u/Lanky-Luck-3532

I think you guys have done me a massive favor and I really want to say thank you for it.

I have been existentially fearful about my body’s issues for the last week and it’s been both a huge distraction and a barrier to living my life. But that changed today when one post on this subreddit taught me how to burp myself and another explained the mechanic of what was making my heart misbehave based on their own experience.

I’ve had a high heart rate for days. Later on in the day, I seem to have an easier time keeping it managed on the lower end through hydration, but overnight especially when I was laying flat in bed I’d have issues with waking up with a raised heart rate that got worse if I tried to get up and move, triggering palpitations. I kept getting woken up in the middle of the night for seemingly no reason and I haven’t slept more than three consecutive hours at night (my record on Tuesday was 5 total, with interruptions) in almost a week. I’ve had cardiac tests done that all came back fine and I’m still wearing the Zio monitor, but it seems likely it’ll all come back as sinus rhythm.

Yesterday, I developed strong burning in my chest and throat after eating something that I was worried was an allergy and I ended up at the ER. Thankfully, my very kind PA reassured me that my tissues looked mildly irritated but that was likely due to my existing GERD and I thought damn…this is the craziest reflux I’ve ever had. That would suck if this is the new normal for me now.

And then, today. Sleep deprived. No food would go down without adding to the burning. I suddenly got an idea and started looking up burping techniques out of pure frustration. Yesterday, getting my echo, I had noticed a heart rate fall for an hour or so as my tech pressed the ultrasound wand into my aorta area and I heard and felt a bubble shift around in there, so the idea of gas was planted but not fully understood yet.

Thanks to all of you, I finally burped this afternoon. And the burning subsided almost immediately. And then I’ve burped again. And again. And again. Even a really big one! And my resting heart rate has dropped so much already in between times when a new burp builds up. I’ve been drinking so much water since I got Covid a few weeks ago, I’ve been diluting my stomach acid too much, creating extra gas that I’m simply not releasing as I should be.

I know I’m not out of the woods yet, I have to manage my diet the next few weeks and work to make sure the air is getting freed up when it starts to cause pressure for me again, but hopefully with some work, in a couple of days, I’ll be back to a relatively normal pace of life.

Title says it all, basically.

We’ve been living in this complex for over a year and used autopay to always pay the rent on the first of every month. We signed a lease extension with the management company to add 6 more months before we plan to move out of state.

Suddenly, this month, we receive a threatening notice about rent being unpaid from one of the leasing agents in the main office without any other previous communication. I’ve gone ahead and paid in full including the penalty fee, but something feels wrong about this to me.

The website had all of our banking information on auto pay for over a year and the first thing we heard when it didn’t anymore was an eviction threat. Am I crazy in thinking that we should have at least been told we’d need to reset auto pay for the lease extension? How would I have even known that rent wasn’t paid this month?