Something is wrong with him and he won't go get checked out?

[Anonymous]

Last night I came to my bfs house and later in the night he kept sitting down and said he felt sick to his stomach. He was cooking dinner and we were making up our plates and he sets his down and goes and sits on the bed and I go ask of he's ok and he said to watch out he may have to go puke. I went and sat on the couch and he goes in the bathroom and I heard a thump but waited because if he was getting sick wanted to give him privacy. I didn't hear any movement or anything for a few and when I started to walk to bathroom heard him so went and sat back down and in a few mins he comes out and looks soaking wet like his chest and arms had droplets and he was just soaked and he said it was sweat. He said just before he sat down next step was he was gonna pass out and before he went to the bathroom his arms and hands felt tingly and he felt dizzy, faint and flushed, also said he had like a pressure headache. I tried to get him to go to the hospital and he wouldn't and I'm worried about him. I'm a clerk but I work on the heart floor in the hospital and I'm like lets get labs and ekg and run some tests and he's like no I'm not going. He seemed to get better after about 45 mins. I worry about him and I know that's not normal, I've been trained to tell when a stroke is happening and I checked that he didn't have slurred speech or facial drooping or anything. I tried to listen to his heart but the stethoscope wasn't working, it sounded like his heart was beating slow but it was hard hearing. I asked if he'd had test done on his heart before and he said routine ones and asked what else would be done and I'm listing off all these tests. I know he needs to see a dr but does anyone have or know of something that would cause that type of reaction. I was trying to think food poisoning or low blood sugar or something but he said it's happened before in the past so I'm thinking something's gotta be going on that's more serious.

[xobrowneyedbeauty]

I mean, some people are more prone to passing out than others. I had that happen once when I was in college. I felt really sick and thought I had to puke then all of a sudden my legs felt like led and I blacked out next thing I knew I woke up on the floor covered in sweat. It happened once in high school too. When it happened in college I also hit my head on the wall on the way down so I went to the ER. All my tests came back normal (except a slight concussion but that was because I hit my head). I still have no clue what caused it. I don't want to say you're being paranoid just in case there is something wrong, but I know working in the medical field can definitely cause paranoia and over reaction (im in medical school and diagnose myself with something new all the time lol).

[Asker]

Yeah maybe, I don't know he had me looking up his symptoms online to try and figure it out because he knew something was wrong. I work at the desk and he wanted me to take his blood pressure and I'm like I have no idea how to use that thing and then the stethoscope not working and he wouldn't go get checked out so was sorta frustrating. Maybe there's something going around here and be got it from me. I had a bad period last week and my face and lips would go numb and arms feel all tingly and I passed out a couple times but I figured it was because I was bleeding a lot but maybe there's some sort of bug going around causing these symptoms.

[xobrowneyedbeauty]

Ohh hm maybe there is. I would tell you how to take a blood pressure but if you can't get the stethoscope to work you won't be able to take BP because you need the stethoscope lol I guess if it's an ongoing thing it could be a virus of some kind. I highly doubt it's a stroke or anything like that. There's a very slim chance it's actually something serious. If its a virus it'll just run it's course. But if it's lasting like days and weeks then he should definitely get checked.

[Likes2drive]

Definitely go to the hospital , it's either the flu or worse pneumonia