Qwertybird
01-29-2009, 07:12 PM
I am a teacher in a high-stress high school. I have been severely depressed and often vomit bile in the morning. My weight keeps going up because I keep eating to comfort myself and my hours have gotten odd. I am mildly overweight, nowhere near obese. I don't sleep very well anymore.
The kids finally brought me over the line today and I flipped out on them. I stopped flipping out, got a horrible chest pain in the middle of the left side of my chest, and my tongue felt fat and I couldn't breathe or swallow, and I fell over. I couldn't move for 10 minutes.
I was able to get up again in a few minutes from my chair to teach the next class. Five hours later, I am still tired and short on breath. My heart keeps going "BANG, BANG, BANG" against my chest. Very slowly, but very hard. I used to have low blood pressure and my pulse is very slow. I also naturally have a low body temperature. My heart feels better when I cough.
I'm under an inordinate amount of stress lately outside of school. But that's not the real issue here...
What I am concerned about is, if this stress keeps up, am I going to suffer a heart attack? I am only in my 20's.
What the heck happened to me today? My father said that these are the precursors to a heart attack and I need to defend myself against all the stress before I actually do have one? (He has had multiple stress-related heart attacks and is living out his life with advanced heart failure right now.) I don't think it's just some panic attack. This was some of the worst pain I had ever felt in my chest in my life...
The kids finally brought me over the line today and I flipped out on them. I stopped flipping out, got a horrible chest pain in the middle of the left side of my chest, and my tongue felt fat and I couldn't breathe or swallow, and I fell over. I couldn't move for 10 minutes.
I was able to get up again in a few minutes from my chair to teach the next class. Five hours later, I am still tired and short on breath. My heart keeps going "BANG, BANG, BANG" against my chest. Very slowly, but very hard. I used to have low blood pressure and my pulse is very slow. I also naturally have a low body temperature. My heart feels better when I cough.
I'm under an inordinate amount of stress lately outside of school. But that's not the real issue here...
What I am concerned about is, if this stress keeps up, am I going to suffer a heart attack? I am only in my 20's.
What the heck happened to me today? My father said that these are the precursors to a heart attack and I need to defend myself against all the stress before I actually do have one? (He has had multiple stress-related heart attacks and is living out his life with advanced heart failure right now.) I don't think it's just some panic attack. This was some of the worst pain I had ever felt in my chest in my life...
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back2basics
01-29-2009, 09:31 PM
My advice to you is: Please do not wait to get this checked out.
Go to the ER and tell them what you posted on this board. Do not be afraid of what they will tell you. If it is not a heart issue, then that would be great news and you are sent home. If it is, you may be saving damage to your heart by getting it checked out now and not waiting.
If there is one thing I have learned through this, it would be that time is damage when it comes to the heart and that a heart condition doesn't care how old you are. Look at the number of posts on this board from very young people.
Good luck and let us know how things turned out.
B2B
Go to the ER and tell them what you posted on this board. Do not be afraid of what they will tell you. If it is not a heart issue, then that would be great news and you are sent home. If it is, you may be saving damage to your heart by getting it checked out now and not waiting.
If there is one thing I have learned through this, it would be that time is damage when it comes to the heart and that a heart condition doesn't care how old you are. Look at the number of posts on this board from very young people.
Good luck and let us know how things turned out.
B2B
Qwertybird
01-30-2009, 08:56 AM
I'm still alive this morning ;)
My blood pressure was 140/70 last night. I have never been that high systolic in my life. I am normally 90/60, 100/60, 110/70, numbers like that. Seems like a pretty low diastolic to be paired with the systolic though...odd.
My blood pressure was 140/70 last night. I have never been that high systolic in my life. I am normally 90/60, 100/60, 110/70, numbers like that. Seems like a pretty low diastolic to be paired with the systolic though...odd.