It's amazing and also scary what chronic stress does to the body.

I know researching on my own is probably not the best idea but when I was talking to the doctor in er and brought up stress it is related. My vagus nerve going wild, panic attacks, even gerd can be caused by chronic stress. Last year I was sick a ton because my immune system decided to stop doing it's job and I think stress weakened it a bunch causing back to back illness and reinfection. I made jokes in the past about how stress is going to be the death of me and here we are. I'm trying to lower my stress but unfortunately they are tied into work and financial stress which are not easily fixed especially in this world and economy. I'm trying to keep focus on other things and trying to stay grounded but without fixing the two biggest stressors in my life I don't think it will do much. I'm just shocked I don't have high blood pressure because stress usually raises blood pressure. I have the opposite I have low blood pressure well it bounces between normal and low quite a bit.

I guess I should get off my lazy backside and look for a primary care doctor and call up that cardiologist I was recommended. I shouldn't be surprised given that bad hearts are notorious on my mother's side. She had a heart attack a decade ago and so did my two uncles and many others on her side had heart issues too. I wouldn't be surprised if I too had a bad heart. I'll probably call tomorrow or sometime later this week I'm having big motivational issues at the moment plus I'm still tired from that panic attack. Sometimes it takes awhile to recover energy from those.