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Posted on August 1, 2008 at 12:26 am
A panic attack is an episode of severe anxiety and dread. The symptoms include palpitations, shortness of breath, and chest pain. There may be dizziness, sweating, numbness or tingling, and shaking. This is an extremely frightening experience, with the person being afraid that he or she is going to die.
From Wikipedia:
Experiencing a panic attack is said to be one of the most intensely frightening, upsetting and uncomfortable experiences of a person’s life. Sufferers of panic attacks report a fear or sense of dying, “going crazy”, or experiencing a heart attack or “flashing vision”, feeling faint or nauseous, or losing control of themselves.
I’ve been having some unfortunate ear pain for the past, oh, two months, so I went to the doctor yesterday. This is now my breakfast, lunch, dinner, and bedtime snack:
Gotta catch ‘em all.
(For scale, the blue one’s about the size of a nickel.)
And I was again told by a doctor that I have a surprisingly high tolerance for pain. Booyah.
ם Ouch
Posted on September 11, 2007 at 2:45 pm
Today, a doctor told me I have “an astoundingly high tolerance for pain.”
Take that, Pain!
In a freak tooth-brushing accident, my hand slipped and I forcibly and painfully tore my frenulum labii superioris.
(To translate, I ripped open that little piece of flesh that connects your upper lip to your upper gum in the center of your mouth, right below the nose. With the head of a toothbrush.)
Just imagine how painful that sounds. Seem like it would be pretty painful? Well, I can now undeniably guarantee you that it is in fact a horrible, never healing pain.
Ouch.
In one of the strangest stories I’ve encountered in a while, a very daring author has written up his guide to curing asthma and hayfever using hookworm (a note to the extremely faint of heart, proceed with some caution; there are a few slightly disgusting parts of his tale).
It’s an interesting idea, although I’d prefer to hear some results like this from a more sanitary and controlled test. Condensing the treatment to some form of pill might also be a more convenient method than flying to Cameroon to walk around barefoot in natives’ excrement.