Resting Heartrate

Originally posted by Bob McAdams A dictionary may not help unless you spell it correctly. The term is bradycardia. See, I knew that reaching for the dictionary would be futile. :D It is interesting to see people's RHR. A lot of inactive people I know never think about this issue (at least as far as I can tell). I have become a convert to the heart rate monitor because it seems to give you a lot of insight into what your heart is doing at rest and during exersion. Not that I always want to know that I am slacking off during exercise. But it explains a lot when I am working out and not progressing because it will often tell me that I am not working out efficiently, i.e. I am exercising but not challenging myself.

Shark, I was diagnosed in April of 1994, and am currently also on Synthroid, at a level of .250. The cause of my hypothyroidism is a disease known as Hashimoto's thyroiditis, an autoimmune disorder.

Originally posted by Fred Johnson Not that I am so lazy I can't reach for the dictionary, but what is brachycardia? Saw the term and wondered. A dictionary may not help unless you spell it correctly. The term is bradycardia.

Hey everyone, it's very cool to see such an interest taken in this variable "experiment". Jim Thornton! It's nice to see you actually on the boards for once, Coach. Now if we could only get you to stop injuring yourself. Maybe we should do a study on that too, lol. "How Jim injures himself so." Very catchy, don'tcha think? I know there are extreme cases where heartrates are below 50-55.....but I can't change the poll, cuz I'm not a moderator. If your heartrate falls below 50, just be cool like the rest of us and put it in the first option. We'll get it. As for the Tachycardia, I'll most definitely agree on that. Wednedsday night, in fact, as I'm sure Jim can attest to, I had a rather nasty asthma attack at practice, and poor heart was racing fit to beat all. It's been measured before during episodes like that between 180 and 195 b'spm. Keep up the studying, kiddies! Steph

Shark, They don't make it any higher than .2; I take two pills, one pink and one white. And I love the color chart! I think I've literally had every color dosage there is, since I changed doses about every three months during my recent teenage years. My least favorite color was the .088 ones (they're seafoamy green, not as pretty as the orange ones I took for awhile, or the purple. Alas, the white are too boring.) I figure, if you have to take medicine anyway, why not at least make it exciting? Color works for me! Steph p.s. Oh, and I inherited my A-I disease from my grandmother's side of the family, of which only one of her sisters has it, and no family history before that. What's strange about mine, as opposed to Grave's disease, is that Hashimoto's disease, while present at birth, usually doesn't present symptoms until a woman's mid-30's. My condition is a "hyper" version that works kind of like the movie Jack, with Robin Williams. If you haven't seen it, I'll explain. :D

Originally posted by thisgirl13 Don't I know it! I really hate using my inhaler, unless I start getting panicky, because it just screws me up for the rest of the day (or night, depending). Inhalers are the second leading cause of ozone loss. I use only a nebulizer. People who don't are really missing out on having much healthier lungs. with an inhaler, no matter how good your timing is you will never get the meds into your lungs as well as with a nebulizer. The new prtable ones are great. I used to go to the ER 3 times per month. I went from August 2004 to Dec 2005 with no trips.

Originally posted by thisgirl13 Shark, I was diagnosed in April of 1994, and am currently also on Synthroid, at a level of .250. The cause of my hypothyroidism is a disease known as Hashimoto's thyroiditis, an autoimmune disorder. I have Graves Disease. Thyroid disease in general is autoimmune. Mine came to me through my dad who has arthritis. It's all related. I didn't know they made Synthroid that high. For some reason, I thought it stopped at .2 But it has been a while since I was staring at the "pretty" color chart of each of the dosages and their color.:D

Originally posted by thisgirl13 Shark, They don't make it any higher than .2; I take two pills, one pink and one white. Steph p.s. Oh, and I inherited my A-I disease from my grandmother's side of the family, of which only one of her sisters has it, and no family history before that. What's strange about mine, as opposed to Grave's disease, is that Hashimoto's disease, while present at birth, usually doesn't present symptoms until a woman's mid-30's. My condition is a "hyper" version that works kind of like the movie Jack, with Robin Williams. If you haven't seen it, I'll explain. :D Steph, I see about the 2 pills. I think mine are a boring gray. Yuck! Graves is usually present at birth, too but does not show up until a "stressor" triggers it. For me it was my wedding (sorry to my husband!). I was diagnoed when I was only 26, which is early for Graves.

I can understand how weddings are a stress trigger, lol. My sister's getting married in August. When I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's, all my other siblings were tested for a big range of genetic diseases, because my parents were afraid something else would show up down the road and we wouldn't be prepared, or something like that. It turns out, I'm the only abnormal one of the group. I got all the wacky genes. :D

Originally posted by craiglll@yahoo.com Inhalers are the second leading cause of ozone loss. I use only a nebulizer. People who don't are really missing out on having much healthier lungs. with an inhaler, no matter how good your timing is you will never get the meds into your lungs as well as with a nebulizer. The new prtable ones are great. I used to go to the ER 3 times per month. I went from August 2004 to Dec 2005 with no trips. People who use spacers with their inhalers benefit just as much. A spacer sends the medicine directly into the airstream, and allows 85% more medication to enter the lungs. It's also kind of hard to lug a nebulizer around. I take two medications for my asthma, and two for my allergies, and they're both under control so I have no need for a neb. Though I do know how to construct and adminster one if need be.