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Originally Posted by Motts
What if you went mountain biking with a friend or a group of people? Would that ease your anxiety? If its something you truly enjoy doing, and you've been playing sports for the past month with no heart problems, then why not try to see if you can do the mountain biking activity with someone or a group? Have a plan in place in case anything goes wrong.
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The problem is that this is the heart condition many young athletes die from, out of the blue, without any warning. I could go mountainbiking and return home safely but I could just as well drop off my bike and die within a minute. I could arrive at home, go to sleep after a ride and not wake up in the morning and I could never experience any symptoms again. Nobody knows, at least not until I've had some extra tests.
To me, it is not a matter of fear but a rather matter of morals. And to me, dying in the arms of a helpless friend seems terrible, I would never want to place that burden on anyone.
I suppose doctors are trying to keep me on the safe side until all the information is there and maybe it's not half as bad as they told. But for now, acting on the information I recieved, it's no sports, no alcohol (not that I'm a big drinker but this is the first time ever I've really missed a glass of beer), no sex (I'm single so that's quite easy), no stress (that's a bit harder), no coffee, no tango dancing (covid and social distancing are taking care of that) ... for two more months.
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Originally Posted by Motts
Can you get weaned off your current psychiatric drugs? Do you really need to be on them? Maybe they are causing these heart problems in the first place and its not a genetic or hereditary cause? Will your medical scans and tests pinpoint what is causing the heart problem?
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I am very prone to having side effects. That is why I took two antidepressants in the lowest possible dose. It was supposed to be a method to avoid the side effects. At some point, I was clenching my teeth so hard at night that a tooth that had been repaired a few times lost the larger part of its crown. That's when the dose for one of them was lowered and the other was set slighly higher. It was also the moment I became incredibly tired and two weeks after, I had my fainting-incident.
And honestly: I'm not quite sure they actually worked.
The least you could say - and my psychiatrist confirms this - is that the timing suggests my medication had something to do with it. But only arrythmia is documented so my uneducated guess is that it will be hard to prove anything.
As for weaning off: I was on the lowest possible dose. It seemed safer to stop immediately. I was scheduled for three appointments with my GP in the first week. I've come through this without any adverse effects, it seems.