#medical

Okay I'll start with this: heart attack(MI) is a medical emergency- it's an excruciating pain in your left arm, jaw and chest which exceeds more than 15-20mns and it doesn't relieve by medication or changing position and the reason is coronary artery block (artery supplying heart) making particular heart part/tissue necrotic(dead). And heart attack can be solely responsible for death.
Okay now panic ig panic attack you meant: it has sudden occurrence due to anxiety/fear/trigger(s)--> causing physical symptoms like palpitations, sweating, trembling, feeling of choking, chest pain (note: here chest pain is sharp/shooting pain and resolves within mns unlike heart attack), dizziness, nausea, chill, etc(all symptoms during feeling fear)+ but here person can also feel disconnected from him/herself(depersonalization) or the environment.
-mostly panic attacks lasts 5-20mns.
- in panic attack there are a lot more physical symptoms than chest discomfort and in heart attack the pain is excruciating and lasts longer.
- panic attack isn't solely responsible for death like heart attack.
(Okay this is the most lame{non medical} explanation I can give).

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Oh the fun part I missed before: after a heart attack the dead tissue(which didn't get the blood) it remains dead, replaced by scar tissue - it'll never work in pumping, remains dead.
Hope this helps :)

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I think it’s largely a societal thing that people feel almost pressured to say that. Like, society places so much value on having children, and people can really feel a lot of pressure to start a family, even when it’s not what they truly want. It’s always “WHEN will you have kids?” 🙄 Not “Hey, what do you think about having children? Is that something you picture for yourself? How do you feel about becoming a parent?”

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I feel like it’s just an automatic thing that people expect… “You grow up, you get married, you have kids.” End of story. And it just doesn’t work like that for many people. 🤷🏼‍♀️ I think that expectation can be quite… harmful and very presumptive. Also, it’s just rude to ask people that. Consider this: Can the person you asked have biological kids? What would be the risks/complicating factors if they were to get pregnant? How would having children impact the life they currently lead or would like to live down the road? Is it safe for them to be pregnant? Like, there are so many questions to consider before jumping to that conclusion. So to me, I think people use that phrase as a way to get people to stop asking, or assuming they even want children right off the bat. Even though, they shouldn’t even have to do that, or explain themselves to others. If they don’t want kids, respect that, don’t pressure them to the point they feel they have say stuff like “I h*te kids.” 🥴

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I’ll say for myself, I don’t h*te kids by any means… But, I absolutely despise being asked “when” I’ll have children or that I “should” have them by now. 😑 I don’t particularly want to think about that at this point in my life, to be fair. I have lots of other things I want to do before I think about being a mother, and more than that, if I truly WANT to be a mother. To be frank, I don’t even know if I can get pregnant (due to medical reasons), nor do I know if it would be even be safe for me or the baby. So… yeah, it’s something I personally have to grapple with. I just think it can be/is a sore spot for a lot of people, and not everyone wants to address that topic. And at least if they say something like that openly, people tend to back off. That’s my logic anyway. 🤔

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LMAO, thank you so much to be honest that song was probably one of the most emotional and crazy experience writing it. That’s probably my favorite song I’ve ever written because I did write it about her to be honest. I was scared of releasing it because it’s so personal and I wasn’t sure how she was going to react or how everybody was going to react because it’s different than what I normally write, and I wrote it from the heart I didn’t write it just because I wanted to make another head or I wanted to become famous for no reason I wrote it because before I collapsed she was the last person I saw and I was in the hospital she was the one I heard because I was listening to her album while I was laying in my hospital bed to be honest, I didn’t think I was gonna come back the same way again. It scared me. She’s a huge part of me and I wanted to make sure that I fought the best way that I can so I can come back to her and my family because she is my family. I love her with all my heart.

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One of the biggest things for me: AVOID the internet at ALL costs. As a chronically ill person who also has a lot of health anxiety, the worst possible thing you can do is go to Google and doom scroll when feeling extremely anxious. 🥴 For your own sake, go to your doctor or call them, and discuss what you feel directly, not only symptoms, but the anxiety as well. And they may even suggest getting a couple tests done so that you can have some mental peace knowing that your body is functioning how it should. OR that whatever condition(s) you currently have isn’t getting worse or triggering something else, etc.

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Next thing: Share with someone you trust who can have a conversation with you, rationalize, challenge your anxiety (kindly, and with compassion), and just be a friendly sounding board so you don’t spiral. I find this helps me a lot. Sometimes, simply receiving a trusted persons input/rationalization, and getting everything off my chest calms me down immensely. 😮‍💨

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And finally: Do NOT suppress your anxiety. It does not help anything, nor will it make you feel better. Acknowledge that you feel very anxious right now, try your best to slow down and refocus your mind. Whether that is by giving yourself time to cry, or sit in silence and focus on breathing, vent or write out everything you’re anxious about, and I mean everything. Listen to music, watch a show/movie that comforts you, or any other healthy coping mechanism you do to relax. Regardless, feel your feelings. And then, when you’ve done that, you can go ahead and establish how you want to proceed/re-evaluate how you are doing.

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For me, writing out everything is so beneficial, because once I’ve calmed down a bit, I can essentially fact check myself and be like “okay, I know I don’t have to worry about *insert thought(s)* because *insert reason(s)*.” Or take those anxieties to a medical professional/loved one so they can help you fact check them.

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I hope that helps, even a little bit! I know health anxiety is awful and hard to navigate. ☹️

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This might be too disturbing... I'll try to censor everything so it's not taken down...

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Lately, I've been intensely following the whole Gypsy Rose thing. Mainly, because it's entertaining to me. She's acting like a f00ool, and she's a trainwreck. And most of all, she k1ll.3d her mother 100%. What's been living in my head is that one photo from the crime scene. The eyes of her d3..ad mother. The whole thing has two-sided, and Gypsy is a manipulative b1t... there are a lot of things that came out. Apparently, she did have some of the illnesses due to the medical records, and her surgeries weren't so out of nowhere. All her mother did was play it up to get the goodies and symphaty IMO (also based on some facts, too)
Now, I don't understand how malicious one should be to do that to someone. I was emotionally and physically abu5sed, and I thought of k1ll1.ng myself instead of my abuser. NOT ONCE DID IT CROSS MY MIND.

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I heard this from a video... her mother was profiting from her health issues, she ran a scam. Gypsy said she k1.ll.ed her in self-defense, BUT, how would her mother profit in that if she off.ed her own daughter who clearly was unwell in some aspects.

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She also played along in the scam, and that's also been proven by her own words that she keeps misplacing and twisting because she's not as bright as she thinks she is. I feel no empathy towards her, and I think that she deserves a lifetime in jail.

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Also, I believe she 100% took part in finishing her mother. It wasn't all her boyfriends work. I didn't have the gut to look at the photos, I only saw one... let me tell you... anyone who can do something like that... it's so disgus.ti.ng. The photo trau.ma.tised me for days, can you imagine doing that and going to live your life and have babies, etc? F483uck no, that calls for SERIOUS THERAPY. IT'S HORRIBLE. It would HAUNT ME FOR ALL MY LIFEA because I'm not like HER. I'M NORMAL. It's also one of the reasons this psychopath should stay in jail...

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Very much so, yeah. I was homeschooled (for medical reasons) during middle school, and so the transition to public high school was really difficult for me to adjust to. I had spent a couple years out of normal school life, so I had no clue what my peers were like when I came back, what they liked, how to relate to them, etc. I also had shut myself off completely, especially in the beginning. So that made things harder… I refused to trust anyone, I refused to let people know me just because I had a lot of insecurities and thought no one would like me/or that they would judge me harshly. 😅

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Luckily though, the first little while of being in high school was really the worst of it, and it seemed to get better and better from there. All in all, high school was honestly quite a positive experience for me, which I feel grateful for. I know many who don’t share that experience. 😬

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Tak, regularnie mierzę sobie ciśnienie krwi, ponieważ uważam, że monitorowanie tego parametru jest kluczowe dla utrzymania zdrowia i zapobiegania wielu chorobom. Zdrowie to coś, o co warto dbać na co dzień, a kontrolowanie ciśnienia krwi to jeden ze sposobów na wczesne wykrywanie potencjalnych problemów.
Ciśnienie krwi jest jednym z podstawowych wskaźników zdrowia układu krążenia. Składa się z dwóch wartości: ciśnienia skurczowego (górna wartość), które mierzy ciśnienie w tętnicach podczas skurczu serca, oraz ciśnienia rozkurczowego (dolna wartość), które mierzy ciśnienie w tętnicach, gdy serce jest w stanie spoczynku między uderzeniami. Optymalne ciśnienie krwi wynosi około 120/80 mm Hg.
Regularne monitorowanie ciśnienia krwi ma wiele zalet. Po pierwsze, pozwala na wczesne wykrywanie nadciśnienia, które jest często nazywane "cichym zabójcą", ponieważ może rozwijać się bez wyraźnych objawów. Długotrwałe nieleczone nadciśnienie może prowadzić do poważnych komplikacji, takich jak choroby serca, udar mózgu czy niewydolność nerek 🧠💔
Z drugiej strony, zbyt niskie ciśnienie krwi (hipotonia) również może być problematyczne, prowadząc do zawrotów głowy, osłabienia, a nawet omdleń. Dlatego ważne jest, aby utrzymywać ciśnienie krwi w zdrowym zakresie.
Regularne pomiary ciśnienia krwi mogą również pomóc w śledzeniu skuteczności leczenia, jeśli już zmagasz się z problemami związanymi z ciśnieniem. Dzięki regularnym pomiarom mogę monitorować, jak moje ciało reaguje na leki, zmiany w diecie lub poziom aktywności fizycznej.
W moim przypadku, dbam o regularne pomiary, szczególnie gdy wprowadzam zmiany w stylu życia. Na przykład, kiedy zaczynam nowy program ćwiczeń lub zmieniam dietę, regularnie sprawdzam ciśnienie, aby zobaczyć, jak te zmiany wpływają na moje zdrowie. To motywujące, widzieć pozytywne efekty zdrowego trybu życia na moim ciśnieniu krwi 🏋️‍♂️🥗
Technologia także ułatwia to zadanie. Używam automatycznego ciśnieniomierza, który jest łatwy w obsłudze i daje dokładne wyniki. Niektóre nowoczesne ciśnieniomierze mają funkcje, które pozwalają na przechowywanie wyników i śledzenie trendów ciśnienia krwi w czasie, co jest bardzo pomocne w zarządzaniu zdrowiem.
Badania naukowe wielokrotnie potwierdzają znaczenie monitorowania ciśnienia krwi. Na przykład, badania opublikowane w "Journal of the American Medical Association" pokazują, że regularne monitorowanie ciśnienia krwi może znacząco zmniejszyć ryzyko powikłań związanych z nadciśnieniem.
Podsumowując, regularne mierzenie ciśnienia krwi to prosty, ale bardzo skuteczny sposób na dbanie o zdrowie. Dzięki temu mogę czuć się bardziej świadomy swojego stanu zdrowia i podejmować odpowiednie kroki, aby utrzymać ciśnienie w optymalnym zakresie💪

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Hm, I don’t think it’d change the answers themselves, as I don’t share many personal things on here, and if I do, I’m vague. For example, I have a chronic illness, but I will never disclose what it is online, nor will I share what meds I’m on, or much of the symptoms I have, as I do not want or need random strangers giving me unsolicited medical advice. Another example: I do not share my name, age, what state I live in, etc, nor do I share anything about my family, for my privacy and for theirs. From the time I joined ask, I only ever posted the information I felt comfortable with, and that I want on a public platform.

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But I definitely do think it’d change the frequency and the quantity! Not like I want to spam people with a bunch of posts all the time, that would get very frustrating. I know I wouldn’t like that with the people I follow on here. 🥴 So I’d for sure be more considerate about it, maybe even have schedule where I post maybe a handful of questions, then wait a few days, post another small handful. Or whatever seemed to work best! ☺️

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I would say, largely, yes I’m looking forward to it! My biggest plans are really in May, honestly.

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First, I’m going to both of my cousins college graduations in May, which will take up 2 weeks of the month, as each are separate trips to different states! Alongside that, as a Mother’s day gift, my mom and grandma and I are planning a day trip to see a broadway show. And I also may be seeing my dad/going on a day trip with him, as I haven’t gotten to see him in person for almost a year. So yeah, busy month. 😂

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And then for the rest of summer, I need to start looking into some medical things and being proactive on that. I’m very much NOT looking forward to it, but that’s pretty much the only thing I’m dreading. Other than that, I mostly have things I am aspiring to do/hope to do. Here’s a few of them!

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-Catching up with high school/college friends I haven’t hung out with in a while.
-Gaming
-Getting outside way more often, trying to be more active/keeping my mental health in check.
-Continuing to work on Cosmetology skills I’ve not kept up with/am rusty on.
-Looking back into Barbering school (hopefully).
-Working on creative projects I’ve been neglecting.

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I’m a survivor of a lot of medical issues/trauma. Much of it, I’m still either trying to heal from, or I’m actively dealing with. Medical trauma has truly been bizarre to work through as you have most random triggers.

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For example, I’m instantly nauseated, scared, anxious, feeling extreme dread, etc by certain sounds, smells, and so on. Like, I despise the smell of rubbing alcohol, alcohol wipes, etc. It brings back way too many memories, and makes me feel sick. But, it’s not exactly a trigger to “heal” from cause one, I don’t really know how to, and two, it’s not like you can really avoid it either. 🥴

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I also get very scared when I have flare ups, thinking I’ll never get past it (even though logically, I know it’s irrational because my flares never stay constant). Or, more often, I’m scared I’ll wind up in situations I was in as a young teen that truly scarred me.

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