Irregular Heartbeat

[Dashing Young DissidentSpectator]

Hello gents,

I was wondering if any of you have to contend with any heart problems and if it affects you in any way when working out and life in general? Have you ever missed out on a job opportunity because you had to tell them that you suffered from a heart condition on the application for/interview, and then they treat you like an invalid?

I was diagnosed with atrial fibrilliation in 2006 and since then have had to take flecainide/tambocor whenever my heart decides to be a bastard and go out of rhythm.

I first got an irregular heart beat in 2000 after smoking some laced cannabis, which had PCP in it I believe. (Nothing confirmed, but this older guy who gave me the weed was known to sell it laced with PCP, which guys paid extra for, much to my ignorance.)

In 2005 I smoked weed again and my heart went absolutely ape s~~~, 220 BPM and i ended up in an ambulance convinced I was having a heart attack and was going to die. It was f~~~ing horrible. They gave me a heart scan at the time and discovered atrial fibrilliation.

It always annoyed me because when I was younger weed was being smoked by my friends at house parties, and I have had some amazing experiences on weed. Sorry, I call it weed for some reason lol, i’m talking about cannabis, solid (hash) etc. One of the nicest experiences i had was smoking hash with my friend in his garden, burning ourselves with hot rocks, going back inside, ordering a pizza delivery, then eating it while watching Labyrinth, one of my favourite movies. (Don’t laugh.)

We then passed out mid movie, and i had amazing intense loving warm dreams about his older sister, who i had had a crush on for f~~~ing years. She was a blonde bomb shell.

BUt the s~~~ty thing was, every time i smoked cannabis, i had this weird angina in the morning, my heart hurt when it beat and it just felt like it shouldnt be like that.

I found out from my american cousin (my birthfather is American) that on that side of the family, they have inherited a heart condition, so i must have gotten that as well. Amazingly she said she had experienced most of what I had.

So fast forward to 2016. I sometimes gets rapid heart beat after falling asleep and waking up, get minor panic attacks, my heart can pound after lifting weights or going for a run, and generally most forms of exercise will get my heart to beat faster and more prominently than regular people. It doesnt really bother me anymore, but i do wonder if i didnt have this heart bulls~~~, how much fitter I would be. I havnt smoked since 2006, weed or normal cigarettes and i will never again. I have nothing against anyone who smokes, or smokes weed, each to their own, but i i know if i smoked anything ever again my heart would just tell me to f~~~ off and play up straight away.

I actually bought a cheap cherry flavoured cigar the other day (prob a dumb idea) just to test if my heart would give me s~~~ for a few tokes. Sure enough after a few tokes, and the cigar tasting like a f~~~ing ash tray hahaha, my heart started to feel crappy. I then had bother from it for 2 days afterwards. I must be really sensitive to s~~~ now. Man its annoying!

It blows being 32 next month and having a heart condition. I was offered heart ablation by my cardiologist but reading the leaflet it just scared the s~~~ out of me what they actually do, which is make a hole in your heart wall or some s~~~ to get in a freeze (they used to burn) certain points where your electrical current forks off creating the disturbance. Maybe i should have gotten it who knows but i didnt feel it was the right thing to do.

I have had this condition so long now its a part of me, and i jsut deal with it. Its a pain in the ass sometimes but what can you do.

I’ve done boxing since i was 18 and only on a few occasions has it really f~~~ing hampered me in fights. It’s also been a c~~~ to me when ive done bouncing and security work. Stress and over heating, cold temperatures can set it off beleive it or not.

Anyway blah blah, thanks for reading, let me know if you deal with anything similar, id be very interested to know. Cheers!

[FrostByteParticipant 19005]

Dashing Young Dissident wrote:

I was wondering if any of you have to contend with any heart problems and if it affects you in any way when working out and life in general? Have you ever missed out on a job opportunity because you had to tell them that you suffered from a heart condition on the application for/interview, and then they treat you like an invalid?

No I have had a quadruple bypass and I have a cousin with irregular heart who finished the Boston Marathon (yeah same year the bomb went off he finished 20 min ahead of it and his wife n daughter were standing right there, anyway that’s another story, I digress)

My Advice: If you’re protected by HIPPA you don’t need tell them s~~~ about your health, and it is wise to look for jobs that are more desk type only if you fear your health would be compromised by hard labor.

If you rescue a damsel in distress, all you will get is a distressed damsel.

[Dashing Young DissidentSpectator]

I’m definitely not against hard labor nor afraid to get my hands dirty, hell, I used to be a labourer for my uncle’s old construction business. But he said i was a day dreamer and f~~~ing useless hahaha.

I was going to be a full time life guard last year. Everything was going well until i had to complete 200 meters in a certain time with these dudes in their early 20s. I stupidly tried to match their fast swimming and totally f~~~ed up myself. Exerted myself big time in about 30 seconds and my heart went out of sync. I barely dragged myself out the pool using the ladder thing to get out, the course intrsctor asking me if iwas ok and i was like no man i really am not ive got to f~~~ing go, and was saying “you f~~~ing bastard” to my heart as I rushed to the changing rooms to swallow some heart pills, then realised I had f~~~ing left them at home.

Drove home feeling like a f~~~ing loser with my heart out of sync. I was so humiliated i never went back. I knew damn well i was no where fit enough to do that 200 metres in their time frame.

I was once a brilliant athlete, scored top in everything when i was a kid, climbed Mount Kinabalu, the highest mountain in south east asia when I was 7 years old with my stepfather. Ran the 1500 meters for my school nationally. Played soccer for my local team etc. I wonder if all this s~~~ idid as a kid was too much and contributed to my downfall as i got older?

[FrostByteParticipant 19005]

Dashing Young Dissident wrote:

I’m definitely not against hard labor nor afraid to get my hands dirty,

I’m sure you are not afraid of it and some of it you can do.

Dashing Young Dissident wrote:

I stupidly tried to match their fast swimming and totally f~~~ed up myself. Exerted myself big time in about 30 seconds and my heart went out of sync.

Then my point is valid. Choose jobs wisely. I have to and if it’s a career type job you can’t sustain hard labor your whole life before the back, knees and shoulders start to suffer.
One my current jobs is succession planning and I have lots of men in their late 50’s and 60’s trying to get off hard labor jobs and into a desk for just that reason. The sun and hard work takes it’s toll. A lot them have to go back to school. Just saying plan wisely and you will be fine.

If you rescue a damsel in distress, all you will get is a distressed damsel.

[Dashing Young DissidentSpectator]

FrostByte wrote:

Dashing Young Dissident wrote:

I’m definitely not against hard labor nor afraid to get my hands dirty,

I’m sure you are not afraid of it and some of it you can do.

Dashing Young Dissident wrote:

I stupidly tried to match their fast swimming and totally f~~~ed up myself. Exerted myself big time in about 30 seconds and my heart went out of sync.

Then my point is valid. Choose jobs wisely. I have to and if it’s a career type job you can’t sustain hard labor your whole life before the back, knees and shoulders start to suffer.
One my current jobs is succession planning and I have lots of men in their late 50’s and 60’s trying to get off hard labor jobs and into a desk for just that reason. The sun and hard work takes it’s toll. A lot them have to go back to school. Just saying plan wisely and you will be fine.

Cheers, I will.

I was checking out the mining industry in Australia last night, the allure for alot of guys of course being that they pay big bucks over there, (you can make 150 grand a year driving a dump truck) and its possible to get an entry level job earning really good money. But its impossible as f~~~ to get a job there now, its like fort knox, and if im honest i know full well I wouldn’t last long in the middle of nowhere doing back breaking work in the scorching sun for 12 hours a day, 7 on 7 off. I prob wouldnt even get a foot in the door with my heart history on my medical record.

[Dashing Young DissidentSpectator]

Forgot to mention that I tried to apply for the British Army in 2003. Went to the training camp, the nurse did a physical on me, and wouldn’t allow me to continue onto basic training after reading my medical history. I was sent packing and told to apply in a years time if i had no further issues. I was gutted. I was 18 at the time.I never did go back. I lost interest.

[FrostByteParticipant 19005]

Dashing Young Dissident wrote:

I prob wouldnt even get a foot in the door with my heart history on my medical record.

I guess where you live it’s different. In the US they can’t ask about your health and you don’t have to tell them.

If you rescue a damsel in distress, all you will get is a distressed damsel.

[Dashing Young DissidentSpectator]

Really? Is that something to do with having to pay for medical insurance over there? I’m half American by birth, was born there in 1984, my birth father is american, but I was raised by my British mother in England since I was 2 years old. I can apply for a US passport its my dream one day to live there, like a hopeful immigrant lol. I have a very British accent but many American mannerisms. One day I’d love to live in a city like New York and go for a steak dinner at 3am at a diner like you see in the movies. I know its cheesy as f~~~, but hey, we all need dreams to cope with the bulls~~~ world.

Luckily the UK has the NHS, but its stretched to maximum because of how many people we have in the country now. I think the waiting time to see your local doctor is now like 2 weeks, its f~~~ing insane.

[HitmanParticipant]

Greetings from new york city. .
I could go out and eat at 3 a.m.
Used to go out with friends, close down the bars at 4a.m..
Then go hit a diner for breakfast. .get home and sleep for 16 hours. ..
You can still do it. ..
I’ll be home sleeping. ..hahaha! !!

[Dashing Young DissidentSpectator]

You live there Hitman? Was watching 9/11 memorial videos the other day and reading about the British photographer who took those pics on that tragic day. Altho I try to avoid reading or watching anything about 9/11 today as theres just something about it that depresses the f~~~ing s~~~ out of me and I find the whole act evil and insidious. The article in the news about it the other day f~~~ed me up, I couldn’t sleep straight for 2 days as i had all those images of the burning towers and people falling stuck in my head. Ands I wasn’t even there!!! I saw it all from a tv screen in my grandparents house at the time in 2001, and like many other people, couldn’t believe what i was seeing. It was like I got PTSD just from watching it and everything that unfolded afterwards, Iraq invasion etc. Just pure madness.

People are still suffering today from all the asbestos poisoning from the rubble. Really feel for them.

In 2000 I was watching Ghostbusters 2 and watching the guys ride the Statue of Liberty. Better times for New York.

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