So in November 2019 I got food poisoning from bad/badly cooked chicken. I went to urgent care about 5 days later because my arm/left side of my neck felt strange. They did a few EKGs and they came back weird, so they decided to call a STEMI code (basically prepare for cardiac trouble). I was transferred to the hospital for the cath lab, where I was diagnosed with myopericarditis, which we're becoming all too familiar with - inflammation of the lining and heart muscle. I forgot what meds I took, but they weren't for all that long, and a heart sonogram later I was cured of it.
I very quickly looked at some info regarding myocarditis on the Mayo Clinic site, and it basically said heart inflammation ranges from not bad, as in medication for a few months and you're good, to needing a fucking transplant if it's bad enough.
It's becoming apparent that people with vaccine-induced heart inflammation are kinda fucked. What about people such as myself, who have had what was for all intents and purposes mild heart inflammation that was easily and relatively quickly fixed with medication? Do you guys think I have only a few years to live? Or should I have a "normal" lifespan, made shorter by poor diet and stress?
It sounds like your heart problems stemmed from a prion disease rather than just food poisoning.
That's why we don't eat cows that have mad cow disease.
Effectively, if you ingest/inject active biological material from another species, you go through something called rejection syndrome. It's why we can't just plop a pig heart into a human's chest and call it a day. Some therapy has to be done to the heart so the body won't reject it outright.
However, if that biological material not only is from another species but it has an auto-immune / protein(prion) disorder, then not only do you go through rejection syndrome, where your body tries to assimilate the foreign matter, but you are looking at that same foreign matter being willing to attack itself as well.
Effectively, it's the difference of a foreign pathogen going in and shooting up everyone in a green shirt and a foreign pathogen going in with a suicide vest on and blowing everything all to hell, no matter whose team who is on.
Should I be dead if that were the case?
No, it just means your body successfully removed the foreign body that was trying to, for lack of a better term, assimilate you and then self-destruct due to an auto-immune disorder.
If you had been immuno-compromised, then yeah, you threaded the needle, buddy. Be thankful to be alive.
Well shit.
Don't worry, you'll be fine, as much as anyone else whose had something like a minor heart attack with no permanent damage.
If you've had any neurological damage, then I'd worry just a smidge.
But if you can still think and reason the same way, and you don't have any bouts of rage and/or idiocy, then I don't think you've got anything more wrong with you than the next guy.
After 30 we are all 1 day further from our potential peak health... Sad, but true.
Even if something permanent happened, all is not lost. Everyone has weaknesses, but we supplement them with our strengths. So long as you have one strength, you can use it to conquer any and all weaknesses -- induced or otherwise.
Keep on keepin' on, and don't give into the temptation to call it quits because you fear you'll never amount to what you could have before the illness.
What doesn't kill you really does make you stronger, because it gives you an opportunity to use strengths you never knew you had and to take the strengths you have and make them stronger than ever before.