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To: MsLady
Most of the time it is caused by HCM - Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. It is what killed Hang Gathers. It is a genetic thickening of the heart that can cause you to go into a fatal heart arrhythmia, especially during or right after strenuous exercise.

I know from personal experience. Discovered the hard way at 39 that I had it. Fortunately, I only went into tachycardia instead of the almost always fatal fibrillation. Now I get to walk around with a pacemaker/defibrillator implanted in my chest, but thankful to be alive and living a normal life.

36 posted on 03/04/2011 10:30:02 AM PST by okkev68
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To: okkev68

I have tachycardia. I won’t take the drugs they’ve tried to give me. The last time they gave me trenorman(sp?) made me feel terrible. I started taking extra magnesium and that seemed to help a lot. Mine is probably genetic, my mother and aunt have the same problem. If my heart really gets going wacky, I just sit, relax, take a slow deep breath and blow out slowly. Most of the time that does the trick, sometimes I have to do that two or three times.


38 posted on 03/04/2011 10:45:14 AM PST by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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