Kaylee Quinlan
01-16-2014, 07:09 PM
I have been having a lot of issues over the last few months, that have pretty much turned out to be health anxiety. Well...I was finally starting to realize this and realize that I was just fine...until 2 mornings ago...I woke up coughing my head off and it tasted like vomit. I went into the bathroom and coughed into the sink and i either coughed up stomach acid or puke. I have had pretty bad acid reflux for the past years, so it was probably stomach acid and i probably aspirated. I am a smoke and probably dont have the healthiest of lungs as well. So...I went to the dr, he said I probably aspirated but since I woke up coughing, I may have coughed it all up. He said it could take weeks for symptoms to show if I did not cough it all up. Now I am freaking out that I will get aspiration pneumonia. I have read awful horror stories about people dying from it and that it is the worst kind of pneumonia and a lot of people end up hospitalized. I feel fine now except a little cough. So, why cant I just continue with life until I do actually get it, if i even do? Im so afraid of dying that it has consumed me. Has aspiration ever happened to anyone? Im so scared, I dont know what to do.