mattytoo
my pronouns are they/them thanks 😊
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- NSW, Australia
Normally my crashes have an "acute" phase that lasts for 5-120 minutes, & then settle into PEM that lasts for days-weeks. The acute phase is this utter muscular fatigue, I can't move anything & my muscles feel completely wrung out and like a limp dead weight. Moving is hard to impossible. But I can breathe ok. It usually eases on its own.
This time it affected the muscles around my chest too, every breath was a battle to force these limp dead-weight muscles to move my ribs and lungs to get any air in at all. I know my breathing slowed down too much (I counted ~7-9 breaths/minute) & I had multiple fits of full body shaking and jerking & my throat would close & I bounced my head on the tiles (seizure? I tested negative for epilepsy previously) but after a few rounds of that they started to ease and breathing eventually got easier. by the time my mum arrived to help me it had passed, so no-one else saw anything at all besides me being utterly exhausted on the floor 🙄
Does this happen to anyone else? I feel like I should have called an ambulance because of how slow my breathing was & the shaking fits. It was pretty scary, the involuntary breathing response just wouldn't kick in, each breath had to be fought for.
It wasn't an asthma attack, or panic, and I didn't have any problems breathing an hour later. I do have asthma but only need a rescue inhaler a few times a year. I've never really gotten the air hunger that seems fairly common around here. it wasn't a tight and constricted feeling, it was a limp utter fatigue feeling. I feel like there's gotta be commonly used words for this that I just haven't stumbled on yet?! I'm feeling pretty lost, especially after getting brushed off by my gp 😥
This time it affected the muscles around my chest too, every breath was a battle to force these limp dead-weight muscles to move my ribs and lungs to get any air in at all. I know my breathing slowed down too much (I counted ~7-9 breaths/minute) & I had multiple fits of full body shaking and jerking & my throat would close & I bounced my head on the tiles (seizure? I tested negative for epilepsy previously) but after a few rounds of that they started to ease and breathing eventually got easier. by the time my mum arrived to help me it had passed, so no-one else saw anything at all besides me being utterly exhausted on the floor 🙄
Does this happen to anyone else? I feel like I should have called an ambulance because of how slow my breathing was & the shaking fits. It was pretty scary, the involuntary breathing response just wouldn't kick in, each breath had to be fought for.
It wasn't an asthma attack, or panic, and I didn't have any problems breathing an hour later. I do have asthma but only need a rescue inhaler a few times a year. I've never really gotten the air hunger that seems fairly common around here. it wasn't a tight and constricted feeling, it was a limp utter fatigue feeling. I feel like there's gotta be commonly used words for this that I just haven't stumbled on yet?! I'm feeling pretty lost, especially after getting brushed off by my gp 😥