What started out on Feb 4th (sat) with a trip to pick up hardwood flooring ended up with 3 hospital visits and finally discharged this past friday night.
Started out going to pick up flooring for house. Only had to get 1,000 ft but I overdid it as me and one other guy loaded it by hand in about 10 or 15 min. This elevated my heart rate quite a bit, too much, and it hurt a little and made me feel funny. Took it home and me son helped me unload it. He did the majority of it as I took it easy. I was zapped after and just went home to rest. When I went home I developed a lot of stomach trouble with severe indigestion and heartburn. I fought with that the rest of sat and sun and went to work monday. Went to doc after lunch and mt heart rate was in the 50's which is low for me considering i just walked in and sit down. Anyway went home and stayed home tues and that afternoon it dropped into the 30's. I felt bad so my wife took me to the emergency room. They didnt find anything and got my rate up and I went home. Wed morn I went to my cardiologist. I passed out in his office and was then sent to the hospital. It is kind of unnerving to pass out and wake up to find your cardiologist doing chest compressions on you. My poor wife was scared to death. Stayed in the hospital until thursday afternoon. Didn't find anything although he thought he knew what the problem was. Sent me to memphis for a test where they induced another pass out episode. I wont lie this whole thing scared the heck out of me.
What they found was that my blood pressure dropped and caused me to pass out. I am now on meds to prevent that.
Basically there is nothing wrong with me except I had a pass out episode due to a little thing called the vegas nerve. It was the same thing that happens to people who passout at weddings or before a big speech, etc. Basically I strained myself on sat which also developed indigestion issues put pressure on my diaphragm, which slowed my heart rate which caused my blood pressure to drop which made me pass out which scared me which stimulated that nerve and so and so on.
Anyway I am still at home trying to get all my systems straightened out so I can get back to work. Got a little better yesterday and hoping to get better today and so on. As usual I never do things the easy way. I couldn't just faint and recover..NOOO! I had to go through all this.
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