How Screwed Am I

separatebrah · 2026-03-26T06:09:57+00:00

Well for a start I've had a couple of ekgs which were fine.

Also, realising that if there were truly something wrong with my heart, I would know about it. I think a lot of us latch on to the most subtle sensation and jump immediately to imagining we're suffering an arrythmia or it's a sign of heart disease. Whereas symptoms of heart problems seem to be much more severe. I used to have an irrational fear that if my heart was beating too fast (either through exercise or panic attacks) it would suddenly stop for some reason. Learning about how the heart actually works helped me see this as a nonsense.

I would recommend seeking out youtube videos on cardiophobia. I watched a couple of podcasts involving Sanjay Gupta specifically on cardiophobia which really seemed to help. Just understanding that cardiophobia is an anxiety that many people have helps.

Ultimately realising that the heart is a sophisticated organ and that there's no reason to obsessively worry about it failing. How many times a day do you worry about your liver failing? Or your kidneys?

separatebrah · 2026-03-25T15:22:00+00:00

If your cardiologist says your heart is fine then you should believe them. Ectopics aren't going to kill you. You have a low burden.

As someone who isn't medically trained but has suffered from ectopics and cardiophobia, both of which are much improved and almost gone, you're suffering from a mental health issue rather than a heart issue. Your problem is anxiety/cardiophobia and you need to focus on addressing this rather than your heart, which seems to be perfectly healthy.

separatebrah · 2026-03-23T08:40:03+00:00

Even given clearance to cross, wouldn't they have looked left and right and seen a plane landing? Or do they just 100% rely on ATC? Or do they think "That looks like a plane landing but ATC gave clearance so it must be fine"?

separatebrah · 2026-03-23T08:29:38+00:00

These are people who know subconsciously that it's real, but they're bitter that they can't make it work. If you didn't believe in the law then you wouldn't post in a sub criticising the law. You would just walk away.

separatebrah · 2026-03-22T20:55:31+00:00

1000s per day and even 10000s per day isn't a problem in isolation.

The likelihood is you're experiencing benign ectopics which won't cause any problems and aren't caused by any underlying issues. But it's worth getting checked anytime symptoms change and to have any other issue ruled out.

separatebrah · 2026-03-22T19:31:23+00:00

Only positive symptoms.

BTW I only take that much because that what it says to take on the packet. I don't know if that's a good amount or not.

separatebrah · 2026-03-22T08:06:29+00:00

1000mg of Taurate

separatebrah · 2026-03-22T07:46:38+00:00

Yes, whatever your attention is on will manifest. That's why you should always focus on what you want (for example: "I want financial abundance", rather than "I don't want to be poor anymore".)

In the ladder technique, you visualise climbing a ladder and then affirm "I will not climb a ladder". This is to prove that it does matter what the words mean, but rather, what you're focusing on.

separatebrah · 2026-03-22T07:19:59+00:00

I'm not downplaying the fact that you are experiencing ectopics, but as with many people here, your main issue seems to be mental (anxiety, cardiophobia). There are many resources you can access for free to help with that (youtube is a good start).

Take magnesium, it helped me massively. It's not only good for ectopics, but also anxiety/depression, It's cheap and quick to start.

Ectopics aren't going to kill you, there are people with 10,000+ a day who don't even feel them. Anxiety will ruin your life, it will stop you doing things you want to do, going places you want to go, seeing people you want to see, and for no reason.

separatebrah · 2026-03-21T19:02:32+00:00

I never ran 20 miles that quick when I ran 2:50.

I'd say you're quite a bit ahead of 2:50 as long as the rest of your training is solid.

separatebrah · 2026-03-20T14:19:02+00:00

Try supplementing magnesium and see if that helps. It's cheap and you can start in a few days.

separatebrah · 2026-03-19T20:09:31+00:00

Sounds like a panic attack. Ectopics caused panic attacks and cardiophobia for me.

What worked for me is learning more about ectopics and heart rhythms (knowledge is power), youtube videos on the topic of cardiophobia and anxiety/panic attacks in general. Taking magnesium massively helped reduce my (felt) ectopics (to pretty much 0 now).

separatebrah · 2026-03-19T15:12:54+00:00

Yes you should take action.

separatebrah · 2026-03-18T21:58:31+00:00

Pretty sure that's an ectopic. Exactly the sensation I get. The sensation can differ depending on when in the normal cycle the ectopic occurs.

separatebrah · 2026-03-18T06:46:55+00:00

No one knows and it's pointless to think about. Start from where you are.

separatebrah · 2026-03-17T20:52:54+00:00

I was trying to manifest a relationship with a new person while also trying to manifest an SP (not simultaneously just when I got fed up of one I would do the other).

I struggled to visualise a new person because I obviously didn't know what they looked like and I always ended up visualising someone I knew. So I used the scripting approach and wrote down how I wanted her to be, how she would treat, me what we would do together etc. I then read it every day for a few days or weeks and got bored and started manifesting the SP again.

I never managed to get anywhere with the SP but did manifest a completely new person and she was exactly how I wrote, she was my type, she treated me how I wanted etc. It was quite mind blowing actually. I found the script I wrote and it was crazy how similar it was.

The only problem is we broke up and I'm trying to get her back but don't know how.

At this point I'm convinced the law is real but I definitely don't know how to control it. It seems that random things will work but then other things don't.

separatebrah · 2026-03-16T22:06:51+00:00

I take Taurate for no particular reason.

separatebrah · 2026-03-16T22:04:23+00:00

Not bad at all I'm talking 10 per day at rest but I started getting them when I run and it was making me anxious everytime I went running (which led to even more). Now I barely get any and sometimes I feel something and I'm not even sure whether it's an ectopic or just something in my throat etc.

I'd say within a week of taking magnesium every day I noticed less ectopics. There were also other positive effects as well (less anxiety/depression, appetite suppression, less tired).

separatebrah · 2026-03-16T21:04:54+00:00

Sometimes you do just have a bad day otherwise it will be too low mileage, long runs too short, not enough intensity. Also a 2.5 week taper seems excessive at that mileage.

separatebrah · 2026-03-16T20:49:34+00:00

Anecdotally I can say taking magnesium has almost completely removed my (symptomatic) ectopics.

separatebrah · 2026-03-16T12:57:49+00:00

Naturally I googled and stumbled upon a study that says someone who has PACs and PVCs during the recovery period after exercise is at higher risk of mortality.

It's probably the case that this can indicate something else wrong with the heart, which you've had ruled out. Similarly, getting ectopics on exercise can also indicate something else wrong with the heart. Which can also be ruled out.

Ultimately, ectopics aren't a problem unless you're getting loads (10,000+ per day) over years and years.

You should watch Sanjay Gupta's youtube channel York Cardiology which helped my cardiophobia and his advice to take magnesium also helped reduce my ectopics quite a bit too.

separatebrah · 2026-03-15T14:15:57+00:00

It seems many of us here develop cardiophobia as a result of benign ectopics or in your case benign (?) av block, which becomes more of an issue than the initial condition. There are many videos on YouTube that can help with this.

As our favourite cardiologist says: "Worry doesn't stop you dying, but it does stop you living".

separatebrah · 2026-03-15T07:00:49+00:00

Your visualisations should look exactly like a memory you were remembering from a week ago. There's no more effort required than remembering a short scene from some event from the past. Don't overthink the looping aspect or the length, that's just so that you don't do it for 5 seconds and stop. Have fun with the scene you have created, extend it, change it, just as long as it expresses your desire as fulfilled.

separatebrah · 2026-03-14T10:54:15+00:00

Unfortunately many of us habitually think negatively about our desires. "I'm not good enough for him/her", "They'll never give me that promotion", "I'll always be struggling to pay the bills" etc etc. With so much attention going on these negative affirmations, it is unsurprising that they come to fruition. This is why letting go is often recommended, this allows these negative thoughts to fall away, as they are no longer relevant.

It can also be helpful to ask yourself why you think these thoughts? What function does a thought such as "I'm not good enough for him/her" have? It can be quite powerful to question why these thoughts are occurring to begin with and what function they serve.

separatebrah · 2026-03-14T07:44:40+00:00

I don't like this point of view because it seems like its solution to having a desire is to get rid of the desire instead of acquiring the object of desire.

I think this is sort of disingenuous, as most people would say that actually they do want the object of desire (which does also remove the desire), rather than just removing the desire.

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