Had A Real Life Realization/Wake Up Call

[CottonMouth]

LOL, whatever you say....

Thinking that every single person who has ever smoked weed is a "do-nothing, self-absorbed, full of denial pothead" makes about as much sense as saying all black people steal or that all Mexicans cut grass. It's completely stupid and shows just how close-minded you are.

Being a dope head at one time doesn't make you a dope head forever, no more than taking a shower makes you permanently wet. Pot smokers are all - yes, all - self absorbed and lazy, and likely very unhappy with life or some portion of it. That's a generalization that holds.

Just as black people are black and mexicans are mexican. The rest of your half-baked analogy is as well connected to my statement as...Well, I don't want to tax you further.

There are plenty of people who smoke that are highly successful, productive with their time, and give back to those in need. That doesn't sound like a do-nothing, self-absorbed person to me.

Sure there are - typically in low intelligence professions like "starving" artists, actors, or musicians. Successful type A personalities prefer to be in constant control of themselves and their employees. One cannot be stoned and keep up the facade of full self control for the years it takes to build a successful business empire.

Another reason you sound like an idiot is because I've already expressed that I don't even smoke anymore, so why would I be defending it? It's not like I'm trying to justify what I'm doing or have some motive to defend people that smoke weed.

And yet...here you are doing exactly that.

Your response was disjointed and unnecessary. The point that doing drugs is often overlooked by "casual" users as a cause of medical concern is still valid.

Sometimes it just takes someone else pointing it out to bring it to light amid the haze.

Congrats on giving up the habit. I'm sure you're a healthier and more productive person for it. The next step is telling others of the pitfalls you encountered and letting them learn from your experience.

 

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[coreygeer]

Anyways... enough with the pot talk.

3/12 - Saturday Morning: Well if this shit wasn't scary.
I went to another ER because the chest numbness/palpitations were getting kind of frequent. Well of course.. nothing shows up on blood tests/EKG so the doctor left the room and said he'd go get my discharge information.

The second he left, my heart out of nowhere spiked up to 140 BPM (Tachycardia). They caught it on their pulse monitor printed it out and all the doctor said was "Wow.. that's really weird.." then tried to shove medicine on me.. big surprise there, doctors just force medicine on you.

I researched the pills/their side effects/uses before I took it (yeah.. I don't trust the majority of doctors. I usually trust specialists). One hour later, I was getting brutally sharp stabbing pains in the left side of my chest and my discharge instructions said that after I took Lopressur I was getting stabbing pains, then go right back to the ER.

So this time.. instead of going to some worthless small town Hospital, I went to OSU Medical Center. They got me in really quick, I talked to a doctor who recommended I be observed overnight, they even did an Echo and did every test in the book. I'm just amazed at the difference in care+professionalism I saw between the different hospitals.. Hospitals in big cities=Yes.. Hospitals in small towns=If you can live long enough to make it to a big city.. I really really advise you to do so.

Of course though, they have no idea what's wrong with me and recommended to a cardiologist I have to call later this morning (in 4 hours)

A Tachycardia isn't nearly as severe as I thought it was but that shit is intensely terrifying when it happens to you and you have no idea what it is. You're just sitting there and you're heart jumps up to 140 BPM while resting.

As for anything IM related: Been kind of pre-occupied getting this figured out.

Hopefully that update distracts some of the arguments about the pot.

 

[brent360]

I originally started writing a reply to your thread, coreygeer, but I decided to make an entirely new thread. You can view it here. Maybe I'm not offering any new insight to you, but I do hope what I have to say helps someone in some way.

 

[KHMNTCPR8]

I remember seeing coreygeer back in the day. Do you remember ever seeing this turtle avatar? Prolly not I mostly a lurker, actually been lurking since 2006 then decided to actually sign up in 2007.

 

[zalpriest]

Welcome back and good luck man there are so many resources on this site to utilize

 

[wunzzz]

It's great to hear you're planning to change your life around! And I think bhw will help you in your journey

 

[losille]

Sorry to hear you can't get your health problems sorted out. That can be very frustrating. Hopefully, it come to a conclusion or the doctors will figure it out.

It sounds like you are really getting yourself together. I haven't been on the forum long. The people here have been very helpful and I learned some excellent tips.

About this cure for WOW. Now that is something you could make money with!

Be careful though, Blizzard is deep and wide. Strange looking creatures could show up at your door promising to give you special powers and put you in the next expansion. Bwahaha, then devour your loved ones!

 

[coreygeer]

Time for a quick update:

Haven't been really focusing on anything IM related.

The other night, I had 3 Tachycardias in a row while I was sitting there watching the Roast of Donald Trump. Maybe it was because of how bad the Situation bombed.. seriously though. I did go to the ER again because, one that went away after a few minutes wasn't a problem.. but when they kept happening it was a little concerning, but to my surprise *sarcasm* all the doctor said was "Yeah you'll have to talk to a Cardiologist" and "nothing showed up on the EKG, no further tests are necessary." I love small towns...

Well last night, just walking up the stairs set off a Tachycardia and all day today I feel like a zombie and like I can barely support my weight up. I'm 22 years old, if four years ago you told me I was going to have these kinds of problems, I would've laughed at you. Guess you never know what'll happen.

So my plan for tomorrow is to go to the Cleveland Clinic, which if you don't know is the #1 heart clinic in the US. I'm not sure where it stands as in World Rankings, but it has some of the best tech and the best doctors when it comes to Cardiovascular.

My advice to anyone: If you ever have any health problems.. do NOT DO NOT dick around with small budget hospitals with a bunch of 2-3 year incompetent ER doctors and bitchy nurses.

View: http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/rankings

Find the closest best hospital near you and go there.. I thought highly of all doctors until I started having these symptoms, I never realized how truly careless and incompetent some doctors are.. they'll try to push meds on you and make up random diseases or what it "could be" without offering insight or offering to do any more testing. Don't fuck around when it comes to your health.. go to the best.

I'll give another update when I get answers.

 

[championrain]

Hello Corey, sorry to hear about your health mystery and experiences with the doctors. Like you I don't trust them as well. I was very stubborn and took some time to see the doctor and had similar symptoms with the spasms, headaches and dizziness. The weird, almost internal rumbling vibration in the chest too.

When I finally went, I was experiencing numbness in my right foot. I was ultimately diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. an a1c of 14 and immediately put on meds. Like you I was drinking a ton of soda, mountain dew in my case. I noticed that you mentioned that you "drink like 15 cokes a day". Just curious, have you gotten your blood sugar tested? I was actually diagnosed about 3 weeks ago, (34 years old), since then dizziness has went away and there have only been a couple of nights that I have experienced light anxiety. Hopefully, they have checked your sugar levels

I apologize to not contribute anything regarding IM, as I have just started to consistently see a scalable technique. Still lurking and learning, but felt compelled to share since no one picked up on the coke comment.

I wish you a speedy diagnosis and recovery

 

[coreygeer]

Hello Corey, sorry to hear about your health mystery and experiences with the doctors. Like you I don't trust them as well. I was very stubborn and took some time to see the doctor and had similar symptoms with the spasms, headaches and dizziness. The weird, almost internal rumbling vibration in the chest too.

When I finally went, I was experiencing numbness in my right foot. I was ultimately diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. an a1c of 14 and immediately put on meds. Like you I was drinking a ton of soda, mountain dew in my case. I noticed that you mentioned that you "drink like 15 cokes a day". Just curious, have you gotten your blood sugar tested? I was actually diagnosed about 3 weeks ago, (34 years old), since then dizziness has went away and there have only been a couple of nights that I have experienced light anxiety. Hopefully, they have checked your sugar levels

I apologize to not contribute anything regarding IM, as I have just started to consistently see a scalable technique. Still lurking and learning, but felt compelled to share since no one picked up on the coke comment.

I wish you a speedy diagnosis and recovery

I wish I knew what blood tests I've had done but no ER around here would give me a copy of the lab results.

And I understand the internal chest vibrations. People look at you like you're fucking nuts when you tell them about it.

Either way, just a couple of days until I see the Cardiologist!

 

[mickuk24]

Hey man,

Thought Id pitch in here as I can totally relate, I mean TOTALLY! Im a little older than you and still living at home, I have a steady g/f but at your age I was in pretty much the same situation as you, single, broke and having health issues.

After 2 years of palpitations, sweating, anxiety and "feel like Im going to die" feelings I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism, your symptoms do sound alot like anxiety related.

What works for me to stop the palpitations and "calm down" is magnesium supplements, I take 250mgs a day, look up magnesium deficiency and check out the symptoms, you may also want to try potassium, if you eat alot of salty foods and workout regularly and don't eat bananas you will probably have some issues, another way to tell is your socks, if you are taking your socks off and see a line/indentation near your ankle then you must likely are lacking potassium.

You can even try b vitamin complex, this leaves me feeling very calm and more energetic as I used to get really bad fatigue and heart palps just walking up the stairs!

As for your business I would recommend that you just stick to one method and work at it day and night till you figure it out, this game is mega difficult but it's focus and hard work that really matters, decide what method you want and focus on it for an entire year, take action on it daily and when you figure out how to earn with it reverse engineer what you have done and just do that from for infiniti!

At 22 I wish I had done more and as you mentioned the key is to get rid of those distractions, practice sitting down at your desk all day only moving to get food or stretch out, this will help you get into the mindset of working, once you realise that this isn't going to happen without alot of work the better, it takes time, effort and energy but once you have momentum results will happen faster than you ever thought possible.

Don't worry about it there are alot of people going through a quarter life crisis but you have realised what you want to do very early on, as someone mentioned here most don't even admit theres an issue till later on in life.

Start today, do something small, focus and scale.

 

[hitext]

You're not likely to get rich reading Dummies books. But if you stick your head into this forum for a while and absorb the good stuff, you will learn enough to make a small fortune...or even a large one.

 

[Sanitarium]

i think i was dead the other day too, random unknown illness.
There is something annoying about not knowing... but
i think if you get too excited they will just send you to [see username]