Also, in the time it took to write the post above Oldfella's, (number 21) I felt a burning sensation in my left arm. I'd felt something like that in my upper elbow last night but it went away fairly quickly. It is hard to sleep since I sleep on my left side and it can get numb or I feel the pressure on my chest. - Anna Burning? Again circulation IMO. Ever have a tourniquet put on your leg for example? I did - it burns like a mother, so I imagine circulation cut off anywhere would cause a burning sensation. Or have been out in severe cold all day and you can't feel your fingers and when you thaw them out to fast they burn like they are on fire? So personally I would consider circulation problems as a cause or side effect of whatever you might be experiencing.
YMMV, but I've heard that some hospitals are surprisingly easy to deal with on that front. Either in terms of working with you to set up long-term payments, generally without interest, or in more extreme cases being willing to listen if you go to them and say "this is how much I owe, this is how much I make, and we both know there's no way in hell I'll ever be able to pay this bill." You want to deal with it at that level, though, and try to head it off before it goes to a collection agency. First because of the hit on your credit. Second, because when you're talking to hospital employees, you're dealing with people who made a choice to get into health care, which they generally don't do without having some interest in helping people ... but collection agencies are just assholes.
DUDE! Come to Augusta! You can rent a fucking four bedroom house for 1,000 per month. Split three or four ways? That's cheap rent. Yes you need a car, but the longest commutes (where the more expensive neighborhoods are) are maybe 45 minutes in heavy traffic, 20 minutes in light traffic. As for school, my son has the same GI Bill you would be under. VHA is about 1,100 a month at Augusta University zip code rates. He rents a house with four other people (one of those also on the GI Bill) so splitting all the utility bills and rent he still has money for at least the necessities. If you would want to "go it alone" he has a friend (also using the GI Bill) who lives by herself in a small apartment on the edge of downtown Augusta paying about 500 a month or so. It would be great if you could live somewhere chock-full of colleges with a cheap cost of living like Augusta, where you could finish out whatever college you may have started in the past. Take advantage of that GI Bill while you are still young & single! No responsibilities except yourself and getting paid 1,000 a month to live on to go to free college - please find a way to take advantage of this somewhere other than the high rent place you live. I can tell by how you communicate here on wordforge you are smarter than the average local yokel.
First, don't assume all the problems are connected. It may just be coincidence that they're happening in the same period of time. Nor are they necessarily serious. Here's what I would do if I were you: 1.) Keep a diary of what you've had to eat, when you ate, how you felt after you ate. Include also any weird feelings you might have (such as pain in the arm, or feeling tired). You may have developed a food allergy to something, or you might realize that there's some pattern to the conditions (like it hits in the morning or when you've gone longer than usual without eating). 2.) Do some kind of vigorous exercise, and time yourself while doing it. Keep track of this in your diary as well. How long does it take you to get tired? How long can you go before you feel short of breath? How long does it take for you to recover? If you notice that you're losing stamina and that it takes you longer to recover, or you get short of breath easily, then you'll want to let your doctor know. Do not rely on your memory for any of this, but put it in writing! Memory is fallible, and shouldn't be trusted. 3.) Whatever's your favorite piss-your-pants funny comedy is, watch that. The endorphins released during laughter are good for a lot of things. 4.) Do not discount anxiety just because none of the normal triggers are there. Brains are funny things, and shit that is inconsequential can set you off without you even realizing it. 5.) For help with your medical bills, you can check out Modest Needs. It ain't perfect, but with you being ex-military, you've got a good chance of getting help. 6.) Fresh air, sunshine, and being surrounded by nature are good for the psyche. Until you get things sorted out, it'll help take your mind off of things for a bit. 7.) If you drink alcohol on any kind of basis (daily, weekly) knock it off for a bit and see what happens. Not saying that it's alcohol related, but changing variables like that can't hurt. Your fatigue symptoms sound like what I had before I came down with pneumonia last year. Gradually felt more and more tired, even though I wasn't really doing anything strenuous, and then one day I discovered that as much as I liked breathing, it was really difficult to do. The good news about the pneumonia is that it's fairly easy to treat these days. I was back to normal within a couple of weeks of taking antibiotics, and I've got almost 2 decades on you, so you should bounce back even quicker, if that's what it (or part of it) is.
Feeling tightness around my right knee. Been walking and pacing around the house since I got home to keep blood going in my body. Slmost feels like a gas bubble is in there. Chest tightness is nearly gone, but now my temp's been reading 99.5
Actually if your smiley is meaning demographics....it probably is So Atlanta is the CDC, my dad and three of his six brothers spent a lot of time there re cooping from polio. The most affected by polio spent the most time there, and wound up being an aeronautical engineer for Boeing in Atlanta. I went to visit him one summer, it was weird being the minority. I'm used to Indian and blacks but when it's still 60-40 white and you go to 80-20 black you just feel that you stick out. But I could be misinterpreting your smiley....
As for anxiety, I will say this I never felt so much anxiety as when I stopped Engineering and took a semester off. I had no stress and yet I gained twenty pounds and an ulcer!
Combine the elevated temp with all the other symptoms (especially loss of appetite), and I’m wondering if you’re cooking some sort of low-grade infection? We are coming up on flu season, and since you interact with a lot of people on the job, someone could have sneezed on you and passed it along. Is there a Minute Clinic or walk-in clinic nearby? I know the $ thing is scary, but whatever this is, you need to make it go away.
More like the politics I disagree with and the gun culture that Oldfella has....shall we say discussed in the RR.
Temp was lower when I took it an hour later. Yesterday, I had no eye strain and no headache until late evening when I went to bed. And today,all my other symptoms over the last few weeks were absent, but now I've got headaches on my right temple. Get worse when I sit at my computer. But the pain right behind do my eyes from the strain is pretty much gone.
So, I still got some pain on the right side of my head, but a little better than earlier today. Still some pain around the nose and back of my right eye more than my left sometimes. The shin pain I had earlier today (an hour or so ago at lunch) has let up too, although I'm wearing wedges today. Chest pain is completely gone and heart rate is normal, so that's a plus
Also, if this is half of one-tenth of one-hundredth of what Tamar had to put up with for the last fifteen years of her life, she was a tougher bitch than I ever gave her credit for.
See, the problem with Tamar is that she broadcast it. Some of us have struggles nobody cares about because they don't know about it.
As a woman, one thing Tamar's discussion of her health brought to my attention is that we do need better women's care. She may have had an illness that would've manifest anyway, but the prescription for BCPs threw everything haywire. It's why I don't agree with handing pills out to children in middle school without parental consent.
Good call! There is no "official start" for flu season. CVS is already giving flu shots in my neighborhood, and it's still 90 degrees outside! But it can be frustrating when you know your body and something just isn't right....but it's nothing so obvious that it just "pops out" at the doctors, so you waste your time and money because there is no definite answer.
I wish the US had free medical - we have the resources and ability, but just won't do it. We waste a lot of money on crazy shit but nobody bats an eye.
Felt some pain in the center back left side while walking my dog and the chest pain came back for a minute. I took two low doseage aspirins and feel somewhat better. Breathing's still good, and one really small palpitation, but after rereading Techman's chest pains thread he mentioned his heart rate didn't peak in the weeks before he died, either. I already scheduled an appointment for tomorrow afternoon, which means losing two hours of work on top of the hour I lost last Monday. I don't know how I could've ever been against Obamacare years ago. Or any reforms. It's hunky dory if you're piss poor--Medicaid pays or you default. Me, I'm right on the boarder thanks to the previous sales job and taxation in CA saying I made far more than I ever saw so I gotta wait till November for the exchange to open to GTFO this insane deductible (course, I didn't expect to need it so much, either).
A lot of what you're describing could be explained by a circulation problem. This suggests there could be a problem with your blood pressure and/or your heart, though your heart rate being normal seems promising. Hopefully the doctor can suss out what the problem is.
I'm pretty sure they would've checked her blood pressure. It could also be a pinched nerve, possibly from sleeping in a weird position or sitting with a bad posture at a computer. Legs problems, however, would be lower back. But often problem in one area of the back lead to problems in other areas due to muscle stiffness. Sometimes the whole mess starts off with a pulled back muscle.
Been getting a lot of those lately. I've found a trick though, of rotating my shoulder blades just right so they get cracking like knuckles, and if I get them to pop enough, it comes out of it.
Well, looks like whatever it was cleared up on its own. I still feel some pressure in my head while driving this morning, but nothing like it was before. Doc gave me some mess for heartburn and that seems to have worked for the chest pains, and my appetite came roaring back
