can stress cause irregular heartbeats?

[lou33]

i've been getting a lot recently

thank you

Hello lou, I only just caught up with this and after being involved in your post-Christmas health crisis I thought I'd drop by and say hello and well done for staying off the fags despite having such a lot to deal with x

What's wrong with your ds if you don't mind me asking? I saw the thread link but I don't know what botox is used to treat.

And on the subject of weird heart beats, i get lots all the time and I'm a major stressed out kind of person. Last night I was lying awake with sudden races of my heart pounding and going really fast for up to 5 minutes, then slow again. I don't drink caffeine either. It often happens to me in the middle of the night too.

Hope you get good results. Did they tell you about the ECG? They usually tell you immediately ... ?

Hi there, he has cerebral palsy, it's used to treat the overly tight muscles, which cause his legs to contract.

They didnt give me the results of the ecg as it was a nurse doing it, and the doc has to check it over, but of course i was fine during it. Also it's probably better to have all the results at hand to save me going back again, i have to go back tomorrow as it is for the asthma clinic, and to the hospital for physiotherapy on my back!

Nearly 17 weeks since i stopped smoking as well

Lou, that's fantastic re. the smoking. And your ds's op. Is he still much improved?

Pretty rubbish re. everything else for you healthwise. I find that sometimes these things just come together, everything goes wrong all at once.

I had microplasma pneumonia last October (I remember telling you about it before) and was ill for 6 weeks, since then I've just had one thing after another including 2 bloody stomach bugs just 3 weeks apart which both knocked me for six. I'm also having physio on my neck.

I feel so decrepid.

oh man i know what you mean

since i hit 40 i have been crumbling like a neglected stately home!

Me too ...

When did you, umm, 'turn'?

january this year

well the doc said my ecg was fine, the bloods were all fine, but as they were getting worse rather than settling she has referred me to have a 24 hr trace

May last year for me

That's fantastic news from the GP. I had a 24-hr monitor too, plus then a 5 day event monitor. They all showed that I definitely had lots of strange ectopic beats but no reason why.

Incidentally I've never found a link to my Ventolin use.

Hope you feel better and that all this chaos in your life settled down a bit soon. You're such a star to be dealing with it all (even if you're suffering along the way) and raising 4 kids on your own.

i really mind being 40

my asthma is much better since i swapped preventers, i barely use the ventolin now, compared to 2 weeks ago, which is great.

still carry it everywhere tho

i have just booked an appointment online in may for the ecg, i could have got one sooner but the time was wrong for me and it would have meant childcare issues

I don't mind being 40 in terms of the number itself. But things are depressing me a bit lately like the amount of grey in my hair and the quality of my hair. My hair's always been one of my best features, very long, straight, shiny, dark. Now the texture is rougher, it feels thinner and the grey is about a quarter through the whole lot. And my eyelids. They're not droopy but the skin has no elasticity. It's somehow that feeling that previously I could kind of get away with anything clothes or hairstyle wise and now I just don't look that great at all.

It's as though my looks, like my health, have lost their bounce. Does that make sense?

it does

i dye my hair anyway but it shocks me the amount of grey i see when the roots need doing, but luckily it is still in really good condition.

the eye thing i understand completely, in fact i see a slow landlside occuring on my face when i look in the mirror, which is pretty depressing

It's just a kind of loss of 'bounce'. I haven't got masses of lines on my face but the skin just looks 'slacker'. I look tired even when I'm not. Which actually is quite rare. Maybe I just look tired.

How's your ectopic beats today?

dove pro age shampoo and conditioner I only bought it as reduced and it really gives your hair that smooth young feel(how sad am I)Lou you look so young you deserve a few grey hairs

Ooh, I'll try that, thanks!

they have been on and off today, same as usual, thanks for asking

noddy i believe you were drunk when we met , beer goggles dont count

i use TiGi superstar blow dry lotion , which gives me great volume to my hair, not because it is thin, but because it is long and needs boosting at the roots

it is in good condition and strong, surprisingly enough, as i have done just about everything to it since the age of 13, and is currently permed AND coloured, so i feel pretty lucky in that dept.

You are lucky lou. My hair is about shoulder blade length and dead straight and nearly black apart from the grey bits! I've got quite a lot of hair but the hairs themselves are very fine so anything I do like colouring just leaves it totally brittle. I'm thinking of going much shorter and getting it coloured except dd goes into paroxysms of 'no no nnnnnnooooooOOOOOOOOOO!' if I even mention the possibility of getting it cut.

But ... we are in danger of veering off the subject of your thread aren't we?

Oh God Lou - I've just looked at your profile, you look ancient.......

NOT!!

I have ectopic beats too. Really must get it checked out.

ah thats ok, it takes my mind off it !

i have fine hair too which is naturally straight, but i have loads of it, and it is strong, according to my hairdresser

i dye it the darkest brown possible, almost black, but i am naturally mid brown with a hint of red when the sun shines on it

cameras can hide a multitude of sins!

What sort of hair colour do you use lou? Is it in your profile picture?

i use a permanent one, recital i think

yes it is the colour in my profile, tho the bottom one shows more roots and grey hair than anything (was long overdue for a touch up, lol)