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Shinare
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Joined: 17 Mar 2004
Posts: 13332
Location: Up your butt with a coconut!!
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(sorry for tl;dr if so, just want to relate my experience in case it helps anyone else)
OK, so I didnt want to say anything before I went to the doctor and had it checked out but last Wednesday I thought I may have had a minor heart attack. Like for real. While driving my car I felt a pain like hundreds of needles being forced through the skin down into the muscle below on my chest and radiating down my arm, like rolling a roller with hundreds of needles on it rolling across my right chest and down my right arm. It only did it 4 successive "pulses" quickly, across my chest and down my arm. It wasn't just a "tingly" feeling but rather a real pain like a needle being forced through the skin into the muscle, only hundreds of them. Then, immediately following and to this day there has been a dull pain in my chest and down my arm on the right side. It seriously freaked me out and I just about drove myself to the ER.
Well, I figured since I had a Dr. appointment already scheduled for a hip injury I have somehow gotten I would hold off going to the ER (since I can't afford my stupid co-pay I know it sounds idiotic). Anyway, I think if I didn't have the appointment I would have gone to the ER, it was pretty scarey and its been one of the worst weekends of worrying I have had in a while.
Well, I saw the doctor today and he seems to think it was a spasm that pinched a nerve which caused the initial "pin pricks" and it damaged the nerve which is why it hurts in my chest and down my right arm still even to today. He said if it was the heart it would be the LEFT side and I'm not the 1 in a million that has their insides backwards like a mirror. Also, it wouldn't feel like hundreds of pin pricks but an acute pain in chest, LEFT arm, shoulder, and/or jaw (any of those).
So, all-in-all good news. The nerve, if it heals, will take a long time. X-rays were taken of the hip in case its more sevear and may need attention. But minor hip injuries also take a LONG time to heal since weather you think it does or not, whatever you are doing is involving your hip. _________________ For with what measure you measure it will be measured to you.
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Mon Jan 05, 2015 3:18 pm
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