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ZeroX91 posted...

120/60 usually....not sure if that is good or not

It's right smack in the "ideal zone". Not high and not low. Congrats!

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Mistere Man posted...

190/130 sometimes higher.

Holy crap. Have you ever had problems from it?

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I average about 110/70, but I've seen readings as low as 94/60 and as high as 135/85 on my home monitor.

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Try sleeping with two pillows instead of one, and angle them slightly on the bed so that you're not lying down with your head and body completely horizontal.

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Are you obese? That's the main risk factor for Sleep Apnea, along with snoring and older age. Only a sleep study can make a definitive diagnosis though.

Also, it could be Sleep Paralysis, which is not serious at all, but it just feels scary.

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So I was doing some reading about water and salt balance, kidney function, etc, and I have a few questions for those who have knowledge on the subject, since I've read some conflicting literature.

1. When you drink, say, 1 liter of water in a 24h hour period. Does that mean that you will excrete via urine exactly 1 liter? Or is that water going to be excreted via other forms as well? Sweating, breathing, temperature regulation, etc?

2. I've heard that if you eat a high sodium diet, your body will retain water. Does that mean that water is taken from what vou would normally excrete via urine and distributed along the body to balance the extra sodium consumed? In other words, does this "water retention" make you urinate LESS in a day, since water is being kept in the body instead of excreted via urine?

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So normally I've always been able to feel my heartbeat very easily, like a pounding beat. I do suffer from anxiety and panic disorder. Point is, every time I put my hand to my chest, I could easily feel my heartbeat. Even count the beats.

This changed out of nowhere like 3 days ago. Now I put my hand to my chest and feel nothing. I can only feel my pulse through my wrists and neck now, and can only feel it in my chest if it starts beating extremely fast. Then when it goes back to normal rhythm, I once again feel the "emptiness" in my chest, where before I felt an active beat.

I had a cardiologist appointment just today, she did a EKG, listened to my heart and said all was normal and didn't have anything to worry about.

Anyone else have this? It feels so strange after being so accostumed to having a "bounding" pulse.

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I don't have any neurological symptoms. Just generalized muscle aches.

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Reason I'm asking is because I'm worried about some muscle pains I'm feeling for a few weeks now. They're mostly located in the traps area, in the upper back and it radiates to my lower back.

I also have pains in both arms, and find that they're tender to the touch sometimes. Also my right leg (but not the left one) has periods of pain.

And yes, I've been to the ER a few times, but they just did cardiac and pulmonary tests to rule out heart attacks and such. But now I've been reading about autoimmune diseases and got pretty worried.

So if anyone here has any experience, how are the symptoms like?

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Generic corporate funded, platitude generator #25394

Yawn

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In the novel, his thoughts in the moment are described as being basically in shock, trying to rationalize how how it all happened, and at the very last moment realizing he was a fool for not realizing (Anakin was young, Dooku too old) it and just accepting his fate.

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MrPeppers posted...

Could be a few things, maybe cardiac but could also be respiratory, musculoskeletal, neurological, psychiatric. I havent read through the topic but Im basing it off your first post.

I feel muscular pains pretty much all over my thorax, on and off, but my back is pretty much always sore. Sometimes on my arms and shoulders. The chest is actually where it least hurts. I also get some lower back pains.

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I'm still not at ease. Everybody thinks I'm crazy for worrying so much about angina

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I managed to get an urgent pych appointment yesterday. He started me on some benzos and anti-depressant meds

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Abiz_ posted...

Did you get your gallbladder checked? I know I had similar pains and the doctor explained it was because of stones.

Nah. So far I had EKG, Blood test for Troponin levels, and x rays in the chest and lower regions. Last year head an echocardiogram, which I don't know if the diagnostic relevance stills holds up today. All tests were normal.

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EndOfDiscOne posted...

Why have you not seen a psychologist or psychiatrist yet

I made an appointment, but it's only in March. It was the earliest they could give me.

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Jesus, this is consuming me. Every single day now I feel symptoms. Just called the ambulance again because I was feeling some shoulder, arm, chest pain. They examined my vital signs and said everything was normal.

I can't live like this anymore. I cannot shake the feeling that it is cardiac/angina related and the tests just didn't detect it. This is consuming my every thought.

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I live in Tropical like a lot of you guys want, but trust me: not that great in the long haul. The year round heat gets old fast.

I miss living in Georgia's Temperate climate. Hot, rainy summer, cold winter, but not enough to be unbearable. A good amount of variation all around.

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Melting Brain Biden so desperate at this point. Watching his campaign fall apart the way it did was so satisfying. Gotta admit I'll kind of miss the bizarre brain farts and dementia ridden rants though.

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EndOfDiscOne posted...

Does ER mean something different in your country than it does in America? Here you would go to urgent care or schedule an appointment with a doctor.

Yeah, it would be urgent care, I guess. For medical emergencies and such. Here in Brazil we call it Emergncia, so I fugured ER was an appropriate translation idk

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mustachedmystic posted...

Why do you keep going to the ER?

Because when a particular symptom really acts up, I'm deathly afraid it's something fatal or some disease that the doctors hasn't picked up yet. I go into panic mode and just want to know I'm not dying.

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Explain

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Update: I'm getting muscle aches all over, that migrate, come and go. One more ER visit and one more anxiety diagnosis. My body feels like it's been beat up in a fight or went through an intense weight lifting session.

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Bump.

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I'm so scared. I thought it was something that everyone had. I had a physical exam today about it, the doctor felt my stomach, but I'm still nervous

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Anyone else?

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uwnim posted...

See? Um, no. That would be really, really bad news.

Is it really though? Went to my doctor today and he said it's normal. Even did a physical exam to check for aneurysm.

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Bump

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Especially while lying down.

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I'm beggining to think this could really be an injury in my upper back due to my horrible slouching posture. I started to notice that the pain originates in the upper back and radiates across the rest of my thorax and arms. It gets a little worse when I stand and feels better when I'm completely lying down. I'm also feeling it in my lower back now.

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Today, with my girlfriend

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I disagree. Many just had a crap education, both from family and overly religious school districts, for example, which contributed to their ultra conservative views. In this way, the individual Trump MAGA voter is not the problem, he's merely a symptom of the real problem.

Also, in 2016, especially in those crucial midwestern states which made Hillary lose, Trump actually spoke about their job anxieties. Remember that the rust belt suffered greatly from outsourcing and many industry workers were laid off. Meanwhile, Wall Street Hillary thought she could coast by those states basically just spewing platitudes like "Big meany orange man. Vote for me, I have a vagina". While her policy positions were gross incrementalist centrist garbage, which would further screw the working class

This "all Trump supporters are bigots" nonsense is part of why liberals live in a damn bubble and have no f***** clue as to how to even address working class struggles. All they see is identity politics and woke/cancel culture. Meanwhile, families are trying to put food on the table, they don't give a s*** about that.

And before the flaming starts, I hate Trump, and he's ideologically the exact opposite of me (populist left).

Point is: yeah, Trump is a megalomaniacal cretin who should never have been in the White House. But the reason this carecature of a game show host is even there in the first place is because the democratic establishment are absolutely corrupted and bought by corporate interests. You're a fool if you believe these cretins give a damn about the struggles of the proletariat.

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Mayo Pete flubbing on basic spanish is pretty hot now on twitter. Wasn't this guy supposed to be fluent in like eight languages? Total fraud.

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mustachedmystic posted...

As someone who really does have heart disease, this is appropriation. Seriously though, if they haven't found anything, then your symptoms must be psychosomatic.

Sorry, I didn't get what you meant by appropriation. English isn't my first language.

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I'm thinking it might be poor posture mixed with anxiety

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If any of these centrist corporate stooges win the nomination, Trump will steamroll them. Progressives won't turn up and independents just aren't excited by incrementalism. The way to win against Trump is with a strong populist message of systemic change. The only candidate who offers this is Bernie Sanders.

Also the DNC is a massively corrupted and bought institution and people are catching on.

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Hi, I'm new to discussing politics on CE, and would like to partake in this discourse.

I consider myself a leftist and support Bernie. I don't consider Warren to be this progressive Champion that many people claim. Her base is infested with identity politics nuts and she waffles on the big issues.

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Seriously, this is one of the laziest smear talking points used to discredit Sanders. All it takes is some basic school level history knowledge to know that his policy proposals don't have any marxist communist base behind them.

Pretty much all of Europe, especially the nordic countries, use Sanders' welfare state policies, and they are all capitalist countries.. I cringe that there are literally jornalists being paid to spew this nonsense about him being some kind of soviet agent or something. It's nuts.

Here in Brazil we have actual communist and socialist parties and politicians, who would actually consider Sanders a liberal and imperialist, believe it or not. I swear, Red Scare politics made it that americans couldn't tell what communism is if it bit them in the ass. In the rest of the world, Bernie is center-left best.

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I'm not a Gabbard supporter, but lol at people who actually think she's alt right, russian asset, GOP plant or whatever drivel mainstream media and establishment democrats keeps spewing up.

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1. Sanders
2. Gabbard

The rest are equally garbage centrist corporate tools

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The political undertone is amazing and so on point.

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Come and feel the Bern. Totally respect not going for the other centrist corporate tools though.

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Colorahdo posted...

I've treated dozens of angina patients and none of them had normal blood pressure and no history of heart disease

This actually made me feel a bit better, thanks. Yesterday was the last time I went to the E.R because I felt a sharp pain on my left shoulder, which then irradiated to my chest and upper back. I was at the movies with my girlfriend and had to leave in the middle of the session because I was so scared. Ended up in the hospital doing another EKG and getting yet another anxiety diagnosis.

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LordFarquad1312 posted...

Does the pain or discomfort go away when you burp?

I'm not burping too much. Doesn't seem to be acid reflux related.

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Romulox28 posted...

if you are having a cardiac event it will be sudden, it's not some building discomfort over the course of a few days.

i had a similar episode last year, i was about your age, had chest discomfort and thought it might be a heart attack or something (i have a family history of heart attacks). went to the dr, got an EKG and all that, turned out to be nothing. heart issues at your age are very rare and you had all the tests to confirm you're fine.

try and relax, stop drinking/smoking weed if you do that, take some time off work.

My worry is angina. From what I've read, when you're developing heart disease, your blood has a hard time circulating to your heart, and that can cause pains around the chest/backs/shoulders/arms. In many cases this precedes a heart attack. So I'm worried sick about that.


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