10-04-2014, 02:08 AM
I came here first because I wanted to grow breasts, or more accurately to continue the growth of those I had already started. Along the way I have learned a lot about myself both physically and mentally, including much that is not directly relevant to the growth of my breasts or the physical or mental environment in which they continue (I hope) to develop. While what follows is on the face (or more accurately, the heart) of it OT, it certainly relates to something I only learned through this board. I am sure there are others here who have had similar OT revelations?
In fact I am only raising it now because of Flame’s Cold Turkey thread and his/her (what is the appropriate pronoun for an androgyne - ‘hse’ comes to kind as a possibility) interruption of NBE to speed up regaining the health benefits of running and regaining ‘runners high’. As far back as I can remember I was unable to run more than a short sprint distance without being reduced to a state of fairly acute physical distress, although I could walk more or less indefinitely. In my mid-teens I did manage with much training effort to get as far as being able to maintain a slow jog. I certainly never got a high out of it. When I was diagnosed with heart failure fifteen years ago, I was becoming unable to sustain even a brisk walk. This was due to atrial fibrillation which together with a ‘regurgitating’ mitral valve had pushed my EF (ejection fraction, a measure of the pumping efficiency of my heart) too low to sustain my usual level of physical activity. Treatment restored my EF to at or near to the bottom of the acceptable range, and has maintained it at that level ever since, for which I must be very thankful.
Another member of this board queried whether the heart valve problem was congenital. I first said I thought no since I had passed various physicals from time to time for merchant navy, insurance and immigration purposes which would surely have detected it, but I gather that it is something that often gets passed over. Looking back I don’t recollect any of the physicals being very rigorous, and I have a niggle at the back of my mind that someone did once mention a heart murmur. If it pre-existed the AF, and my EF was always marginal, it would provide a complete explanation of my running problems. To the best of my knowledge there is nothing wrong with my lungs, but the limited blood flow through them limits the maximum rate at which oxygen used by my body can be replaced so that my sustained power output is limited, although my maximum short term or instantaneous strength (which used to be substantial) is unaffected- except now by age and NBE. This realization that my heart murmur was probably congenital or possibly due to rheumatic fever brought on by strep throat when I was 9years old, has been very illuminating to me, and would never have occurred to me but for the kind of support that so many of the members here provide.
In fact I am only raising it now because of Flame’s Cold Turkey thread and his/her (what is the appropriate pronoun for an androgyne - ‘hse’ comes to kind as a possibility) interruption of NBE to speed up regaining the health benefits of running and regaining ‘runners high’. As far back as I can remember I was unable to run more than a short sprint distance without being reduced to a state of fairly acute physical distress, although I could walk more or less indefinitely. In my mid-teens I did manage with much training effort to get as far as being able to maintain a slow jog. I certainly never got a high out of it. When I was diagnosed with heart failure fifteen years ago, I was becoming unable to sustain even a brisk walk. This was due to atrial fibrillation which together with a ‘regurgitating’ mitral valve had pushed my EF (ejection fraction, a measure of the pumping efficiency of my heart) too low to sustain my usual level of physical activity. Treatment restored my EF to at or near to the bottom of the acceptable range, and has maintained it at that level ever since, for which I must be very thankful.
Another member of this board queried whether the heart valve problem was congenital. I first said I thought no since I had passed various physicals from time to time for merchant navy, insurance and immigration purposes which would surely have detected it, but I gather that it is something that often gets passed over. Looking back I don’t recollect any of the physicals being very rigorous, and I have a niggle at the back of my mind that someone did once mention a heart murmur. If it pre-existed the AF, and my EF was always marginal, it would provide a complete explanation of my running problems. To the best of my knowledge there is nothing wrong with my lungs, but the limited blood flow through them limits the maximum rate at which oxygen used by my body can be replaced so that my sustained power output is limited, although my maximum short term or instantaneous strength (which used to be substantial) is unaffected- except now by age and NBE. This realization that my heart murmur was probably congenital or possibly due to rheumatic fever brought on by strep throat when I was 9years old, has been very illuminating to me, and would never have occurred to me but for the kind of support that so many of the members here provide.
I don't really get how the sickle and hammer has any relations to a rhino. 
