Near Death Experience at 2am

April 12, 2022

Just last night, I was comfortably lying in my bed. The typical night for me to sleep. I felt heaviness on my chest. I was feeling that for an hour but I don't mind it because I used to feeling bloated every night. I skipped dinner last night because of the same feeling actually. Even if I was hungry, I refuse to eat due to the bloated feeling I always have.

As I was lying in my bed, I noticed the feeing of heaviness is getting severe. I was pounding my chest just to make me comfortable in less than 2 hours, still the same feeling. Then I can't breathe anymore. I tried to sit down in bed just to find comfort and I did. When the feeling became little lighter, I lie in bed again. My goal is to sleep.

Little later, I can't breathe again. The heaviness was really blocking my throat. I called my sister and told her I can't breathe.i was close to having seizure, I can feel I will pass out in a moment. Even though I was having trouble breathing, I try to come out of my senses, be alert and stay calm. What happened to me is the same scenario of my father in July 2017 when he had a heart attack. I even raising my right arm, talking just to check for my slur speech just to know if I am having an attack.

My sister pinch down my two ears. That is normally what we do when someone can breathe either due to high blood pressure or losing an oxygen. In the middle of it, I really lost my breathe already and panicked but still calming myself because it will not help me. My sister was massaging my back, wake up my mother becuase it is already an emergency. She gave me a plastic, because we don't have a brown bag. I breathe in using that. I still can't breathe. When my sister check my temperature it was raging high of 40. She gave me a towel with ice cube and wipe it all over my body. I was too close of passing out, my eyesight is becoming blurry but I kept on pinching down my ears.

Little later, my temperature drop to 39.7. They continue to wipe me with cold towel. I was really wet that time. They even put icecunes directly in my nape and underarms. After a while my temperature drop to 38 and they kept on cehkcing on me. I felt sleepy and they are slapping me, preventing me to fall asleep because I might die. There is a possible attack that might happen when I pass out. I drink water and my breathing became easier. My knees are wiggling when I stand up going to toilet. I changed my clothes and try to keep myself awake for the next hours. I remember I slept at 5 in the morning already that made me skip work for today.

I already informed my Co-workers that I had an incident of heat stroke and I will be working half day. In the morning she replied and said that I should take a rest and just come back when I'm okay. I was like sleeping the whole daytime today. It was traumatic.

I am not sure if what I experience is heat stroke alone because my first symptoms is a burning sensation in the middle of my chest. The feeling that it starts in the stomach, you feel bloated and then it is moving upward to your chest and throat. I felt that and I am aware that it is a symptoms of heart burn. However, I don't have bitter or sour taste at the back of my throat which is the other symptoms of heart burn.

Moreover, I am sure that I experienced heat stroke because last night it was very hot, and my temperature reached 40 degrees. The symptoms of Heat stroke are, loss of consciousness, slurr speech, confusion, seizure, very high temperature and altered mental status. I was close of having a seizure, loss my consciousness and having a high temperature. Maybe I experience both. I had Heat Stroke and heart burn at the same time. However, I cannot assume and this one needs medical attention.

It was really fatal. If my sister and mother is not alert, I could have gone now. I still feel some little heaviness on my chest but not that severe just like earlier. I skip exercising for today because that could trigger another heat source for my body because of the another energy used.

Before I end this, let me acknowledge my sponsors and readers. I might have a challenging health issue but still thankful that I can share that experience so everyone could be aware.

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