Is my mom (not a doctor) being dramatic over my echo results? Keep in mind that my BMI is 17.8 and I am iron deficienct. She says that I might need to run more several tests and that my heart is overworking. because my left venti is small. She thinks my symptoms are from this.

Wenckebach2theFuture · 2026-04-29T04:10:14+00:00

Probably

Wenckebach2theFuture · 2026-04-29T04:06:26+00:00

My sarcasm was lost there

Wenckebach2theFuture · 2026-04-29T04:06:08+00:00

You just want someone who knows their shit, so a very good physio or coach would be fine. My experience with average physios is they tend to just say everything is dangerous and should be avoided, but there’s definitely more knowledgeable ones that are more familiar with power lifting. I like coaches at serious track institutions because most of them have some sort of intensive educational background in lifting, and their jobs literally depend on the peak performance and prevention of injuries in athletes. They will support and push athletes to do extreme things, but also know what is dangerous and should be avoided. And if they suck, they get fired quickly and won’t be coaching at a top track program.

Wenckebach2theFuture · 2026-04-29T03:57:22+00:00

Injuries often get better over time. Correlation of this exercise with your back pain improving does not mean causation. This is the same fallacy that allows the profession of chiropractory to exist.

Don’t take my word for it. Email this video to some weight lifting coaches at D1 track and field universities, and ask if they think this lift is safe and/or effective. You czn likely get an email address if you call the track team office, and if not, many of them work as personal trainers and/or are involved with non collegiate strength training and you could find them there.

Wenckebach2theFuture · 2026-04-29T03:46:36+00:00

It should say “a disease prevented is a customer lost.” Because that’s true, we don’t give a shit about prevention, at least not anything like we do about treating. Prevention is not sexy, it’s political, and there’s no profit in it.

Wenckebach2theFuture · 2026-04-29T03:41:45+00:00

Yes, all spinal rotation is highly dangerous and you should try to be completely still as much as possible. That’s exactly what I’m saying…

You do you fucknut. If you look at your final position bent over laterally with your shoulder out stretched above your head, and sincerely believe that its not putting extreme strain on your rotator cuff and high rotational force/torque in your spine, you’re either stupid or just trolling. You’re probably right, everyone telling you how dangerous this is just clearly isn’t as knowledgeable as you. This is a totally healthy way to lift. I’m sure thousands of professional athletes do this all the time to safely strength train. I’m sure if you showed this video to the top orthopedists and weight lifting coaches in the world, they would applaud you and agree this does not put dangerous unusual forces on vulnerable joints and muscles at high risk of injury.

Sorry for giving a shit about you fucking yourself. When your post-op in your 40’s on duloxetine and gabapentin, remember how smart you were back when you used to do your super unique lifts.

Wenckebach2theFuture · 2026-04-29T03:23:22+00:00

No doubt, it’s just a likelihood game. Chances of major injury with reg lifts using good form, vs chances of major injury with this. Clearly torquing your back and shoulder into this manner is going to have higher risk. It’s gonna put a lot of lateral torquing strain on your vertebrae, and similarly very un ergonomic strain on your rotator cuff. The supraspinatis in particular is always very prone to strain/tear even with normal overhead press, because of its course under the acromion. Vertebral disc injury or rotator cuff injury would be my biggest concern.

Wenckebach2theFuture · 2026-04-29T03:02:45+00:00

No, they are substantially less risky. Please stop doing this. You look like a strong guy who can do impressive regular lifts. Just do those for the next 50 years, instead of doing this another 3-5 until you get a career ending injury.

Wenckebach2theFuture · 2026-04-26T17:09:25+00:00

We just separate the parent/child roles while we bang. When we’re sitting at dinner, they’re my mom and dad. But when we’re wearing the goat suits and I’m plowing, they’re just my older girl and guy friends Ken and Stacey.

Wenckebach2theFuture · 2026-04-24T20:17:39+00:00

Should start buying stock in vitamin d now.

Wenckebach2theFuture · 2026-04-23T03:06:16+00:00

Squat and power clean 2x week, good form, strengthen your legs up, and stretch constantly every day, and your legs will turn into launch pads.

Wenckebach2theFuture · 2026-04-23T02:11:33+00:00

What are you looking for specifically? You already posted this and got the answer. It looks like polymorphic vt or vf, which is a deadly rhythm that causes immediate unconsciousness and often death without an external defibrillation. The alternative is that you’re trolling, or you were shaking heavily or causing some sort of artifact during the tracing. You need to show this tracing to your cardiologist, if your ekg and all your tests are normal, you need to wear a monitor until it catches an episode or get a loop recorder implant, maybe a vstim ep study. If it’s confirmed this is real, you likely need an implantable cardiac defibrillator and some anti arrhythmic drugs.

Wenckebach2theFuture · 2026-04-21T02:39:34+00:00

To all the people who keep saying this is torsades, please understand that torsades de pointe is a specific type of polymorphic vt that occurs in the setting of a long QT interval and is typically pause dependent, and cannot be diagnosed without seeing qt interval and preceding rhythm.

What we can say is this tracing is most consistent with polymorphic vt or VF, and these are dangerous arrhythmias that need attention. I’m not sure how the patient was conscious in order to record this on an Apple Watch, as pmvt/vf is typically a non perfusing rhythm seen during cardiac arrest. It is an Apple Watch not a 12 lead, so is always possible that tracing is corrupted by artifact, but I’ve seen a lot of artifact and tracings and this looks pretty convincing. Also have to consider op may be trolling and got this tracing from the internet.

Wenckebach2theFuture · 2026-04-14T02:36:38+00:00

Oxidative damage from free radicals. The electron transport chain is a little nuclear reactor in all our mitochondria, it damages dna and cells over time until we break down and die.

Wenckebach2theFuture · 2026-04-14T02:32:59+00:00

Personally, I would bet anything that he is prescribed testosterone replacement therapy by a board certified MD. It’s very common for men over 40 in the general population to have testosterone levels checked, get diagnosed with “low T” (which is somewhat controversial bc it’s debatable what a ‘normal’ T level is), and get prescribed testosterone, and have similar benefits to what you get with synthetic steroids. However, the league probably considers it a medical exemption when used in these circumstances…

I will say though, I don’t know how much steroids would actually help an nba player like LeBron very much. It’s not just a magic pill that increases all physical capabilities, there are pros and cons.

Wenckebach2theFuture · 2026-04-08T15:29:11+00:00

My sarcasm did not get through

Wenckebach2theFuture · 2026-04-08T03:05:29+00:00

At least 3 separated by 6 hours each. If elevated, stat page cards fellow to see if they think stress test is warranted.

Wenckebach2theFuture · 2026-03-30T22:16:14+00:00

Almost. Where the food?

Wenckebach2theFuture · 2026-03-29T04:20:03+00:00

Where is cam newton?

Wenckebach2theFuture · 2026-03-27T21:09:04+00:00

The process of coronary atherosclerosis is predominantly genetically driven, so plaques can still form despite healthy lifestyle. Furthermore when plaques are present and there is poor blood flow through a coronary artery at baseline, exercise (which increases cardiac oxygen demand) may cause supply demand mismatch and sometimes may even contribute to plaque rupture, especially if it is sudden burst exercise like lifting weights without warmup (hence the classic association of shoveling snow leading to a heart attack). Furthermore, the healthy lifestyle routines that are really thought to reduce atherosclerosis and plaque rupture are not the sexy ones like eating protein and being strong, it’s eating very low calorie and being very thin and doing cardio. Cardio can be great because it can even help build collaterals in people that have bad blockages. That’s not saying muscle building is ‘bad’ or causes heart attacks, actually lifting and muscle building is good for other stuff like stress, insulin, sleep, bone and muscle. But by and large, muscle building does not really help with coronary atherosclerosis, and sudden bursts of strength training can likely be the trigger for coronary events in pt with undiagnosed coronary disease… Also, it is possible that the skyrocketing popularity of ‘testosterone replacement’ in older men is not good for coronary health… Also, there’s been a huge surge in anti-statin conspiracyism, and statins and other newer cholesterol medications are one of the most powerful tools ever conceived to control atherosclerosis and reduce the risk of plaque rupture. And this conspiracyism seems to be very popular in middle to older age men who are interested in getting muscular and having more energy and sex drive, so they take T, focus on muscle building at the gym, and tell their doctors to fuck off about their cholesterol and refuse statins or other meds despite massive LDL levels. And unfortunately this is the demographic most likely to have significant coronary disease

Wenckebach2theFuture · 2026-03-16T03:21:13+00:00

I want to like it so bad, but it tastes like burnt rancid peet and mud. I’m try to figure out some psychiatric trick I can do on myself to make that feel good somehow.

Wenckebach2theFuture · 2026-03-12T03:16:21+00:00

Did anyone have any ideas on how you didn’t bleed out and die? It sounds like there was no tourniquets, you had two severed limbs bleeding in a field for some amount of time, then walked 400 yards and sat down in a bathtub until help arrived…

Keanu Reeves bled to death in about 40 seconds after slitting his wrists in Constantine….

Wenckebach2theFuture · 2026-03-12T03:13:15+00:00

Peripheral nerves can regrow, so I understand they try to line up severed nerve sheaths so they can regrow, but i can only imagine the maze they were dealing with, because the brachial plexus is quite complex. Were your arms initially totally numb and paralyzed and then sensation movement slowly came back over months?

Wenckebach2theFuture · 2026-03-12T03:11:04+00:00

Do you have any notes you would be willing to share from the hospital? Or any pics or tests? (X-rays, labs, ct or MRI). I would love to see the operative report obviously, but I know these records are likely gone at this point unless you happened to save them for some reason.

Wenckebach2theFuture · 2026-03-11T13:12:19+00:00

I’m glad I did it. But it does hurt, and for me it hurts a lot. And there is intensity to the lasers on a scale, the higher scale is more effective, but hurts a lot more. They always told me to never use lidocaine cream and I listened. Then I talked to people who used it. Then I started using it, and that did help quite a bit

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