What is wrong with me? ER can't figure it out...?
Everything started with a weird twinge in my neck. (Monday night 21st) Did not feel like bones moving. Painless, just weird feeling….. Then immediately felt numbness in the left side of my face. This then caused me fear of stroke. And my heart began to feel heavy and cold and hot at the same time. The numbness was also felt in my left arm. There was tingling in my right hand for about a minute.
Emergency room (early Tuesday morning 22nd) did CT scan of my head, and an ultra-sound of my carotid arteries in the front of my neck and found nothing. Also did blood test and EKG. Released me suggesting follow up with doctor.
When all other symptoms are gone, there is a sharp pain near the left joint in my jaw or in my inner ear, or somewhere in between
Noticed that my normal pain in the right side of my neck and right side of my jaw that I have had for years is gone.
Noticed symptoms worsen at night…when trying to sleep when pressing my head against pillow, it feels as though it restricts blood flow in my head and I get weird warm feeling in head and chest.
Frequently have a numbness in outer to upper chest area of the left chest, sometimes have some pain, usually followed by some gas burped up. I have had chest gas before, but this is an excessive amount everyday even though I am eating less.
I end up sleeping in a recliner because it puts less pressure on my head. Takes a while for me to find a position that doesn’t cause numbness somewhere. I typically wake up 3-5 hours later with more severe numbing and my body feels cold and I have uncontrollable body shivers and I can’t feel myself very well to urinate or poop. After about 20 min, I feel almost normal and and then able to sleep for 3 more hours.
Went to the chiropractor Friday (25th) to hopefully correct neck alignment in case it was the cause. Didn’t seem to help much, felt soreness in both sides of my neck afterwards.
Take acetaminophen at night for precaution
Occasional sharp pain in chest area different from gas pain
Occasional headache in the top of my head.
During the day feel almost normal but I feel a little light-headed
Went to emergency Mon night (28th) because I was on the verge of passing out. When I rest my head against something like my hand or the wall, I felt like I was about to pass out. They did EKG, chest x-ray and didnt find anything.
After coming home from emergency, I tried sleeping in my own bed instead of the recliner, and I woke up 2-3 hours later where my heart was pounding so hard it was hurting and I felt cold and have shivers all over my body. I got up turned on the heater and about 30 min. later shivers seemed to go away and I went to sleep in the recliner. Woke up feeling closer to normal with some light-headedness.