motox&mascara
13-11-17, 00:47
Hey all,
Seems i've been posting a bit the last little while (apologies), but I know that this is a place I can "vent" to others who understand me.
After finding out about my Bruit my HA has been in overdrive. My family are all but ignoring me. I'm in a really bad place but trying to take each day as it comes. I am still waiting on the date of my ultrasound to check out the Bruit so of course during this wait I am petrified I am going to have a stroke.
Anyway, my question is, has anyone else suffered actual sunstroke/heat exhaustion? And can comment on when it will get better :scared15:
Yesterday I spent the day out on the motocross track, felt really good to get some pent up adrenaline out and was feeling quite positive afterwards and like I had had some relief from my symptoms, while also proving in a way, that if there really was something wrong, I wouldn't have been able to go hard on a bike, with my heartrate up, around a track for the majority of the day.
Anyway, on our way home I felt really exhausted, more so than normal, but put it down to riding.
Fast forward a few hours and I was nauseous, trying not to throw up, then came the shivering but feeling hot at the same time, skin was sensitive to the touch and my kidneys hurt, all I wanted to do was curl up in a ball and die. I knew I was most probably suffering from sunstroke, but wasn't sure if my anxiety was making it way worse. Anywho had a look on google, worked myself up and called the healthline (who decided it best to call an ambulance). Ambulance turned up I was tachy and BP was high. Because my temp was nearing 40 they took me off to the hospital. A blood test, urine test and a IV of fluid later, they couldn't find any sign of infection and put it down to heat exhaustion. Told me to rest and drink plenty of water.
Its the next day and I feel like utter garbage. It's like the flu without the actual flu lol, all the same kind of feelings. I worry that maybe its something else, but then the tests were all clear from infection (they originally thought it could be a kidney infection but obviously there was nothing in my urine or bloods apart from a little raised WBC). I had to go into work because my manager is off sick so I didn't want to let my other workmate down and on her own. I am resisting the urge to vomit and fall asleep at my desk - its literally hell...so much for that rest eh :lac:
Sorry if this is a bit of ramble, I am not in the best of places at the moment and as well as suffering this "heatstroke", feel really depressed also. My family are all but ignoring me, they are totally over me and think I just make all this stuff up, I guess i'm like "the girl who cried wolf", and my partner is really stressed out about it all and I guess feeling a bit helpless as to how to handle my constant health worries. I actually dont even know what I am really asking for here, I guess just to get it out somewhere, see if anyone has suffered heat stroke like this, how long it took to pass, and if I should be worrying so much about it. The hospital didn't seem to be to concerned about it - I mean, I wasn't dying...
My health anxiety really gets me down, I feel like a shell of the person I was and I don't enjoy life as much as I used to. Im so scared I will never be myself again, or at least never be happy again. I feel like a crap mum, a crap partner, a overall crap person. And feeling really alone in it all. I am waiting to get back into a pshycyatrist, but the wait is long - I almost feel like there is no help for people like me.
I am almost crying typing this out...i wouldn't wish HA on anyone.
Sorry for my ramble but i'll be so grateful for any replies :blush:
Thanks in advance...
A
Seems i've been posting a bit the last little while (apologies), but I know that this is a place I can "vent" to others who understand me.
After finding out about my Bruit my HA has been in overdrive. My family are all but ignoring me. I'm in a really bad place but trying to take each day as it comes. I am still waiting on the date of my ultrasound to check out the Bruit so of course during this wait I am petrified I am going to have a stroke.
Anyway, my question is, has anyone else suffered actual sunstroke/heat exhaustion? And can comment on when it will get better :scared15:
Yesterday I spent the day out on the motocross track, felt really good to get some pent up adrenaline out and was feeling quite positive afterwards and like I had had some relief from my symptoms, while also proving in a way, that if there really was something wrong, I wouldn't have been able to go hard on a bike, with my heartrate up, around a track for the majority of the day.
Anyway, on our way home I felt really exhausted, more so than normal, but put it down to riding.
Fast forward a few hours and I was nauseous, trying not to throw up, then came the shivering but feeling hot at the same time, skin was sensitive to the touch and my kidneys hurt, all I wanted to do was curl up in a ball and die. I knew I was most probably suffering from sunstroke, but wasn't sure if my anxiety was making it way worse. Anywho had a look on google, worked myself up and called the healthline (who decided it best to call an ambulance). Ambulance turned up I was tachy and BP was high. Because my temp was nearing 40 they took me off to the hospital. A blood test, urine test and a IV of fluid later, they couldn't find any sign of infection and put it down to heat exhaustion. Told me to rest and drink plenty of water.
Its the next day and I feel like utter garbage. It's like the flu without the actual flu lol, all the same kind of feelings. I worry that maybe its something else, but then the tests were all clear from infection (they originally thought it could be a kidney infection but obviously there was nothing in my urine or bloods apart from a little raised WBC). I had to go into work because my manager is off sick so I didn't want to let my other workmate down and on her own. I am resisting the urge to vomit and fall asleep at my desk - its literally hell...so much for that rest eh :lac:
Sorry if this is a bit of ramble, I am not in the best of places at the moment and as well as suffering this "heatstroke", feel really depressed also. My family are all but ignoring me, they are totally over me and think I just make all this stuff up, I guess i'm like "the girl who cried wolf", and my partner is really stressed out about it all and I guess feeling a bit helpless as to how to handle my constant health worries. I actually dont even know what I am really asking for here, I guess just to get it out somewhere, see if anyone has suffered heat stroke like this, how long it took to pass, and if I should be worrying so much about it. The hospital didn't seem to be to concerned about it - I mean, I wasn't dying...
My health anxiety really gets me down, I feel like a shell of the person I was and I don't enjoy life as much as I used to. Im so scared I will never be myself again, or at least never be happy again. I feel like a crap mum, a crap partner, a overall crap person. And feeling really alone in it all. I am waiting to get back into a pshycyatrist, but the wait is long - I almost feel like there is no help for people like me.
I am almost crying typing this out...i wouldn't wish HA on anyone.
Sorry for my ramble but i'll be so grateful for any replies :blush:
Thanks in advance...
A