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what a drag it is etc.
Aug. 22nd, 2003 03:41 pmRecently my body has been doing some strange things. Without my meaning to, that is.
Not long after the episode in which the nurse taking blood from me failed to find a vein, causing me to black out, I had this really weird thing happen. At some point in maybe April, I was out in the yard walking Phoebe when I stepped in a hole and twisted my ankle. Nothing that bad -- a sharp pain, but the ankle didn't hurt for more than a few minutes. I've done it tons of times.
But this time, although it wasn't really cold out, I started to feel really cold. Really, really cold -- so cold that I started gasping and teeth chattering from it. I staggered inside and sat down. My body shook back and forth and the veins in my neck stood out. This lasted for a good five minutes and I couldn't make it stop. Finally, after lying down, it slowly ebbed away.
I had forgotten about it until a couple of weeks ago, when I mildly strained a muscle doing something that isn't worth mentioning. I woke up in the middle of the night and within a couple of minutes was in a cold sweat. It was exactly the same as before -- tremendous coldness, throbbing pain, teeth chattering. And it gradually went away, maybe 20 minutes.
Until these three episodes I never had a bad reaction to pain before or was especially worried about it. Now I wonder if this is something like shock. I was very distinctly conscious in the last two episodes (enough so to think, "damn, I have no control over this whatsoever") and I think the cold finally went away by willing myself to calm down. But of course this is really disconcerting.
I will try to get a doctor's appointment when we get back from Maine, but in the meantime I wonder if this is something anyone else has heard of?
Not long after the episode in which the nurse taking blood from me failed to find a vein, causing me to black out, I had this really weird thing happen. At some point in maybe April, I was out in the yard walking Phoebe when I stepped in a hole and twisted my ankle. Nothing that bad -- a sharp pain, but the ankle didn't hurt for more than a few minutes. I've done it tons of times.
But this time, although it wasn't really cold out, I started to feel really cold. Really, really cold -- so cold that I started gasping and teeth chattering from it. I staggered inside and sat down. My body shook back and forth and the veins in my neck stood out. This lasted for a good five minutes and I couldn't make it stop. Finally, after lying down, it slowly ebbed away.
I had forgotten about it until a couple of weeks ago, when I mildly strained a muscle doing something that isn't worth mentioning. I woke up in the middle of the night and within a couple of minutes was in a cold sweat. It was exactly the same as before -- tremendous coldness, throbbing pain, teeth chattering. And it gradually went away, maybe 20 minutes.
Until these three episodes I never had a bad reaction to pain before or was especially worried about it. Now I wonder if this is something like shock. I was very distinctly conscious in the last two episodes (enough so to think, "damn, I have no control over this whatsoever") and I think the cold finally went away by willing myself to calm down. But of course this is really disconcerting.
I will try to get a doctor's appointment when we get back from Maine, but in the meantime I wonder if this is something anyone else has heard of?
