| don't want to down play the seriousness of MVP but it seems as though everyone in the whole wide world has it. No joke! |
so don't play it down then. No offence, but dude....I've gone through a LOT of shit in the past few months, and this is news that I didn't want or need to hear. Your coming here and saying what you said was a little insensitive. I know that you said that you didn't want to downplay the seriousness, but like Thumper said: 'if you can't say nothing nice, don't say nothing at all'. This is sort of a big deal to me, because I have MORE meds to take, ANOTHER doctor to see, MORE tests to have .... it's just MORE crap to deal with.
Sorry if you think I'm being oversensitive, but if you take a look at what I've written over the past 6 months, at all the stuff I've had thrown at me....perhaps you'll understand why I feel the way I do.
| *IS* it serious? I don't really know...? |
It's not life threatening, and a lot of people don't know that they have it. Having said that....the tachycardia can be dangerous because your heart gets worn out from beating so fast all the time. That's why I have to take the beta blockers to slow my heart down. I'll have to take antibiotics before I have dental surgery because MVP puts me at greater risk for cardiac infections. The palpitations can cause me to faint and injure myself, not to mention being just damn irritating. It's just a pain in the ass, Marcie. It's another thing that's wrong with me, on top of all the other things that are wrong with me.
| Sometimes it's nice to just have a *name* for something though... |
Yep, it is. It's nice to have someone say 'this is what you have, and this is what we're going to do about it'. I'd have preferred not to have gone at all, but....at least I don't need a transplant, and I'm not going to have a heart attack tomorrow.
| You can't get a break when it comes to health issues can you? |
Doesn't seem like it, does it?
| Maybe that is why you like Yoga so well...you probably rock at it and can do all the positions easily! |
It does come easy to me. I can do stuff with no sweat that just makes Dave cringe. The one thing I can't do that he can pull off is flying crow:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a106/fred94/flyingcrow.jpg
It takes a lot of ab control, and I don't quite have enough yet. I can do it if I rest my thighs on the back of my arms...and I WILL be able to do that with no problem by my birthday. And, I'll back that up with pictures.
| I am one to have kicked caffiene, if there is any help I can give, give me a ring. |
If I had your number, I would! You know where my email addy is....
| The doc is right there, gradual is not too bad |
Yeah, I'm thinking that it might be okay if I take it slow. I will enjoy my LAST cup of full on caffienated coffee tomorrow morning, right before I head out to the store and buy Folgers that's got half the caffiene of the regular stuff and a 12 pack of Sprite. Man, this kind of sucks.....mind you, I'd been toying with the idea of giving up caffiene anyway, so this is just a shove into actually doing instead of just thinking.
