Posted by Ted Toal on January 5, 2002, at 19:51:12
In reply to Re: Effexor Permanent Effects-Heart sounds when asleep » Ted Toal, posted by IsoM on January 5, 2002, at 14:13:27
> Ted, please ignore 3 Beer Effect. He's young & hopefully will gain more insight as he grows older.
It's okay. He's partially right, I AM somewhat of a hypochondriac, although much, much less so than when I was younger. Mostly now I'm just trying to understand which of the myriad changes currently occurring in my body are caused by aging and which might need some medical attention.
However, I have two reasons for suspecting that perhaps Effexor caused a change in my heartbeat: (1) it definitely caused the initial noise that I heard at night, which definitely evolved into a more subtle sound that I'm almost certain is caused by an occasional heartbeat that is somehow different; (2) There was another post on here from someone who described the whooshing sound that some people hear when going off Effexor, and he specifically said that for him, the sound seemed to be synchronized with his heartbeat.
> I feel some of us are simply more aware of strange things than others without anything being serious.
I COMPLETELY AGREE. I'm pretty certain that I tune into little body subtleties far more than most people. I have a hypothesis that doctors and researchers could learn much more about the body by paying attention to these minute details that some of us are able to notice. As I entered my 30's and then 40's, I noticed many, many body changes that I believe are caused by aging. I even started a list of them. Many I have never heard attributed to aging, but then, I think our culture tends to deny the aging process and try to ignore it, so there isn't much common knowledge about the effects of aging. We think an old person becomes gray, wrinkled, slow, and weak, and that's about it. But in reality every single little subsystem of their body is failing, and sensitive people notice the changes.
> Why not try taking a questionairre Dr. Bob has on his site? Two of my sons & I test *very* high for subsyndromal epilepsy (sounds, lights, thoughts, etc) while my other son only answered a 1 for any of the questions. This might give you some insight on the noises.
I took it, but don't know how to interpret the results because there is nothing showing max possible scores and no curves showing score distribution among the population. It seemed to me that I was answering a few questions high but most 0, so I probably scored towards low end.
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