Going to try to see my doc again and get referred to a cardiologist, because something is very wrong. “Oh, here he goes again about his next problem.” The thing with my heart is that at the ages of 16 and 19 (first episode occurring at 12), I’ve had this problem, but it seemed to go away with a good, strict diet, and careful exercise.
Basically, when I was 12 I was playing outside, hit my thumb on a bar while swinging (the thumb was fine), but felt very weak, dizzy, and almost passed out. Laid down for 20-30 mins and it went away.
At 16, after gym class one day, I am extremely short of breath. Spent the entire lunch hour just trying to catch up on my breath. Also felt kind of weak, but just had to focus on my breathing. In the following weeks, would spit up actual blood (came from my throat, not my nose). Chest felt tight, shortness of breath would come and go. Eventually went away after a couple months.
19 years old, at the gym. Lifted too much weight, felt weak, felt like fainting, was pale (dad was with me and saw I was pale), chest felt tight. Over the next month, had tight chest, some shortness of breath. Felt like someone was squeezing my chest. Went to ER four times, did bloodwork, ekg, all normal. Went away after 1 month, was eating little and lost 20 lbs (went from 180 to 160 at 5’8”).
Now to this year, 26 years old. In Feb, wake up nauseous, sit up and feel extremely nauseous. Get up and go downstairs, feeling weaker by the second. Sweating, weak, so close to fainting (idk how I didn’t faint). Very pale according to my parents. Somehow got through it, went to er. Took my blood pressure -1hour after incident, was 140 over 89. Eventually went down to normal after a few hrs. Blood work, ekg all normal. Since Feb, have had dozens of nauseous episodes, sometimes feeling weak and faint, but only at night. Have to sit up and calm myself down. Now today, during the day, sitting at my computer, start to feel the symptoms, again have to try to fight through it.
Basically, I think I have a heart problem. Specifically, heart failure cause by something unknown. So maybe I’m just a weak person and this is why fin caused me problems, I just don’t have a good and healthy enough body to resist it’s negative effects or heal from them (not saying this is true for everyone, just possibly me). I’ll have to see a cardiologist, but if my doc won’t help me (I’m in Canada so I can’t just get whatever tests I want, have to be referred), then I well just spend all of my savings and go to the mayo clinic. I don’t care if I go bankrupt, I absolutely cannot live like this, wondering if I’ll have an episode and faint at anytime. It’s bad enough at night, but if it’s anytime, then there is something seriously wrong and it needs to be diagnosed. I cannot live like this.
Thanks for reading if you did.
Edit: just want to be clear I’ve never actually fainted, but I’ve come close a few times (all of the episodes in my life except the one at 12 are this year). Specifically, the incident in feb of this year, I actually phoned home as I was sitting on the couch because I was bracing for fainting and wanted my parents to know ( I was way too weak to talk, could barely muster out “help”). I did this so they would know I’m probably having a heart attack and call 911.