mbarger33
27-05-14, 05:35
In a month it will be a year since I had my first "panic attack" I was driving when all of a sudden my arms went numb, my heart went racing I couldn't breath, my vision started fading. Went to emergency and they admitted me right away EKG, 160/90, 4 vials of blood, x-ray. Heart and lungs were perfect, thyroid perfect, EKG perfect. Somehow I managed to give myself a self induced panic attack from taking a 24 hour allergy pill with a Rockstar energy drink something I have done for a good couple of years had finally caught up to me.
After having extreme chest pain and feeling weak and miserable for 3 months after my first episode I finally said enough is enough. Went to my doctor where I told her I had chest pains all day specifically left side.. I had a constant dull stabbing pain in my lower right abdomen right above my hip. She took an EKG and my heart had the same pattern it did when I was at emergency only this time it was beating normal and not at 160/90. My family has a history of heart disease so she sent me to have a stress test done for my heart. Because of my family history of colon cancer she sent me to get an abdominal ultra sound if that didn't show anything she would refer me to a gastrointestinal specialist. The ultra sound came back normal, so I went to see the gastrointestinal.. he said my age puts me at a lower risk and the fact that my mom and her brother had been checked and came out clean for cancers has put me at an even lower risk. He ordered a stool sample and a blood occult stool test. Everything came back normal.
"Nothing is wrong with you" I get told this every time.
But something happened to me last year, I went from a healthy out going 32 year old to an always feeling sick always feeling something is wrong 32 year old.
Left side chest pains
Palpitations
Down 20 lbs in a year.
Toilet issues
Anxiety
Panic
Stress.
Right flank above hip dull constant abdominal pain.
Just tired of it. I'm tired of not having a diagnosis, being told it's "general anxiety"
Last week an hour after lunch I got dizzy walking, broke out in a cold sweat. Legs felt weak. Nausea... swollen lymph node under right jaw with trouble swallowing.
Went to see my doctor she ran a few tests said nothing was wrong. Sent me home with allergy nasal spray.
I mean is this all anxiety? Is it really that simple? How can I have chest pains that go into my left shoulder and up my neck and be fine?
How can I have abdominal pain and have a abdominal ultra sound and show nothings wrong?
I felt I was getting a grip on this but now it feels like it's out of control again and I can't keep thinking the worst. I can't stop thinking they are missing something with the general anxiety label.
Just sick and tired of it. Tired if feeling sick and tired of being tired. And having pains all over the place with no diagnosis and no treatment.
Anyone else? Or can you relate?
:weep::lac::shrug:
After having extreme chest pain and feeling weak and miserable for 3 months after my first episode I finally said enough is enough. Went to my doctor where I told her I had chest pains all day specifically left side.. I had a constant dull stabbing pain in my lower right abdomen right above my hip. She took an EKG and my heart had the same pattern it did when I was at emergency only this time it was beating normal and not at 160/90. My family has a history of heart disease so she sent me to have a stress test done for my heart. Because of my family history of colon cancer she sent me to get an abdominal ultra sound if that didn't show anything she would refer me to a gastrointestinal specialist. The ultra sound came back normal, so I went to see the gastrointestinal.. he said my age puts me at a lower risk and the fact that my mom and her brother had been checked and came out clean for cancers has put me at an even lower risk. He ordered a stool sample and a blood occult stool test. Everything came back normal.
"Nothing is wrong with you" I get told this every time.
But something happened to me last year, I went from a healthy out going 32 year old to an always feeling sick always feeling something is wrong 32 year old.
Left side chest pains
Palpitations
Down 20 lbs in a year.
Toilet issues
Anxiety
Panic
Stress.
Right flank above hip dull constant abdominal pain.
Just tired of it. I'm tired of not having a diagnosis, being told it's "general anxiety"
Last week an hour after lunch I got dizzy walking, broke out in a cold sweat. Legs felt weak. Nausea... swollen lymph node under right jaw with trouble swallowing.
Went to see my doctor she ran a few tests said nothing was wrong. Sent me home with allergy nasal spray.
I mean is this all anxiety? Is it really that simple? How can I have chest pains that go into my left shoulder and up my neck and be fine?
How can I have abdominal pain and have a abdominal ultra sound and show nothings wrong?
I felt I was getting a grip on this but now it feels like it's out of control again and I can't keep thinking the worst. I can't stop thinking they are missing something with the general anxiety label.
Just sick and tired of it. Tired if feeling sick and tired of being tired. And having pains all over the place with no diagnosis and no treatment.
Anyone else? Or can you relate?
:weep::lac::shrug: