Yesterday I was about to bike home, so I put on my helmet and my yellow vest and all of a sudden I went really pale in the face, started to shake somewhat and my heart was beating really fast. The fast heartbeat lasted for a good couple minutes, while the other stuff lasted much longer. Should I take any further action or should I just forget about it?
Your folks are military, right? Go to a doctor, man, especially if you don’t have to pay for it.
Cost isn’t a factor. Army pays for anything. I did forget to mention earlier that when I was 1 month old I suffered supraventricular tachycardia (heart beat of 360 a minute) I had a x-ray every year or so until I was 6 or 7, but this happened and that’s it, it hasn’t been a concern or whatever since it happened really. I don’t want to waste the doctors time, if its nothings.
That’s what doctors are for. I don’t think a doctor would consider this a waste of his time. Just call the doctor up, describe your symptoms and he/she’ll probably tell you to come in.
Of course I’m being a huge hypocrite as I hate going to the doctor and avoid it whenever possible.
[QUOTE=Seb Hughes;2350214]
I don’t want to waste the doctors time, if its nothing.[/QUOTE]
Seb man, dont chance it. Go see a doctor and make sure your alright, it might turn out to be nothing, but why risk it.
Take your health seriously, dont assume it was nothing. Make sure.
I have something similar called circular tachycardia; basically it means I have one too many connection in my heart for the electrical impulses that make it beat. Sometimes the regular electrical impulses would travel back through the second connection causing it to loop, thus making my heart beat twice as fast. When your heart’s beating that fast, the chambers don’t have enough time to fill up completely with blood, and so not enough blood is being pumped through your body. This is why you went pale. When this happens, you should immediately stop all physical exercise and preferably lay down so your blood can flow more easily. Be careful when getting up again though - make sure you do it slowly, because under these conditions it is very easy to faint when you stand up too quickly.
I used to ignore it because it didn’t happen that often (maybe like once every 5 months), but I eventually had to go to the hospital for it when it wouldn’t stop by itself any longer. So yea, go see a doctor (preferably when it’s happening, it’ll be very easy for him to find out what’s going on). They gave me a few tips to stop it once it’s started, which work for me, but I’m not sure if they will for you:
- drink something really cold (and I mean really, really cold)
- provoke your gag reflex
- hold your breath and apply pressure for like 15 seconds, then release
I found the last method to work best for me, especially when laying down.
^Thanks for the information. This thing, It doesn’t happen to me that often but every so often it does tend to happen. Like I said it only lasts a couple minutes but still.
whats with people getting sick lately here on kirupa?!
It’s called we’re getting old :lol:
Now can someone tell me how to get my friggin cursor in FF3 so I can type WTF I want :fight:
[LEFT][quote=thesparky007;2350243]whats with people getting sick lately here on kirupa?![/quote]
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grimdeath; go to settings and change the full WSIWYG editor to ‘extended’ editor in your options. (far bottom)
That’ll fix it 
Yea seb never wait for things like this. Humans tend to break… one more reason why robots will take over.
[ot]@ grim, http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=301384[/ot]
Temp. Robots won’t take over. We will have made humans far more like robots before we can ever make an ai able to think for itself. I mean we are getting so close already, replaceable body parts, gel that makes flesh and bone grow back on it’s own, whole manmade limbs that read nerve input to move, it’s all kinda awesome.
But in the meantime, go to the doctor!
I just talked to my mum about it all and she said that I should go to the doctors and get them to check my heart out. I think it would be best because of my near death experience before due to my heart (I am soo soo sooo sooo lucky to be alive). I guess its better to check it out and its nothing rather it being something which needs to be sorted out. I just don’t want it to be nothing and have wasted all there time and seem like an idiot for it.
I hate going to the doctor because I feel like if it turns out that there is nothing wrong with me than I am just being a whiny baby and the doctor will think I am an idiot.
But I go anyway. It’s better to go and figure stuff out rather than let something that could have been easily fixed get worse and become a serious problem.
You’ll just have to tough it out and go to the doctor. Even if there are no problems that doesn’t make you an idiot. Not going to the doctor because you don’t want to seem like an idiot and then ending up with a serious medical issue makes you an idiot. At least that’s what I tell myself.
1 oz. of prevention > 1 lb. of cure.
[quote=Iamthejuggler;2350253]Temp. Robots won’t take over. We will have made humans far more like robots before we can ever make an ai able to think for itself. I mean we are getting so close already, replaceable body parts, gel that makes flesh and bone grow back on it’s own, whole manmade limbs that read nerve input to move, it’s all kinda awesome.
But in the meantime, go to the doctor![/quote]
I have made 3 humans 2 boys and 1 girl so IDK what your talking about we’ve been making humans since we learned how to reproduce, so yeah we just gotta learn how to make robots now :lol:
Ah, but do they have interchangeable parts, can you make spares for them, and can you at a later date get part upgrades? If you answered yes to all of those then … actually you’d be right!
No they dont have interchangeable parts but the can create more humans :lol:
Sure they do. Just today I heard about some kid donating a kidney to his Dad - if that ain’t interchangeable parts, what is?
Wait, what?
