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Post by dfunked on Aug 22, 2024 12:08:54 GMT
I had a weird attack shortly after I'd started a new job. In the middle of talking to someone and it started with my body just refusing to let me swallow any saliva, which just spiralled into "argh, I'm fucking dying!!!" thoughts. Not ideal when you're going through that internally while trying to make a decent first impression! I've said it before, but stopping drinking put an immediate stop to anxiety attacks for me. Not going to be the same for everybody obviously, but still well worth trying if that's one of your vices.
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Post by Hanimalle on Aug 24, 2024 19:35:11 GMT
Sorry for the late reply everyone. In my defense, I am working this week-end and by the time I get home, have diner and take a shower, it's usually around 9pm, at which point I am often too tired to do anything of value.
To JonFE : As far as I know, I did not get COVID recently nor have I been in contact with someone sick from it though that possibility did cross my mind.
To wunty and quadfather : I hear you, I'm definitely convinced that anxiety can do quite a lot of harm, both mentally and physically. Also, I know I'm just a random stranger from the internet but, for what it's worth, I'm sorry you guys went through this, it sounds utterly terrifying.
To dfunked : I agree with you about excessive alcohol consumption, it can definitely be a source of anxiety. It's not currently an issue for me though I will freely admit that one of the vices I have is definitely not much better than drinking regularly...
Starting next Friday I'll be able to enjoy my first week-long time off from work in months. It will be a good opportunity to see whether or not I have any weird symptoms during that time which could either negate or confirm the fact that this is due to anxiety.
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Post by Lizard on Aug 25, 2024 4:40:28 GMT
I don't post much about it as it worsens the symptoms, but my experience is exactly the same as Quaddy and Wunty. Heart, breathing, muscles, guts - all fucked up with anxiety. I have bad acid reflux and thought it was ascending to the next level, until I noticed it was only like that when in the office.
Went to the doctors with constant chest pains a couple of years ago. He gave me the once over and told me that he gets several patients a week with exactly the same symptoms, convinced they're having a heart attack, and it's all down to stress/anxiety.
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Post by Zuluhero on Aug 25, 2024 8:09:42 GMT
Yeah, this all sounds so similar.
If I were to hazard a guess, everyone having them is mid-40s or it started around then? 😅
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Post by quadfather on Aug 25, 2024 11:27:51 GMT
Yeah, this all sounds so similar. If I were to hazard a guess, everyone having them is mid-40s or it started around then? 😅 Pretty much that age range, yeah. It's when you start questioning what you're doing with life and it makes things that you don't like stand out more. And then you don't like those things even more as you do them as you've highlighted them in your mind, which leads to a build up of stress. You don't get this in your 20s. You just work and don't give a fuck because there's lots of things to distract you and you're focused on those things that bring you enjoyment. But later on in life, you realise you're not going to live forever, and it can make you question things over and over. I know it sounds daft, but I've had to make a herculean effort to recognise what's actually *really* important now. And that's very simple things like nature, friends, music etc (replace those with what you like), and I ensure I do those things as much as i can to balance everything out. Be much easier if someone gave us a manual telling us this was all going to happen, but there you go.
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Post by Zuluhero on Aug 25, 2024 12:21:13 GMT
Yeah so true!
Heh I've often thought a manual would good too and it would probably save the NHS £££.
Yes this is normal, you're getting old but it's not serious 😅
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Post by Zuluhero on Aug 25, 2024 12:25:55 GMT
I actually find it reassuring knowing I'm not alone going through stuff like this.
Hopefully that helps you all too.
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Post by quadfather on Aug 25, 2024 20:33:06 GMT
Welcome to the party, pal and vice versa!
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Post by Blue_Mike on Aug 27, 2024 17:13:10 GMT
After carefully slicing my thigh open with a model making scalpel, draining all the pus out of the solid feeling growth that was too far under the skin to burst on it's own and treating it with TCP and a big plaster, all is now well. I am pain and swelling free.
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Post by nexus6 on Aug 27, 2024 17:35:54 GMT
After carefully slicing my thigh open with a model making scalpel, draining all the pus out of the solid feeling growth that was too far under the skin to burst on it's own and treating it with TCP and a big plaster, all is now well. I am pain and swelling free. Post of the day!
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Aug 27, 2024 18:03:09 GMT
TCP, there's a blast from the past, I can smell it now!
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Post by Lizard on Aug 27, 2024 20:47:49 GMT
After carefully slicing my thigh open with a model making scalpel, draining all the pus out of the solid feeling growth that was too far under the skin to burst on it's own and treating it with TCP and a big plaster, all is now well. I am pain and swelling free.
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Post by harrypalmer on Aug 27, 2024 20:50:14 GMT
After carefully slicing my thigh open with a model making scalpel, draining all the pus out of the solid feeling growth that was too far under the skin to burst on it's own and treating it with TCP and a big plaster, all is now well. I am pain and swelling free. Should have posted on YouTube. Could have been the start of a nice little side hustle.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Aug 27, 2024 21:16:49 GMT
After carefully slicing my thigh open with a model making scalpel, draining all the pus out of the solid feeling growth that was too far under the skin to burst on it's own and treating it with TCP and a big plaster, all is now well. I am pain and swelling free. Should have posted on YouTube. Could have been the start of a nice little side hustle. "What's up YouTube, today I'm going to be showing you how to ignore all established medical advice and drain your own painful growths using household items, and remember that Patreon members get access to the full unedited video where I swear like a sailor with Tourettes as the knife pierces my flesh and the abscess makes a tiny but still audible cracking noise as the pus erupts like a horrible little volcano, please like and subscribe."
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Post by Aunty Treats on Aug 27, 2024 21:21:08 GMT
Couldn't you have just stabbed it with a pin
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Post by Blue_Mike on Aug 27, 2024 21:32:08 GMT
Couldn't you have just stabbed it with a pin
I'd prefer to have scars than track marks.
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Post by drakesmoke on Sept 7, 2024 22:15:19 GMT
Firstly, quadfather I’ve been feeling very ill at ease lately and your little soliloquy for wont have a better term has struck a bit of a chord with me there. It’s a bit like when you have problems with the teen and then hear that everybody else’s is EXACTLY the same. Problem shared and all that. Cheers for that, has really made me think. So back on topic of growths and similar horrors. Not sure if anybody will remember but I went to the docs a few months back and had them look at a small hard lump on the side of my neck. I was told it was almost certainly scar tissue and not to worry. Sunday just passed, I have an evening do for a wedding to attend and actually shave my neck. Now I don’t know if it’s connected because I’ve also picked up three horrible insect bites of some description. We also went to Trentham Monkey Forest a couple of days before that, but I don’t recall picking anything up from that. Anyway, that’s just looking for causality, but come Tuesday the side of my neck is sore and it gets worse through the day. Around the same place as the thing I had looked at is now a big red lump, and it’s waxed and waned in terms of severity but I’ve had it so that I can feel it being sore and pulling when turning my head or eating. I got my other half to tweeze some hairs out around it and that did weirdly seem to dial down the symptoms a little bit (it was extremely sore to the touch, like a cig or sunburn until then). Think if there’s no further change by Monday I’m going to have to make the dreaded 8am calls - I’ve tried the cortisone cream, sudacrem, tonight a hot cloth, and now have put Vicks and a dressing over it. It’s doing my head in and it looks horrible. Been looking at Lyme disease and all sorts and also thinking I got misdiagnosed first time around - although if it was anything really sinister I don’t think it would have grown this big this fast and been more gradual. Hoping it’s an infected bite or something, but me being me I’ve signed my own death warrant in my head.
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Post by Dougs on Sept 7, 2024 22:27:41 GMT
In-growing/infected hair follicle?
Sucks getting old eh? I have self-diagnosed myself with texters thumb. Over the last 18 months, my right thumb has become very painful around the bottom joint, especially lateral movement. I've half-arsed some exercises but it's now so painful that I can barely use it. So have found some better exercises to stretch and strengthen online and have been diligently doing those. It has eased a bit but always feels like it'll go again if I catch my thumb awkwardly. Who knew thumbs were so important?! Anyway, seeing the doc about some pesky warts that won't go this week, so will mention it then anyway.
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Post by drakesmoke on Sept 7, 2024 22:39:23 GMT
Dougs I think the thumb thing is very real - do you have a big one (paging Ape, fnar fnar etc etc). Phone obviously, not thumb. But I get pangs - am trying to remember to use both hands (oh Christ stop now). Could well be an in growing hair. The original thing felt like a hard zit and I remember inflaming it by basically trying to pop it. The doc said that basically doing that has probably scarred it. I guess it could be like the equivalent of what happens when you get a splinter.
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Post by robthehermit on Sept 7, 2024 23:08:07 GMT
Arthritic thumbs here as well. Picked up a gamesir kaleid the other week that has two buttons on the back that I've assigned to L3/R3 and it has saved me no end of click related pain.
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Post by robthehermit on Sept 7, 2024 23:17:15 GMT
In other health news, Necksticle still there. Probably my imagination but I think I can feel it more particularly when I swallow or turn my head.
As well as the arthritic thumbs I also seem to be developing a bit of peripheral neuropathy in my fingertips, they've been numbish for about a month now
Had some worryingly familiar chest pain this morning, not heart attack bad but similarish to the pains I was getting in the weeks before. I've mostly chalked that up to anxiety though, there's shit going on at work and the routine ecg I had a couple of weeks ago was "boringly normal" according to my doctor.
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Post by Dougs on Sept 8, 2024 7:43:51 GMT
ECGs aren't worth shit though. They only show what is going on at that point in time. I'd definitely get it checked out again. I keep thinking about investing in a Kardia device for my AF but suspect I'd become quite obsessed.
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Post by Fake_Blood on Sept 8, 2024 8:00:21 GMT
24h ECG recorders are definitely a thing, but they are only going to do that if you go back and say you really think somethings not right, but it comes and goes.
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Post by Dougs on Sept 8, 2024 8:08:25 GMT
Oh yeah, but you're still reliant on something occurring.
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Post by Fake_Blood on Sept 8, 2024 8:20:18 GMT
Well yes, but from the cardiologists perspective, AF is more about discomfort than being life threatening, and the treatment involves ablation which isn’t always successful, so if it happens less than once every 24h they are just going to say it’s something you have to live with.
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Post by Dougs on Sept 8, 2024 8:23:21 GMT
Aye, although was talking more in general terms above.
Had an ablation which seems to have been successful (touch wood) but still get flutters etc which I'd like to understand more. But as I say, I'd probably get a bit obsessed about it. Bad enough as it is, I feel everything that's going on.
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Post by Fake_Blood on Sept 8, 2024 8:41:34 GMT
My dad was looking into getting an ablation, until more serious health issues cropped up. He was told that it isn’t always successful on the first try, and you can end up with a low heart rhythm if they do too much. It fucking sucked man, caused him a lot of anxiety which obviously made it worse. First cardiologist was like, not life threatening, try to not focus on it. And if only one of them would have asked for a bog standard chest x-ray they’d seen the other shit that was going on years in advance. I do not like cardiologists.
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Post by Dougs on Sept 8, 2024 9:38:49 GMT
Sorry dude, that sucks. Hard to take when you know a different outcome was possible.
I was lucky - first episode in my late 30s. Was able to get to the docs for an ECG which showed what was going on and it sorted itself out in 24hrs. Was referred to cardiology locally, where he basically said "not a problem now, but may become one as you get older as it's a progressive condition". I then had a couple of episodes in London which they did cardioversions to put me back in NSR. After the last one they said they were going to recommend an ablation just to nip it in the bud. That was 5 years ago and so far so good. I too have a healthy amount of scepticism for cardiologists. I am sure the first guy didn't want to do anything just because of his massive patient list rather than what was best for me. If it rears it's head again I will go back to London for any treatment.
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Post by drakesmoke on Sept 10, 2024 13:26:57 GMT
Bit the bullet and rang the doctors today over this infected, now kumquat sized mass in my neck.
Took about 8 attempts to get through between 8 and 8.18 am. Didn’t get an oppressive receptionist and was very surprised to be told to go in at 9.20.
There’s no signal in there so I took ‘White Line Fever’ the Lemmy autobiography in. I only managed to read the prologue as I got into the actual consultation at 9.22!
Got a new doctor who hasn’t yet been broken by the system and he was a thoroughly nice gent.
Went to the pharmacy at the local precinct on the way home. Pills collected in four minutes flat, slightly delayed only by a methadone visit which was dealt with quickly and subtly.
All in all a surprisingly stress free trip, still can’t work out whether it was real or not!
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Post by Zomoniac on Sept 22, 2024 13:49:26 GMT
Anyone got much experience of hip issues? Mine started clicking and causing some pain when opened a few months ago. Had a physio look at it, he suspected a labral tear. Would need an MRI and possibly surgery, but whilst I’ve had a GP referral to MSK I have no idea what the wait times are.
I’ve pretty much laid off the gym entirely for the last six weeks, done a few upper body only workout sessions, and even then not even those for a few weeks, and it was sort of ignorable, but the last week it’s getting much worse at an alarming rate, to the point that there’s now a constant pain. I spend ten hours in the cinema yesterday on a big comfy recliner but could feel it the whole way through.
I don’t even turn 40 till next month, feel way too young to be thinking about a hip replacement, but this one seems absolutely fucked.
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