 All right everybody What is going on guys? What is up? Welcome back to another video today's video is just gonna be a little bit of story time And it's not a very old story at all. In fact, it's it's not even 24 hours old yet but I thought You know with the way that my channel is going recently I'm pretty open I'm pretty transparent and I'm most definitely honest So I'm gonna talk about something that happened to me last night This is the first time anything like this has ever happened to me before I think the title of this video is gonna be something like I Had a health scare or I had my first health scare because I did I did I truly did I was standing right here last night At 10 o'clock p.m. It's 12 30 p.m. Right now, so it was about 12 14 hours ago. I was standing right here Recently I've been under a lot of stress. I have not only with this YouTube channel in life Okay, there's been certain changes in my life my personal life That have stressed me the fuck out I've tried to hide it. I try to be positive. I try to be up when I make these videos And all of that as well as I I have a very Heavy caffeine habit. I don't know if I'm addicted, but I'm I'm certainly in a massive habit right now So every morning I will be drinking coffee every every video that I make I drink coffee I drink a lot of coffee and that means I drink a lot of caffeine Which is not good for your heart and you know when you do have too much caffeine you feel your heart pumping You know I thinking back like it's this what happened is to do with my heart. Okay, look I'll talk about all that. I just need to tell you what happened. I was standing here. I Felt this sudden rush of nauseousness come over me It was started in my started my fingers it came right up my arms came up my stomach and it was just too much and I actually collapsed It was like it was a feeling of that the the paramedic bit that came pick me up and took me to the hospital He actually mentioned it was a it was an overwhelming feeling and that's exactly what it was I couldn't put it down to anything. It's nothing. I've felt before So I actually I was standing here it happened I sort of stepped back over here and I knew that I couldn't stand up any longer It just got too much and I actually yelled out. I go ah, I went ah You know just thinking about that's scary man. I went ah I fell backwards and I lay down on the floor for about two minutes and I tried to sit up. I was very I Was confused I Was quite sweaty. I felt sick. I felt really sick I didn't want to stand up because I felt nauseous And I don't know what happened, but anyways, I didn't actually know I didn't I didn't I didn't know what was going I thought maybe I had a heart attack whilst I was lying on the ground my arms started fucking paining My arm like it was having a sharp pain like right in the bicep here And I thought what the fuck is going am I having a heart attack right now like seriously? What is going on all these things sort of went around in my head I called out for my mom who's actually living with us at the moment thankfully and She came downstairs. I said look don't worry, but I've just collapsed. I don't know what's going on I don't want to stand up right now. I think you should call an ambulance and that's what she did So she called an ambulance. They got here about five minutes later I was coming I was good by that point. I The sweat from my forehead had gone away that nauseous feeling had faded and I was okay I was just lying there. I hadn't moved. I was okay. I was just lying there Paramedics come in they do my obs blood pressure is kind of high. I tell them that I Drink a lot of coffee, but nothing crazy today or yesterday, you know, nothing out of the ordinary I'd finished my last coffee at about 12 30 p.m. This happened at 10 p.m. I did mention that I'd had a couple of sort of sharp pains around my chest over the last couple of weeks, but Nothing that stayed for any period of time. It would just go away and I'd forget about it But every time it would happen. I think oh, what's what's going on there? The biggest coincidence of it all is that yesterday. I did a first-day training I did a full day eight till four at the first day training. We did CPR. We did defibrillator defibrillation We talked about heart attacks. We talked about strokes. We talked about everything and then for something like this to happen that night you know it Geez my head was swimming. I didn't know what was happening. Anyways, I went to the hospital and They hooked me up to a cardio echocardiogram. I think they gave me a couple of those and Determined that I had a very irregular heartbeat So I had something what they call it atrial flutter That was my diagnosis They don't know whether I've had it for a while They don't know whether it just started after I had this collapsing episode I don't know but anyways when they did hook me up at the hospital to this echocardiogram ECG And then obviously just monitored my pulse and my heart rate it was I could see it I could see it right in front of me. Usually you go Well, this was Like and I'm looking at this sitting there watching my pulse feeling at my heart and seeing it on the screen and Thinking fucking hell. Why is my heart? Not working properly. Why is it not in sync? and they Basically from what I told them, you know from the way I've been feeling beforehand I was feeling okay. Nothing nothing crazy. I've never collapsed before they determined that this atrial flutter had started or had you know Basically come on after that it happens what they did they gave me two options either I Go under sedation. This is literally like a half an hour after it happened. I was in the hospital I was all hooked up. They were telling me shit. You've got an irregular heartbeat. This is what you can do Okay, you can either take a pill Stay overnight or you can take this other option. We're gonna put you to sleep right now We're gonna hook you up put you to sleep and give you an electric shock to get your heart rate to get your heart beat back in rhythm So I was told basically I was gonna be I was gonna be put under anesthetic right there and then and have a Fricking, you know like you see in the movies man. Literally my body would have gone like that when they shocked me Anyways, I ended up doing it. I said, yeah, okay. Let's do it. I was scared man So my pulse was at about 80 beats per minute once they got me hooked up once they said right they put the IV in they said right we're gonna Put you to sleep now my heart rate went from 80 to 160 instantly Everything was beeping. It was fucking beeping saying why is this heart rate going so fast? I freaked the fuck out Out I freaked out. I had what's called a panic attack. I suppose just before they said I was gonna go to sleep. I was like What if they shock me? And it doesn't work. What if they do something wrong and I have a full-on heart attack right now What if I never wake up? You know all this shit just went through my mind and this is stuff I'd had to compress and deal with Only in half an hour beforehand so look The last thing I remember is my heart is looking at that heart rate machine and seeing my heart rate at 160 beats per minute It was flashing. I could feel it in my in my chest. It was boom. Boom. Boom. It was fucking huge Next minute 10 minutes later. Well not next minute, but 10 minutes later. I woke up I looked up at the screen And my heart was going dip dip dip dip and it was back in rhythm Apparently they had they had shocked me with 50 joules Of electrical current and it didn't work. So they upped it to 70 and it did work So they shocked me twice got my heart back in rhythm And they did say, you know, you should be feeling better now. You should be feeling more relaxed, you know less anxious And lo and behold I I sat there and I I thought about it and I couldn't feel any beating in my chest anymore There was no irregular heartbeat. I felt okay So the treatment worked So Geez, you know It's it's scary. I don't I didn't have a heart attack I I think atrial flutter or a you know an irregular heartbeat is quite common But not in someone as young as me basically So I'm just gonna have to watch myself. They've they've bought me in for another ecg um in a month So obviously it's you know, it's it's it's not gonna require Too much care. It's just a matter of me being careful It's a matter of me controlling my caffeine intake. It's a matter of me just being in tune with my body You know knowing if something's up um You know truth be told I've been going through episodes of of dizziness When I get up too fast You know Depending on how much I've eaten that day if I've eaten not a lot I guess my blood sugars are quite low that can cause that but some days it was happening when I was eating a lot And you know, I'd I'd really have to catch myself as I get up I get up and I'd know that this feeling of of You know faint faintness is gonna come and it does come it sort of comes slowly and then it comes and then I'm just I'm holding myself and then then it's gone and I'm all right But um, you know once that's that's something I wasn't really thinking about I wasn't taking notice of but after something like this happens You do start to take notice of that and you're like what what has happened You know, were there any warning signs? How long did I have this atrial flutter for? Did it actually just start last night? I doubt whether it did. Honestly doubt whether it did So, um, I guess yeah, that's about it. This is just an update on on on how I'm doing. I'm okay. I'm here But last night it all just happened really quickly and I Definitely had a had a panic attack in the hospital bed And I got checked out at about 2 30 and um Went to work this morning at 8 at 8 And I'm back back home at 12 30 for my lunch break Which is half an hour and I'm making this video. So I've got this piece of paper here. I'll read it out for you Jacob was brought in by ambulance with a symptomatic irregular heart rhythm palpitations and unease Systematically well systemically well on examination. He had an irregular strong pulse BP normal Normal electrolytes decision made to cardiovert given cardiovert. That's what they did Decision made to cardiovert given clear onset of symptoms. So they're saying that they think that irregular heartbeat You know came on after this collapsing episode that I had In which case they want to treat it as fast as possible So they successfully synchronized The cardioversion in ed under sedation observed for a couple of hours afterwards and remained asymptomatic We have referred him for a non-urgent outpatient echocardiogram with the result to be copied to his GP If there is any evidence of a structural cardiac abnormality GP could consider an outpatient cardiology referral Advise patient to reduce his caffeine intake in case this is a contributing factor. So basically they're saying I'm going to do another echocardiogram if there's any evidence of Structural abnormality in my heart, which they didn't test. They didn't do a an ultrasound yesterday. So they're going to do that And I guess if there's any abnormalities, they'll pick them up there But for the next month, it's basically just monitoring things and being or being being careful man being being sensible You know trying not to stress myself out too much I guess I would say You know don't go too hard in the gym, but I've only been I've only been training in the gym The only training I've been doing is cardio down at the field and you've seen all that So I don't know man I don't know But that was an update on my first Ever health scare. It really was it was a scare. It's not something I'd wish on anyone But I think people do collapse from time to time people do faint. I didn't go unconscious You know So that's something But I was certainly confused after it happened a little bit and I was quite I Was quite sick. I felt sick So I don't know what happened man. My body malfunctioned in some way, but uh, you know, I Just hope that If you watch this you get something out of it. I hope that You know I don't hope for anything. I just wanted to make this video. I just wanted to talk about it So with that said guys, I'm not even going to ask you to like it just Just know I'm here And we all go through things and this is just the latest thing that I'm going through And like I said at the start my personal life is It's pretty terrible right now, so I've got to work on that I'll be seeing you Peace guys