The pain has been horrific. Upper chest\/shoulder\/neck. When I breathe deeply or lay down to sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Went to urgent care yesterday and another COVID19 test (results in 2-4 days!) and chest x-ray (negative) later and I still have no definitive diagnosis. Update – Dec 26 2020 – COVID19 test negative! That’s five COVID tests I’ve had since the pandemic started – all negative. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But as I was reflecting back on my December 16, 2020 visit with the cardiologist who mentioned pericarditis<\/a>; I started doing some research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And that’s what I am pretty darn sure I have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Echocardiogram is next Wednesday which will hopefully tell me if my heart is damaged. If yes, then we do a CT of my heart to figure out exactly how damaged and what next steps are. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In the meantime, holy shit it is painful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n UPDATE January 6, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n I had a week of no pain whatsoever – it was wonderful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Yesterday (January 4, 2021), the pain started again and it continues today (January 5, 2021). It is worse when laying down, same as before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Unfortunately the nurse at the Pulse Heart clinic in Auburn wouldn’t tell me the results of the echo I had done on December 30, 2020; she said if there was anything concerning, they would have called me so that should give me some peace of mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I want to know the results and I guess I have to wait until January 18th. So very disappointed in the lack of patient care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The pain has been horrific. Upper chest\/shoulder\/neck. When I breathe deeply or lay down to sleep. Went to urgent care yesterday and another COVID19 test (results in 2-4 days!) and chest x-ray (negative) later and I still have no definitive …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-personal-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5122"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5134,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions\/5134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}