ok, i can be a bit of a hypochondriac, but it's those damn websites like webmd.com and commercials! "if you have (insert symptom) you might be suffering from heart disease and should talk to your doctor immediately"


*GASP* "OMG, I have that symptom!"








no but on a more serious note...i've been having some weird symptoms and i'm trying not to freak out. i get numbness in my arms and legs and "tingling" feelings. and my limbs fall asleep very easily...i don't even have to be leaning on my arm/leg or sitting weird...just laying down normally and i'll get woken up because my arm is so dead i can't even feel it and i have to like get up and shake it off in the middle of the night.

and about 5 years ago, i had this really weird episode where i got out of bed and my legs were all tingly (NOT asleep, just kinda weak feeling) and i was walking to the bathroom and my legs just completely gave out from underneath me and i fell. i laughed at myself and got up and then it happened again. my legs were like noodles. it was very strange.

anyway that was a long time ago, and since then i haven't had any real bad episodes until last weekend. i was driving home late at night from miami and all of a sudden i got this intense "vibrating" sensation in my left hand, but mostly in my finger tips and it was moving down into my arm too. it was in my other hand too shortly after. it wasn't like falling asleep, but rather like the feeling of blood rushing through my veins really fast...like a vibration feeling and my fingers started to stiffen up and i started to panic a little. i grabbed my phone to call my mom and it was hard for me to even grip my phone and dial the number...my legs were slightly tingling too and i was having trouble pushing on the gas pedal. i just kept shaking my hands out while i was driving and flexing my leg muscles and eventually it calmed down and went away by the time i got home.


my mom is scared that i have MS and then i was talking to the lady i work with about it, and i was telling her what happened and then i told her that my mom mentioned MS and she was like, "well yea, i didn't want to scare you, but i have MS and i had all those symptoms too"



she said that i shouldn't freak out, but that i definitely shouldn't rule it out and that i should have it checked. so i'm gonna have an MRI of my brain done and see what's up.


i wonder what they'll find!

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Originally posted by notelfreak man i can't believe i tried to come off as responsible in that other thread, i am so full of shit just don't tell anyone

so now women are blaming their bad driving skills on MS? poor bill gates.

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Originally posted by lucid pro tip: if you value your life, NEVER do anything that will place you "outside" of the jonze circle of trust.

shush!

i can drive better than you...

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Originally posted by notelfreak man i can't believe i tried to come off as responsible in that other thread, i am so full of shit just don't tell anyone

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Originally posted by Slylee shush! i can drive better than you...

I really hope you are ok, that sounds like a shitty thing to have.. from what the west wing taught me about it.. i hope u never become president and lie about having it.. that would be tre shitty.

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We had a guest lecture about heart diseases at Uni this monday. He was a chief surgeon and he said the amount of time and place some heart diseases get in the media is nowhere proportional to the risk of having one of those. Like when your you have a "hidden" heart failure and die on the soccer field. It's not gonna happen to you (these things to go unnoticed is not very likely).

What will happen is that about 50% of the people will die of heart failure of another kind; stroke caused by smoking, bad health, bad food and not enough exercise.

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yea well i have that weird "cardiac arrhythmia" thing too...like all of a sudden my heart will skip a beat or "flutter" and then beat super fast for like 5 seconds to catch up and i get lightheaded...it's not a panic attack, because it happens when i'm like totally relaxed watching tv or something...and it's more of a physical thing than a mental thing.

it's weird. but i know that's kind of normal...i mean a lot of people have it and it's not a real threat...maybe when i'm old it will be...


all the BS in the media is because of the pharmaceutical companies i'm sure..

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Originally posted by notelfreak man i can't believe i tried to come off as responsible in that other thread, i am so full of shit just don't tell anyone

maybe you have Carpal Tunnel?

but jokes aside, i hope ur ok

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Originally posted by igottaknow maybe you have Carpal Tunnel?

yea i thought that too, but it's in my legs also...do ur legs get affected in cts?

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Originally posted by notelfreak man i can't believe i tried to come off as responsible in that other thread, i am so full of shit just don't tell anyone

if you have sex, you could have aids.

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Originally posted by Slylee yea i thought that too, but it's in my legs also...do ur legs get affected in cts?

no, could be a circulation thing but ur best off goin to a doc instead of letting ur imagination run wild

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Originally posted by igottaknow no, could be a circulation thing but ur best off goin to a doc instead of letting ur imagination run wild

yea well my hands and feet are always freezing too..so obviously i have poor circulation...

i don't have health insurance yet cuz i've only been at my job for a month...so my ex is going to arrange for me to have an MRI done but we're not gonna document it or anything like that...just gonna have a radiologist read it and that's it...that way, when i get insurance, nothing will be considered "pre-existing".


i hope moral doesn't read this...

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My soliloquy may be hard for some to swallow, but so is cod liver oil.

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Originally posted by notelfreak man i can't believe i tried to come off as responsible in that other thread, i am so full of shit just don't tell anyone