So last week thursday while at Chubby's I got sick in a way I've never felt before. But like all stupid people I put it off.
I had been stressed all week at work. And even though I prepared and budged for the RS, and John made the actual process of buying the car as smooth as possible it was apparently the straw that broke the camel's back. I had a full blown anxiety attack while at Chubby's and didn't even realize what it was. Or what it COULD have been.
See, if you look up the symptoms for an Anxiety attack and a Heart attack they are basically the SAME symptoms. Except the heart attack might kill you. So that happened thursday night, and I brushed it off. But Friday, Saturday, and even Sunday I couldn't get my resting heart-rate down from 75-85bpm. I'd be laying in bed and instead of the usual 60bpm or so it would be 75-85. After yet another sleepless night I started looking up my symptoms.
I had these symptoms all at different times, and passed them off to stress that I couldn't pinpoint. I had considered the possibility that I had experienced a mild heart attack. And I debated going to the emergency room.
By monday morning I had slept all of probably 4 or 5 hours total between Thursday night and Monday morning. Late sunday and through the night I had become terrified that I had experienced a heart attack. That alone was a massive stressor.
I called my dad and asked him how he felt when he had his and he described all the same symptoms except he had the usual chest pain. But chest pain isn't part of every heart attack.
So called around to Cardiologists and finally got an appointment for Monday at NCH.
They did a full work-up. Blood pressure, pulse, ECG, then had em come back the next day after fasting for 12 hours for a Cholesterol test.
Nothing. Aside from being overweight, something I have been slowly working on, everything is great. My Cholesterol is low as fuck. LDL, and Triglycerides are WAY below even being considered high. My HDL is a tad low though, so I need to bring it up. But I was just told to start exercising more. Overall Cholesterol is actually very good, well below danger zones.
Blood pressure was good as well. Even though I was nervous as fuck in the exam room, dreading news that as soon as he saw me he'd order me into surgery. But even with that stress it was 118/78. Not really low, but nowhere near bad either. 120/80 is considered the high range of normal. Again, exercise would bring that down too.
When they took the blood pressure test my resting rate was 75bpm, even though it felt like it was hammering in my chest.
The ECG came out perfect, nothing unusual about it at all. I've never had so many leads stuck to me. Felt like Pinocchio.
I'm still considering going for a Stress test, but the other tests performed have eliminated all of the symptoms I've been having. Somewhere along the line I took care of the stress from work and the car. But then the stress from thinking I might have had a heart attack overshadowed all of that.
I've honestly never been more stressed in my life. Even a hint of a thought that I might keel over and DIE was mind numbing. I could concentrate on nothing else. Since these screenings are free yearly I have decided I'm going to get them every year now. I will not skip them. Just getting the test was an amazing amount of peace of mind, knowing that all of the tests are good.
Also decided that the 3x a week I spend about a half hour on the bike just aren't enough. So I think I'm going to get a pool pass at EGV Pavilion so I can swim in the mornings before work. It takes no time out of my morning commute since i pass by it every day. And it will burn far more than the bike will.
I had been stressed all week at work. And even though I prepared and budged for the RS, and John made the actual process of buying the car as smooth as possible it was apparently the straw that broke the camel's back. I had a full blown anxiety attack while at Chubby's and didn't even realize what it was. Or what it COULD have been.
See, if you look up the symptoms for an Anxiety attack and a Heart attack they are basically the SAME symptoms. Except the heart attack might kill you. So that happened thursday night, and I brushed it off. But Friday, Saturday, and even Sunday I couldn't get my resting heart-rate down from 75-85bpm. I'd be laying in bed and instead of the usual 60bpm or so it would be 75-85. After yet another sleepless night I started looking up my symptoms.
- Elevated heart rate.
- Sudden chills
- Numbness in extremities
I had these symptoms all at different times, and passed them off to stress that I couldn't pinpoint. I had considered the possibility that I had experienced a mild heart attack. And I debated going to the emergency room.
By monday morning I had slept all of probably 4 or 5 hours total between Thursday night and Monday morning. Late sunday and through the night I had become terrified that I had experienced a heart attack. That alone was a massive stressor.
I called my dad and asked him how he felt when he had his and he described all the same symptoms except he had the usual chest pain. But chest pain isn't part of every heart attack.
So called around to Cardiologists and finally got an appointment for Monday at NCH.
They did a full work-up. Blood pressure, pulse, ECG, then had em come back the next day after fasting for 12 hours for a Cholesterol test.
Nothing. Aside from being overweight, something I have been slowly working on, everything is great. My Cholesterol is low as fuck. LDL, and Triglycerides are WAY below even being considered high. My HDL is a tad low though, so I need to bring it up. But I was just told to start exercising more. Overall Cholesterol is actually very good, well below danger zones.
Blood pressure was good as well. Even though I was nervous as fuck in the exam room, dreading news that as soon as he saw me he'd order me into surgery. But even with that stress it was 118/78. Not really low, but nowhere near bad either. 120/80 is considered the high range of normal. Again, exercise would bring that down too.
When they took the blood pressure test my resting rate was 75bpm, even though it felt like it was hammering in my chest.
The ECG came out perfect, nothing unusual about it at all. I've never had so many leads stuck to me. Felt like Pinocchio.
I'm still considering going for a Stress test, but the other tests performed have eliminated all of the symptoms I've been having. Somewhere along the line I took care of the stress from work and the car. But then the stress from thinking I might have had a heart attack overshadowed all of that.
I've honestly never been more stressed in my life. Even a hint of a thought that I might keel over and DIE was mind numbing. I could concentrate on nothing else. Since these screenings are free yearly I have decided I'm going to get them every year now. I will not skip them. Just getting the test was an amazing amount of peace of mind, knowing that all of the tests are good.
Also decided that the 3x a week I spend about a half hour on the bike just aren't enough. So I think I'm going to get a pool pass at EGV Pavilion so I can swim in the mornings before work. It takes no time out of my morning commute since i pass by it every day. And it will burn far more than the bike will.
