Ever been taken to the hospital in the back of an ambulance?

Post Reply New Topic

i was diagnosed with epilepsy in 2007 after having seizures at work and tafe. As in i would be working at my desk and then I would feel funny then faint, next thing i know i wake up and everyone is staring at me and the ambulance people have come. I had to go to hospital twice in an ambulance because of this.
Everything was ok in the end. When i first started work my parents made me join ambulance victoria. This is a type of insurance where u pay $60 a year and if u need an ambulance for any medical reason u will not be charged for it. If it was not for this membership i would have had a bill of at least $2000 to pay.

anyway any of u had an experience like this one?

I had to take a ride in an ambulance once. December 26, 2002 (I'll always remember that day since it was after Christmas), my cousin and I were horsing around with sticks and he hit me in the face. He knocked my glasses off of my face and scratched the cornea of my left eye. Blood completely filled that eye and I couldn't see to drive so I had to call and ambulance. I was so afraid I was going to lose that eye but it recovered though my vision was kinda funny for a few weeks.

Yes. At first they started out as just tremors, smalls twitches or jerks in my limbs. I don't know what happened but they got worse in school. I can remember my first one, when I was under a lot of stress and so many changes we're going on. The last thing I remember was putting displays inside a glass shelf and then found myself being put on a flat bed into an ambulance truck. It almost felt like a dream that wouldn't go away. The feeling of unrealness. My togue was all swollen and my muscles hurt. They said I didn't have what you would call an epileptical seizure but one where I was laying like a stiff, whatever that is.

I had them periodically for a while when the twitching would get worse under unknown stresses. I was even afraid to get up just to get a drink. Then I was put on all kinds of antiseizure medications. The only one that was a miracle from then on was one that was not an antiseizure pill but an antianxiety pill clonazepam. I guess not all meds work for two ppl with the same thing. Many times, I was put into the ambulance before I was put on the right meds it was terrible not to mention the cost of getting transportation.

I've gotten quite used to ambulance trucks and hospitals even when they didn't include seizures but that's another story. Yes it's freaky when you're being strapped into a flat bed with ppl putting an air mask and god knows what on you. Then you find out, no matter much or little control you had over the incident, the cost of it. Mine has been around $1600.00 to $2,000. I even tried to escape outta one b/c of this. I said I would ride with a family member to the hospital, I was obviously OK, but "they were so concerned that there might be something wrong and that safety precautions had to be taken." I'm sure,

But I'm better now than I have been. So it's been a year. Health Insurance here is horrible over here. You better count your blessings if you don't have something fatally wrong or one that needs to be checked by a professional. $$$$$

Not in an ambulance, but I have been in the emergency room twice.

First time: Christmas Eve 1992. I had severe bronchitis, and had to have some breathing treatment.

Second time: August 1996. I was taking driving lessons with my mom, and a car rear-ended us.

two or three times.

Last time, I thought I was having a stroke after smoking some weed.

before that, I was coughing up blood

before that, I had ODed on my Mellaril and got the worst headache I'd ever had in my life.

I had to take a trip in one to the U of M hospital, because I had IVs hooked up to me...about a three hour drive, it was so incredibly boring...couldn't do anything, because I'll get carsick if I look inside the car too long, and the back windows didn't offer me much of a view

When I was a kid, I got hit by a car while I was on my bike. Fortunately (or "unfortunately" depending on how you look at it) I only got a scraped knee. But the moronic driver who hit me wouldn't let me get back up, and they called an ambulance, so I still ended up going to the hospital. The ambulance driver was also a bad driver.

When I was 17, I was having a meltdown and stopped doing anything. I went home during school and went to my bed and laid their motionless for 5 or 6 hours, not moving a muscle. I was taken to the hospital in the van, not in an ambulance or anything because I started moving again after my dad panicked and started beating me up, trying to get me to respond and stuff. So I was directed to this child psychologist who diagnosed me with an anxiety syndrome of some sort and I was prescribed Paxil. 10 mg was fine, I didn't see much help in it. Therapy wasn't achieving much as I was clamping up and stuff and so I was upped to 15 mg a week later. After another week I was upped to 20 mg and that was when the shakes began to happen. The tremors built over 3 days and peaked where I went into a solid catatonic state in the middle of physics class and remained so for 5 hours before an ambulance came. It was interesting - don't remember much.

The bill came to 240 bucks, my dad paid for it.

I've ridden as a patient twice in an ambulance.

The first time was when I worked for an EMS system.
I was at the station just coming on shift and I got a call to go downtown to fill out some paperwork before starting my shift.

I rode a Harley back then so I climbed on my bike, went downtown, and headed back to the station.
I pulled into a left-turn cutout on the median.. hit an oily spot and laid the bike right down!
Broke the thumb on my right hand, got a cut just below my left eye.

I picked up my bike, rode onto my station (which was really close to that location), and got to be a 'patient' in my own ambulance!

The second time was also due to a motorcycle accident.
I was at the College of Oceaneering in Wilmington, Ca. (in the LA harbor area) and I borrowed this guy's Kawasaki bike (my Harley had a dead battery so I left it at home that day).
As I was returning to the school after running to the store to get something, a lady 'left-turned' into me.
I flew through the air, rolled and landed up on my feet.
I had been wearing a wetsuit with neoprene booties.
Both my feet were punched through the booties, my left foot was broken and my left shoulder banged up a bit... but otherwise I was okay.

I got to ride in the LA County ambulance to two hospitals... Kaiser first... but I didn't have insurance so I went to Long Beach Memorial next.

I've driven ambulance for the military, a service in Austin, Texas, Menard County Texas, and El Paso EMS in El Paso Texas.
I've got LOTS of good ambulance stories!

wow, i am so lucky that the epilepsy i have is mild and treatable. ever since i started on my medication i have not have a seizure. i am grateful for the insurance too that something like it is available over here.

I never been taken to the hospital in a ambulance or ever been admitted to a hospital. I have been in the back of a ambulance though when my dad had to be rushed to the hospital. It was once back in July 2006 when his ICD went off due to a very high and irregular heart beat and the other time was in September 2006 when his ICD went off again due to a very high and irregular heart beat. It was a very bumpy and even scary (due to the situation at hand) ride.

am have been brought to hospital a lot in ambulance,for severe seizures,extreme constipation [they were unable to know what was wrong with am],head and wrist injuries from head banging and meltdowns,falling from big height....
as an adult and not living with parents,am refuse to go anywhere near an ambulance unless am unconcious so dont know what is going on because they are torture.

I've never seen the inside of an ambulance except in movies. It's probably the same tho.

only been patient once when i fainted in skool and got even restained coz i waked up in ambulance and freaked out was only 10 at time....long time in that and it was only coz i didint eated at morning

I rode in an ambulance once because of a near-fatal heat stroke. It was horrible. My temperature was 106F. All my muscles cramped up, so any movement was extremely painful. I was delirious and having convulsions, but I was completely awake and scared that I was going to die. I asked one of the paramedics what my chances of dying were and he said, "Oh, you'll probably make it." I guess they see a lot of heat injury in South Texas.