I’m a bit of a hypochondriac. It means that when I get a cough or hear someone else cough, I wonder if I’m sick and sometimes I think about it too much and just keep feeling sicker and sicker. It’s all silly, I know. It’s especially silly when I watch a medical show on some really horrendous illness like leukemia or other cancer and because they are showing the illness in very visceral terms, I start to feel like I have the disease. Welcome to the way I think.
Fortunately, I know the way I am and I deal with it and don’t really overreact to all my sicknesses. In fact, if anything I probably under react to them.
I suffer from some form of chronic acid reflux (my doctor has a fancy medical name for it but I can never remember that stuff). I take some medication which keeps it at bay. Every once in a while though, I still get a case of heart burn. Of course in the back of my brain, I remember reading that heart burn can be a pre-liminary sign of heart trouble. I woke up with heart burn this morning.
To compound the issue, I work out (which I’ve mentioned – in fact as you know if you’ve read my blog, I work out a lot and pretty darn heart). I had a really good set of workouts this week. I must have had an especially good work out on my chest because my ‘pecs’ are aching quite a bit. Of course, having chest presure is another pre-liminary sign of heart trouble too, right?
I’ve had both of these issues separately before and I’m sure of the reason. It’s just luck they land on the same day and cause me to think extra hard on this issue.
Now, I also know that my last physical (a year ago, I have another one in a few months) was awesome. That means that I had great numbers in all my lipids and cholesterols. I am not overweight. I have nice low blood pressure. I am just being wacky about it all. Right?