A Possible Unfun Explanation, New Noggin Protector

Yesterday I was telling my buddy at the gym about my trip to the ER Friday night. The gym session itself was subpar, I felt low energy and the chest pain kept me from doing much. However the information I got regarding my incident was very interesting. My buddy said a mutual friend of ours went through something very similar. He had tremendous chest pain, went to the ER, had the same tests I did and was told his heart and arteries were fine. However the eventual cause hit me out of left field, shingles. I reached out to our mutual friend later in the day to find out more.

Evidently in some people bad chest pain is a preliminary symptom of oncoming shingles, in my buddies case somewhere between a week or two after the chest pain he started to develop the rash which turned into full blown shingles. The description of his shingles experience was not pretty. He said the nerve pain was miserable and it lasted a couple weeks.

So this information was both good and bad for me. If given a choice I would take shingles over cardiac problems but if that is indeed what is going on I have an unfun future ahead of me. On a positive note last night I was actually able to sleep on my side for the first time since Friday.

Last night I shot a video reviewing my new helmet as well as my entire helmet collection which is unnecessarily large at this point. In total I have something like 8 helmets. Today I am supposed to be receiving my new Mten Mini so if time and motivation allows I may be doing an unboxing video as well tonight.