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Post by LoveLuckLaughter on Sept 30, 2012 12:32:10 GMT -5
I don't have much reason to complain, but I do intend to lay on the couch for a good bit of the day today. I declare this weekend to be "LazyRoo" a celebration of solace, medication and tranquility.
Post by LoveLuckLaughter on Sept 30, 2012 13:01:12 GMT -5
Also, I think I have a hiatal hernia. I've thought it for years now due to various symptoms, but recently I've started having arrhythmias that correspond directly with eructation. I've run some random ECGs on myself, but have not been able to run one when I am having the "skip a beat" sensation, so they are unchanged from baseline (respiratory sinus arrhythmia). I'm wondering if, since I've maintained this arrhythmia into adulthood, maybe I have a sensitive Vagus nerve anyways and that it is being irritated by the hernia?
I'm going to try to up my Mag and K+ over the next few days to see if that may be the problem. I don't want to go to my Doc because I am a woman, and I have a history of anxiety troubles so I know that they will likely try to blame it on that. But I have caught the arrhythmia via carotid pulse and auscultation. I'm tossing PVC's followed by 4 beats or so that are tachycardic. I then run at about 85 for a few minutes and go back down to my usual resting heart rate in the 60's.
LLL - maybe cut down your caffeine intake as well. It can aggravate hiatal hernia/GERD and also can potentiate PVC's. you don't want to up your Mg and K too much, as you don't want to risk being hypermagnesmic/hyperkalemic.
Perhaps try keeping a diary to correlate your symptoms/phenomena with diet and whatever else might be going on at the moment. You might possibly find a correlation that you don't realize yet. Arrythmias are nothing to play with, though, so you just might have to suck it up and visit a doc if you continue to experience the trouble. Any doctor worth his/her degree should not blame it totally on anxiety. At the least if it continues you may warrant a Holter monitor. Pain in the ass I know, but hey - better than asystole.
Post by LoveLuckLaughter on Sept 30, 2012 14:14:59 GMT -5
I did cut my caffeine. But I was wondering about my diet, I've heard that some people have trouble with tree nuts and gluten that cause these weird symptoms. I'm going to sneak a CMP with a Mg to the lab this weekend to check my lytes. I'm usually on the low end of normal. I'm just going to use diet for the K+ supplementation, some raisins and such.
Yeah, if I can't figure this out on my own I'm going to have to go. My dad has WPW, so I was a little worried about that, but the fact it happens specifically when I have air in my belly made me wonder about a hiatal hernia.
Post by LoveLuckLaughter on Oct 1, 2012 21:46:50 GMT -5
Last night I had a dream that I was collecting walnuts and found a giant black walnut I peeled back the green skin and there was some phrase written on the shell in black sharpie. When it was read allowed it summoned some demons. That woke me up, but I fell right back to sleep and I was being hunted down by some Harley guys after one of their chicks accused me of sleeping with a biker dude and giving him an STD. So they were going to kill me. I hid at an ex-boyfriend's (not a real ex, it was some actor or something) apt in an old church. We, ummm, met up in the bathroom while his wife parked their SUV in the living room.
It's 9am, and my admin assistant is already prepared to go nuclear because he is having to extra work due to a co-worker illness. It's going to be a good day.
Last night I had a dream that I was collecting walnuts and found a giant black walnut I peeled back the green skin and there was some phrase written on the shell in black sharpie. When it was read allowed it summoned some demons. That woke me up, but I fell right back to sleep and I was being hunted down by some Harley guys after one of their chicks accused me of sleeping with a biker dude and giving him an STD. So they were going to kill me. I hid at an ex-boyfriend's (not a real ex, it was some actor or something) apt in an old church. We, ummm, met up in the bathroom while his wife parked their SUV in the living room.
What in the hell?
I have to ask: Do you happen to be taking Chantix? It sounds like all the crazy lucid dreams my friends have gotten when they started taking Chantix. Enjoy the ride, LLL!
Edit: I didn't mean to sound insensitive. Crazy dreams can be quite disruptive, and downright exhausting, so if you are having dreams that are upsetting you, sorry, I feel your pain! I suffered for years from bad sleep due to vivid dreaming. I switched my hormone pills and they all went away (for the most part).
Post by LoveLuckLaughter on Oct 2, 2012 10:08:55 GMT -5
Hahaha! No, no Chantix. I'm just a weird dreamer. I've beaten people in bed with me thinking they had spiders on them. I jump clean out of the bed sometimes and don't fully awaken until I've already opened the bedroom door, running from midget spirits at my bedside. I just don't usually go around giving people STDs.
Hahaha! No, no Chantix. I'm just a weird dreamer. I've beaten people in bed with me thinking they had spiders on them. I jump clean out of the bed sometimes and don't fully awaken until I've already opened the bedroom door, running from midget spirits at my bedside. I just don't usually go around giving people STDs.
I go through periods of this. I once woke up in the middle of the night and walked down the hall to tell Josh that there were rats in our bedroom floor. It took him several minutes to wake me up enough to realize I'd been dreaming. Another time I woke him up because I thought there was a "fish pig" in our bed.
Hahaha! No, no Chantix. I'm just a weird dreamer. I've beaten people in bed with me thinking they had spiders on them. I jump clean out of the bed sometimes and don't fully awaken until I've already opened the bedroom door, running from midget spirits at my bedside. I just don't usually go around giving people STDs.
I go through periods of this. I once woke up in the middle of the night and walked down the hall to tell Josh that there were rats in our bedroom floor. It took him several minutes to wake me up enough to realize I'd been dreaming. Another time I woke him up because I thought there was a "fish pig" in our bed.
I experienced this in my last "co-habitating" relationship. It was funny because I would get really annoyed when he didn't understand whatever it was I was babbling about, and then I'd get even more annoyed when he would laugh. I didn't remember any of it upon waking up, of course, but he'd give me a run-down the next morning and we'd have a good laugh about it.
It does make me wonder if I still do these things...
