Learning from Muamba

Armchair Wanderer · **Posted:** Fri Mar 23, 2012 6:19 pm

What happened to the Moo was awful but what have we learned from it?

It sounds like a lot of you play sport/run, and some of you might be under 35. How does one go about getting a checkup/heart scan? Anyone had one yet, or booked one in?

I'm around 35-ish and I looked on the CRY website and couldn't really tell what to do. Any help much appreciated.

Sponge · **Posted:** Fri Mar 23, 2012 7:41 pm

I was just thinking about this. I went running today for the first time in about six months and needless to say, it was horrible.

I also sometimes experience strange fits when my heart goes haywire for a few moments and I see black. I'm too afraid to Google that one – anybody else experienced this?

Dave Sutton's barnet · **Posted:** Fri Mar 23, 2012 7:48 pm

Sponge wrote:

I also sometimes experience strange fits when my heart goes haywire for a few moments and I see black. I'm too afraid to Google that one – anybody else experienced this?

No, but if I did I'd seek medical advice elsewhere than on a forum, chum. F*ck Google: ask a medic.

Armchair Wanderer · **Posted:** Fri Mar 23, 2012 7:56 pm

Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:

Sponge wrote:

I also sometimes experience strange fits when my heart goes haywire for a few moments and I see black. I'm too afraid to Google that one – anybody else experienced this?

No, but if I did I'd seek medical advice elsewhere than on a forum, chum. F*ck Google: ask a medic.

+1000

BTW, called my GP the receptionist didn't know anything about heart scanning but I'm going for a checkup tomorrow.

Hopefully, Muamba is going to be right as rain very soon. But the event in itself should be making us think a little more about it imho. I've heard people talking about CRY and what the FA are doing but I've not heard anything about what your everyday man/woman can do to get checked out... what was the stat? 6 people a week this happens to.

bobo the clown · **Posted:** Fri Mar 23, 2012 8:07 pm

Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:

Sponge wrote:

I also sometimes experience strange fits when my heart goes haywire for a few moments and I see black. I'm too afraid to Google that one – anybody else experienced this?

No, but if I did I'd seek medical advice elsewhere than on a forum, chum. F*ck Google: ask a medic.

fckg hell man, to the doc's with you.

2 options from that ;
i. they check you & say "no problems" ... You say "phew"
ii. they say "good job you came in we need to sort that out" .... & you live a bit longer.

Get to it asap. Tomorrow morning make the first call for an appointment & meanwhile take it easy.

jimbo · **Posted:** Fri Mar 23, 2012 8:28 pm

bobo the clown wrote:

Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:

Sponge wrote:

I also sometimes experience strange fits when my heart goes haywire for a few moments and I see black. I'm too afraid to Google that one – anybody else experienced this?

No, but if I did I'd seek medical advice elsewhere than on a forum, chum. F*ck Google: ask a medic.

fckg hell man, to the doc's with you.

2 options from that ;
i. they check you & say "no problems" ... You say "phew"
ii. they say "good job you came in we need to sort that out" .... & you live a bit longer.

Get to it asap. Tomorrow morning make the first call for an appointment & meanwhile take it easy.

Yeah, don't mess round with that. get yourself down to the GP. Quite often after things like this you get a big public health boost, where the general public become more proactive about their own health. The classic example was how people attending for smears increased after Jade Goody. Not seen anyone coming in yet this week asking for cardiac screening, but the patient demographic here probably doesn't fit. Saying that, there'd be no chance of you getting an Echo anyway if you weren't symptomatic or had family history of such things. Paying to go private would be the only way to get screened.

Dougie'sEleven · **Posted:** Sat Mar 24, 2012 12:01 am

Sponge wrote:

I was just thinking about this. I went running today for the first time in about six months and needless to say, it was horrible.

I also sometimes experience strange fits when my heart goes haywire for a few moments and I see black. I'm too afraid to Google that one – anybody else experienced this?

Please see a doctor / cardiology specialist.

stelios18 · **Posted:** Sat Mar 24, 2012 6:24 am

is he alive now or its between life and death?

bobo the clown · **Posted:** Sat Mar 24, 2012 11:27 am

stelios18 wrote:

is he alive now or its between life and death?

who ? Sponge ?

That's a fair question, I think we'd better check.

Worthy4England · **Posted:** Sat Mar 24, 2012 11:29 am

Get a beer. It'll be reet.

bettyrasta · **Posted:** Sat Mar 24, 2012 11:38 am

Both my lads have gone for private screening cardiology tests at age 15 in case of this. Went to a place at Preston. £30 I think it is.

Sponge · **Posted:** Sat Mar 24, 2012 12:45 pm

bobo the clown wrote:

Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:

Sponge wrote:

I also sometimes experience strange fits when my heart goes haywire for a few moments and I see black. I'm too afraid to Google that one – anybody else experienced this?

No, but if I did I'd seek medical advice elsewhere than on a forum, chum. F*ck Google: ask a medic.

fckg hell man, to the doc's with you.

2 options from that ;
i. they check you & say "no problems" ... You say "phew"
ii. they say "good job you came in we need to sort that out" .... & you live a bit longer.

Get to it asap. Tomorrow morning make the first call for an appointment & meanwhile take it easy.

Shit. Really? You're probably right. Shit. Balls. I'll call the doctor right after this cigar

thebish · **Posted:** Sat Mar 24, 2012 12:49 pm

bettyrasta wrote:

Both my lads have gone for private screening cardiology tests at age 15 in case of this. Went to a place at Preston. £30 I think it is.

Muamba would have been screened at about that age too (16)... and probably extensively tested on his move to Birmingham and on his move to Bolton...

Verbal · **Posted:** Sat Mar 24, 2012 1:09 pm

Don't f*ck about with chest pain and that. Go to the hospital.

bish, good on you for filling us all with confidence.

In short, be healthy and that and if your heart hurts get the feck screened.

Armchair Wanderer · **Posted:** Sat Mar 24, 2012 2:00 pm

I wasn't entirely sure if Sponge was being serious, but if so that's the whole point of this thread. Get it checked out!

I don't think we can just say it was just one of those things. The stat about what's happened in Italy since they stepped up screening was something like reducing this sort of thing by 90%. Do we know how often the Moo was screened?

One thing they did say is that screening children who are still growing is a good thing but you'd need to do it again once they'd stopped growing as the heart would have been growing/changing too.

Sponge · **Posted:** Sat Mar 24, 2012 2:46 pm

Armchair Wanderer wrote:

I wasn't entirely sure if Sponge was being serious, but if so that's the whole point of this thread. Get it checked out!

I don't think we can just say it was just one of those things. The stat about what's happened in Italy since they stepped up screening was something like reducing this sort of thing by 90%. Do we know how often the Moo was screened?

One thing they did say is that screening children who are still growing is a good thing but you'd need to do it again once they'd stopped growing as the heart would have been growing/changing too.

I was and have booked a doctor's appointment for Monday.

(Will let you know next week whether you need to prepare a "Sponge" mosaic.)

CAPSLOCK · **Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:29 pm

I read Muamba had his most recent check on the Friday before the game

boltonboris · **Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2012 1:36 pm

where have you read that?

I'm not doubting you've read it somewhere.. I'm just saying that what you've read is probably bollocks

Armchair Wanderer · **Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2012 2:18 pm

boltonboris wrote:

where have you read that?

I'm not doubting you've read it somewhere.. I'm just saying that what you've read is probably bollocks

True.

Even if Muamba's heart attack was a freak occurence, as has been alluded to, it doesn't mean that we shouldn't start taking this kind of thing more seriously. There'll probably still be instances that couldn't be foreseen/dealt with but if you save lives it must be a good thing.

a1 · **Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2012 2:58 pm

he's not had a heart attack ^^

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