CorneliusRuperTravis
03-08-11, 17:05
Hello again, I know I have already posted a thread today on something hopefully unrelated, but I just had an absolutely awful experience and I can only hope that somebody can reassure me what the hell just happened.
I had been sitting at my kitchen table for a while, on my laptop, when I decided to get up to go make a drink. I got half way across the room when I suddenly had an uproar of pain right in the middle of my chest. It's hard to describe but it felt like a VERY painful tight cramp just below my ribcage (past the breastbone to where the chest starts getting soft).
It seemed to start in my chest and and then another pain started it's way downwards to my lower stomach, and then it seemed to move back up again. Never once relieving the pressure on my chest.
The pain had me doubling up and it hurt every time I tried to draw breath, which left me feeling quite winded. It probably lasted about 20 seconds in all, but it seemed to last MUCH longer and my heart was pounding like crazy. I honestly thought I was just going to collapse right then and there.
What on Earth happened to me? This isn't the first time this has happened, it actually happened for the first time a few weeks ago, late at night in the bathroom. Exact same thing, the doubling up, the pain, the left feeling winded.
I'm 19 years old, male. I would consider myself fairly healthy - at least I've never had any serious medical issues before. I suppose that's exactly way I feel like any day now my number will come up and I just collapse due to some sudden trauma.
But this was something else. I'm completely shaken by this. Somebody please? :(
I had been sitting at my kitchen table for a while, on my laptop, when I decided to get up to go make a drink. I got half way across the room when I suddenly had an uproar of pain right in the middle of my chest. It's hard to describe but it felt like a VERY painful tight cramp just below my ribcage (past the breastbone to where the chest starts getting soft).
It seemed to start in my chest and and then another pain started it's way downwards to my lower stomach, and then it seemed to move back up again. Never once relieving the pressure on my chest.
The pain had me doubling up and it hurt every time I tried to draw breath, which left me feeling quite winded. It probably lasted about 20 seconds in all, but it seemed to last MUCH longer and my heart was pounding like crazy. I honestly thought I was just going to collapse right then and there.
What on Earth happened to me? This isn't the first time this has happened, it actually happened for the first time a few weeks ago, late at night in the bathroom. Exact same thing, the doubling up, the pain, the left feeling winded.
I'm 19 years old, male. I would consider myself fairly healthy - at least I've never had any serious medical issues before. I suppose that's exactly way I feel like any day now my number will come up and I just collapse due to some sudden trauma.
But this was something else. I'm completely shaken by this. Somebody please? :(