health scare
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I want to start by saying I'm alright ... but I had my priorites shocked into gear last night with a bit of a scare.
Always think of myself as such a healthy person (ok and a chronic smoker but still) am young fit and have a very physical job. But I found myself in an ambulance on the way to hospital last night with partial paralisis and complete numbness down the right side of my body. Suspected stroke!
Just wanted to share this because I feel, alive, and just so great now that the feeling is starting to come back - even though the best answer the doctors can give me is not much. It's amazing what a fright like that can do to put things in perspective and make you appreciate everything
Always think of myself as such a healthy person (ok and a chronic smoker but still) am young fit and have a very physical job. But I found myself in an ambulance on the way to hospital last night with partial paralisis and complete numbness down the right side of my body. Suspected stroke!
Just wanted to share this because I feel, alive, and just so great now that the feeling is starting to come back - even though the best answer the doctors can give me is not much. It's amazing what a fright like that can do to put things in perspective and make you appreciate everything
I don't mean to offend anyone, a lot of what I say should be taken with a grain of salt... that said for most of you I'm a stranger on a computer on the other side of the world, don't give me that sort of power!
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Try to quit smoking and go vegan
If it is stress related the last thing I'm going to do is quit my good friends the smokes ... and am already strict vegetarian... the vegan thing I just don't get
When you smoke you are keeping the nicotine withdrawal symptoms at bay. Don't confuse this with relieving stress.
There are many healthy ways to relieve stress. I have never heard of stress causing numbness on one side of the body. See your doctor
Have spoken to my sister who is a doctor and she suggests that if it's a stress thing it could just be a very extreme migraine
We are all certainly glad you are ok! What a scare it was I'm sure for you. Get your rest and enjoy the uopcoming holiday. :thumbup:
Stopping smoking is difficult no doubt, but carefully linking the medical consequences to the pattern of abuse has its merits. There are methods to make stopping smoking easier. I have a DVD out. I could pm you and send you a free copy if you are interested
Quitting smoking sounds like a good idea and, as Mark Twain once said, "It's easy. I've done it a hundred times." But seriously, I used to smoke and quitting actually made me feel less stressed in the long run. Try deep breathing too- that always helps- clears out the deep part of your lungs and is good for your brain.
Enough with the 2 cent advice- just get better! Be well, best wishes.
Just quit the smoking...its a bitch but do it....drop a line to black diamond....i'm sure he would have some good words for you
Let me tell you, it was no fun earning this big ole scar running down the middle of my chest....quit while you're young.
A pack a day habit costs around $3000 a year. Think of all the better ways to spend that cash.
Smoking is the number one cause of preventable death. The health care costs of smoking a astronomical.
Dying of emphysema is very stressful. The anxiety associated with breathlessness sheer horror.
If you can not breathe, nothing else matters.
Her doctor told her to quit smoking and find another kind of birth control. The birth control part was easy, the quitting part was hard but she did it. She will turn 50 next year and looks more like 30! (Getting out of a bad marriage helped too.
Get that MRI. You need to know what's going on. Good luck!
Anyway...glad you're ok. Hope you find out exactly what happened soon.