Poke Me With A Stick
Well. I woke up this morning about 6:37AM with my heart trying to pound itself out of my chest(that's what it felt like it was beating so strong and fast). Lower half of my left arm was tingly and it's still feeling a little weird.
This was not a result of a nightmare(admittedly the dream I remembered as I was waking up was weird, but relatively par for the course for me). And it was not the result of an adrenaline rush. I've had enough responsive heart reactions to such things to recognize them. Not to mention the rest of my body reacts to an adrenaline rush and except for my heart and the lower half of my left arm, my body was perfectly normal. Those I can usually calm in 30 seconds or so. It took 5 minutes to get my heart to go back to normal.
I've looked online and the general consensus on every web board I checked is that the doctors are clueless and tell you to relax(and most of the people on the boards with this problem are in their teens and 20s). Which wouldn't really work for me because if I relax anymore I'd be unconcious most of the time.
Regardless I decided it was high time I got a check-up, or at least my left arm checked out since it's the one with the weird lump on the wrist that appeared early in October and it's the one that still feels weird. Heart seems back to normal. Only to find that unless I have medical issues between 8AM and 8PM M-F EST, I can't find out where to go and be covered by my insurance.
Figures, one of the few times in my life I'm actually willing to go to a doctor, I'm thwarted. Not that I'd have any clue where to go. Do I go to a hospital, walk up to their front desk and ask if someone's available? Do I go to a general practicioner working out of their own little office?
At least last time I was on student coverage and everything had to go through the on-campus med center first regardless. That was a fun time. Every time I turned my head I had a sharp, shooting pain up the entire back of my head. The doc was baffled and decided it was probably an inflamation of the muscles there and would fade in a week or so. Luckily it did.
Y'know, this is the real reason I want to live in Star Trek times. I have a problem, I run to the med-center, someone is always there, they run a fancy salt shaker over the problem area and instantly know what's wrong and then can fix it with a hypospray injection.
So yeah, my left arm still feels funny(no loss of functionality though). The weird sensation starts just above the left elbow and continues down to the hand covering the whole part of the wrist and angling up to include the pinkie, 4th, and middle fingers. No weirdness for my pointing finger and thumb. The part of the arm just above the wrist on the left side and right side(palm facing down) have a slight pain reaction when pressure is applied. The upper and lower parts don't have the reaction and just have the weird feeling.
Ooo, just had a quick shooting pain run up from two inches above my belly button to the middle of my sternum. Gone now.
*Le sigh* I'm going to try to go back to bed and get some sort of rest.
{Update} Well, after failed attempts at sleep and my nervous system doing some weird, if slightly less worrying, things. You ever been awake and know you're awake but your mind is convinced you're in a dream and won't let you control your body until you finally find the one movement/thing it will let you do and it snaps you out of that state? Yeah. That. A couple times in a row. It's like struggling against a full body restraint that even clamps your head in place. NOT FUN. I seem to be back to normal operating status. My left arm is still a little off, but it's more of a soreness now than a weird, tingly sensation.
Huh, and the LJ cut system no longer seems to work for me. Interesting
This was not a result of a nightmare(admittedly the dream I remembered as I was waking up was weird, but relatively par for the course for me). And it was not the result of an adrenaline rush. I've had enough responsive heart reactions to such things to recognize them. Not to mention the rest of my body reacts to an adrenaline rush and except for my heart and the lower half of my left arm, my body was perfectly normal. Those I can usually calm in 30 seconds or so. It took 5 minutes to get my heart to go back to normal.
I've looked online and the general consensus on every web board I checked is that the doctors are clueless and tell you to relax(and most of the people on the boards with this problem are in their teens and 20s). Which wouldn't really work for me because if I relax anymore I'd be unconcious most of the time.
Regardless I decided it was high time I got a check-up, or at least my left arm checked out since it's the one with the weird lump on the wrist that appeared early in October and it's the one that still feels weird. Heart seems back to normal. Only to find that unless I have medical issues between 8AM and 8PM M-F EST, I can't find out where to go and be covered by my insurance.
Figures, one of the few times in my life I'm actually willing to go to a doctor, I'm thwarted. Not that I'd have any clue where to go. Do I go to a hospital, walk up to their front desk and ask if someone's available? Do I go to a general practicioner working out of their own little office?
At least last time I was on student coverage and everything had to go through the on-campus med center first regardless. That was a fun time. Every time I turned my head I had a sharp, shooting pain up the entire back of my head. The doc was baffled and decided it was probably an inflamation of the muscles there and would fade in a week or so. Luckily it did.
Y'know, this is the real reason I want to live in Star Trek times. I have a problem, I run to the med-center, someone is always there, they run a fancy salt shaker over the problem area and instantly know what's wrong and then can fix it with a hypospray injection.
So yeah, my left arm still feels funny(no loss of functionality though). The weird sensation starts just above the left elbow and continues down to the hand covering the whole part of the wrist and angling up to include the pinkie, 4th, and middle fingers. No weirdness for my pointing finger and thumb. The part of the arm just above the wrist on the left side and right side(palm facing down) have a slight pain reaction when pressure is applied. The upper and lower parts don't have the reaction and just have the weird feeling.
Ooo, just had a quick shooting pain run up from two inches above my belly button to the middle of my sternum. Gone now.
*Le sigh* I'm going to try to go back to bed and get some sort of rest.
{Update} Well, after failed attempts at sleep and my nervous system doing some weird, if slightly less worrying, things. You ever been awake and know you're awake but your mind is convinced you're in a dream and won't let you control your body until you finally find the one movement/thing it will let you do and it snaps you out of that state? Yeah. That. A couple times in a row. It's like struggling against a full body restraint that even clamps your head in place. NOT FUN. I seem to be back to normal operating status. My left arm is still a little off, but it's more of a soreness now than a weird, tingly sensation.
Huh, and the LJ cut system no longer seems to work for me. Interesting