Unrelated, so far as I know. I’ve got a heart condition called mitral valve prolapse, and it’s acting up right now.
My heartbeat is fast, shallow and erratic. Probably close to 120 bpm, but it’s hard to tell. It’s making me a bit light-headed, and I feel hot. This has happened before. It’ll go away on it’s own in a few minutes.
I’ve also got a catch in my lung or something. It’s on my right side (usually it comes on the left). It hurts if I breathe too deeply, or bend over. It’ll go away too, very suddenly. I’ll bend, expecting it to hurt, and it won’t.
This has got me thinking of my reaction to pain. As you can tell, I tend to see it as just another sensation. One which is unpleasant surely, but really, if you concentrate on it and look at it for what it really is, it’s not nearly so bad as it seems.
Ah. My heart is back to normal. A regular, strong heartbeat is something you just stop noticing until it goes away or comes back.
How do you react to pain? Can you stand it? Does it bother you?
Are you sure it’s unrelated? Have you discussed it with the doctor? It doesn’t sound good to me. You take care of yourself, please.
Pain, hmm I don’t know. I’ve given birth three times and though two were with epidurals, my natural birth was the least painful in the long run. So I tend to think of it a little differently than I used to – 15 minutes of intense pain (My husband: “Gee, now I know what a primal scream sounds like.”) or a lot of other pain that lasts a long time. I know that this doesn’t happen in the case of every epidural, but one of mine was botched and I got an unbearable spinal headache. I won’t run the risk of that happening again, because what does happen is very scary… you lose spinal fluid. I don’t think enough information is out there on the risks of epidurals. Everyone just hollers that they want one.
Whew, I didn’t think I’d be talking about that tonight!
I am not a doctor, I just play one on a message board… but that “catch” sounds to me like possibly pleurisy. Which, if you have a heart thing, and the heart is close to the lungs, inside the plueral sac, could be related but not, if that makes sense?
Never mind. I re-read that and it’s apparent I haven’t got a clue what I am talking about. But do take care, OK? I hope you feel better soon.
I seem to tolerate pain better than average, or perhaps I don’t feel it quite so intensely as others. Which is a good thing, since I have bad reactions to painkillers: percodan makes me throw up, NO[sub]2[/sub] causes dizzy spells for years afterward, and on vicodan I start forgetting to breathe.
I was on Tylenol the day after my wisdom teeth were removed and eating steak a week later.
“I’ve also got a catch in my lung or something. It’s on my right side (usually it comes on the left). It
hurts if I breathe too deeply”
Could be pericarditis, inflammation of the external heart membrane. Take some ifobrufen, it handles inflammation. Course then Im not a doc either but hey, thats what the doc told me.