kimmiepie
07-10-08, 01:50
I'd been doing really well with the HA, except for the ectopics. Everything else I had let go and I felt really well.
Well, I am almost 7 months pregnant and I have a fear of blood clots/strokes/heart attacks while pregnant. About a week or so ago I was sitting at the computer and I got a "pain" in the left side of my neck. It was less of a pain and more of a swelling type feeling...which came pretty quickly.
My first thought was blood clot, but then I decided it must be a lymph node because I had been feeling like I was getting sick (tired, achy, just that general feeling, but nothing else) and my body must be fighting it off. But as I feel around the area, it is not sore to the touch when I push on it, except for occasionally it will be tender over the carotid artery....which totally freaks me out. The swelling is still there (I can't see it only feel it) and it is deep feeling. It's not a muscle.
So I waivered between thinking it was a blood clot and a lymph node, trying to focus on lymph node although it doesn't really hurt and I can't feel it. The swelling feeling has gone down some, but then something started happening that really freaked me out! I can feel my pulse in that area of my neck now. Not when touching it, but just all the time, as I'm sitting, standing etc. This really scares me because I am afraid of anyeurism or blood clot.
I am trying to ignore it because no doctors are taking my insurance right now. Then the thought crossed my mind that it was cancer because of how I've been feeling lately and maybe it is a tumor.
I just don't even know what to think, but I'm more concerned about the pulsing thing now than anything. :( I know it is unlikely as I am young, eat a pretty healthy diet, and am on Cod Liver Oil to help keep my blood from clotting too much(I don't have a clotting disorder, just a fear..my platlets actually looked pretty good). The anyeurism thing is the scariest though. I can't help thinking that there is a ticking time bomb in there and it is going to burst. :weep:
My throat does not hurt, I do have some drainage though. I've just never had this particular feeling before.
I hate this, I really do.
Well, I am almost 7 months pregnant and I have a fear of blood clots/strokes/heart attacks while pregnant. About a week or so ago I was sitting at the computer and I got a "pain" in the left side of my neck. It was less of a pain and more of a swelling type feeling...which came pretty quickly.
My first thought was blood clot, but then I decided it must be a lymph node because I had been feeling like I was getting sick (tired, achy, just that general feeling, but nothing else) and my body must be fighting it off. But as I feel around the area, it is not sore to the touch when I push on it, except for occasionally it will be tender over the carotid artery....which totally freaks me out. The swelling is still there (I can't see it only feel it) and it is deep feeling. It's not a muscle.
So I waivered between thinking it was a blood clot and a lymph node, trying to focus on lymph node although it doesn't really hurt and I can't feel it. The swelling feeling has gone down some, but then something started happening that really freaked me out! I can feel my pulse in that area of my neck now. Not when touching it, but just all the time, as I'm sitting, standing etc. This really scares me because I am afraid of anyeurism or blood clot.
I am trying to ignore it because no doctors are taking my insurance right now. Then the thought crossed my mind that it was cancer because of how I've been feeling lately and maybe it is a tumor.
I just don't even know what to think, but I'm more concerned about the pulsing thing now than anything. :( I know it is unlikely as I am young, eat a pretty healthy diet, and am on Cod Liver Oil to help keep my blood from clotting too much(I don't have a clotting disorder, just a fear..my platlets actually looked pretty good). The anyeurism thing is the scariest though. I can't help thinking that there is a ticking time bomb in there and it is going to burst. :weep:
My throat does not hurt, I do have some drainage though. I've just never had this particular feeling before.
I hate this, I really do.