Silent Reflux? When will this go away? I'm ready to go back to normal!!
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Firstly, let me say that I am 22 years old, I'll be 23 in October. I don't have any allergies except for sinus infections here & there. I have had 0 health problems, never had anxiety, depression, chest pains, heartburn, high blood pressure, nothing. The only thing that I know of is that I grind my teeth at night, but I've been doing that ever since I was little people tell me, but I'm so unaware of it when I sleep. I have always been a carefree person, so I don't stress over anything really. I'm the type of person that says "everything happens for a reason, so if it happens, it was meant to happen." Also, I am always moving around & plus, I am very skinny. lol, weigh 128, always been active.
Soooo, BEFORE the 10th of august, I was completely fine. I had started smoking marijuana in April & had been smoking every day up until the 10th of August. I was also exposed to vaping from a family member, so I bought a vapor, with 3mg of "Vapetasia Pink Lemonade" juice. Plus CBD juice to give you a 'high' but it wasnt the same high as marijuana of course. But I was a new comer, so I was trying to smoke the vapor as if it was weed, inhaling it, which is where I think all of this started.
So on or around August 10th, I started feeling weird, and I could NOT sleep. I would fall asleep around 5AM & get back up around 12PM, but i knew it wasn't normal. Then I started burping constantly, it was like every 3 mins or so everyday! & everytime I inhaled, there was like a small hiccup noise and then I would burp. I didn't have heartburn with the burping, but my chest had an uncomfortable feeling, but it was not painful, my throat was not hurting either. it lasted 3 days & I ultimately got tired of the burping and checked myself into the emergency room around 11:15 am on the 13th of Aug.
I told them I was having chest pains & small shortness of breath. I told them about the hiccup-like burps also and I let the nurse hear it, she said it sounded like a lung problem. I was praying not. long story short, they took blood from me about 4 times, took xrays, & took me through a cat scan. They said they found an irregular heartbeat which I told them I feel it was coming from burping because these burps were constant. He also informed me that I had a very small scar on one of my lungs that looks like it came from birth (as many times as I've been to the doctor when I was growing up, they NEVER said anything about this.) My mother was also unaware of this. But come to think about it, going to the doctor growing up, they never had to look at my lungs. So they made me stay overnight so they could check my heart in the morning. That night, they gave me a room. She gave me pepcid, & she gave me something to help me try to sleep. I fell asleep around 10:30pm, woke back up at 12am & could not go to sleep until around 5:30am & they came and woke me up at 7:45am.
In the morning they made me so a stress test to see how my heart deals with stress, then they did like an ultrasound scan on my heart, and then they checked my legs for any blood clots. Towards 4pm, the doctor came and told me that everything was good, my oxygen was 99-100% and they said my blood work was good too. She said not to smoke anymore & that vapors causes excessive gas. So then she said its most likely acid reflux. She prescribed me for pantoprazole (20 mg tabs). & discharged me. I was so happy to leave!!
Medicine wasn't ready until the 16th, and later that day when I took it, it made me feel so much worse! So to this day, I haven't taken it ever since. I've been using tums, & some equate acid reducer. ALSO, i've done baking soda with warm water which makes you feel so normal after you take it, but I took too much and ended up getting diarrhea. I will not be doing that again. I have not smoked marijuana ever since I've been feeling weird so its about to be almost a month. I don't have insurance right now to see a primary care doctor, but I will be going to the free clinic on the 7th of September. For the past week, the burps have slowed down tremendously... Now i have softer burps and they don't happen so often. AND I had been able to sleep peacefully. And I was laying on my stomach which helped me sleep from like 2am to 10am.
As of yesterday, I jumped up from my sleep @ 3am and felt like I was literally gasping for air. & it was a sharp chest pain but went away after I woke up. It just seems as tho something is stilll going on with my stomach, everytime I eat. I don't really feel nausea, i don't have horrible chest pains, its just a discomfort feeling, i sometimes get dry throat but not often, I don't feel like there's a lump in my throat, I haven't threw up at all, & I hope I don't. This may be a little too personal, but my stool color is normal brown & green. And it comes out like the day after I eat stuff. But I'm confused to all of this and I really just want to go back to my normal self. All of this happened all of a sudden. Today I bought zzzquil & hopefully that helps me sleep tonight. I haven't taken any antacids since this morning, but I need answers or ways I can solve this, I've heard people say it doesn't go away but I'm pretty sure it can...
RESULTS FROM DOCTOR:
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coolreggieparke
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RESULTS FROM HOSPITAL:
EKG: report reviewed (RVH RAH, biatrial enlargement pulmonary disease pattern RSR in V1. Biatrial enlargment, Inferior T-wave abnormality. Nonspecific)
Chest X-ray: report reviewed (Apical Scarring since birth)
CT scan- chest: Negative
ENT: hearing intact, clear oral mucosa
NECK: normal
RESPIRATORY: normal/bilateral CTA
CARDIOVASCULAR:
Heart Rate: 76, Rhythm: regular
PERIPHERAL PULSES: normal
Red Blood Cells: 5.86 M/mm3 (3.65-5.03) High
White Blood Cells: 8.7 K/mm3 (4.5-11.0)
Sodium: 142 mmol/L (137-145)
Potassium: 4.1 mmol/L (3.6-5.0)
Cardiac Enzymes: Troponin T - <0.010 (0.00-0.029 ng/mL)
(1) Plan to address problem: Patient too young and chest pain sec to burping. I am more in favor of Reflux Esophagitis and burping sec to marijuanna use and vapor use. Will discharge him on Famotidine or Protonix Ordered TST.
(2) Pulmonary HTN- Status: Acute
EKG shows RVH & RAH. Echo ordered to r/o pul HTN. It maybe sec to thin chest wall and lead placement. will repeat EKG.
*for the record I have no idea what this means.
(3) Marijuana Use- Status: Chronic
(4) DVT prophylaxis- Status: Acute
Dictated by MD.
FINAL REPORT from Cat Scan: No evidence of pulmonary embolism.
FINAL REPORT from Xray: Normal cardiomediastinal silhouette paratracheal midline. No consolidation, pneumothorax or pleural effusion. No acute cardiopulmonary findings.
FINAL REPORT from Vascular Lab:
Both Legs: Flow is spontaneous and phasic throughout. No evidence of acute or chronic deep venous thrombosis in either lower extremity.
FINAL REPORT from Echocardiography:
Indication- Dyspnea
BP: 118
HR: 118
Left atrium, Right atrium, right ventricle, aortic valve, mitral valve, triscuspid valve, pulmonic valve, pericardium, & venous is all normal. There is no left venticular hypertrophy. Abnormal left ventricular diastolic filling is observed, consistent with impaired relaxtion.
Urine:
Amphetami: NEGATIVE
Barbitura: NEGATIVE
Bezodiaze: NEGATIVE
Cannabino: POSITIVE
Cocaine: NEGATIVE
If someone can tell me what all of this means, it would be great. I am only trying to figure out will this go away once all the THC is out of my system?? It's interfering with my daily life & I seriously just want to go back to normal. During the day, I feel fine but at night, it's a slight fear sometimes because of the episode of apnea. I just don't wanna keep googling stuff and feel like I'm about to die
DWKingsmill coolreggieparke
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Hello again ReggieParke,
If you are still out here and are genuinely interested to do the best you can with your medical condition, and to deal with your obvious anxiety. I will offer a word or two of encouragement.
I did write to you, and as you did not reply I have no way to know if you found it of help or not, feedback in such situations is essential to good communication.
I wonder why you didn't think to ask the doctors who attended you the questions you now ask us. I did just read the results of the battery of test you provided, Nothing too serious that could not be improved with a major lifestyle change.
It would seem self defeating should you continue to smoke, while at the same time be fretting about your respiratory and cardiac health.
It is not difficult to understand what you should do, just perplexing to know why you are not doing it.
Join a sports club or gym, include exercise in your daily routine, find with the help of your doctor the medications that will improve your condition, eat healthily and try to learn more about your condition from medically approved sources and NOT from people like me who's credentials you can't be sure of. I do have a lifetime of medical experience as it happens, and worked my whole professional life in medicine, you may notice that in all my posts I urge people to refer to their doctor and not rely on advice, however well meaning from strangers or friends and family. Only cleaver, dedicated people, who take ten or more years to qualify are the right folk to consult, trust them!
DWKingsmill coolreggieparke
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Well Coolreggie,
It is usually the case that people give too little background, but as one may say "From the sublime to the rediculous" , but perhaps that is rather impolite.
Despite your observation about not being of an anxious disposition, I would say from the posting that your were anything but. Remember the prayer about being blessed with the insight to judge oneself as others do.
You smoke tobacco and dope, perhaps 2 habits you may well dispense with.
As someone has gone to a lot of trouble to test you from head to foot, disccovering scar on your lung is probably what the doctors refer to as an " Incidentaloma" in other words nothing of consequence. As for the other stuff, for heaven sake stop fussing, go back to your doctor, listen to what he or she has to say, follow that for a while and see what happens. And as ever, make sure you eat a balanced diet and stay slim, do NOT smoke, don't drink too much, get exercise everyday, Go to bed at a reasonable hour and get a good nights sleep.
Do that and briefly let us know how you get on. Best wishes DWK