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  4. Economic Conditions - Nashville, TN, U.S., Global

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    1 hour ago, TNinVB said:

    I know exactly how you feel. My shortness of breath and breathing issues is due to me having a vocal cord disfunction, which in turn has caused me anxiety. Like you, lately if I get a shortness of breath, its very easy to let my anxiety get the best of me. I never even experienced anxiety before all of this. It started last August when I was at home one day an could not cleat my throat of phlegm and thought I was choking. I want to the ER because I was so freaked out. To make a long story short, I went to the ER 5 times from August to November. I'd have issues with by breathing being labored, problems swallowing, and choking feeling. The entire experience caused me terrible anxiety attacks. It's a pretty scary feeling thinking that you are going to choke to death or can't breath. Of course every time I went the ER they would check to see if it was my heart which it wasn't. The doctors were stumped. Even my doctor increased my allergy medicine thinking it could be allergy related, and prescribed me medicine for acid reflux because apparently it can cause some nasty stuff. Had a skin allergy test and was only found to be allergic to dust mites and dog hair. I have had dogs forever and the allergist didn't feel it was that considering my symptoms just started. She even had me so a pulmonary test to see if I had developed asthma. I had not. I had an endoscopy where they dilated my esophagus thinking it might help with the choking sensation. I didn't. I would even feel like something would be stuck in my thought. FINALLY in January when I went back to see the allergist for a followup, she didn't feel my issues were allergy related, but that I could possibly have a vocal cord disfunction and should see a speech pathologist. Me being ignorant about VCD, I was like "I can speak just fine". So, I went to see a speech pathologist. She placed a camera up my nose and went down my throat so we could see my vocal cords. She had me do a few voice and breathing exercises to see my vocal cords function. Low and behold I a had a VCD. Basically when your vocal cords are supposed to be open, mine will closed. She gave me literature and amazingly all of the issues I'd been having were symptoms of VCD. You can look up videos on YouTube. The video of the old man with Strider scared the crap out of me. That's a very severe VCD. There is no cure for a VCD and apparently is quite common in athletes, which I am not lol. Basically, I have to retrain my vocal cords. I do rescue breaths when I feel an episode coming on, and they help immensely. I'm not sure if you know what they are, but is not you should look them up. I will inhale two quick breaths through my nose as if you are sniffing flowers, and then go right to my exhale for four seconds. The key is all in not pausing between the inhales and exhale. It's like a circular motion. When exhaling, your lips should be pursed as if you are sucking on a straw and the exhale should come from your abdomen/diaphram. These rescue breathing exercises have helped a lot. No more ER trips and anxiety attacks. I think having all the knowledge of knowing what is wrong with me made the anxiety attacks subside. The one silver lining for me, is that I lost over 20 lbs due to not eating a lot for the fear of choking. I lived off of soup and mushy foods.  Now, with COVID-19 being around, I have started to get very anxious. Every time I feel like I'm getting shortness of breath I start to wonder if it's a symptom. Therefore I can start to get that tingling feeling all over by body like I'm about to have an attack. I know it's a vicious cycle. If you weren't already aware of rescue breathing, I hope you can look into it and give it a try. I hope things get better for you. Hang in there....

    Thank you. This message has kept me at bay for a good part of the day. It's crazy just how much reassurance helps in situations like this. Thank you, once again.

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  5. Economic Conditions - Nashville, TN, U.S., Global

    in Nashville

    Posted · Edited by OnePointEast

    28 minutes ago, Nash_12South said:

    I don't think it is possible for the US to do that. Medically it may make sense, economically we can't sustain it. Too many people would be out of work and out of money, no matter government help. Americans didn't like to be told what to do before this happened. Red states are dragging their feet on closing down and will push to reopen asap. There are questions we are just beginning to think about. What about your next haircut? Your wife's beauty shop appointment? Want to plant a garden?  How long can you really work from home with your spouse and kids without bloodshed?  No play dates for kids, no meeting up with your friends - for 6 more months? Now this may get really bad in the next week, and we are left with no choice, but I don't see this lasting beyond 6-8 weeks max., before things start opening up.  Not the New York's perhaps, but in other parts of the country.....

    Here is an interesting article with the premise that it's already too late for the shelter in place plans. 

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/03/24/coronavirus-shutdowns-worth-public-health-system-unprepared-column/2898324001/

     

    Thanks. All of this has given me some debilitating anxiety and it's worse now when one of my symptoms of aniexty is shortness of breath or shallow breath. It leads me to think of symptoms of Covid-19. Though, I haven't had a cough or a fever, and since I remember aniexty gives me shortness of breath episodes, it just leads me to think of a worst-case scenario. It's all a cascade of emotions and thoughts.

  16. Economic Conditions - Nashville, TN, U.S., Global

    in Nashville

    Posted · Edited by OnePointEast

    18 minutes ago, Binbin98 said:

    1. NYC is not empty at all at least not yet. I went to class today and people were everywhere as they are on a normal weekday

    2. NYC has one coronavirus case and the patient has been in isolation from the moment she got to JFK airport. That being said, a minor outbreak is occuring in Westchester which is in upstate New York near Connecticut.

    All in all I would not bet on an empty New York due to this, New York City was alive as ever during the AIDS outbreak and Swine Flu, although I know this virus is different.

    I thought NYC had more than 40 cases now, 37 of which can be traced to Garbuz.

  17. Nashville Bits and Pieces

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    33 minutes ago, satalac said:

    I think it's more of a correction than a crash. Nashville weathered the last crash fairly well due to its diverse economy. Plus with the coronavirus around the corner, our healthcare sector should be booming!

    Someone should do a Coronavirus thread, with its impacts on the Nashville economy, if it does become a pandemic.

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