Ivan the Elder
Silver Member
About a week and one half ago I was sitting in the early evening working on my computer, as usual. I now live in an apartment for the last six months. It is usually reasonably quiet although not as quiet as the house I lived in with my x wife for the last 30 years. That house was silent but for the sounds of nature.
As I sat here all of a sudden an atomic bomb exploded. The sound was instantaneous and so incredibly loud it put me into a weird state where I couldn't even think or move for a few minutes. Then I began to recover a bit and realized that something had happened in the upstairs apartment directly above mine. Something extremely heavy had been dropped to the floor which is my ceiling directly above my head. When my PTSD set in my first side effect was bad startling whenever they called my name at the psych ward while I was sleeping and needed my meds. I also was startling to loud sounds, like people screaming and/or banging their head on the wall. I never used to startle before, even to things that would startle most people.
As I began to realize what had happened I finally stood up after about five minutes. I felt really crappy. Just a few days before I had my platelet levels measured as I do every week and they had gone up to the highest level since 8 months ago. My platelets are affected by my norepinephrine level, the higher it goes at any time the more platelets it destroys.
About half an hour after that sound I began to feel like I was going to barf. That was very unusual, I never throw up, not even over 10 years ago when I used to drink too much. I was feeling really bad and felt that way for the rest of the night. I finally went to sleep by taking a benzo at higher than usual dose. The next Monday when I normally have my platelet levels measured every week they had dropped by twenty points. That is not a good thing since that took them down to close to the minimum level for my Hep C treatment which is to start in a couple of days.
I have never in my life ever startled that badly from anything. It turned out the guy upstairs who was just moving in had managed to knock over a full sized dining table with a heavy glass top. It had slowly tipped over until the entire edge on one side evenly hit the floor. It didn't break so there was just the single giant kaboom sound that was so loud if felt like it actually hit my head. I get my platelets checked today and I sure hope they are recovering. I don't know what to do about a sound like that. It made me really sick feeling and it badly affected my nervous system and my vascular system. It actually has damaged my health.
As I sat here all of a sudden an atomic bomb exploded. The sound was instantaneous and so incredibly loud it put me into a weird state where I couldn't even think or move for a few minutes. Then I began to recover a bit and realized that something had happened in the upstairs apartment directly above mine. Something extremely heavy had been dropped to the floor which is my ceiling directly above my head. When my PTSD set in my first side effect was bad startling whenever they called my name at the psych ward while I was sleeping and needed my meds. I also was startling to loud sounds, like people screaming and/or banging their head on the wall. I never used to startle before, even to things that would startle most people.
As I began to realize what had happened I finally stood up after about five minutes. I felt really crappy. Just a few days before I had my platelet levels measured as I do every week and they had gone up to the highest level since 8 months ago. My platelets are affected by my norepinephrine level, the higher it goes at any time the more platelets it destroys.
About half an hour after that sound I began to feel like I was going to barf. That was very unusual, I never throw up, not even over 10 years ago when I used to drink too much. I was feeling really bad and felt that way for the rest of the night. I finally went to sleep by taking a benzo at higher than usual dose. The next Monday when I normally have my platelet levels measured every week they had dropped by twenty points. That is not a good thing since that took them down to close to the minimum level for my Hep C treatment which is to start in a couple of days.
I have never in my life ever startled that badly from anything. It turned out the guy upstairs who was just moving in had managed to knock over a full sized dining table with a heavy glass top. It had slowly tipped over until the entire edge on one side evenly hit the floor. It didn't break so there was just the single giant kaboom sound that was so loud if felt like it actually hit my head. I get my platelets checked today and I sure hope they are recovering. I don't know what to do about a sound like that. It made me really sick feeling and it badly affected my nervous system and my vascular system. It actually has damaged my health.
