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So Sunday morning I woke up, I stayed lying down watching some YouTube, everything seemed fine. As I went to yawn, and take a deep breath, I noticed my chest hurt like nothing I ever effing felt before...EVER! To me this would be the type of pain someone with a fractured sternum would feel.
I started to stretch thinking I may have just slept wrong, I tried to maybe get some gas out, but nothing improved how it felt. I decided to take a shower and see, well in there I started dry heaving, then I began to vomit with only fluid and saliva coming out...but when I finished for a moment, I felt better. Then when I went to stand, it was like a horse kicked me in my chest, and my knees buckled! The entire room was spinning, it was like I was on too much speed or something. I knew at that moment I needed to get to the ER asap!
When I got there, I looked like I had just been doing cardio, I was drenched in sweat, and couldn't catch my breath no matter how much I tried to relax. They saw me come in, and before I knew it I was in a room being hooked up to an ekg, I was given some baby aspirins, and a nitroglycerin under the tongue. The machine checked me again, and my BP was 159/120, and my PR was 125 ( when I got there it was around 150 something).
My BP /PR started to climb again, so they gave me another nitroglycerin under the tongue, and they placed a nitroglycerin patch on my chest. It seemed like I had cables everywhere, I was scared as hell I won't deny it, I really thought I was going to die that day!
They felt like I was improving, then my BP and PR started going up again, at this point I'm almost crying in pain, so they put me on morphine IV, and I was given an Ativan. I was transported to a bigger hospital, and put in the cardiac floor in the area where they come to check on it seemed every 20 min. On my way there, my BP got up to 200/100. I can't remember what my PR was at.
I continued to have issues breathing, and I would throw up anytime I tried to sit up, so then they started with IV Zofran, which definitely helped they continued with the morphine, baby aspirin, and potassium. They gave me some magnesium that was mixed with juice as they said my mag was coming back low.
My blood sugar was down to around 82, then they would check again and it's 98, it did this my entire stay (keep in mind I was npo until my last day there) so they started checking it all day and all night, my poor fingers! They also took blood every certain amount of hours, to check for signs of tissue damage, eventually I was taken for an injectable stress test, and CT scan with contrast. They told me I have some abnormalities, but it was not a heart attack.. I have an appointment with the cardiologist next week to discuss everything.
What they suspect is my stress, anxiety, etc caused my BP to skyrocket up, which then led to the chest pain, high PR, and shortness of breath, they told me due to my family history, if I don't start taking life slowly,and with less stress...I'm going to have a cardiac event, that I may not make it from!
This was one of the scariest events in my life ( that has happened to me personally), I mean to feel so helpless, to feel like your life may end at any moment..i know I am so lucky it wasn't a heart attack or stroke (both run in my family, both sides), but this gave me a new outlook, you can't let life's setbacks also bring on an early death!
Well I wanted to share this with you guys, to emphasize how important it is to live as stress free as you possibly can, don't sweat the small stuff, and if you can't change it, then don't even think about it.
I see my docs, I take my meds, I take heart healthy supps, I eat clean, but none of that means nothing when you are stressed out over everything like I have been! Your doctor can run as many tests as they see fit, but if you keep everything inside they won't know how to properly treat you.
I'm glad it didn't take something a lot more terrifying or tragic to happen, for me to learn this lesson. Happy Thanksgiving to all of you, I may not know all of you personally, but I want you all here, a lot more than I want you over there!!!!
I started to stretch thinking I may have just slept wrong, I tried to maybe get some gas out, but nothing improved how it felt. I decided to take a shower and see, well in there I started dry heaving, then I began to vomit with only fluid and saliva coming out...but when I finished for a moment, I felt better. Then when I went to stand, it was like a horse kicked me in my chest, and my knees buckled! The entire room was spinning, it was like I was on too much speed or something. I knew at that moment I needed to get to the ER asap!
When I got there, I looked like I had just been doing cardio, I was drenched in sweat, and couldn't catch my breath no matter how much I tried to relax. They saw me come in, and before I knew it I was in a room being hooked up to an ekg, I was given some baby aspirins, and a nitroglycerin under the tongue. The machine checked me again, and my BP was 159/120, and my PR was 125 ( when I got there it was around 150 something).
My BP /PR started to climb again, so they gave me another nitroglycerin under the tongue, and they placed a nitroglycerin patch on my chest. It seemed like I had cables everywhere, I was scared as hell I won't deny it, I really thought I was going to die that day!
They felt like I was improving, then my BP and PR started going up again, at this point I'm almost crying in pain, so they put me on morphine IV, and I was given an Ativan. I was transported to a bigger hospital, and put in the cardiac floor in the area where they come to check on it seemed every 20 min. On my way there, my BP got up to 200/100. I can't remember what my PR was at.
I continued to have issues breathing, and I would throw up anytime I tried to sit up, so then they started with IV Zofran, which definitely helped they continued with the morphine, baby aspirin, and potassium. They gave me some magnesium that was mixed with juice as they said my mag was coming back low.
My blood sugar was down to around 82, then they would check again and it's 98, it did this my entire stay (keep in mind I was npo until my last day there) so they started checking it all day and all night, my poor fingers! They also took blood every certain amount of hours, to check for signs of tissue damage, eventually I was taken for an injectable stress test, and CT scan with contrast. They told me I have some abnormalities, but it was not a heart attack.. I have an appointment with the cardiologist next week to discuss everything.
What they suspect is my stress, anxiety, etc caused my BP to skyrocket up, which then led to the chest pain, high PR, and shortness of breath, they told me due to my family history, if I don't start taking life slowly,and with less stress...I'm going to have a cardiac event, that I may not make it from!
This was one of the scariest events in my life ( that has happened to me personally), I mean to feel so helpless, to feel like your life may end at any moment..i know I am so lucky it wasn't a heart attack or stroke (both run in my family, both sides), but this gave me a new outlook, you can't let life's setbacks also bring on an early death!
Well I wanted to share this with you guys, to emphasize how important it is to live as stress free as you possibly can, don't sweat the small stuff, and if you can't change it, then don't even think about it.
I see my docs, I take my meds, I take heart healthy supps, I eat clean, but none of that means nothing when you are stressed out over everything like I have been! Your doctor can run as many tests as they see fit, but if you keep everything inside they won't know how to properly treat you.
I'm glad it didn't take something a lot more terrifying or tragic to happen, for me to learn this lesson. Happy Thanksgiving to all of you, I may not know all of you personally, but I want you all here, a lot more than I want you over there!!!!