I’ve had some of this, like anxiety and chest pain, weight gain.
I was having a rough marriage and was having chestpain with it. I didn’t connect the 2.
I went to the hear doctor say or 6 times during some 10+ years we’ll say.
I would do the treatmill, the EKG, and they would say, nothing is wrong with your heart. I would come home to my wife (the source of the problem, we’ll say) and say to her, “They said nothing’s wrong with my heart.”
After the 3r or 4th visit, I would change my statement to, “Nothing’s wrong with my heart, but they never said why I’m having chest pain.”
Ironically, the person I was telling this to, my wife, was the cause of my chest pain, we’ll just say, but I never connected the two.
The bad marriage had been going on so long, we’ll say 20 years, that that was just part of my life, a part that I would overlook when I would have chest pain.
After my marriage stopped, when my wife passed away from a long illness 7 years ago, the chest pain virtually stopped. I am now an expert on anxiety, stress and chest pain. The two are often connected, from my experiences.
It’s like when you have stress, it goes inside of you and has to come out somewhere. Maybe it comes out in your brain, with anxiety, etc. Maybe it comes out in your body like chest pain, or in some other way. It has to come out in some form, we’ll say.
Mine was coming out through chest pain and some anxiety. I had a number of anxiety attacks (but when they gave me Lithium for the Bipolar that I have, they stopped). I also take Mirtazapine for depression, so I know anxiety which there is some of with my Bipolar.
But mainly, my stress from the marriage came out in chest pain.
You said you had a wife and 3 children. That’s some stress right there. Are you getting disability?
Your and mine b/p readings are similar.
I gained weight through a health problem isolation, and I gained weight from being about
6 feet tall and weighing 160 to almost 210 by eating to make up for the lack of no exercise and lack of socialization.
I also now have diabetes from the overweight. You’re closer to diabetes than you realize, from my experience. Once you get it, you basically don’t get rid of it, from my experience. You’re on the good side of diabetes now, so you need to realize how close you are to that, in my experience.
You said, “I just don't understand how after 34 years ever never having anxiety how it can pop it's ugly head out….”
At 35, you are at the age, as a doctor told me many years ago, you are approaching the age (when things can happen). In your case, anxiety, diabetes since you are overweight can be getting close.
You are worrying about
things in your recent past (anxiety) when there are possible things heading your way in the future that you also need to be paying attention to, in my view.
You said, “Now I am 35 male 5"10 251lbs ( I know well over weight) but have lost 36lbs so far.” I’m wondering, where did the weight come from? Mine came from lack of socialization and isolation.
I just saw this part, “But 7 years ago I was in a bad accident and haven't worked since then because of my back and neck and gained a lot of weight.” So your situation is like mine with the weight gain.
You also said “Anyway, In September of 2016 I was working around the house when all of a sudden I had this weird feeling come over my entire body head to toe. It went away right away. So didn't think much of it. Well then I started to get chest pain on left side along with left shoulder pain.”
One of the key things you said there was, “walking around the house.” I know what isolation is like. I know it can cause health problems. Your body and mind, like mine, are probably begging you to get out.
Softball is great. You can also volunteer at a hospital, senior citizens home, walking dogs at the kennel, and other places. This from a person who all he does is walk his dog once a day. I know, it doesn’t make any sense. I also have a health problem that basically prevents me from doing that, but I do advise others who can get out.
You’ve never had these problems before, but, again, you’re reaching the age of these things. I think you need to start figuring out alternative solutions at 35, to problems to problems you didn’t have at 25.
Your problem solving skills are going to come into play. One of the things that I have found helpful is trying to be positive when trying to solve these and other problems. The way you solve these problems are the way you solve all problems. I have tried to learn that I need to think positive before trying to solve my next problem.
“One problem at a time, and be positive about
that problem.”
And, “The person you have to defeat is the person you have to look at in the mirror in the morning.”
Also, by being in the house all day, your psychic energy is going inwards. By getting out, the energy flow can reverse and go out towards others. And it can make a huge difference.
One of the differences between you and I is that I’m not thinking about
my problems right now, I’m thinking about
yours. But I have as many problems as you do, I’m just not thinking about
them right now.
If you can get out to a hospital or senior citizens home or a dog pound and walk a dog, your mind will reverse from thinking about
your naval to thinking about
that dog.
For the past 45 minutes I know for a fact that I’ve been helping someone. Guess who? Me.
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Mayoclinic.org said about
irregular heart beat:
Many things can lead to, or cause, an arrhythmia, including:
• Blocked arteries in your heart (coronary artery disease)
• High blood pressure
• Smoking
• Drinking too much alcohol or caffeine
• Drug abuse
• Stress
• Diabetes
• Genetics
If you have an arrhythmia, treatment may or may not be necessary. Usually, it's required only if the arrhythmia is causing significant symptoms or if it's putting you at risk of a more serious arrhythmia or arrhythmia complication
Post Edited (Tim Tam) : 12/31/2016 11:52:05 AM (GMT-7)