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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.
2 Answers
- ?Lv 49 years agoFavorite Answer
This is why it is called 'practising' medicine. You have several issues going on and by the way, in your condition, ONCE to the Chiropractor is not going to do it. Your body is mainly screaming, "Nerve damage." Zillions of nerves run through your neck and along your head and beside the Temporamandibular joint in your face. Acupuncture will show you that by pressing on one it will affect you somewhere else. When your joint hurts, L-I-G-H-T-L-Y press on the area that hurts...see if you feel it somewhere else - if you don't it doesn't mean you don't have damage. Get another adjustment...maybe a few more...see what happens. What you describe sounds like more nerve than anything else. Tackle the nerve issue first. And do NOT let them inject you with Cortisone, unless absolutely necessary. Here are some things you can try:
Chiropractor - again
Acupuncture - not Joe's Acupuncture, hopefully from someone who knows about it
T'ai Ch'i
Yoga
- NicoleLv 45 years ago
Forget the ER and go to a doctor's office. An ER is for emergencies that need immediate medical care. Their job is to make sure you aren't dying right this second, not diagnose something like that. Go to a doctor, and expect him to tell you to change your life, or expect more problems and an early death. Just so you know- unless it's a hernia- your back pain is probably caused by your weight. Your muscles are seriously strained carrying the excessive weight and not getting the nutrients they need. Unless you do something to both lose the weight and strengthen those muscles, expect more back problems.