Hello Dearest Community, it's Friday , I'm kinda excited about this weekend, and nah ,I don't have anything planned out but I believe it's gonna be a good weekend. For this edition's prompt , let's dive in without further ado....
So as at last year February , I was having this very serious chest pain, and It wasn’t a small pain o. Like, it used to feel like something was pressing me hard on the chest, and if I lifted something heavy , or laughed too much ,I would feel it hard. So at first , I just brushed it off ,so I thought that maybe it was because I had been sleeping late , or maybe I had slept in the wrong position, you know those times when you wake up and your body is just somehow? Yeah... That was the feeling I thought it was.
But after some days, I just noticed that it was not going away, I would try to rest well, sleep okay, still then the pain would still come, so I started getting scared a bit, you know that kind of fear that just creeps in little by little,especially when it has to do with your heart or chest area , see ehn it wasn’t funny at all.
And then something strange now happened that made me start thinking deeper about the whole thing, anytime I would step out of the house, like maybe go to school or run an errand far away , the pain would just automatically disappear like it was never there, but once I am back home, especially when I sit or lie down for too long inside the house, it returns like that.
That was when I now told myself, "Hmm, this one is different." I had even taken some prescribed drugs , I went to the pharmacy and explained how I was feeling, and they gave me some meds for chest pain and discomfort, I took the full dose as prescribed, but honestly? It just didn’t change anything at all, the pain was just there like it had rented space in my chest.
It was then when I started thinking maybe the problem wasn’t just a physical one, I mean, the way the thing disappears once I am outside or around people was just too obvious, so I now said, okay, let me try something else, so instead of locking myself in at home all the time , I made a decision to leave the house more often, If I didn’t have to go school that day, I would just dress up and go to my sister’s place or visit my parents, even if I wasn’t doing anything serious, I would just be there, gist small, laugh a little, and spend some time.
And you see funny enough, within a few days of doing that, the pain started reducing, like it was very obvious, it wasn’t as intense anymore, and before long, I noticed I had stopped feeling it altogether.
That was when it clicked for me,the whole thing must have been tied to my mood, my environment, and just being isolated, i think I was feeling pressured emotionally and mentally, and all of that stress was manifesting as physical pain, and because I was always in the house, overthinking, sitting in silence, and not really having much activity or social interaction, it started showing in my body.
So It made me realize that sometimes, it is not medicine that your body needs ,sometimes you just need people, you need space to breathe, laugh, talk, and feel human again.
Till today, I try not to stay indoors for too long again,even if it is just a walk to the junction, or to buy something small from the street, I wil go,Or I will video call a friend or go sit with my family, see that period taught me that lifestyle changes are very powerful in a way
So yes, for me , it was not medication that did the job ,it was movement, human presence, and just stepping outside for air. And that lesson has stuck with me till now.
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