fuck that. i know easier said than done BUT...LOSE WEIGHT! not tryin to be rude but that is the root of all ur problems. rx's are not the answer. u lose that weight and ill bet all other probleems fade away. start off easy, get in a routine(what ever exsrs. u want to do), cut out fast food. u dont have to be a gym rat to be in shape.
i suffered from chest pains for years, all to different varying degrees, the thing is when ever i get the slightest pain my mind goes into overdrive and my mind starts racing and my brain is telling me i'm dying. i get this flee or flight feeling, basically i just have to get out of where i'm at. they finally diagnosed me as having massive anxiety and panic attacks years ago, after going to ER's many times in my early to mid 20's. And i've had ever test under the sun done and they are always negative. I remember having a stress test done in my mid 20's, i went after work and had on heavy soiled blue jeans and work boots and they hooked me up to all these wires and had me walking on a treadmill and it got faster and faster to a almost light run and steeper incline and steeper, by the time the test was over i felt my pulse pounding through me and they checked me all out and said i was fine and that only a people had went as far as i had on it without collapsing or complaining, i think they were full of it on that part, just trying to make me feel good.
Anyway, i've been sent to shirks and all they do is want to throw the newest anti-depressant on the market at you. i've been on so many i don't know whether i'm coming or going it seems. i've had shrinks tell me it could be because i'm a creative person and have an overactive imagination. All i do know is that when a full blown panic hits me and i can't talk my mind out of it that they suck. It's like the beginning of an acid trip when the back of your neck and head start getting all tingly and you get this butterfly feeling all through you , it just sucks. I've basically medicated myself for years just by drinking really heavy, you drink enough you just nub yourself and your mind says fuck it.
But now i've quit drinking and smoking and i still get them, basically it's just something that i live with and one day i guess after all the anxiety and stress of worrying when the next one will come, i will have a real heart attack or stroke, then if i live through it and can finally say " see i'm not to young to have one" and prove all those doctors wrong. All i've ever got is "your to young to have one, your not over 40-45". yet you can read in the paper all the time about young people dying from heart attacks.
Anyway, i've been sent to shirks and all they do is want to throw the newest anti-depressant on the market at you. i've been on so many i don't know whether i'm coming or going it seems. i've had shrinks tell me it could be because i'm a creative person and have an overactive imagination. All i do know is that when a full blown panic hits me and i can't talk my mind out of it that they suck. It's like the beginning of an acid trip when the back of your neck and head start getting all tingly and you get this butterfly feeling all through you , it just sucks. I've basically medicated myself for years just by drinking really heavy, you drink enough you just nub yourself and your mind says fuck it.
But now i've quit drinking and smoking and i still get them, basically it's just something that i live with and one day i guess after all the anxiety and stress of worrying when the next one will come, i will have a real heart attack or stroke, then if i live through it and can finally say " see i'm not to young to have one" and prove all those doctors wrong. All i've ever got is "your to young to have one, your not over 40-45". yet you can read in the paper all the time about young people dying from heart attacks.
Do you want me to send you the xrays of my dog? Seriously, we have 4 dogs. One of them is a dalmatian that we picked up from the streets , she's had a very nice life with us (Been with us 5 years almost)
She started last year with this persistent and chronic cough, xray number 1 comes out, we suspected an infection......heavy doses of antibiotics etc. Fast forward 1 year....cough is still there and getting worse......xray number #2 and ultrasound to discard some other stuff
Sure enough, its now totally evident that the spots (which by now are clusters) is some sort of either cancer or fibrosis. This dog is the one that always laid down by my wife and therefore closest to the smoke
Also keep in mind that food tastes much better without the smoke so since you are a guy that enjoys food.........its better to do it without an ashtray in your throat.
Seriously, I hope you quit (my wife did eventually, which is to me an incredible feat , its not easy at all but as the cardiologist put it......."its weird, none of my patients that have had a stroke say anything of anxiety and stress when they talk about quitting smoking......but its too late then")
That's correct. And there are good reasons for this. Caths aren't cheap and there is some morbidity, not much mortality, with the procedure.
Generally, you have to have an abnormal stress test to get cathed.
Now, if you present with an MI, you can get straight to the cath lab to assess the damage and to learn whether or not you're a candidate for balloon or stent.
damn , i don't know how you made heads from tails out of what i typed. i was just re-reading it and i was all over the place, but i was in a big hurry this afternoon. But yeah they suck, i just quit drinking(and i was a heavy drinker , everyday all day) 2 years ago, and just quit smoking 4 months ago.
the thing is all these damn dr.'s have been telling me for years(i'm 36 now) "oh, just quit drinking and smoking and you'll feel much better." well i'm miserable every stinkin day. everyday i think about just going back to getting fucked up everyday, self medication is the key i think, cause these dr.'s don't know shit, they just throw at you whatever new flavor of the month pill that the drug reps are pushing.
The O.P talked about being big and fairly young. my younger brother told me a story a little while back about a dude he went to school with that was a big tall dude and kinda heavy and played B-Ball and got married right after HS and then had kids and got fat, dude was like 6'4 or 5 and around 300 and he had one at around age 30. I've also worked with people in the past and hear about past acquaintances that have either had one or died from one, and they are fairly young people.
oh and mt BP is always crazy, if i check it at a grocery and something, it is always high, not too high, just a little high, but in a dr.'s office or an ER or anykind of medical setting, my shit is always low or normal.
