Panic attacks.

I almost died last year after a botched surgery, which resulted in a second emergency surgery a week after the botched one. I experienced all kinds of trauma through the entire process of healing and recovery, and I still have problems, physically, from all of it. Like I've never truly healed. After my first "panic" attack, all the blood work was run, EKG, 48 hour heart monitor, CT brain and sinus scan.....all normal. I think what I've experienced is more akin to PTSD than depression. I've always been a "pull myself up by my bootstraps" kind of person and the struggle to do that has knocked me for a loop through all this. I've always resisted the drugs, too, but right now they're helping.

 

it tastes sort of salty/metal-like. Your saliva isn't pink. There is an obvious separation between phlegm & the blood, either small flecks of blood or bigger clumps. The blood has already been exposed to oxygen & started to coagulate. It is still bright red. Whatever the cause (often coughing causing tears in your lungs & etc) get it checked out. Been there. Done that. No fun. Being macho and toughing it out is reckless. See a doctor.

 

It wasn't blood. It was coloring dye from a Cherry slushie. The point of the story was that my hypochondria made me flip out about something that was really nothing.