Even though I realise I have anxienty and that makes me always worry, I do not think my fear of having a heart attack/stroke is misplaced. Brief history of
my health: smoking more than 30 cigarettes a day for at least the last 5 years (Before that, I smoked about 20 a day for 11 years).
Eating junk food EVERY day (Fried food, pizza etc). Drinking coca cola everyday (Though I stopped drinking it a few years ago.) and NO excersize. I have recently started going for walks. But yeah...because of anxiety I dont like going outside. Which sucks because I love being outside when it's sunny.
So for a few years now I also get a slight pressure on the side of my temple and
my left arm feels lame sometimes as well, though not necessarly the same time as I feel the pressure on my temple. And I also get sometimes sharp brief pinching sensations on some parts of my left arm. Actually I think thats only happened once or twice. Most of the time I get a dull lame feeling on the top part of my left arm. Im assuming its my blood pressure because usually when I have to go to the shop to buy food, the minute I step ourside for a few seconds I get the lame feeling in my arm. Which of course scares me becuase I think to myself "oh man this sucks! LOL IT IS MY BLOOD PRESSURE" because of course I've been trying to convince myself "nope, it isn't blood pressure problems, its just anxiety" but when I have the lame feeling in my arm when my anxiety increases it tells me that, no, its my blood pressure.
Another issue I have is, for the past week, I have been feeling quite dizzy most of the time. Im again assuming its my blood pressure..
I went to have my bloodpressure taken today and they said it's 130. They said its normal, but I wanted to read online what is considered a normal blood pressure reading. Apparently 120 is normal and anything above is classified as PRE HYPERTENSION. And apparently doctors agree that you're more likely to have a heart attack when you're blood pressure is at PRE HYPERTENSION than when you actually have developed HYPERTENSION.
So to say right now Im sitting here feeling a bit nervous that Im gonna die tonight, is a UNDERSTATEMENT LOL
I also read that the morning and the evening is when a person's blood pressure is highest. That explains why in the morning my arm has lame sensations and slight pins and needles in my thumb. I have been trying to rationalize my symptoms as just being stressed out because of anxiety but I can't help but be very scared that I actually am about to have a stroke or heart attack. I mean, my point of view is, having anxiety does not mean this is all in my head. My symptoms are real. Im planning to go to the hospital tomorrow to hopefully talk to a heart specialist about my symptoms. I'm hoping he will just say it's sore back muscles causing the lame feeling in arm. And the dizzyness is caused by not enough excersize. But in my heart I know he is probably going to want to take a chest x-ray to make sure I dont have block arteries. Im really scared.
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