Lost ability to take a breath, brb

[beandelphiki]

I started to get that tell-tale cramping pain in my chest an hour ago...

But on the RIGHT side this time. Oh, lord.

It got so intense that I laid down on the floor wrapped around a bunched-up afghan, hoping that if I stayed scrunched, my lung wouldn't pop. It hurt so badly to breathe that I ended up gasping in these little high-pitched pants, and my cats all ended up in an anxious semi-circle around my head again, Pidwidgeon (our new[ish] kitten - er, more on her later) intently standing guard over my asthma inhalers when I'd managed to get them out of my bag. It would have been cuter if I wasn't in so much pain.

(I took 'em both. Don't know if it did any good, but I'm a bit recovered now. It still hurts to breathe, though.)

I'm scared, but not scared enough to wake Mom up. Especially now that it's died down. But I'm not sure if I can go to bed, because what'll happen when I lie down again?

Suckitude.

Edit: Ooh, if I move too much, I get this weird, ooky feeling. Like something rippling under my skin. I was thinking at first that was muscle, but now I'm wondering if it's air in a body cavity? Is that possible, if it's escaped my lungs?

Either way, FUCK. It hurts, too.

Comments

[ratkrycek.livejournal.com]

Yikes.

I hope you feel better soon.

If not, see about medical attention.

Not being able to breathe is not good and scary too!

[cptcaveman.livejournal.com]

i hope it passed ok??

[cptcaveman.livejournal.com]

where did you get the icon? it is fantastic. and if you made it, can i use it and give you credit??

[ratkrycek.livejournal.com]

I didn't make it, but it's shareable! Just look on my userpics age for who to credit. :)

[cptcaveman.livejournal.com]

thank you :)

[griffen.livejournal.com]

Hospital, perhaps? *worries*

[beandelphiki.livejournal.com]

I'm able to breathe okay today as long as I don't try to take a really deep breath. But I'm used to that. (Breast binding has sort of a wearing-a-corset effect on how you breathe.)

Thanks much for the good thoughts!

[beandelphiki.livejournal.com]

Doing a bit better today, thank you. :)

[beandelphiki.livejournal.com]

Eh, I don't want to go to the hospital unless I really, really have to.

Right now, I haven't got more than the, "you're a human and we're hippy socialists who care about things like that," health coverage that all Canadians have. Otherwise, I don't know if it would cost me anything out of pocket or not.

And hospitals in my city are REALLY swamped right now. It's a huge crisis: they're even putting people in the halls because they don't have rooms (or so I've heard). I wouldn't want to waste their time just to confirm a Dx.

And the most they'd be able to do is perform a soft-tissue X-ray to confirm, and then tell me what amount of time it will take me to heal. (There's a ratio, it depends on how big the collapse is.)


I'm doing a bit better, though! Thanks for the thoughts, and don't worry.

[siegeengine.livejournal.com]

*hugs* hope you're doing better and glad you didn't have to go to hospital.

[beandelphiki.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've spent the past couple of days basically just sleeping, and it feels much better. Not 100% healed, but at least I can actually deep-cough now. Before, I could only cough in short little top-of-the-lungs hacks. So, good sign.

*hugs* Thanks!