Post by Rabbit on Mar 3, 2020 16:02:10 GMT
I had a sharp pull up recently that frightened me big time and thought I’d had it tbh. So for you younger guys start doing something now ........
I felt bad and went to the doctor. Weak. Tired. Throat tickle. Lethargic. Lost interest; even in my film making stuff for YouTube. Got exhausted if I had to do anything. Went for walks and came home feeling dizzy and faint. Sealed the shower unit and the smell of the stuff I was using (I think) made me pass out completely in the kitchen for a few seconds. Hit a chair on the way down and I remember a scraping noise and the next thing, I was getting up. That really scared me.
So the doctor took my blood pressure 220 over something ..........
I had to go to hospital for a few days. Came home. Started feeling bad again so I went straight back to hospital.
Chest xrays. Heart pictures. A tube put into an artery in my arm right up to my heart so they could squirt ink in and check for cardio vascular disease. Nothing there. Various heart monitors.
In the end, they found that I have atrial fibrillation and a hearbeat that is irregular. That means my heart flutters and the beat is all over the place.
The funny thing is for years, I felt heart flutters; normally when I was doing any bigger performances or I was under stress. I also noticed even more when I took up teaching for a few years. Couldn’t keep that up so I retired. When kids got nasty, it affected me a lot and I could feel my heart going nuts at those times. The result was normally that I became exhausted and just crashed out.
The AF is likely to be something that I was born with and had no clue until now. I probably also inherited very high blood pressure. The AF doesn’t show in some people until they’re older.... in my case, 66.
I was in hospital for a week while they did those tests and honestly thought that was the end of me. Things gradually appeared and I felt it was also getting worse for me as that week passed.
Next will be a scan of my heart in London.
So two things:
a) start walking every day. Check with a monitor (like a Fitbit) that your heart doesn’t go too fast and try to keep it between 107 and 120 bpm or so when walking. That way, you won’t overdo it.
b) don’t eat or drink too much.
If you start now, it might delay something like this happening to you. I have devised different walks around this area with different lengths, depending how fit I feel. The main thing is not to go mad and push yourself too hard. That sends the heart into crisis.
I have also lost my tolerance for certain types of people. I used to try and be polite and make everything as smooth as possible, but with this illness that I had, I kind of lost my patience and tolerance levels of people that I no longer really have time for. It’s not exactly depression, but a kind of realisation that I have wasted far too much time with people that weren’t really worth even noticing.
It sounds kind of harsh, but the reality of the deadly situation I found myself in has kind of changed me I think.
So if you’re in your 40’s or 50’s ..... get moving before your attitude changes like mine has!
I felt bad and went to the doctor. Weak. Tired. Throat tickle. Lethargic. Lost interest; even in my film making stuff for YouTube. Got exhausted if I had to do anything. Went for walks and came home feeling dizzy and faint. Sealed the shower unit and the smell of the stuff I was using (I think) made me pass out completely in the kitchen for a few seconds. Hit a chair on the way down and I remember a scraping noise and the next thing, I was getting up. That really scared me.
So the doctor took my blood pressure 220 over something ..........
I had to go to hospital for a few days. Came home. Started feeling bad again so I went straight back to hospital.
Chest xrays. Heart pictures. A tube put into an artery in my arm right up to my heart so they could squirt ink in and check for cardio vascular disease. Nothing there. Various heart monitors.
In the end, they found that I have atrial fibrillation and a hearbeat that is irregular. That means my heart flutters and the beat is all over the place.
The funny thing is for years, I felt heart flutters; normally when I was doing any bigger performances or I was under stress. I also noticed even more when I took up teaching for a few years. Couldn’t keep that up so I retired. When kids got nasty, it affected me a lot and I could feel my heart going nuts at those times. The result was normally that I became exhausted and just crashed out.
The AF is likely to be something that I was born with and had no clue until now. I probably also inherited very high blood pressure. The AF doesn’t show in some people until they’re older.... in my case, 66.
I was in hospital for a week while they did those tests and honestly thought that was the end of me. Things gradually appeared and I felt it was also getting worse for me as that week passed.
Next will be a scan of my heart in London.
So two things:
a) start walking every day. Check with a monitor (like a Fitbit) that your heart doesn’t go too fast and try to keep it between 107 and 120 bpm or so when walking. That way, you won’t overdo it.
b) don’t eat or drink too much.
If you start now, it might delay something like this happening to you. I have devised different walks around this area with different lengths, depending how fit I feel. The main thing is not to go mad and push yourself too hard. That sends the heart into crisis.
I have also lost my tolerance for certain types of people. I used to try and be polite and make everything as smooth as possible, but with this illness that I had, I kind of lost my patience and tolerance levels of people that I no longer really have time for. It’s not exactly depression, but a kind of realisation that I have wasted far too much time with people that weren’t really worth even noticing.
It sounds kind of harsh, but the reality of the deadly situation I found myself in has kind of changed me I think.
So if you’re in your 40’s or 50’s ..... get moving before your attitude changes like mine has!