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Sep. 14th, 2010 11:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maychorianChest pain now. I'm not sure how freaked out I should be. It started last night just before I started driving home from my friends' house where I visit for my Monday night RPG. Lasted about an hour, ebbed and faded, felt like a band around my ribs under my boobs, sometimes a sharp spot in my upper back. While I was driving home I told myself if I got to a certain exit and it still hurt, I would drive to the hospital, but by the time I got to that exit it had stopped hurting. And then it started again when I got closer to home. I couldn't find the aspirin, eventually got freaked out enough to wake my mom up to help me find it. Took a bunch and went to sleep, felt much better in the morning.
It came back around noon, lasted about another hour or so. That time it was a smaller spot, in the middle of my chest. Again, it waxed and waned, went away after I got home from work. It's been twenty-four hours now since the first incident and it hasn't started again, so I dunno. Both times it started up when was just sitting, so it's not exercise or stress-related, but I haven't had any other symptoms like nausea or light-headedness or anything. Just this pressing pain in my chest.
I know that there are a number of things that cause chest pain. It's listed as a possible symptom for Lyme disease on the websites I've been reading, too. I've done a pretty good job of keeping myself calm through it, so I don't think it's anxiety related (and at least I haven't had another panic attack--that would have SUCKED). Still.
I've finished my second round of antibiotics, and my back still isn't completely clear. There's kind of a brownish-pink patch where the rash used to be, my mom says. (I can't see it myself.) Maybe I need even more antibiotics, or maybe I need more focused medical care. I'm trying really hard not to freak out about all of this.
But...think good thoughts for me, yeah? I'd appreciate it. This is all very distressing.
It came back around noon, lasted about another hour or so. That time it was a smaller spot, in the middle of my chest. Again, it waxed and waned, went away after I got home from work. It's been twenty-four hours now since the first incident and it hasn't started again, so I dunno. Both times it started up when was just sitting, so it's not exercise or stress-related, but I haven't had any other symptoms like nausea or light-headedness or anything. Just this pressing pain in my chest.
I know that there are a number of things that cause chest pain. It's listed as a possible symptom for Lyme disease on the websites I've been reading, too. I've done a pretty good job of keeping myself calm through it, so I don't think it's anxiety related (and at least I haven't had another panic attack--that would have SUCKED). Still.
I've finished my second round of antibiotics, and my back still isn't completely clear. There's kind of a brownish-pink patch where the rash used to be, my mom says. (I can't see it myself.) Maybe I need even more antibiotics, or maybe I need more focused medical care. I'm trying really hard not to freak out about all of this.
But...think good thoughts for me, yeah? I'd appreciate it. This is all very distressing.
