Hello All,
I wanted to share my experience in hopes of raising awareness, civil discussion, and as a resource for others if they ever have the unfortunate fate of suffering a dissection, transient ischemic attack, or stroke.
BLUF: Listen to your body and be familiar with symptoms stroke, TIA, and CAD. Your time is very limited in maximizing chances of full recovery. You only get one brain.
Background: I am in my late thirties, extremely active, great shape, no alcohol/tobacco, blood pressure under 115/75, and a resting heart rate in the low 40s. I train 3-5 days a week BJJ (approximately 300 hours on the mat total), run, lift, and a few other outside hobbies. I listen to my body and adjust my intensity on the mats accordingly. I also do not fight through submissions and embrace the hell out of "tap early, tap often".
The event: It was a collar choke class day, my training partner and I exchanged reps without cranking and all went well. A few rounds on the mat and a friend gets me in for one last roll. As I go to break closed guard, he sits up and quickly gets a cross collar choke grip around my jaw. His thumb is digging in to my jawline fairly hard as he tried to cinch it down, I elevate his elbow to clear the choke and as I start to unwind, his thumb slipped and applied a substantial amount of pressure to my carotid, just under the jawline. It hurt but was less than .25s of contact before the grip was cleared and I was free to move. Match concluded and I go about my post Saturday routine. Spent about 2 hours in town before heading home.
Symptoms Onset: While showering, half of my hand went numb. I am accustomed to some numbness due to a prior surgery but this was unique in just half the hand going numb. It registers as weird but goes away after 2-3 minutes and I finish my shower. I notice that my vision has a "camera flash" like spot in it shortly after, it's bright as fuck where I live, so I again discount this symptom as it lasts under 3 minutes as well. Cue the couch time, the spot is just a wisp and now I have what feels like a 1/10 caffeine style headache. I hadn't had any coffee that day so again, I write it off and continue relaxing. After about 20 minutes, I get up to make some coffee and it was like a light switch was flipped and the double vision turned on like it was the only way my eyes ever worked. You can not ignore sudden onset diplopia, get to the ER asap, so off I went. During the ride, the double vision subsided under 5 mins
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I’m not a chiropractor but I see a lot of hypocrisy from the Medicine Reddit page. I’ve read that the documented incidence rate of stroke caused by cervical manipulation of a chiropractor is 1 in a million, but other common treatments meant to relive the same pain have way higher incidence rates. I read that NSAIDs cause 153 strokes per million, and cervical surgery causing 500 per million.
I just wanted to post here because I saw on that page that doctors would refuse to refer a patient for cervical manipulation due to the stroke risk. I can’t help but to see hypocrisy in that statement when some of the alternatives they recommend are documented to be a more dangerous risk of causing stroke.
Just wondering what your thoughts are on this matter.
Guys, what are the odds that an arterial leak or tear is the culprit? Could that be caused by non traumatic non eventful masturbation in one session? With zero pain, sound effects, swelling, unnatural movement, popping noise, no loss of erection etc. Just the next day knowing something was off. Acutely. Is this far fetched? The basic doppler scans showed normalcy. Wouldn't it take something significant to cause an arterial or venous tear or leak? Thank you for your input in advance.
In every healthy male the smooth muscle relaxes inside the penis when they are achieving and maintaining an erection. When the penis is flaccid the smooth muscle is tonically contracted. When you are cold or exercising the smooth muscle contracts even more making the penis smaller and also firmer in texture. This has been described as a rubbery feeling corpora when palpated rather than a spongy feeling. This is all normal.
My doppler ultrasound after running on the spot to increase my heart rate and bring on a severe hard flaccid penis showed that my cavernosal arteries were completely collapsed. This “hard flaccid” symptom I am experiencing is a severe smooth muscle contraction in the corpora, a much harder contraction than any man without this condition would ever experience. The corpora is shrunken and hard as a rock at this point. Harder than a complete erection even.
The reason for this is possibly because there is more blood trying to come into the penis than there should be from an arterial problem and the organ contracts to counter it.
When the penis expands for an erection the incoming (arterial) blood is trapped by the expanding sinusoids. Also the veins are compressed by the expanding sinusoids against the tunica, preventing outflow and therefor allowing an erection to occur and be maintained. Hard flaccid is the opposite. There is severe contraction which closes off the arterial inflow during a severe attack of hard flaccid. This was proven in my doppler ultrasound. This is why the penis is so small when hard flaccid occurs. It is firm because there is a very small amount of blood in the penis and the penile smooth muscle is severely contracted to prevent any coming in. I was told I had an “erection” when this was occurring during the ultrasound (lol) but it became obvious that it wasn’t after I had Caverject to perform an erect ultrasound. Every man with hard flaccid knows that their penis is smaller than even a normal flaccid when they have hard flaccid. Unfortunately most urologists are so far behind they believe that only an erection can make a penis hard and overlook the already proven fact that smooth muscle contraction can make it hard as well.
It is a theory that if it is arterial damage causing this it is either not severe enough, or our bodies react differently than other men and priapism does not occur. Instead the penis reacts to prevent the unwanted erection by contracting to close off the arterial inflow therefor preventi
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I've been very lucky. I’m 52. My hot flashes stopped about 6 weeks ago after 2 years. I feel great.
Doc called with blood test results, I had a physical a week ago everything looks good, slightly elevated liver enzymes (no surprise), Pap smear normal. BUT abnormal thyroid and high cholesterol. Not so high that I need to go on meds, and thyroid therapy might fix the cholesterol. But after the chol. speech she's like, you need to watch your diet and exercise and I'm like, "I work out an hour a day almost every day, and I intermittent fast!" and she says, oh, glad you're leading a healthy lifestyle. THEN she says the thyroid can change the cholesterol numbers. I’m so annoyed at the Diet and Exercise repetition! You don’t know me!
She wants me to get more blood tests, but I just started taking supplements- thyroid support, red yeast rice, B complex- and see if anything changes in a month.
So anyway, tests in my immediate future plus an ultrasound for my carotid artery. She said my ECG looked “beautiful” so I don’t think it’s a blocked artery, but there’s a very noticeable, prominent pulse in neck (right carotid- near the thyroid, actually). She didn’t listen to it, just said she was going to order an ultrasound- this week. Can anyone tell me if they have any experience with this? Multiple Google searches say it could be a kinked artery or a tumor body. There’s no pain, I feel great- but I’m STRESSED! I’d rather just keel over.
