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3 months ago
Yesterday as I was going through my day, I continued to have discomfort in my chest that I mentioned in my monthly summary post. But I was also having trouble with my hands. They were feeling faint, sometimes numb. At one point I struggled to pick up a drinking glass.
I called my primary doctor and they said for anything that you are feeling in the chest, you need to go to the hospital emergency room.
I was not willing to do that because I don't have the money for such a thing.
I went on to work the bookstore in the morning and when I was in the 2nd hour, I was starting to feel disoriented and at one point felt super hot. I mentioned these symptoms to friends and they urged to me to go to the ER as these were symptoms of a heart attack.
When I was sitting there being checked in, my body and especially hands were trembling; I felt really weak and light headed.
The hospital did a large number of tests including blood work, head scan, and torso scan. After several hours they came back to me and told me I was perfectly fine. There was really nothing wrong with me other than pointing out I had some fatty tissue in the brain, but that was for a genetic reason and not a lifestyle.
They said the symptoms I was experiencing were manifested from the extreme stress and anxiety in my life, possibly made worse because of my bipolar.
So yah, I literally worked my health into the ground.
Thankfully there is nothing wrong with me, but it was a wake up call that I need to change my life around.
I'll let you all know what I figure out. But working less will be at the top of the list.
~Eclipsis
I called my primary doctor and they said for anything that you are feeling in the chest, you need to go to the hospital emergency room.
I was not willing to do that because I don't have the money for such a thing.
I went on to work the bookstore in the morning and when I was in the 2nd hour, I was starting to feel disoriented and at one point felt super hot. I mentioned these symptoms to friends and they urged to me to go to the ER as these were symptoms of a heart attack.
When I was sitting there being checked in, my body and especially hands were trembling; I felt really weak and light headed.
The hospital did a large number of tests including blood work, head scan, and torso scan. After several hours they came back to me and told me I was perfectly fine. There was really nothing wrong with me other than pointing out I had some fatty tissue in the brain, but that was for a genetic reason and not a lifestyle.
They said the symptoms I was experiencing were manifested from the extreme stress and anxiety in my life, possibly made worse because of my bipolar.
So yah, I literally worked my health into the ground.
Thankfully there is nothing wrong with me, but it was a wake up call that I need to change my life around.
I'll let you all know what I figure out. But working less will be at the top of the list.
~Eclipsis
It makes me so annoyed that you have to even consider financial status before going to see a doctor. Don't take anything here as Gospel as I'm not a doctor, I have no medical background etc. But during the first few weeks of lockdown I was getting these really strong chest pains that really stopped me doing anything. And in the end it seemed like they were panic/anxiety attacks. Which can manifest themselves in heart attack like symptoms.
During that summer I wasn't drawing for a long time and the stress from work probably was enough to keep me ill for an extended period of time.
Stress can do weird things. Try to lower your expectations of yourself slightly and look after yourself.
Mr. Diamond said at a different point he was experiencing it too. So this all makes me feel like I'm not a total wuss.
Now that I think of, I do recall hearing you struggle with that. About how long did it take for you to recover?
And yes, I have plans in place to reduce my work and what I do as a wake up call to all that. >w>
And take your time.
Umm, I probably don't need them? I have two people I look to for helping me sort things out from their video content. And then I have Bob Ross too as a sort of ASMR thing to listen too along with a really nice Sonic Lo-Fi Radio on YouTube. >w>
I'm been practicing a sort of therapy I came up with. I'll keep doing it for a while more and see if it is really working, then I'll post an update journal about how it is going.
So far it is working exceedingly better than I thought it would, but I'm gonna give it more time to make sure I'm not getting false positived like I sometimes am due to which part of my bipolar swings I'm in.