Finding the 1 screw missing from my all metal Hegel H200 remote while cleaning under my couch cushions for the first time in years before I sucked it into the vacuum....
That is a very good description of what my heart does. But after the pause there is often a rush of beats as if it’s trying to catch up! And when it’s bad, the rhythm doesn’t normalize for hours.
I think my heart is in a more advanced stage of a-fibulation, or arrhythmia though.
@unclewilbur, I am assuming that you are on medicare (I just started on it a year ago, and I still don't know all the ins and outs) but if you already have a cardiologist, I'd say try to schedule an ECG and have him interpret it. I am going from memory on this (I can get the textbook out in a bit) but as I recall, if it is a PVC, that is another rhythm originating somewhere other than the SA node and what happens if I recall correctly is it is one signal for a heart beat from somewhere other than the SA node landing on top of the SA node signal (but I will look that up). What I do remember for sure is that this is another generally benign rhythm unless you get too many directly in a row (I'll look up how many) because that can turn into v-tach. As far as A-fib, that's a bit of a different animal, and my understanding is that strokes are one of the big risks as the atrium is fibrillating which is a recipe for potential clots to form. I would also think that fibrillating atria wouldn't be properly (completely) emptying into the ventricles that therefore the output (also known as cardiac output/CO) from the ventricles would be reduced and that this could result in certain physiological sensations and possibly an increased heart rate as maybe the response to decreased CO. I do know that when one's blood pressure drops (as in one of the early stages of shock) the heart rate elevates as a response to compensate.
But don't take anything I type very seriously--I am NOT at all qualified on this subject and the best thing to do is to get in to see a cardiologist.
Anyway, I hope you're ok!!!
Thank you for the good thoughts. Generally I feel okay most of the time, but having seen what happens when someone's heart ceases to produce an adequate pulse has made the concept seem real to me, and in all honesty, I have not completely come to terms with it on a personal level. Although sooner or later it is inevitable for all of us.
Best thoughts back at you, and talk to your PCP and or cardiologist.
Actually, @gano , when Something seems 'off spec' and you notice it....
And even if the exam notices Something, even if 'intriguing'...
It's good to have a grasp of wtf it is and what it's about.
I was born with an aortic valve with only 2 flaps...and started getting 'backflow'.
Rx cya'd for awhile, but a high 60 yr. valve job was called for.
Requested and granted a TAVR procedure. TransAorticValveReplacement.
Woke to feeling better Immediately. Minimal Recovery Therapy, no pain other than a large bandaid inside right thigh for 2ish weeks. On a stationary bike, the nurse noticed I'd skipped a beat or 3.....
Became the happy owner of a new Boston Scientific pacer with onboard defib, a
small 3x2" 'heart shaped' disc on left chest beneath the collar bone.
Spouse Ev now demands I outlive her.
"We still don't have any real control of That.....and it's not a race. either...."
My latest CT of my lungs sez I'm cancer free...despite 'lifestyle' and tendencies.
"Place your bets...." She's 5 younger, and has her own flock of Rx tubes.
Some lighthearted and some serious stories. Hope everyone is okay and staying healthy. Thinking of this site and happiness, for me happiness is listening to my music wherever I am. My happy place this time of year is the lake, so listening to music looking out at the sun sparkling on the water is happiness.
That is interesting, @asvjerry, and similar to this:
going back to around when the tale I recounted started, a friend of mine who I had worked with from ’85 through ’87 called me to touch base, and to make a long story short, he had just got a stent put in the, from his description, I believe may have been the left anterior descending coronary artery. Unlike me, he eats good food and exercises, but he also drinks and smokes pot and there is a family history of coronary artery disease. Anyway, he said he had been feeling like something wasn’t right when he was riding his bike and his doc set him up with a stress test and they told him he had a major blockage going on and needed a stent asap. So he got it and he said he felt great afterwards.
I frequently feel as if "something is not quite right" but I also know how a little knowledge can create a psycho somatic experience. However, I got to thinking that my own sedentary lifestyle and eating habits may have caught up with me also, so therefore, during one of these spells where the left side of my chest was "feeling a little funny," I got the VA to do the cardiac stress test. Which they said I passed with flying colors. Which is not a true indicator of everything going on in there, but it did make me feel better at the time.
Then a couple of years later was when I started palpating and listening and hearing a skipped beat, and the more I listened and felt my pulse, the more frequent it seemed, and I also thought I was feeling mild palpations. Which is about the time my neighbors 50 some year old wife, who appeared to be in great shape (but she did smoke cigarettes and I think there may have been a family history), went into cardiac arrest and died. It was then I decided maybe I needed to have another check done which prompted the call to the VA where they put me on with a triage nurse who played 20 questions with me and decided to error on the side of better safe than sorry and hence, I went to the local ED.
This was the doc that told me to quit checking my pulse. And for the most part I have quit checking my pulse, and when I do, I haven’t picked up the skipped beat. So I am willing to concede that the mind is a funny but powerful thing that can have funny but powerful effects. And as I also typed previously, I think having a tiny bit of knowledge on my part is not necessarily a good thing.
@asvjerryno doubt, I have lasting effects from my own heart issues.
@immatthewj they can put you into a tube a scan all your vessels and find if there is any blockage. I suspect they won't order it with your symptoms but always a possibility. Some day you can probably just ask the TSA for all your scans and you can AI it with your phone and learn the day you will die.
There's also a void in my cheap 5 disc player where discs disappear.
How the heck does that happen?
....that's....hard to interpret in some ways, but....here goes.
Did you put 5 in the tray and one disappeared when re-opened?
Do you load it only in the dark? Do you load it when your are?
Do you smell melting polycarbonate?
Get it gone...out of the house and your life.
Read about this happening on X ... Demonic possessions, pets that hate certain CD's because of the frequencies you can't hear but makes them do weird things, a mini-black hole has somehow nested in That recess in the tray....
Send it to me immediately...I know what to do with this sort of thing, and more than happy to help out a fellow 'phile....👍
....if the same sort of thing moves to any other piece of your gear, don’t hesitate to send it as well.
Maybe send all of it so I can analyze the issue proper...one of those ’synergistic’ things everyone chats about ’round here...
Is your house built on an unknown burial ground?
Maybe ’you’ in another dimension wonders why his players’ tray gets stuck all the time by a 6th disc that just f’n appears....no clue on his part either.
Happiness is getting kicked out of the cop car. In 1971, 18 year old me hitch hiking from Hammond to Baton Rouge with two doobies in a Marlboro pack and a lid in my sock. Got dropped off at my exit in Baton Rouge and start walking to my friends house. Got about 20 yds down the exit ramp and a state trooper pulls up along side and says *get in*. I got in his car. I was scared schitless! He doesn’t say a word to me but immediately gets on his radio and asked dispatch for suspect description. He then gives me a hard look and says *get out*. With my heart pounding, I scrammed like a rat from a cat.
.. an afterwork trip to the record store with my father’s day gift certificate. Then finding a 1984 King Crimson Three of a Perfect Pair Winchester pressing that played NM what I got home.
Yes I've seen it a couple of times Happness is a warm gun...Be happy don't worry...love the music that's being played on your systems....just take your head phones off...like the people who walk or jog or run....and have ear pieces or head phones on....just walk or run....with out ,music or stories or books,being read to you....listen to the sounds of the world you walking at....let your ears rest....be natural no sounds...
@vrao81100% - being happy with your lot in life, which for me is owning some kind of tube amplification, hence my Audiogon name.
Unfortunately, that concept can be a real struggle when the itch - the bug - upgraditis rears its head and you’ve gotta make some changes in your system. Whenever I own tube gear, I’m much more content for longer periods of time. Whenever I own SS amplification, I find myself wanting a change in less than a year. 5 years is usually tops for me to hold onto any amplifier set up.
But a turntable, cassette deck, or cd player I can be content to hold onto until it needs repair or croaks. Tuners, I like to change up often and now I’ve been without one for the past 3 years with no regrets….
Happiness is a major CraigsList score - Paisley Research AE500’s for $75, that I swear could hold their own with $3K ProAc Response 2’s & $3500 Celestion SL700’s….
Nearly 40 years ago, my best friend and I were on a long bike ride, about 40 miles down some country roads in Delaware County, SE Pennsylvania. I had a good scenic loop for us to do.
Mid ride, down this 2 lane country road in farm country, the road came to an abrupt end. We saw the signs but I hoped our turn off was going to be before the road ended, so we continued on.
The choice was to carry our bikes 20’ across a steel ‘I’ beam that was 15’ above a creek, or turn around and go back. My buddy went first. He held the center stem of his bike with 1 hand at shoulder height and put his other arm out straight for balance and shimmied across the beam. I thought to myself, that’s totally not the right way to do it because all the weight was on one side of his body and I thought he was going to fall into the creek Nevertheless, he shimmied across the beam in like 5 seconds.
Now it was my turn. He was now already safely on the other side and waiting for me. So, I held the bike in both hands in front of me, equalizing the weight, like the Great Walenda crossing a type rope, and it nearly took that long too. With the bike in front of me, I had better balance, but I also couldn’t do this quickly like he did. It was the longest 45 seconds ever with lots of curse words in between, but I finally made it across and we continued our ride. Happiness came from an unexpected challenge met head on and successfully conquered.
@lou_setriodes Insane! Reminds me of the time we had to clamber over a three-foot wide blowhole with rough ocean waves 20 feet below. One slip and bye-bye.
Happiness is getting shite-shocked by a 220 volt carbon brush on my CNC router motor and finding later in the day that I was feeling very good. Gained a whole new respect for electroshock therapy.
This thread reminded me a couple years ago I took the top plate off my Audio Research Reference Phonostage... carefully putting all... geese, how many 20 tiny screws into a small container on the carpet next to my audio rack.
I never saw them again. I finally had my dealer have Audio Research send me another set.
On audio Iam very happy finding Holostage tweak.On hobby I am happy to see my vegetables garden growing and my other flowering garden.Iam happy I found Jesus in my life.
I'm with you... being in my 30s and born in the 50's. After decades of responsibility and stress... I have gotten used to no stress and love not being responsible. A few years ago I was trying to remove the last daily discomfort of each day... a cold toilet seat. I installed a Japanese toilet... now I am a complete sybarite.
When everything shut down during Covid, I discovered life with very few interruptions. Then came retirement. At first it was disorienting to be free from obligations. But I adapted quickly, and I really enjoy having almost no responsibilities. I’m actually very good at being irresponsible!!!
So, you have a Japanese toilet?!? Wow! I could really get some quality time with one of those! I knew about bidets, but not Japanese toilets, until you mentioned it. I’m wondering… well, never mind. It would be weird to discuss those details here! I checked out google and utube for some clues, and I found this. 😳
Well, Uncle Wilbur "uncle" is a sinecure that requires no obligations. Uncles are supposed to be vaguely hanging out at the periphery of things and being inscrutable. That's how mine were. When they passed on everybody just sort of looked at each other and said "where'd he go?" However, in you case Uncle Wilbur everybody will say "who turned off the laughs?"
I worked in Japan for many years. The nice hotels have top of the line Toto's. They serenely greet you when you enter the separate room from the bathroom... gently light the area... slowly unfold... welcoming you. They play soft sounds of flowing water (or music) to maintain tranquility while do your business... emit a fresh fragrance. It's hard to go back to being a barbarian. A top the line Toto will set you back from $12K to $25K.
@ghdprenticeMy youngest son is working in Japan and says the same. He wants to stay there for ever. Loves the culture, the people and the country. He has one of these fancy crappers in his apartment in Osaka.
As a retiree with plenty of good time on my hands, happiness is the knowledge that having a good amplifier and speakers as well as as a few good pairs of headphones whenever I have extra time I can look forward to some very enjoyable music listening.
Happiness is waking up next to the woman you love, being able to get out of bed pain free, making breakfast from your full refrigerator in your own home, and remembering there are a million things more important in life than audio.
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