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FairyPrincessk

Morning all,

Cranky, I'm hypermobile but not at the extreme end.

Spirit, I hope you're able to get yours under control. I'm mid 30s, although I have a friend in her 50s who has them too. We did the monitor first and depending on how this comes back may do other tests.

Softstuff, I do what I can to lighten the mood

Well I'm popping into work today for several things. It is revision season so things are fairly quiet in my building but the library will be teaming.

Hugs to all who need them.x

silvasava

Had a trip to A&E a few weeks ago with palpitations that had lasted for about 5 hours - quite scary as I'd never had them before and a few weeks before that diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat. I've been given blood thinners and beta blockers and had umpteen ECGs and an angiogram - appointment next week for my results. However I happened to re-read the patient information leaflet for an oestrogen suppressant I've been taking for the last 5 years ( finished this month) some of the not uncommon side effects can be irregular heartbeat and palpitations!! I'll see what specialist says but my gut tells me this could be the culprit. Sometimes the cure is worse than the complaint!!
LW and FP do hope you both get sorted soon X

Slight frost here this morning - didn't expect that, I'm hoping to get my veg planted up today but think I'll dig out the fleece blankets in case they need some protection.

Bit the bullet yesterday - I've made an appointment to have my shoulder length hair chopped off and coloured grey - then I'll gradually go back au natrel. Fed up with it looking lovely the day I wash it and then screwing it up in a crab claw until it's washed again.
Nice and sunny at the moment so do hope it spreads as far as you Mar and warms you up a bit.

ivyleaf

I'm hypermobile, but only in my knees and the joints of my fingers

What's happened to monnagran and kittie? I do hope you're both all right xx

monnagran

I'm here Ivyleaf. Yesterday I had tablet problems and while I was fruitlessly trying to resolve them a friend arrived and asked me to come out to,play. We visited the cash and carry, very exciting and the views were glorious, popped into Ald*I, second time in a week, is this becoming a habit? and ended up in a cheap eating place for lunch. Then spent the rest of the day catching up and examining the characters of various acquaintances, (catty gossiping.)

By the time I had miraculously sorted tablet out, and I'll never know how, I was exhausted and went to bed.

The two dark, wet days promised us have not materialised. Jolly cold but bright and sunny. Would like to go out and sort out the garden but it is physically beyond me now. Somewhere in my moves most of my gardening equipment disappeared including my stool thing that turned upside down served as a kneeler with two arms that enabled me to lever myself up again.
Just a note to all you youngsters under 70. There will come one day when you find yourself on the floor and suddenly realise that unless you can find something to hold on to, you are there for life. It's a horrible sensation because this is what you knew would happen one day, but not until you were very old and certainly not yet.

Sympathies to all of you snarled up in tests, monitors, scans and the like. The wait for results must seem endless and very worrying. The only medication I am on is for high blood pressure. I have a machine at home to test my BP but never remember to use it. However, the surgery have asked me to take a reading twice a day for a week and give them the results. The top figure is always higher than it should be and the bottom figure always quite a lot lower. My pulse is pretty regular at about 60.
This morning both the top two figures were so low that if my pulse hadn't been normal I would think I was dead.

I am missing Pollyanna. Hope she is OK.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

You are only given a little spark of madness. Don't lose it. (Robin Williams)

Softstuff

Turning into a bit of a gadabout eh Monna? You'll be getting quite familiar with Aldi now and it'll lose its appeal. Where next I wonder, the M&S foodhall? Waitrose??

You all make me a little more aware of the issues with ageing. And frankly some of it makes me :eek:. Still, it beats the alternative. Of course, as Monna says, it'll never happen to me. At least not until I'm very very much older

CRANKY40

If you're hypermobile palpitations can be part of the condition. It results in a heart valve (I forget which, may be left something or other) that doesn't work as it should. It might be worth querying with the doctor. I'm going to mention it on my next battle sortie which just now I can't muster the enthusiasm for. I can also touch my nose with my tongue, a party trick which amuses small children no end :rotfl:

Pooky

I started with palpitations recently too, but they coincided with the start of anxiety (which I've never suffered from before) and some other general health issues. All very much part and parcel of hormone changes and entering peri menopause. I cut out caffeine which helped the palpitations no end and have started some menopause/hormone supplements which seemed to have helped greatly. I feel almost human again.

FairyPrincessk

Gosh, at least I'm in a club with people I like The most likely cause of mine is stress, but best to just rule out anything else. I've also cut out caffeine (well, I still have decaf and chocolate, but no proper coffee/tea) and also cut out the minimal alcohol I drink, but this also coincided with term coming to an end so it isn't very scientific.

Still, if you're all still standing (or refusing to kneel without a plan for getting up) then I guess I'll survive.

Gloriously sunny today, but quite windy. I was a bit too warm in jumper and unzipped coat walking home, but not warm enough to take off either. The monitor has been dropped off for good now and these second electrodes don't seem to have caused a reaction at all.

I'd better get back to work now. I want to spend a bit of time planning nice things for the bank holiday and contemplating where to put the lemon tree--it is being delivered tomorrow

mardatha

It was minus 6 up north this morning, a record low for May.

LameWolf

monnagran wrote: »

Just a note to all you youngsters under 70. There will come one day when you find yourself on the floor and suddenly realise that unless you can find something to hold on to, you are there for life. It's a horrible sensation because this is what you knew would happen one day, but not until you were very old and certainly not yet.

Humph! I've been having to find a piece of furniture to "climb" up following a fall for at least the past 10 years! And I'm 58 now. :cool:
You're not still sat on the floor are you?

CRANKY40 wrote: »

If you're hypermobile palpitations can be part of the condition. It results in a heart valve (I forget which, may be left something or other) that doesn't work as it should. It might be worth querying with the doctor. I'm going to mention it on my next battle sortie which just now I can't muster the enthusiasm for. I can also touch my nose with my tongue, a party trick which amuses small children no end :rotfl:

That's interesting - I do have a degree of hypermobility - most notably in my arms and hands.
I think a good deal of it with me is stress and anxiety; I am diagnosed with depression and general anxiety disorder, and despite being on the highest dose of Moclobemide, the anxiety is still very poorly controlled.
I'm just gonna live with it for now though - I simply can't face being sent for any more tests.

Only 10 days til our holiday, and I'm now at the stage of having blue kittens about going. I always do this - I think if it was left to me, I wouldn't bother with a holiday as it's not worth the stomach-churning-feel-like-I'm-going-to-upchuck stress, but Mr LW likes to go away once a year. At least we don't have the palaver of flying any more (blimmin' nightmare if you're a wheelchair user); if it's across water, we go by ferry.