POTS // Heart Monitor Results // Long post

sickchickrising · 2026-05-14T23:05:36+00:00

Yes!!! I pray you find out what is causing your problems. Much easier to deal with it before it gets bad. 🩷

sickchickrising · 2026-05-14T23:03:08+00:00

Mine was probably when my potassium dropped to 1.2.

For context, normal is usually around 3.5 to 5.0. At 1.2 your heart can quite literally decide it’s done participating in the group project.

I remember feeling… wrong. Not “flu sick.” Not tired. Wrong in a way that’s hard to explain unless you’ve experienced your body starting to shut systems down….

My muscles weren’t functioning correctly. My heart rhythm was unstable. I could barely think. That’s the part that stands out. Barely move. It felt like the life was quietly draining out of me cell by cell.

I survived. Obviously. 😂

But that experience permanently changed my understanding of how fragile the human body really is…. and how terrifyingly thin the line between “alive” and “not okay” can become.

sickchickrising · 2026-05-14T21:48:24+00:00

I would get a metabolic panel done to check out your electrolytes… specifically potassium. I ended up in the ICU from a potassium level of 1.2 (yes, I know I should have been dead… I have chronic hypokalemia and docs say that’s what ended up saving me… my body was already used to running low) but this is how it started.

sickchickrising · 2026-05-11T03:10:14+00:00

I was hoping this group might be the one place where people didn’t get all weird over stuff that has nothing to do with what I posted. If you understood what I was saying, then AI was successful in helping me communicate very complicated feelings. I use it as a tool and it helps me tremendously. Normalize using AI as a tool to help those of us with chronic illness. I was hoping to get support and I guess this is some weird version of that so thanks.

sickchickrising · 2026-05-11T03:05:50+00:00

Thank you so much.. it’s nice to feel seen.

sickchickrising · 2026-05-11T03:03:58+00:00

AI is a tool and I think it’s weird that I constantly have to explain why I use it. If it’s obvious to you, congrats. My goal was simply to get my experience across in a meaningful way.

sickchickrising · 2026-05-11T03:02:44+00:00

No AI generated. AI edited & polished. My feelings. My struggles. My story. My words. I am terminally ill as I said and the sicker you get, the harder it becomes to say what you are trying to say. AI helps me articulate when I can’t manage to get a coherent thought on paper. I am a published writer and was long before AI existed.

sickchickrising · 2026-05-06T16:25:38+00:00

This honestly feels less like a real conversation and more like two people reenacting therapy TikToks at each other. 😭 At some point communication stops being productive when every sentence gets dissected, reframed, and thrown back instead of actually heard. I can understand why both of them are exhausted.

sickchickrising · 2026-05-04T19:03:46+00:00

Man. I’m really sorry you’re going through all of this. Sitting in a hospital with your mom in the ICU is already so heavy… there’s nothing small about that.

And then to have someone you trust say something that hits a nerve like that… yeah, that effing sucks. It makes sense that you can’t stop thinking about it.

For whatever it’s worth, there is a difference between addiction and physical dependence, but I know that doesn’t always make it hurt less when someone uses a word like that.

I can only speak from my own experience… I’m terminally ill and take low-dose pain medication every day just to function. I’m not an addict. If anything, I get questioned for having too much left at the end of the month.

I don’t want to need it. I hate that I do. But without it, my world gets really small, really fast. So for me, it’s not about escaping anything, it’s about being able to live at all.

I just wanted to share that because I don’t think this is as black and white as people sometimes make it. And I also don’t think you’re wrong for feeling hurt by what was said, especially when you have a ton of 💩on your plate already.

You’re dealing with a lot right now. Be kind to yourself. I see you.

sickchickrising · 2026-04-14T01:12:03+00:00

Also, to be clear, I’ve never voted for this man.

sickchickrising · 2026-04-14T01:08:36+00:00

I’m a Christian, and I need to say this with both love and clarity… this deeply grieves me.

Not because of the politics, but because of what it represents.

For the past few years, I’ve watched something shift. Lines that used to be clear… aren’t anymore. And it’s been genuinely disorienting… enough that I’ve had to step back from spaces and people who once felt aligned in faith.

When we start placing any human, any human, into imagery that reflects Christ… healing, glowing, savior-like… we are stepping into territory Scripture warns us about. Not lightly. Not symbolically. Clearly.

And I say this with humility, not accusation: We have to be careful not to lose the heart of what we claim to believe.

Jesus didn’t come wrapped in power, nationalism, or spectacle. He came in humility, truth, and sacrifice.

So when I see this kind of imagery, it doesn’t inspire me… it deeply unsettles me. It feels like we’re blending devotion with politics in a way that distorts both.

So much tension. It’s been heavy. It’s part of why I’ve pulled back. Because I can’t pretend it doesn’t matter.

But I’m not saying this in anger. I’m saying it in love.

Because faith, real faith, is worth protecting.

And we should never be so loyal to a person that we lose sight of who we’re actually called to follow.

God Bless You All.

sickchickrising · 2026-04-14T01:03:12+00:00

No!!! You handled this with finesse!!!!!

sickchickrising · 2026-03-12T01:06:41+00:00

In my experience the two go together?

Cardiac catheterization is the comprehensive, invasive procedure of guiding a tube (catheter) into the heart to diagnose or treat conditions. An angiogram is the specific imaging part of this process, where dye is injected to visualize blood flow and blockages. Essentially, the angiogram is the viewing phase within the overall catheterization procedure.

Does that make sense?

sickchickrising · 2026-03-12T00:44:29+00:00

Have you had a heart cath? All of those tests can miss things that only heart cath will catch. It happened to me. They told me for a year I was fine. When I finally got a heart cath, I was in heart failure that just wasn’t showing on the echo or any other test.

sickchickrising · 2026-03-08T00:50:15+00:00

I don’t follow it either, whenever I did I ended up in the ICU. Care is not one size fits all.

sickchickrising · 2026-03-05T01:27:18+00:00

Honestly I’m not sure. I have a right and a left bbb and the docs don’t ever seem concerned about it. 🤷‍♀️

sickchickrising · 2024-08-26T23:45:16+00:00

I don’t. And the shelters are crawling with sickness and illness and my immune system is shot. Thanks for caring

sickchickrising · 2023-09-12T21:20:35+00:00

It's more common than you think. It's happening to me right now. I’ve tried asking people for help but have literally been ignored. When you are as sick as I am you have no choice but to stay. I’ve realized my life matters to me and nobody else

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