When the Going Gets Tough
Last Thursday, while I was sitting in front of my computer, a few minutes after getting up from bed, I felt a rather disturbing chest pain that only radiated to my left side. Naturally, that freaked me out. I was thinking about not going to work but then I changed my mind when it suddenly went away. But throughout that afternoon and into the next two days, my head was heavy and I was feeling grouchy, tired, and generally not well. When I went to the clinic, I found out that my blood pressure was a bit high, although not at an alarming level yet. This brought me to panic mode again, making me think about the food I ate the last few days and the fact that I haven’t been active at all since the badminton tournament last month. The fact that I’m also a bit stressed out and not sleeping well the past few days, I know what I had to do. Hay, I’m not even 30 (although very soon, I’ll be) and I already have to suffer through this! I guess there’s no better motivation to be a health buff than actually going through some health problems. Better start early before I have any need for constant medication, or worse, treatments like chelation. To allow blood to flow freely to the heart, in cases of clogged arteries, chelation therapy is used to target, more specifically “chelate,” calcium deposits in the arteries. It comes in the form of oral chelation, which means taking tablets like any regular medicine. It’s not a drastic treatment as surgery is, but still, the best way to go is prevention. Start at the cause and then try to maintain living the healthy way. Not always easy, but like I always say, it beats the alternative.