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dragonlady7my heart has been racing solidly for most of the evening now. I mean, since around six or seven pm.
it did that yesterday evening too, i vaguely recall.
it makes me feel short of breath although I'm not.
And it's giving me a headache.
I took a bath to ease my headache, and it helped relax the muscles I've been tensing without noticing, but now all my warmth-dilated blood vessels are pounding.
It's really hard to breathe.
I just counted heartbeats for a minute while staring at my computer clock (not easy without a second hand!) and it was 90 beats per minute. And during that time (it took me two and a half minutes to get a count where I know I didn't accidentally start over anywhere and end up with something ludicrous like 30) it fluctuated widly in speed.
Does this happen to anyone else? because it's really bothering me.
The only thing I can think is that a few weeks back when I had that awful chest cold and everyone said I had bronchitis, until I went to the doctor and he was like um... you're fine, he gave me an inhaler, as I think mostly a placebo to make me feel better, a sort of medical pat on the head. For those things to be effective they have to build up in your system, I think; I know my littlest sister is on the same inhaler (among others!) and she had to take it for months before they could tell whether it was working. So it was entirely to make me feel better. But I used it anyway, though not very faithfully I must admit (i just kept forgetting, and then the cold got better and I thought well it was a placebo anyway), but I have sporadically continued to use it. And I think I started having little episodes of my heart racing possibly around the time I started with it?
Though this has happened to me before, it just usually doesnt' last long and can be attributed to the aftereffects of exercise. (I have a bizzarre feeling now that if I went out and ran half a mile I'd feel better. At least my heart would be doing all this work for some reason. It wouldn't slow down any, but it'd get me breathing better...)
Sigh.
No, I'm going to bed.
Maybe it'll get better once I relax into sleep...
I hope so, it's making everything feel pressured and tight.
it did that yesterday evening too, i vaguely recall.
it makes me feel short of breath although I'm not.
And it's giving me a headache.
I took a bath to ease my headache, and it helped relax the muscles I've been tensing without noticing, but now all my warmth-dilated blood vessels are pounding.
It's really hard to breathe.
I just counted heartbeats for a minute while staring at my computer clock (not easy without a second hand!) and it was 90 beats per minute. And during that time (it took me two and a half minutes to get a count where I know I didn't accidentally start over anywhere and end up with something ludicrous like 30) it fluctuated widly in speed.
Does this happen to anyone else? because it's really bothering me.
The only thing I can think is that a few weeks back when I had that awful chest cold and everyone said I had bronchitis, until I went to the doctor and he was like um... you're fine, he gave me an inhaler, as I think mostly a placebo to make me feel better, a sort of medical pat on the head. For those things to be effective they have to build up in your system, I think; I know my littlest sister is on the same inhaler (among others!) and she had to take it for months before they could tell whether it was working. So it was entirely to make me feel better. But I used it anyway, though not very faithfully I must admit (i just kept forgetting, and then the cold got better and I thought well it was a placebo anyway), but I have sporadically continued to use it. And I think I started having little episodes of my heart racing possibly around the time I started with it?
Though this has happened to me before, it just usually doesnt' last long and can be attributed to the aftereffects of exercise. (I have a bizzarre feeling now that if I went out and ran half a mile I'd feel better. At least my heart would be doing all this work for some reason. It wouldn't slow down any, but it'd get me breathing better...)
Sigh.
No, I'm going to bed.
Maybe it'll get better once I relax into sleep...
I hope so, it's making everything feel pressured and tight.
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Date: 2002-03-17 08:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-03-18 06:32 am (UTC)my breathing problems stopped, it's just that the doctor told me to keep taking it for a while after i felt better just because studies indicate that you feel better before you ARE better.
But I don't need the inhaler, and it's silly to do things entirely because a doctor tells you to, when he's also telling you that there's really nothing wrong with you.
we're an overmedicated society. Yes, a lot of people who would have simply suffered untreated are getting treated now, but a lot of other people are just getting medicine thrown at them because they're upset that they don't feel well and the doctors don't really know how to fix it. Like all the little kids with viral infections whose parents demand antibiotics and the doctors who figure well, it can't HURT them.
And all the people who are on like eight medicines and aren't sure which one is for what, and so even if one condition improves, they keep taking them all and keep getting the prescriptions refilled because they have no idea...
I'm just glad there's nothing seriously wrong with me, and I'm hoping this heartbeat thing eases off once I actually throw that inhaler out and stop taking the occasional doses that are probably messing with me.
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Date: 2002-03-18 06:21 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2002-03-18 06:27 am (UTC)mine's still somewhat fast, but it's not so hard.
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Date: 2002-03-18 06:48 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2002-03-18 06:53 am (UTC)Well, your heart must be plenty strong now! I was wondering about that last night. "My heart's beating as if i'd just run a race... hey, does that mean I get some of the benefit of the exercise as if I'd just run a race? Tee hee. That'd be neat."
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Date: 2002-03-18 07:00 am (UTC)as for heart being strong, i think the doctors said i had a very very very slight heart murmur at that time too... i think it's gone now. if that can happen. i dunno.
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Date: 2002-03-18 07:08 am (UTC)So she lived until she was 13, and died of entirely unrelated causes (we had her put to sleep because she couldn't walk).
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Date: 2002-03-18 07:53 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2002-03-18 07:58 am (UTC)Yeah, poor doggy... but it was on Christmas she lost the use of her legs, and she seemed not to be in any pain, and just lay in her bed in the middle of the floor and everyone petted her and gave her attention and food and love.
The next day she was crying, and we think she was in more pain, and the vet's office was open, so we took her to them and they said yeah, we can't make her better, and we said ok then, make it not hurt her anymore. It was very sad, because I was only 12 or so and she had been my doggy since I was a baby, but... she'd lived 10 years longer than they'd said she would, so... that was it.
So she had a nice long life and a relatively painless death, which is what we all hope for.
Liesl
Date: 2002-03-18 06:39 am (UTC)Re: Liesl
Date: 2002-03-18 06:47 am (UTC)Well, I don't really have asthma, so despite what the doctor said, I'm stopping now.
I think I should be done anyhow.
Re: Liesl
Date: 2002-03-18 06:51 am (UTC)Well, I don't really have asthma, so despite what the doctor said, I'm stopping now.
I think I should be done anyhow.