well i've had a bit of stress recently
first the water in the house stopped... there's a control circuit thingy for the well pump which i figured the capacitor was a likely culprit, so i carefully discharged it and tested it with my VOM and it looked cooked so i went to get a new one, but the guy was like good news bad news, good news is the capacitor's fine (would've been $20) bad news is it's something else
so went to another shop, bought a new circuit thing; got home and figured wait if i just bypass the old circuit thing i can check if the pump actually still works (pump probably $1k and another $500-1k for getting a well guy to pull the pump up and replace it)... so i'm taking the old circuit thing off and ZAP well it turns out when i had reconnected stuff i forgot to discharge the capacitor again and yeah that didn't feel good
at least it turned out that the circuit thing was bad and the pump still good so that was only $170+zap instead of a day without water + $2k
right
well two days ago i started feeling this strange ache in my chest, left side. no other symptoms, i'm like... heart attack? bp, hr just fine. starting to stress... considering going to the ER but that would be wretched but do you want to die? took a bit of an ativan; later that night i realized "oh duh i did a bunch of pushups yesterday and today and probably did something" ok? sure
so today
just as i'm considering doing some cardio exercise for the first time in forever i'm thinking "if the other day was actually a minor heart attack this could kill me?" but there's Tonks she wants food so i follow her upstairs to get her food
and as i'm standing by the sink suddenly the muscles in my neck feel super tight like almost a cramp and i just start freaking out but my heart feels normal? wtf
called G who's a 4th year med student now and probably knows more than lots of doctors and we talk about it for a bit and i chill slightly and he encourages going to an urgent care just to get an ekg to settle the mind (besides the remote chance that it shows something) so i go
and i realize along the way to the uc that i just increased the fluoxetine dose and people have mentioned anxiety as a side effect during a transition to a new dose? well then that's probably it
saw a PA, told him the whole story (actually i forgot about the capacitor discharging on me till later but anyways) and he agreed it was probably the fluoxetine but we should do the ekg and yeah so the ekg is fine and i'm home now and much more chill, still feel slightly jumpy but at least i'm not jumping to conclusions about heart failure now
