Open Question: Can I get my pectus excavatum fixed for cosmetic reasons? mine might be more that that though?
I have mild pectus excavatum I bought a vacuum bell over summer because I was told that it would fix it over a period of time so I wear it usually every night. I am 17 years old and I went to the doctors last week and the guy told me that I had a level 1 heart murmur but it was nothing to worry about. He said it was because of the epctus excavatum then he noticed that i had spots on my chest from the vacuum bell cause it pulls the blood up to the surface of your chest like a hicky so then I told him about it and he told me that it wouldnt fix it even over time. Then I felt like total shit because that was my only hope of acualy fixing my P.E. Then he told me that I couldn’t get surgery for it anywhere if it was only for cosmetic reasons. Is this true or is he wrong? I hate my body so much and I just want it fixed, my mom thinks its not a big deal but anyone can say that until they are in the same problem. It just sucks so bad and makes me feel like nothing because I can’t do anything about it. Sometimes I get reallly light headed and my heart punds really hard where it starts to hurt and i get really hot and start sweating and I told him that and he didn’t really say anything about it and im guessing its from the P.E. so maybe mine is more that cosmetic?
I don’t know what that is, but when i went to the doctors he scheduled 3 appointments I had to get blood drawn then i’m going back to the doctors tomorrow. I don;t even know what they were all for. One was for orthopedic or something, one was for blood, and the last i don’t even know I’m going to them this week tho. Also in the corners of both of my eyes they are noticably yellow but the doctor said he didn’t think it was jaundice
Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:18:01 GMT
Open Question: 2:30 am, anyone else dealing with anxiety?
so…since my mother in law died about 9 months ago, i started to get bad anxiety attacks. she died of a heart attack, so of course i would start to think that I’m having one, but it’s gotten worse, with the shit economy I’ve been laid off for about 8 months now, so all i do is sit here and just think about stuff. Every little thing scares me, i got bit by a tick yesterday, so now all the sudden I have lymes disease, I have thought about going to the doctor over my anxiety, but haven’t over the fear that what if something is actually wrong, it’s one thing after another, and now i can’t sleep…awesome.
ya, right after i pulled the tick out i was on the internet for 3 hours just reading, making myself sick. this is just stuff that i deal with all the time, i just have to realize for the most part i’m going to know if i need medical attention, so i need to work on just calming myself down. thank you for your answers by the way, it’s always comforting to know that someone else knows what i’m dealing with.
Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:27:56 GMT
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