me while another hooked up morphine. I tried to fight them until i noticed my feet were floating..😂😂😂 I woke up 6 hours later in a different part of the hospital..
That sounds....like....super illegal?
Me too! Well not that, but I have several internal birth defects that mean things twist around each other and try to rupture a lot more than normal. I HAVE to be on pain meds all the time. But I’m not. Everyone keeps telling me it’s wasted on me (jokingly of course) but I have alcoholism in the family, everyone smokes and I am already addicted to my phone so I am scared of it. I’ve been throwing up from pain so much that I was finallly coughing up blood. I finally got a stern finger shake from my surgeons and finally my GP practically begged me (hands clasped and shaking them at me) to finally start taking the regular low doses of pain medication. Fine freaking FINE! life’s better. I’m still nervous.
@@tails7799patients try to fight nurses all the time you'd be surprised
@@bluebarry3 if a patient in good mental state declined pain medication it is a felony to administer it, especially since it is not necessary for living
@@tails7799absolutely
You must consent to treatment unless it ls an implied consent situation like if you're unconscious and in need of intervention, without a VERIFIED DNR it's "implied" that you would want your life saved or the prescribed treatment for the condition.. administration of pain medication can be that situation if for example your on so much pain you can't stop screaming or don't actually object but I've never even heard of someone being administered a narcotic that wasn't at least told and given opportunity to object (other than the lady dosed by Russian medics after the Kursk tragedy when she was embarrassing them by emotional reaponse on tv) lol or under a psych hold for extreme violence/emotional outburst in a psych ward
When I was hurt and they said the pain scale, they didn't believe I was really injured because I said 7. I knew I wasn't dying but I sure wished I was
Because I have suffer from chronic pain that pushed my abnormally high pain threshold even higher I've messed up the 1-10 question before. So now I have a picture guide of stick figures in my phone instead. 😂
@@princesspaihana same, chronic headache for the past 10 years and migraines frequent enough that im pretty used to the pain messed me up
when i first got migraines i thought of them as 9/10 or 10/10 and now even though they still hurt the same, i'd put them at a 6/10 unless theres flashy lights or noise that triggers me, in that case its an 8
I had a spinal induced migraine after my C section. I couldn't sit up to nurse my premature baby. It was pure physical hell, and I had preeclampsia and had just been gutted and "squeezed like a tube of toothpaste" to get my baby out. I felt like I was dying. The hospital arraned for an anesthesiologist help me. My options were, anither needle in my spine which had a risk of paralyzing me. Or as the gentlemen described it "a covid test on steroids" he jammed buds on sticks down my nostrils with force. Then poured a numbing agent in my nose. Blood and chemical washws down back of my throat. It took everything to not vomit i was blind with tears and pain. But it gave me relief i was able to sleep that night. The guy who administered the treatment did it to himself at home because he got migraines all the time. My room was full of doctors and nurses staring down my nostrils. Weird, painful time.
That's horrible. I'm sorry you had to go through that trauma.
For 10 years, I’ve lived with someone who has chronic facial and head pain. Most of the time, you’re lucky if the ER will give you Tylenol for a migraine, let alone friggin’ ketamine. It sucks, because people like this made up person are exactly why you get treated like an addict when you seek help for pain no one can see.
It was the “ we’ll send the medical bills to your insurance company” that instantly cured me 😂
He basically knew the words "Bill your" where the best medicine
Glad that a gen z medic isn’t obnoxiously overdone like other sketches on yt
Seems more like just a normal medic in my experience.
Generation stereotypes are largely exaggerated anyway. There are reference changes and some defining traits, but people generally act their age. College vs Military vs straight to work are generally more defining factors for young adult behavior rather than social media trends.
I'm 33 and one of my best friends is 24, met him while he was 19 at work. Once you both know how the other ticks, the exaggerations about a generation basically disappear.
The one and only time I got Ketamine was from a French Doctor (I live in south Texas I thought my migraine was making me hear a French man, but no, he told me he was French by bending down to speak face to face while I was on a gurney. Which normally would have been fine and caring but he was maybe 2 inches away from my face. He have very straight teeth) he told me he looked through my history and saw I had gone through every migraine medication and should probably give ketamine a try. Never saw him again. I remember the nurse saying “…put something funny on your phone” and all I remember after that was being scared. Next thing I remember was driving* home in the dark and I STILL had a migraine when I got home.
Whoops just incase *I was not driving my mom drove me there and back home please have someone take you home when under certain medications
I am laughing because I’ve heard similar stories from my son who is Paramedic 😂 Thanks for sharing 😊
I once had a migraine so bad the ambulance paramedics initially thought i had a stroke, having passed out in the shower from a sudden debilitating onset migraine. The ER ordered a catscan and after they didnt find anything, I was given crazy strong painers that I had to take intermittently for close to 3 weeks after because the migraine would return with a vengeance
There are times when i was definitely tempted to call an ambulence for my post concussion migraines.
Been there. I have Post Concussion Syndrome. It is much better, but it has been years. I still have issues with it. I have had 8 now. Once you have had a couple, it doesn't take much to get another.
When I got some retraining during the last time I was on unemployment, I had a concussion. I went to class and did a bookkeeping exam with a horrific headache. After that I had an appointment with my case worker and within a couple minutes she called an ambulance for me. She said we were talking, but I was stringing random words together. I thought we were having a normal conversation.
I ended up going to my local hospital and they sent me to another hospital. I was vomiting so much they had to give me a shot so that I could give me an MRI. Then I had a spinal tap. They had to stop part way through because I started vomiting again. I lost my voice from all the vomiting.
They first thought I had encephalitis. They did all kinds of tests. Even a psych eval, which I passed. The attending on that floor told me he didn't know what was wrong. I was much better after a week. I just looked at him and said weren't all my symptoms concussion symptoms? I had told them several times what I had. The look on his face was duh, why didn't I figure that out? I told him it was concussion number 5.
My symptoms suddenly got worse because the first time I went to the ER the Doctor on duty gave me a prescription for a medication that he said was for pain. I later looked it up and it actually amplified concussion symptoms. It wasn't supposed to be prescribed for a concussion. It was supposed to be for a mental health issue that I didn't have.
Fortunately, I live in Canada so I didn't have to pay anything for my hospital stay or tests. Since the hospital was full, I had my own room in a small TV lounge. I even had free TV. I couldn't really watch it until almost a week passed because of the light though.
@@kessiawright1710 goddamn with all that vomiting I'm surprised you didn't tear your esophagus. I did that a few weeks ago and it was just food poisoning. a micro tear, but still enough to turn my shit black for a few days.
as for the bad meds, some medications do have off-label uses so maybe it COULD be used for pain, but it sounds like this doc didn't do his research on what TYPE of pain. sorry that happened to you.
@@kessiawright1710Oh, yeah, PCS, the gift that just keeps on giving. Five years now, not 10 seconds without a headache. Mostly very low level, thank all gods ever invented, but it’s still exhausting.
I have read that *all* headaches following a TBI are considered migraines. I don’t know if that’s a general consensus or not, though.
Asking EMS to take your shoes off kills me. That's 100% my grandma. She'd bring up her floors every time. Even when the mortuary came to pick up my grandpa. I love her, but some people are just like that.
As a sufferer of Chronic migraines, you've described the ER ✨️perfectly✨️
Pov the "customer" has no insurance and didn't remember that before mentioning it so the "migraine is gone".
This is gonna be me in a year and i cannot wait
Good luck! It's a noble calling.
...provided you mean him, & not the patient. 😂
They care about boots on the hardwood but are trying to score ketamine. . . Talk about entitled
A friend of ours went to the ER with intense head pain. They said migrain and sent him home. He died hpurs later from a brain aneurism.
That is actually how the emergency room treated my migraine, minus the IV fluids. The only useful thing to happen was the nurse who told me about tensor machine.
I tried getting ketamine while in the ER, partly because I wanted ketamine but mostly because I didn't want fentanyl. They gave me fentanyl.
Have you had ketamine before? I havent, but judging by the animals I've given it to (vet tech), I can't imagine it's pleasant...
Sorry they gave you what you didn't want
@@cb6651 I haven't
Who the fuck is that willing to call 911 for a migraine?
Someone who thinks paramedics are more likely to just hand over painkillers than doctors.
Someone who wants Ketamine
I've had migraines where every bit of vision was torture, every little whisp of sound was torture, smells were nightmarish and I couldn't stop throwing up. Yes, I wanted to call 911 but hubby drove me to the hospital instead.
My worst migraine lasted over a day, and I couldn't even keep down water. I considered calling 911, but I knew they'd probably just put me on IV fluids and I have a fear of needles, so I decided to wait it out. But if I ever get one that bad again, and my rescue meds don't help, I probably will have my parents drive me to the hospital.
@@lindseyherbst9444 Sorry about that. Nightmarish. Think about how much better you feel when that needle is in. That helped me get over needle phobia.
Reminds me of my mom, who suffered from migraine for several decades. She had months with 25 migraine days in them.
One day it got so bad she called EMS and the guy thought she was "just making a fuss about a headache". I took him to tue side, explained how often and how severely she suffers from migraine, and if it's so bad she calls EMS that means it's a damn emergency. They took her to the hospital, luckily.
Surprised he didn’t check his TikTok notification during this, as a true gen z would 😂
It's so silly to me this trope, when you can buy ketamine and whatever else you need, from your phone, quicker and cheaper, why would you ever involve an EMT or a doctor?
It's just not realistic.
Some people are dumb enough to try this shit believe me.
People do all the time because it’s more legal than hitting up a plug. You’ve never heard of people literally breaking their hands with hammers so they’d be prescribed more drugs?
It is silly but very realistic
Because some folks know that street drugs aren’t exactly always reliably what the dealer says they are.
Trope? It happens all the time.
I strongly dislike taking medications for anything unless absolutely necessary. I am already addicted to caffeine, nicotine, salt, chocolate, and sugar in general.. no need to add additional drugs to that suicide combo.
As someone who has had migraines since I was a kid, I'd never call a hospital cause you learn that they're harmless pain. But they can put me out of commission for up to 2 1/2 days. Like, dark room, in bed, groaning, blind when I open my eyes, out of commission.
A saline drip is not gonna make it any better, if I go to a hospital for a migraine, I'm basically saying "give me opiates, drip me Ibuprofen, basically knock me out with doctor magic for 12 hours til this is over or I'm going to jump off a bridge."
But it's never happened. Ultimately I know all they can do is numb it out and have me lay down til it's over, so at that point I may as well just take a bunch of benedryls and sleep until my body resolves it. Which is what I do.
Gen Z wishes they had the spine to be this guy. This is just an ordinary paramedic.
Nice try
First???!
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@@WhatsGood24-7 and a reply from one of the best shorts creators, nice!!
Oh wow, didn't realize this one was so fresh!
God the IV fluids and insurance hell is a mood
The "11" is the freespace one most EMTs' Bingo cards
Lol when he started to say "what the fuck" 😅
I have a migraine right now, I wish my eyes didn’t feel like they’re going to pop.
If you're worried about dirt on the floor, this is not an emergency. 😂
The migraine didn't go away. It ascended.
don't worry about the boots, but i have a strict no shirt rule.
If my migraine is bad enough to call 911, it *is* off the chart. I either take nurtec if I'm at or headed to work then/or I knock myself out w sumatriptan @ home.
I feel so called out😫. Pro tip Do Not Prank Call 911 it won't end well I promise. I called 911 and asked for a pizza but luckily for me I got lucky with the officers and they didn't arrest me. but you more than likely will be arrested if you do so. Needless to say I learned my lesson.
*They TKO drip NS while they figure out how many ways they can bill your insurance" 🤣 GENIUS! I hope I remember that from my next refusal. 40 years and there's always something new to learn!
This is more than half of the pain scale's use. What your response is can say as much about your trustworthiness and imagination, as it does about your actual pain. If you cannot imagine any greater pain when breaking a bone, you have not fully considered being shot... or maybe that touching 1400°F metal would hurt PRETTY SIGNIFICANTLY WORSE for an eighth of a second. That'd be a 9 for me. A week of 7. A month of 5.5. Having done both, honestly would take the inconvenience of a broken arm for the month instead of that few weeks without the use of three fingertips, mashing them causing shooting pain right to your shoulder... pretty sure that calloused blank spot is here to stay. Ouch.
So calmly answering 11 isn't gonna ever be met with unskeptical instant belief. Either you dont know. You never considered. Or you are just lying. Or if you are mumbling things and don't seem fully present it might be your facuilties are effected by pain, but possibly by something else too. Its definitely recorded, such an answer, but your current bearing is equally important to measure with the answer you give over 5.
A real 11 would be constantly screaming if not sedated. Just fyi. Thats what it means to be "off the scale of pain." Unimaginable, indescribable. And asking for ketamine instantly after that answer, by name and not slurring or yelling, is not the way to get relief if thats really the case.
Sorry, yes, denial of pain medication has gone too far recently, but the opioid crisis is not exactly done with so they CAN'T act like handing them out like tic tacs is still okay, or that it really ever should have been. Plus they diminish in effectiveness eventually if you stay on em. "But Vicodin did work" is a human answer. And suspect. It is the world we live in.
A real 11 can also leave one completely silent, utterly unable to speak or produce any sound at all because of the level of pain. Ask me how I know.
@@wendyannh Depends on the person, I think.
I don't scream in extreme pain. I just go very quiet, cry, and do controlled breathing. If it gets really close to pass out pain I can't hold the careful breathing, but most of the way till then I can.
I can tank about 16 hours of 7-9 pain until I start having suicidal thoughts about it.
0/10 do not recommend.
P.S. I have been described by one lovely doctor as having the pain tolerance of a drunk russian lmao. It was hillarious and I never want to test it again.
They really do ask you to take your boots off.
“Have you on fluids while they think of different ways to bill your insurance company” 😂😂😂
At least he's honest. 😂
When I got my first migraine I didn’t know what it was. It was such an intense pain that I threw up, fell over, and couldn’t see for a bit. My family has a history of epilepsy so I was convinced I was having a seizure and I lived alone at the time so I got an Uber to the local urgent care. Most expensive headache I’ve ever had.
I get migraines that make the hospital staff think I have a brain bleed (this is what they told me the first time it happened). The IV has a few medicines that stop pain, make you sleepy, and stop you from vomiting. Usually the hospital staff turns down or off the lights.
It is rare for me to go to the hospital cause I have medicine but if it's bad the IV does help if you cant get any oral medicine in cause vomiting.
The opening reminds me of the Jimmy John’s commercial. Guy’s house is on fire, fire department slow responding, so he keeps calling the delivery at Jimmy John’s. He gets a feast of food and multiple people to hand buckets to, by the time the fire department makes it there, the fire is out and everyone is eating.
I’m not sorry for you Dantes, I’m fuckin thrilled for you man. It’s a big step in the right direction. Grab life by the balls and keep on pushing. There will be shitty days and not so shitty days but the only way you lose is if you quit. It’s awesome to see you open up about this when it’s not always in the spotlight not just for streamers/content creators, but for men in general. Keep your head up brother!
POV: you called 911 and a gen z paramedic arrived
This is the internal dialogue of every healthcare worker when dealing with patients.
Had a patient the other day and his genitals were split like a banana. Had the “OHHH FUCK” screaming in my head.
"while they think of a million ways to bill your insurance company" truer words were never spoken.
The hand movements in "-this is not a medical emergency" 😭👌🏼