Well, for those of you who were getting the play-by-play in chat as I was suffering heart arrhythmia on Thursday night...

The scary beating was over in the first five to ten minutes, but I kept having occasional palpitations in increasing time intervals for another couple hours.

The EMT's, two of whom were giant black men, felt awkward as they shaved portions of my chest and legs to attach electrodes, but they saw an odd enough beat to tell me to go to the hospital. They also didn't like that I had a 180/ 90 blood pressure.

The hospital asked me about drugs a few dozen times (cocaine, crack, caffeine, sugar, caffeine or energy drinks?), to which the answer remained "no". After a few hours, the first blood test came back with "indeterminate values", so they held me overnight for observation.

My systolic blood pressure was staying around 160 to 170, even after the palpitations had mostly stopped, so they IV'd me some Hydralazine and it dropped down to normal.

The next morning the next blood samples came back as negative, and I didn't have any more episodes over night (apparently me flatlining a dozen times as the electrodes fell off wasn't noteworthy). They stress tested me up to 210 BPM on a tread mill and didn't see anything abnormal, so I laid in bed for another 4 hours waiting for a doctor to prescribe me... Xanax...

So the final diagnosis was psychosomatic heart arrhythmia and elevated blood pressure. The cute nurse named Lisa with the pretty eyes told me that I needed to get a shrink and find a girlfriend.

 

Damn.......glad to here ya made it thru

get the girlfriend bud

 

Glad to hear all is ok, I knew it was an anxiety attack.

 

Dang man that sucks glad your ok

A shrink and a girl..... Good luck man

 

It's a funny time to have an anxiety attack. After being frustrated for years in school, spending years in obsessive limerent fantasies, praying for death every night for months and spending weeks having a broken truck with undiagnosable problems... I have an anxiety attack after I eat dinner one night and sit down in front of my computer? That's lame.

 

thats is lame, but your alright

now find yourself a lady.

 

Did you get her ph#???

 

god your a wuss, take some aspirin and STFU!!!!!........




























just jokin.....glad to see your still alive....unfortunately....

 

how's that for crappy timing?! I've had some pretty amazingly ridiculous things happen to me, yet I get overwhelmed at some of the more calm times. well, glad you hear you're still alive, I guess; there's gotta be someone on this board that'd miss you...

and yeah, go see a few different shrinks, it's probably going to take seeing more than one to find someone that's helpful...that's been my experience. a good one is pretty dang helpful!

 

Most people take a couple days for their body to actually feel the stress the mind is under. Usually anxiety (stress) attacks happen after your mind has slowed on mental stress for a few days.