Last two days (especially nights) my heart has been doing whatever this is. Kind of annoying, I can’t even lie. Sometimes it gets a little hard to story myself from breathing quick so excuse the quick/deep breaths. Sorry for the crappy audio— it was really POUNDING that hard against the mic.
Wonder if anyone can count a BPM or what’s potentially going on. This is laying in bed, by the way. I’m literally resting.
All follow the same pattern: aortic, pulm, tricuspid, mitral. Tried to do approx. 30sec at each area. What is your favourite area to listen to?
(Apologies for the mic moving noises and quality)
As always, opinions are adored <3
Round two tonight. At least this time I didn’t take my ADHD meds in the ‘normal person’ morning and then take a second dose at 0200 🥲 that 60mg at 0200, 2L water and 2 coffees had me on LOCK.
Work has an ice-cream van in today so very jealous of my dayshift peeps but I finished shift to a big hug from a fellow intern 🫶
Personally, I like night shifts. It’s just a different tone. Day shift is hard. Night shift is hard but day shift just has so many judgy eyes and my tolerance is not all that 🤭 I’m too confrontational for management 😅
(Yup this is a repost to add the audio. Feel like I’ve been slacking on the audios but the quality has been ass so I haven’t been happy posting any of em)
Hi everyone! Just been chilling out post appointment today and remembered I own a stemoscope lmao.
Anyone know if there’s actually a name for those runs like especially after 2mins. It’s weird because there seems to be little like ramp ups before the breaths in? It’s kinda annoying. Like I breathe in… breathe out… speedy run— breathe in. It’s funny. The runs seem to make me breathe rather than my breathing making the runs.
Ever since pretty much after that recording, my HR has been 130s continuously. It just read 143 on the pulse ox and my poor watch is confused and reading 36 lol.
Lying down has been an interesting affair lately. Standing to lying usually causes a bit of a drop and then the rate kicks up after a few minutes but lately it’s been like this 😶
I know this is probably a crappy file and it’s probably a bit boring but it’s so irritating. I know it isn’t like a high HR or irregular but oml, it’s so annoying. Honestly, most of the time 90-110s while doing nothing feel infinitely worse than 140s during a shift. These types of beats are so strong. Like literally my whole body feels like it’s rattling.
At some points I try slow/delay my breathing to try show that the speed ups are kinda on their own schedule. I don’t know if that came across lol. Trying to breathe steady and slow is lowkey difficult sometimes because my body just wants to breathe quicker 🫠
(There’s a heavy BUZZ/phone vibration near the 4th min mark. Sorry!)
I did ask if I could do the four available night shifts but management declined so just two for me. Kinda sucks but 🤷♀️
More details/run down below if interested <3
I dunno what it is, I seem to function in work and fall apart between shifts. Apparently my fussy wee heart doesn’t like resting (especially not lying down for some reason).
I am kinda getting a pain in the ass with the dizziness tho. Have had a couple episodes in work and at home where the closest I could describe it is MAYBE pre-syncope? Like not diagnosing myself obviously but I do get a couple different variations.
I either go all internal. Very strange. Stand up or whatever and everything goes 0.25x. Slow, sludgy, thudding feeling pulse. Ears ringing. Mouth slack. Eyes fixed. But not zoned out. Like I’m in my head 100% and my body has just clocked out. Otherwise I’ve had pretty often occurrences (like once a shift) of actually feeling so faint/hot/no bueno I have to sit down right there and then.
At home I’ve had a couple where I’ve stood too quick (particularly after sleeping), gone very ‘uh oh’, laid down and then had this weird stuff happen. Like my hands will sort of jerk? Not tremoring or shaking like actual sudden jerks. My jaw chatters like shivering but I’m not cold at all and my head sort of does mini-shaking, backwards like up and down. My eyes will sort of ‘get stuck’ to the top left of my vision and flutter.
Honestly? Pretty bloody scary. But I can’t really do anything about it so my routine now is kinda just work shifts and sleep 16+ hours on days between 🤷♀️
(Yes the BP and recording are from yesterday. Today my BP does not want to measure. I just keep getting errors and the eventual reading I got was 89/42 94bpm but I don’t even know if that’s accurate because it took so many tries)