Heart Scare - OK Now
Thanks for everyone's concern yesterday. It started out as one scary day. I was balling all over the place, and while driving. It sucked.
So the night before I woke up with my heart feeling like it was pounding, though it didn't feel like blood was rushing through me. It felt like the heart was working harder, though being less efficient--which made sense to me if it wasn't working properly. I felt light-headed/dizzy. Once in awhile I would get a flash headache that would go away as quickly as it arrived. I felt ravished (which indigestion can be a symptom of heart attack in women), but eating didn't help. It felt like an anxiety attack that lasted for 24 hours. I've had a number of those through the last couple years and I know how to calm myself out of them, but during this scare, I couldn't get myself out of it for the life of me.
Luckily, I have a good friend who cares about me and who urged me to go to Emergency and accompanied me! What could have been a horrific 5hr stay at ER ended up being rather pleasant. (I'll load some pix to my flickr acct later.)
Once I was finally looked at, they gave me an ECG and my heart was fine. Good even. They hooked me up to machines, put an IV in me, ran a bunch of tests, and everything came out good.
So they aren't sure what exactly happened. Most likely anxiety or esophigel (sp?). In my case it could be either or both. They ought to just appoint me the Queen of Anxiety for the last couple years. And the other thing is something like heartburn which can actually mimic the signs of a heart attack. I don't usually get heartburn, so that was weird to me, but I guess not unlikely.
I went home feeling a lot better mentally. Still had a bit of the symptoms I was feeling, but today I feel a LOT better!
Oh, and during registration they asked me what religious affiliation I was with. I said "None?" and asked them why they were asking. She said that if I was Catholic I probably wouldn't want a Prodistan (sp?) praying over me, and if I was Baptist I probably woudln't want a Catholic praying over me, etc. I said, "Well, I'm hoping no one needs to be praying over me!"
So the night before I woke up with my heart feeling like it was pounding, though it didn't feel like blood was rushing through me. It felt like the heart was working harder, though being less efficient--which made sense to me if it wasn't working properly. I felt light-headed/dizzy. Once in awhile I would get a flash headache that would go away as quickly as it arrived. I felt ravished (which indigestion can be a symptom of heart attack in women), but eating didn't help. It felt like an anxiety attack that lasted for 24 hours. I've had a number of those through the last couple years and I know how to calm myself out of them, but during this scare, I couldn't get myself out of it for the life of me.
Luckily, I have a good friend who cares about me and who urged me to go to Emergency and accompanied me! What could have been a horrific 5hr stay at ER ended up being rather pleasant. (I'll load some pix to my flickr acct later.)
Once I was finally looked at, they gave me an ECG and my heart was fine. Good even. They hooked me up to machines, put an IV in me, ran a bunch of tests, and everything came out good.
So they aren't sure what exactly happened. Most likely anxiety or esophigel (sp?). In my case it could be either or both. They ought to just appoint me the Queen of Anxiety for the last couple years. And the other thing is something like heartburn which can actually mimic the signs of a heart attack. I don't usually get heartburn, so that was weird to me, but I guess not unlikely.
I went home feeling a lot better mentally. Still had a bit of the symptoms I was feeling, but today I feel a LOT better!
Oh, and during registration they asked me what religious affiliation I was with. I said "None?" and asked them why they were asking. She said that if I was Catholic I probably wouldn't want a Prodistan (sp?) praying over me, and if I was Baptist I probably woudln't want a Catholic praying over me, etc. I said, "Well, I'm hoping no one needs to be praying over me!"