About 10am this morning I was following my roommate down the interstate (helping him move a few things) and all of a sudden, I had the worst pain I've ever felt in my belly.
The pain was between my nipples and the middle of my belly, but it was all around my body- even that section of my back hurt. It felt like someone had tied a very tight band around my torso and was pulling it tighter and tighter.
After being in pain for only about 5 minutes, I had to pull over. I jumped out of my car and ran over to the gaurd rail, thinking that perhaps I would vomit. My body didn't want to vomit and I did feel compelled to do anything with bowels- the pain was all inside me. I tried sitting down on the guard rail , but I found that standing was the best thing.
My roomate pulled over too, and he gave me a bottle of water which was mostly frozen, so I sipped down as much of that as possible, and held the bottle to my head.
I decided I needed to keep my torso straight and elongated, seeing as how that was what hurt the least- so I reclined the seat in my car and proceeded to lay there for about 45 minutes until I felt like I could finish the drive the 20 mile drive home.
I got home and immediately laid down on my bed and stretched out with my arms above my head. I did deep breaths, 3 seconds in, 3 seconds out (tattoo trick- hahah) and eventually put myself to sleep.
I slept for about an hour and a half and since I am awake now, I still have some soreness in what is I assume my diaphragm? and it hurts to cough or dramatically expand or contract my stomach.
So what really scared me was this was easily some of the worst pain ever. And I've done some incredibly painful things- but this seriously almost broke me.
I've tried to diagnose via WebMD and such, but it doesn't seem to tell me much. lower pain would signal an organ being out of sync, but pain this high is hard to explain.
So here's the deal- I'm overweight but I eat healthy. I only drink one soda a day. All my body functions are regular. I have had a sinus infection / cough thing going for just at a week now, but its seriously almost on its way out.
Does anybody know what just happened? Its not menstrual pain, its not my sickle cells, its not heartburn....
Also, kudos to Kraig, the world's best roomate with the world's worst hair.