Tuesday, January 22, 2013
hibernation phase
I have been having weird chest pains the last few days. All the sources I checked told me to seek medical attention. So i did. Had a chest x-ray, a EKG, blood work, EVERYTHING. They found nothing wrong. I can't breathe, my left shoulder hurts intensely, and my heart will race from time to time especially when the pain gets worse. At times the pain is debilitating. I get dizzy and feel as though I might pass out. So since the professionals could find no reason for my intense chest pain, I decided to scour the internet my damn self. I stumbled upon a message board with literally hundreds of people with the same ailment. All my age, men and women alike, all describing the same symptoms. Not on clear diagnosis. Most people cited having GERD which is a funny word for acid reflux disease. Really? What I'd like to know is how a pain in my shoulder is acid reflux but OK whatever. So I'll try taking pepcid ac and limit my acidic food intake which is as follows.
No coffee...I don't care if "no coffee" is the keys to my survival, not doing it.
no milk- ok
no wheat- that's fine
no blueberries- really? (*Livestrong.com so this must be a big lie)
no pickled foods- I'm trying no to cry over this.
no meat just fish I can live with that.
No shellfish- WHY?
no fried food...wait, what?
no FRENCH FRIES- no, please God, no!
(i basically live on french fries and beer)
NO BEER!!!!
GAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Etc., etc., etc...
so apparently my life is over.
I analyzed what I have been eating over the last week and it all falls under the no no list. So maybe that's it. Maybe I can easily cure myself.
I will try anything to feel better at this point. I have been so fatigued therefore I sleep for 12-16 hours a night. I wake up with intense bouts of pain and am having vivid nightmares. When I am awake, I am pretty much in constant pain. Each time i breathe in I can feel it stab in my lung. My shoulder has just been a dull aching constant pain. If I'm lying down it feels like a charlie horse. All of this has been intensifying over the last 3 days.
I think it's high time for another juice fast. It's easier to limit yourself to one thing than having to cut out a million other things. If it is a gastrointestinal problem, that would be the fastest road to healing.
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I stumbled upon your page because I too am fascinated by Pittsburgh's city steps, but saw your post about weird chest/shoulder pains, and wonder - could you be suffering from pleurisy? It's something I deal with myself, and the pain is astonishing. It usually starts with my shoulders aching, and then moves into the lungs, creating difficulty breathing and intense, aching, stabbing pain, accompanied by serious lethargy.
ReplyDeleteMy own recurrent pleurisy was diagnosed through a chest x-ray years ago (I was 15, and I thought I was having a heart attack!), but you said your chest x-ray came up clear, so perhaps not. But you might try taking 2 or 3 Aleve and seeing if that gives you any relief, if you haven't tried the pain-med route already. Aleve/naproxen is the only thing that helps my pleurisy.
Apologies for this rather random, long-winded, and possibly entirely unhelpful comment, but my bouts of pleurisy have been so painful and debilitating that I would want to help anyone else who might be suffering from them! Good luck with these symptoms - I hope you find relief soon.
wow that sucks, Ben :( Good luck with the juice cleanse... I need to do one too.
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