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Wednesday, 21 February 2018

Next Level Paranoia

I don't even know quite how to explain this one.

Well, let's start with how I have been feeling. Yesterday was bad. Really bad. We had a busy and eventful Family Day Weekend, so yesterday was bound to be bad. My head felt like it was in a vice all day and didn't settle down until about 1am. I had pain in my chest, pain in all of my joints, in most of my muscles, exhaustion, pain in my GI tract, and spent the day wanting to vomit and having no real appetite (but eating anyways). That's all pretty normal for me after a busy day or two. But then there were a few other things. When I was doing my stretches or just putting my head between my legs to help my nausea, it felt like water was filling up my nasal cavity - like when you dive into water and it shoots up your nose. Your head fills with pressure and it hurts like hell. But this is every single time I even look down for more than a few seconds.
I figure I just caught a cold or something.
Then going to bed I felt completely feverish (which is rare for me). Some chest pain, horrible sweating fit, feeling hot and clammy all over, and the nausea. The intense nausea.

Alright, so whatever right? I mean, a couple extra random annoyances, from a couple extra busy days. It is just my body trying to fight something (trying to fight itself, really). Plus I did my Berinert injection yesterday and could barely muster up the strength to get out of bed and get to the couch!

But then my mind went nuts - while I was sleeping!! Now I want to preface this by mentioning that I did not do any searches online for any symptoms, I do NOT think my dream is correct, and I am NOT condoning going this far in 'listening to my body'. This is just too weird and random.

I had a dream. More of a nightmare. Most of it doesn't even make sense.
*In my dream, I apparently had some sort of heart monitor. There was a little bar code on a little label on my chest that I was supposed to get looked at every 5 years, but it had been longer than that. I also had a friend who had the SAME monitor, and she called me because she lost her label and asked if I knew her bar code. Somehow I did, and then that reminded me to book an appt to check mine out. So me, Mom, Dad, Ryan, and Dex all went in to the hospital to check it out. The doc took a look at the monitor and noticed that twice a month, I was experiencing "Pleural Effusions", and that we had to keep a closer eye on me for a while. Then Dex ran away and got lost and I woke up in tears.*

Completely random. Frankly I did not even know that I knew there was something called a pleural effusion. When I woke up, I went to Google what it was and spelled it "plural" at first. Of course it has nothing really to do with the heart and I obviously did not have a good understanding of what it was, I likely just heard the term on one of the MANY medical shows that I watch, but I did happen to find out that it can be a side effect of Cosentyx.

Just interesting.

Again let me reiterate that I do not think I have it and this is beyond strange, but it does give me a push to mention my weirder symptoms to my doctor if they persist. I DO have an appointment with my rheumatologist in a couple of weeks to talk about the Cosentyx progress, so it might be a good place to mention any odd symptoms - but only if they continue and are not just my body recuperating from a busy weekend...

Anyways - there is my story of total next level paranoia -> dreaming about pleural effusions and heart monitors while I am not actively thinking about anything medical.

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