Almost seemed like I was having a heart attack.
Woke up at 4 a.m. to my dog's whine. Decided he needs to move if he's waking me up.
Then went to okcupid, got a message, and responded to that person and then went to write another message to another person and when I was doing that, and got up...
I noticed bit of vague discomfort in my chest, almost like indigestion. But it was a little too noticeable to be what I'd call "vague", it was just vague in origin, not its severity.
And was having a persisting light headache too.
Drank some wine, testing bloodsugar. Maybe it was low. Bloodsugar appeared fine, win didn't taste that good.
the discomfort resolved within 30 seconds, but I noticed when I started whacking off, the feeling of unease was coming back ever so lightly.
Symptoms aggravated by physical activity.
The headache mostly faded away, then I stayed in bed for another 2 hours, and it's now 8:34 a.m.
Did I do something wrong yesterday in terms of diet?
Did something wrong happen within the last week and this the culmination? What kind of wrong... insufficient carb intake... the okcupid girl...
I thought if my carb intake was low, the carefully measured 180grams of rice/pea carbs would get me to the 250 gram carb daily ideal.
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I wonder if the quotes, "There are two things certain in life, death and taxes..." implies the latter sometimes causes the former.
It definitely appears to be one of the largest bills I have, but not something I couldn't normally afford now.
I do suspect I was distraught over the land sale transaction, but with a resolution he seemed he intended to fulfill, that shouldn't have been a worry.
I had been having escalating "mini symptoms" in the 2-3 days prior which I've already noted. Left pinky tingling sensation in the morning, pain between shoulder blades precipitated by fear or hostility.
Baseline vulnerability steadily increasing, symptoms are now easily triggered. Sometimes symptom cascades, thankfully self-limiting so far.
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I see brookshire is more affordable than katy despite an 8 mile gap between them.
$15k lots. katy lots start at $60k/lot.
Googled crime stats, above average crime in brookeshire (40 vs 30 national avg.). Below average in Katy (20 vs 30).
This town I'm close enough to has a crime rate of 40.
For comparison, chicago violent crime rate is 59.
This city seems pretty stratified. Areas with more affordable lots, the higher the crime.
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ECG seems to be reading a very faint electrical signal. Trace is really low in amplitude. It was like this 4 days ago, so I assumed maybe it was some temporary artefact relating to bloodsugar. Clean contacts, try to get better read.
78 bpm standing, 95% oxy sat according to oxymeter.
got a better read, but trace is still pretty small. Trace looks normal, except it seems to occasionally have a depressed pr or elevated st segment, only happens one trace every other 12-15 beats or so. This would be normally read as "atrial ischemia" or infarction if symptoms were more sustained and serious according to https://litfl.com/pr-segment-ecg-library/ .
It's possibly a transient symptom of anxiety, because I'm definitely having that now, but anxiety would normally present as LARGE qrs segments, not tiny ones. In particular, the R amplitude would be tall.
Not sure why the trace seems to be so small. Low blood sugar, damaged heart or a bad read due to contact condition.
When I was running about 2 weeks ago, I felt really tired later on (Later assumed it was because I didn't eat enough for the running), then woke up 2 hours later with a pain in my chest that came and went within 3 seconds. Thought it was a warning to eat more. But may have did some damage. Damage may have been sustained earlier with the ok cupid girl.
So now I'm trying to get daily carb intake back to normal levels before resuming running. But I'm cutting somewhat back on the rice today.
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Okay, did 1/4 cup dry peas, little less than 1/4 cup rice, 1 tomato, 1 clove of garlic, cheese shreddings, salt and a spoonful of vinegar. That tasted good, especially the garlic and tomato.
The fact the tomato tasted so good, told me I need my sugars up!
So went to the store, and got enough for today and tomorrow.
After returning, thought I should /really/ be shopping for today, tomorrow and the morning after. But I guess I'll go back tomorrow night and think more carefully next time.
Intend 3 bananas, 2 apples, and 6 tomatos a day in addition to peas and rice. The apples are intended for the morning time, because it's easy to taste how much you need sugar from them. Not so easy with bananas or starches in general. It's also easy to tell from tomatos when you /really/ need it.
After eating breakfast this morning (had 1 banana, 1 apple and 2 tomatos additional), R amplitude and trace size is mostly back to normal.
So qrs was small and R amplitude was tiny this morning because of hypoglycemia. And, hypoglycemia may have been provoking infarction-esque ECG traces, especially when triggered by certain emotions.
The association between hypo and MI is well established in the literature.
It is unknown if my morning hypo in my case is more related to diabetes (Blood sugar crashes) or more not-eating-enough. It seems like i eat enough thru the day, not particularly hungry at night, for example.
It might be helpful to test bloodsugars, I'm thinking. Which means I need a pricker.
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I really should keep receipts from different years in different boxes...
Now what can I claim would've been 1.97 which I needed almost everyday for business. Oil for the generator.
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what can cause anxiety after eating a large meal.
If hyperglycemia happens, it can cause vasoconstriction which in presence of "vulnerabilities", might induce MI like symptoms, like panic and anxiety and heart palpitations. (Vulnerabilities like small arteries and/or reduced lumen size due to plaque)
It's also possible one could be anxious about eating. Indeed, I've drastically changed my diet in response to tooth recession, and these "new symptoms" are concerning me. So very easy to understand I'd be anxious.
https://www.medhelp.org/posts/Anxiety/Bad-anxiety-after-eating/show/1444022
I noticed no one here mentioned the former cause. And it's certainly suspect in my case, despite my really wishing it was something /seemingly/ easily remediable like hypoglycemia. If diabetes, that's a little less straightforward. If it's what I suspect it might be, that doesn't seem easy to remedy. And, here's hoping garlic might help.
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And just realized all the receipts in this box are from 2018, lol. That doesn't help. Thinking about aborting the sift real soon.
2017 receipts are in bags, just where are they...
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Well, can't find them for now. Resolved to search again the most suspect locations (Shed bags, van, possible hiding spots) tomorrow morning. If I can't find them, going to reference bank statements.
And tax work as of today has ended. Shifting to other work soon enough, but need to rest now, lol.
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isn't that funny, I was replying to a person's article that a stock market crash could happen on Oct 9, and I noted that many of the major past crashes happened during october (great depression, oct 29), so october is not an unlikely time...
And what's been happening...
Looks like it might be happening.
Someone noted that both stocks are dropping and bond yields going up, suggesting a simultaneous selloff in stocks and bonds. Suggesting, everyone is seeking cash...
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And the sale of this property cannot be thwarted...
Simply cannot.
if I sell the property and have an abundant christmas, I stand to enter the recession with plenty of cash. And, I said I would invest it directly into hiterto identified income opps, which I'm not deviating from. So, I'd think it'd be pretty good timing for me.
I mean, I would've loved just selling the house next year and plowing 100k into the stock market when the nasdaq crashes, so I could plausibly make back 2 million within a decade... but... can't say the current path is looking too dire.
Just that it's so much better to plunk down 100k on triple long nasdaq than say... 20k. With 20x return in a decade, you're talking 2mil vs 400k. The difference between a millionaire and a pauper.
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Just called shell federal bank and found out that I can verify the cashier's check by calling them up. Means I don't have to go down to his bank to verify, which is preferable, since there's not much time left in the day for traveling all the way to the county clerk.
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Okay, so I looked at my sales data for the last two years and I noticed a pattern.
Normally, january and february spending is slowed down by 50%. I'd surmise this would be people paying off their christmas credit card debt, since november/december are by far the most spendy months in "christmas good" categories.
Then june, july, and august are also among the slowest months, about 60-70% of the other months.
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Although heart attacks can and do happen any time of the day or night, the most dangerous time for a cardiovascular emergency, which includes not only sudden cardiac death, rupture or aneurysm of the aorta, but also pulmonary embolism and stroke, is during the last phase of sleep and right after you wake up.
Roberto Manfredini, professor of internal medicine at the University of Ferrara in Italy told TIME magazine that the risk was specifically estimated by a group of Harvard University researchers, who concluded that, on average, the extra risk of having a heart attack between 6 a.m. and noon is 40 percent. If you count only the first three hours after waking up, the relative risk is threefold!
Sounds about right to me. First three hours after waking up. This morning's episode happened about 20 minutes after awaking.
This is notable since grain intake was somewhat high yesterday, and "cereal grain intake" is substantially correlated with MI. Correlation of .6, I believe.
However, lentil intake is substantially inversely correlated. And I think this covers split peas.
So tried reducing the rice. May reduce it even more. Split peas are good.
