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yeah I only get it for like 15 minutes tops.
but im heading to john muir sometime next week to get an echo from my mother and make sure everythings still looking good. its been a few years since Ive gotten one.
About a decade ago my mother was the one that found a bad valve in my grandfather so he has a metallic valve in there. So yeah... hearts are in our family.

 

heh?

 

Can't the heart over take it for soo long before it going into vtach?
Or vfib?!

 

Its for everyone.

 

I was curious that what your heart doe, if it would be considered asysmptomatic Psvt but you stated you get light headed and also brought on only by exercise.

Yes, In SVT the heart can either correct itself on its own or I believe it can go to a ventricular ryhthm if not corrected and quit after that.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong on that one.
Unfortunately, If you don't use it you lose it ( damn memory ) . I hate that.

 

you mean the bls updates then?

 

Good luck Serge, go get 'em.

 

Anybody else's NR going to expire this march? I really should but feeling lazy to do it and just keeping my state cert. my wife told me there is a full CE course online that you can take that'll credit towards your registry.

 

yeah well it most often happens when im at the gym, but not always during an exercise. the last time it happened i was standing shaking my leg out getting loose to do squats and it started.

 

wow...

I am a fatass and my resting heart rate is 58...gets into the low 50's when I am at complete rest.

 

they have you on cardizem (diltiezem)?

 

yeah, cardizem is a calcium channel blocker; that may be why the beta blocker works for yah.

Lots of people that take cardizem take it for A-fib (old people) to control their HR.

We also give it IV in the field for the same reason (SVT, A-fib uncontrolled)

So you have chest pain when your HR gets up there?

 

wow, that sucks....

Whats your official diagnosis? Do they know why this is happening?

Sorry for all the sorta personal questions. As a paramedic it is very interesting to hear about these things, especially because I may encounter someone like you in the field.

 

thanks Jasmine!

Very interesting; hope everything works out for you.

 

you'd be surprised at the weird shit we remember.

 

I see we are talking about heart beats!

I have a heart murmur nothing cool,

But I have a SLOW heart beat...

When I meditate and completely relax I can get it to drop pretty low. When I was in the hospital for some BS work they had me hooked up, so I relaxed and started meditating and got it down to 26 or 28bpm


No reason to post just thought it was cool!

 

In class when we were learning about vagal maneuvers I got mine down to 40. It didn't feel good

 

Why don't triangular come folded properly

 

I got mine down to 35 in the back of the box on a clinical. Was messing around with the monitor at 2am and decided to get myself down as low as possible and print a tracing

My preceptor opened the door to the box and though I was trying to shit myself

Funny though is that I didn't feel any different at 35...took a solid 2 mins to get back to my norm of 55-60.

 

Wow, i thought my 2 days of 150 bpm were bad...

Hope you get better