#70Bpm

[nctrnm]

#NowPlaying: "duvet days. - ft. dbz & basicnoise" by seka.o

[tophatandboots]

Hypermobile feeling of awwww yeah when you pop your shoulder back in on the first try

Followed by carefully holding your arm in the exact same position for as long as you can because you can just Feel that it wants to escape again

[primrosebitch]

so i recently went on lyrica for my pain and stuff and it has been amazing, like sure i'm still in pain but it's been greatly reduced and it kinda feels like i've relaxed after being tense for so long without realizing, but turns out the lyrica can also help with like heart function

and guys

my heart rate went as low as 70bpm, i don't think i've ever seen it that low when not on medication that specifically lowers heart rate, granted it's only low when very reclined and goes back up when i stand or sit up straight, but considering that my heart rate is in the 100s even when sleeping the fact that this pain medication is getting it in the 70s at all is miraculous.

[wizardnuke]

phone flashlight/camera "heart monitors" are hilarious this one is confidently vibrating my phone in the rhythm of the heartbeat it's picking up while im also checking my heart rate and it's 30bpm off the mark

[aspectpriority]

emotional exertion remains one of the most fucked up parts of all of this ngl. Got upset about how we're doing today and got an alert about being in our exertion zone (110bpm+) and i'm just like. explodes.

[ipoddymouth]

need the sun to slip back behind them clouds so i can enjoy this bon iver album properly

[ourceliumnetwork]

oh i see. i overdid it-overdid it. heart's not supposed to be goin 100 bpm after being seated for at least 5 minutes is it? mm mhm mhm mhm

[bugbbear]

hope this is ok ive been wanting to do this for a while

i recorded myself just speaking the end poem, i used a metronome to do it bc i liked the rhythm

what if i made all the limlife permadeaths rhyme

[thebibliosphere]

Chronic illness really skews your perception of normal. I just did my morning heart rate check and was alarmed to find it sitting in the low 70s and immediately panicked thinking something was wrong because my “normal” resting heart rate for the last few months has been 110bpm.

For those also on the chronic illness spectrum whose view of normal might be skewed: the 70bpm at resting is a normal resting heart rate for healthy people (technically “normal” is between 60-100).

I’m just so used to the dysfunctional rhythm of my heart that not being able to feel my heart galloping in my chest the moment I sat up made me panic before I realized this is what normal is supposed to feel like.

Crazy.

[pots-culture-is]

Pots culture is being undiagnosed but having more than 70 % of the symptoms. Having a resting heart rate of around 60-70bpm and having your heart rate jump to 100-117bpm when you stand but feeling it's nothing compared to ppl who are actually diagnosed so you fear your doctors would not take you seriously 🥲🥲

Not to be that guy, but I don't think doctors take anyone seriously anymore, at least here in the UK, the NHS is very understaffed and wait times are Horrendous. (Although, CAMHS is worse, it was something like a two year wait and I still am waiting for medication. It's been four years total now, almost five. S'ppose it can always be worse, right?)

They were like "well.. we can only push others out of the way if it's seriously altering your quality of life" and I was like "I literally cannot get out of bed" and it was still two months wait time for a non-diagnosis (I'm not formally diagnosed with anything more than "PoTS-like symptoms, even though it's pretty apparent that I fit the criteria comfortably, they didn't want to give me a diagnosis because "what if it goes away?" All they're doing is making it harder to get support.)

Best advice I can honestly give is don't let the doctors throw you around, it took me a year for anything close to treatment, and we only got it because we sat in that office saying "we won't leave until you give us some sort of solution". It doesn't have to be as bad as others, if it's affecting you negatively, you are allowed help :). (Hey past me, this goes for you too. It took far too long to learn that. Comparison to others [in this way] only hurts yourself.)

[owithadash]

[anunkindncss]

Trash... this is not SIN. This is Softday. What're you doing?

Oh my darling, I am doing sin— you’re just not used to it sounding this pretty.

Babe, that playlist has sheets ruined, backs arched, and wrists pinned energy—just happens to come with candlelight and whispered praise.

this isn’t Softday. this is “I’ll take my time wrecking you, and you’ll thank me for it” day on Sinday. I write slow-burn with aftercare, eye contact, and playlists that kiss you and make you whimper. it’s not about the BPM—it’s about the damage.

don’t mistake softness for mercy, love. Trash Dad(dy?) serves sin at 70bpm and makes it hurt beautifully. Again on the rare occasion that I write it, you'll just have to take the softness and enjoy.

[gingerdusk]

Worldbuilding

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For the purposes of this post, "base" lifespan is the average lifespan of one of these people, outside of the help and benefits of society, but also assuming nothing ends their lives prematurely (such as what disease or starvation would cause).

"Modern" lifespan, on the other hand, is an average that factors in what medicine, magic, and social networking can boost that lifespan further. "Maximum" lifespan is the oldest a given member of the race can get with optimal medical care and lifestyle.

Humans

Heartrate: 60 - 100bpm Base lifespan: 85 Modern lifespan: -

No data available. Humans went extinct centuries ago due to a plague.

Elves

Heartrate: 20 - 30bpm Base lifespan: 255 Modern lifespan: 510 (max: 612)

Elves, being very long-lived already, have a very intricate understanding of medical care, magic, and the local resources, the lattermost of which their society fought hard to lay claim to early on. They're by far the most widespread of the eight races, their lifespans and advancements creating a feedback loop into their spread across known society.

Faunlings

Heartrate: 90 - 120bpm Base lifespan: 60 Modern lifespan: 85 (max: 101)

Faunlings have a shorter base lifespan than most races, but have a solid community network to take care of their illnesses and elderly. Faunlings put a heavy emphasis on family duty, though "family" also extends to someone's immediate neighbors.

Halflings

Heartrate: 120 - 140bpm* Base lifespan: 50 Modern lifespan: 70 (max: 84)*

Halflings have a duty to one another that extends to those nearby on a similar level to faunlings, though it's hard to measure how much this truly impacts them given how readily they disperse into other societies in the modern age.

*A halfling's heartrate and lifespan are largely dependent on their surroundings. A given halfling will adapt to more closely match the society they take part in, slowing or speeding up accordingly and benefiting from the social nets and societal advances in place.

Below are the rough modern lifespan expectations of a halfling in a given setting:

Elvish halfling: 305 Faunish halfling: 75 Orcish halfling: 185 Dwarvish halfling: 135 Brounish halfling: 145 Gnomish halfling: 75

Orcs

Heartrate: 50 - 70bpm Base lifespan: 105 Modern lifespan: 250 (max 302)

Orcs both have a high understanding of magic and healthcare and have incredibly strong community ties. Ages and ages ago, they were the strongest ones to stand against the elves in the rush for resources, and alongside them, are the most widespread people.

Dwarves

Heartrate: 30 - 50bpm Base lifespan: 165 Modern lifespan: 205 underground, 290 surface (max 247, sun max 347)

There's a big discrepancy between underground dwarves and surface dwarves. Rather than being a result of culture, however, this is a factor of biology—when dwarves go into torpor state due to sunlight, while petrified, their ageing effectively pauses. A dwarf that lives their whole life with the sun sending them into stone hibernation for a third of their existence is going to have more than a few years in change.

Brounies

Heartrate: 40 - 60bpm Base lifespan: 130 Modern lifespan: 210 (max 250)

Brounies have tight community ties, to the point where it's something of a joke that one brounie can name all the others in the area by heart. This means that, even where healthcare is poor, one falling ill has almost an entire population pitching in to help them out. Brounish history involves a lot of their needs and struggles being swept under the rug in favor of the other people of the world, so they very much have a culture of "if we don't look out for each other, nobody's going to look out for us."

Gnomes

Heartrate: 120 - 160bpm Base lifespan: 45 Modern lifespan: 70 (max 86)

Gnomes live in small pocket communities where they share responsibility for one another. They specialize in their own medicine, not because the advancements of modern society are lackluster, but because many of their biological problems involve a level of toxicology most other races don't know how to manage. Gnomes are poisonous.

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[spencerrscardigans]

Doctors often tell patients, often chronically ill patients to stay off the social media that talks about their illnesses and to not look stuff up, and i can understand why this may be problematic but they also aren’t taking into consideration the positives and good things that can also occur from this.

POTS and other chronic illnesses are having a higher social media presence, and because of this it’s created quite a big stigma surrounding it, and people often think that these illnesses are just becoming a trend, but they don’t understand how helpful the representation is for so many people.

I do often see people in the comment section of these videos who will have one or two traits and immediately panic thinking they have these things and i can understand how that part isn’t great, but in some cases it actually is these posts online that help people get diagnoses and learn more about themselves.

I would not have been diagnosed with POTS and getting treatment if it weren’t for social media, and my doctors don’t know much about POTS so most of the tips and advice and treatment methods that i’ve found have been from social media, and i would not be where i am without it.

I struggled with dysautonomia for my entire life, and it had been established by my one doctor who actually knew about these conditions but he retired and the new doctors i was switched too don’t know much about my health conditions, so getting diagnoses and treatment has been a very slow process.

My dysautonomia is believed to have turned into POTS in early 2021 after i got covid, and for over a year i was struggling with debilitating symptoms and had no idea why. I was just trying to survive high school, and all the sudden i was getting sicker and sicker and it was causing quite the divide socially.

I had been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, and because of it i had already been limited in my physical activity, so i was just told that my POTS symptoms were because i was out of shape.

I tried to push myself to fix this, which only ended up making me feel worse. Sometime along the road of me trying to get more active, i got a fitbit.

I started using my watch to monitor my steps and sleep, and i noticed that my heart rate would shoot up to the 150s-170s when i was simply standing still, so i sat down, and my heart rate immediately dropped to the low 100s.

I thought that this may be a glitch with my watch, but was still concerned as i was aware that my heart rate should not get that high from just standing still, so i started googling. As a result of my search, the name Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome came up. I did some reading, and noticed that a lot of the signs were pointing to me, especially with the already established dysautonomia.

I had already dealt with a lot of doctors telling me that i was just paranoid and a hypochondriac, and i knew that watches sometimes glitched or didn’t work correctly, so i went to my pharmacy and got a pulse ox, and did the same standing test and it did the exact same thing as my watch.

I took pictures of my heart rate and started recording it on the charts that my watch had, and brought it to my next doctors appointment, explained my symptoms and then mentioned that i had heard of the condition POTS, and that it seemed pretty similar to what i was going through. My doctor had my do a short standing test in the office, and i had a 70bpm increase in my heart rate.

My doctor agreed that it definitely looked like POTS and she said that i met the criteria for a diagnosis, but she said she didn’t know very much about the condition and had only briefly heard about it, so she referred me to a cardiologist in another city as that was the closest specialist to me, but they denied the referral and said that they weren’t taking patients with POTS, and they gave her a information sheet and gave her some tests to do to rule out anything else.

The tests came back, and again it all pointed to POTS, but my doctor was scarcely familiar with the condition, and wasn’t comfortable giving me an official diagnosis, so she gave me an informal diagnosis. When it came to treatments, she also wasn’t familiar with anything besides telling me to drink more water, exercise, and increase my sodium intake, and the only medication she was familiar to treat it with was propranolol, so she prescribed that, but it unfortunately didn’t help much, so i wasn’t left with much help or advice.

The things my doctor recommended weren’t enough, and because i didn’t have an official diagnosis or really any information at all from my doctors it was hard to get accommodations with school, and i wasn’t sure what else to do, so i did what doctors recommend against and went to google and social media.

It was then where i found so many people like me who i could finally relate to, and found so much information about my condition and tips and tricks to help manage it.

Because i finally knew more about how to manage my POTS, i started trying out more things and in the last year i have learnt more than i had in years of going to doctors, and i also finally had a community where i felt less alone.

I was able to advocate for myself, and two years later, this february i finally got in to see a cardiologist and now have a proper diagnosis, and he was able to provide some more insight and treatment options for me and i’m finally starting to notice some improvement and have a hopeful plan for the future.

In cases like these, social media representation of chronic illnesses is not always bad, and can in my opinion, actually save lives. If i had not had access to these communities and help, i genuinely can say that i would not be where i am at today, and i am forever grateful for the communities that have been created.

[tqftimpost-canon]

my favorite animal is my sports watch telling me my heart rate is at 70bpm when my mind is clearly racing at 200mph and my heart feels like it's busting it's ass at at least 120bpm

literally telling me "it's all in ur head". mean.