Thread: Would you know if you were having a heart attack?

Originally Posted by Grumbles

Not t quite. Charging/not charging a pensioner is arbitrary at Vic Ambulance discretion,

Yes, but have they ever failed yet? They, unlike their operatives, do not discriminate.

Originally Posted by 4bee

Y'know the one, it's the feeling one has when in bed with your next doors & you hear 'er indoors car on the gravel driveway just returning from the shops after telling you she'd be gone all day but returned 6 hours earlier..

That one.

Dunno, but I bow to your superior Experience !

Originally Posted by windsock

I gladly paid NZ$110 for each ambulance ride regardless of distance or time of day. I had two trips. First one was across town from the Doctors to Hospital mid-morning and the other from 30min away rural to town hospital at midnight.

First one was a fright. I drove to the doc's after an angina issue in town. Once diagnosed, they indicated an ER visit was necessary. I volunteered to drive to the hospital but the doctor demanded my Land Rover 110 keys and called an ambulance. My wife will tell you I was in ER more concerned about my 110 sitting on the road in front of the doctors in a 3-hour park zone than I was about my cardiac issue.

I'm heartened to see you have you priorities right.

Originally Posted by superquag

Dunno, but I bow to your superior Experience !

Then I am Blessed.

Originally Posted by jonesfam

From memory the Ambo's in QLD are free but, you pay some sort of levy on your power bill to pay for it.
A good system in my mind.
Jonesfam

This was written in 2009, updated 2018,

Here in Queensland we used to pay for our ambulance services by way of a levy which was paid each quarter, rather bizarrely I think, as an additional charge on our electricity bills. It was called “Community Ambulance Cover” and cost around $24 per quarter. That changed in 2011 and now “Permanent Queensland residents are automatically covered for emergency pre-hospital ambulance treatment and transport Australia-wide.” Nice!

Ambulance (Ambo) Fees in Australia – State to State (bobinoz.com)

I know one thing about heart attacks. If I was to have one and my dear wife was home, no matter how severe it was, there would still be someone in this world 'Worse off' than me!

Originally Posted by bob10

This was written in 2009, updated 2018,

Here in Queensland we used to pay for our ambulance services by way of a levy which was paid each quarter, rather bizarrely I think, as an additional charge on our electricity bills. It was called “Community Ambulance Cover” and cost around $24 per quarter. That changed in 2011 and now “Permanent Queensland residents are automatically covered for emergency pre-hospital ambulance treatment and transport Australia-wide.” Nice!

Ambulance (Ambo) Fees in Australia – State to State (bobinoz.com)

Just shows what a GREAT State this is!

I have been having what seems like angina since I was in my twenty's. Then I was told I was to young to be having issues, must be muscle strain. Once or twice some years, then miss a few years. Was not till my natural family caught up with me that I learned that my natural family had a history of heart issues. Older natural brother has had a heart attack. Step brother has angina. Joys of being adopted and not knowing what your future health could be. My step brother in the course of us meeting for the first time said so you would be having chest pains, welcome to the family. He also suffered chest pains. So much so he had been to hospital with them. This was quite awhile ago now. A the time I had myself checked out and all was well. If what I get is only mild I would hate to get a decent one. I can be woken at night with a sore tight chest, pins and needles in the left hand,ticker not feeling right, strangely a few times when it`s been particularly bad weird smells like I can smell coffee? Chest is sore to touch after and I feel crap for a while.
Problem that I can see is I won`t take notice of the onset of a proper one as I have got used to what I get now and just live with it. Been pretty good for awhile now though, no bad ones.
Hmm just did a google. I seem to have they symptoms of a type of angina. Certainly fits the description. I get these pains resting and at night and as I have already noted I get them every once in a while then they go away. I also have in the past suffered from pretty bad migraines. The ones that have you laid out in a dark room.
Prinzmetal's angina. This type of angina is caused by a sudden spasm in a coronary artery, which temporarily narrows the artery. This narrowing reduces blood flow to your heart, causing severe chest pain.( Yeah I have noticed that ) Prinzmetal's angina most often occurs at rest, typically overnight. Attacks tend to occur in clusters. Emotional stress, smoking, medications that tighten blood vessels (such as some migraine drugs) and use of the illegal drug cocaine may trigger Prinzmetal's angina.
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