My surgery is a little more than 3 days away, and I wonder how I've made it this far, the support I receive from this forum, my family, my church of course are the reasons I'm still sane. I basically live minute by minute sometimes and other times its not as bad. For the past several months I have not felt great but there were days where I didn't feel bad either. Mind you I've been taken off of work and driving a month ago and I have not done anything remotely exerting for over a month except going up and down the stairs at my house to go to bed. Even taking a shower wipes me out. :mad2:
In the past week I have been taking Xanax off and on to help to deal with the symptoms I'm feeling. Though the Xanax doesn't make the symptoms disappear it helps me from stirring myself into a panic over them and running to the ER.
I've been experiencing SOB for a couple of years now but it has been very subtle, almost felt like a sigh. In the past 2 months the SOB has gotten bad where I have to take a deep breath between sentences most the time. I feel it sitting down or walking, it really never goes away. I'm not huffing and puffing but I just feeling like I'm not getting enough air and have to take a deep breath. It feels like I can never get a satisfying breath.
Palpitations, I've been feeling my whole life and thought everybody gets those. Sometimes my heart beats so hard while I'm lying down I can feel it in my back or it feels as if it moves my whole body. My blood pressure I test everyday and is almost always in range, my heart rate is usually between 60 and 85.
Chest pains have been off and on for the past 2 years but recently have been mild, months ago it seemed as if SOB and chest pain would play musical chairs, one week I would experience chest pain most the day with very little to no SOB and then the next week it would switch.
Currently I've been dealing with overall weakness, dizziness, and SOB along with a dose of nausea on and off through out the day. I also have been getting some mild headaches which I'm not used to, in the past I would never get headaches, even when I was sick. I'll start to dry heave once in awhile because of the nausea feeling, then it goes away. I've been having a tough time sleeping the past few days. Its just miserable. :frown2:
My medical team knows how I feel but are sticking to the July 27th date for surgery, the surgeon is just really busy and they couldn't do it any sooner. The surgeon told me about a week ago that if it gets really bad just come to the ER of course.
I'm pretty conscious of edema and I don't think I have any of that around my joints/ankles or mid section, though I do have some loose skin around my mid section from dropping a bunch of weight.
Usually the brunt of the symptom attacks calm down after a 3-5 hours and then it becomes tolerable but other times it feels like "this is it" :eek2:
Sorry for the novel guys, I just wanted to ask if anyone felt like this before surgery. I took 1 and a 1/2 Xanax .25mg (lowest dose) about an hour ago and feel more in control now, but still not great. Thanks for listening. :frown2:
In the past week I have been taking Xanax off and on to help to deal with the symptoms I'm feeling. Though the Xanax doesn't make the symptoms disappear it helps me from stirring myself into a panic over them and running to the ER.
I've been experiencing SOB for a couple of years now but it has been very subtle, almost felt like a sigh. In the past 2 months the SOB has gotten bad where I have to take a deep breath between sentences most the time. I feel it sitting down or walking, it really never goes away. I'm not huffing and puffing but I just feeling like I'm not getting enough air and have to take a deep breath. It feels like I can never get a satisfying breath.
Palpitations, I've been feeling my whole life and thought everybody gets those. Sometimes my heart beats so hard while I'm lying down I can feel it in my back or it feels as if it moves my whole body. My blood pressure I test everyday and is almost always in range, my heart rate is usually between 60 and 85.
Chest pains have been off and on for the past 2 years but recently have been mild, months ago it seemed as if SOB and chest pain would play musical chairs, one week I would experience chest pain most the day with very little to no SOB and then the next week it would switch.
Currently I've been dealing with overall weakness, dizziness, and SOB along with a dose of nausea on and off through out the day. I also have been getting some mild headaches which I'm not used to, in the past I would never get headaches, even when I was sick. I'll start to dry heave once in awhile because of the nausea feeling, then it goes away. I've been having a tough time sleeping the past few days. Its just miserable. :frown2:
My medical team knows how I feel but are sticking to the July 27th date for surgery, the surgeon is just really busy and they couldn't do it any sooner. The surgeon told me about a week ago that if it gets really bad just come to the ER of course.
I'm pretty conscious of edema and I don't think I have any of that around my joints/ankles or mid section, though I do have some loose skin around my mid section from dropping a bunch of weight.
Usually the brunt of the symptom attacks calm down after a 3-5 hours and then it becomes tolerable but other times it feels like "this is it" :eek2:
Sorry for the novel guys, I just wanted to ask if anyone felt like this before surgery. I took 1 and a 1/2 Xanax .25mg (lowest dose) about an hour ago and feel more in control now, but still not great. Thanks for listening. :frown2:
