Jabberwoxx
28-03-14, 12:13
This has something which has terrified me since I first heard about it and I tend to worry more about it when I'm stressed out about stuff, which I am at the moment.
I'm so terrified, especially before going to bed, that I'm going to randomly die in my sleep. People with SADS seem to just die with no warning and it's generally people in my age group specifically who die of it (I'm 22). I've heard so many stories of where people just die for seemingly no reason and I think this is one of the main reasons I get so anxious about it - it's just without warning, so unexpected, and you don't even get any symptoms!
I know it's so rare, but my mind sees it as what makes me so special in that I'm completely immune to having something like this? For some reason I think worrying will protect me; if I worry about it before bed, it means it won't happen. If I'm happy and not worrying, it will strike unexpectedly, as it seems like something like this happens completely out the blue.
The worst thing is that I know several people, or know of, people who have died from it close to home. They weren't on drugs or anything like that and were normal healthy people. To add insult to injury, I was on Clarithromycin for a throat infection a while back and I read online that it may cause Long QT syndrome which people believe is linked to SADS!
I just need to stop worrying about this horrible thing and vent a little bit, because it's so frustrating. :( It's like I want someone to tell me it definitely won't happen to me, but there's no absolute guarantee that it won't. :(
I'm so terrified, especially before going to bed, that I'm going to randomly die in my sleep. People with SADS seem to just die with no warning and it's generally people in my age group specifically who die of it (I'm 22). I've heard so many stories of where people just die for seemingly no reason and I think this is one of the main reasons I get so anxious about it - it's just without warning, so unexpected, and you don't even get any symptoms!
I know it's so rare, but my mind sees it as what makes me so special in that I'm completely immune to having something like this? For some reason I think worrying will protect me; if I worry about it before bed, it means it won't happen. If I'm happy and not worrying, it will strike unexpectedly, as it seems like something like this happens completely out the blue.
The worst thing is that I know several people, or know of, people who have died from it close to home. They weren't on drugs or anything like that and were normal healthy people. To add insult to injury, I was on Clarithromycin for a throat infection a while back and I read online that it may cause Long QT syndrome which people believe is linked to SADS!
I just need to stop worrying about this horrible thing and vent a little bit, because it's so frustrating. :( It's like I want someone to tell me it definitely won't happen to me, but there's no absolute guarantee that it won't. :(