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Mar. 17th, 2002 11:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
