night time shock

How can you tell if you receive a shock when you are sleeping? I have awakened twice gasping for breath, wide awake and heart beating fast, and sore the next day, bad dreams or?

2 Comments

A checkup is the best way

by ElectricFrank - 2011-08-06 01:08:56

The defib should have the event recorded for download if that is what happened.

It's also common to have a dream that leaves us out of breath. Hard to tell.

frank

phantom shocks

by Katelyn - 2011-11-09 10:11:58

I have had real shocks in the night during sleep as well as "phantom shocks." They feel identical, and are commonly confused...do a quick google search.

The only way I can tell the difference is to feel my pulse immediately when I wake up. If I have an irregular irradiate pulse, then I know I was shocked. If it is steady/sinus rhythm, maybe just fast from being scared...then I know it was a "phantom shock."

I get "phantom shocks" for a week or two after a real shock had occurred when I was awake. I think of it as the brain relaying in a dream how the body involuntarily felt.

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