Almost died on Monday!!!

Hi guys, haven't been around past few days and with good reason. On Monday morning UK time I was rushed into hospital with tachycardia and laboured breathing. I had been to work at 9am and was sent home around 10am as I was really light headed, dizzy and felt like shit but thought I was coming down with something.

Got home and sat down, than at 10:30am it hit me like a train. My heart was pounding and I could hardly move but managed to get off the chair and to the phone, new I had to call 999.

My father was in the bathroom and came out shortly afterwards to help. I lay down on the floor and took deep slow breaths, the operater spoke with my dad. I thought I was going to die, really it was that bad. I was sweating and dripping with sweat, my hands were going cold and I thought this was it.

The rapid response and ambulance arived and took me to the A&E where my heart rate stabilised abit from 150-170bpm to 120-140bpm which is still very fast for someone not doing anything, okay if your in the gym ... I was sat down!

My max heart rate for my age is in the 190 region, 220 minus your age. So I was in the A&E and around the afternoon time my heart rate shot through the fucking roof along with the blood pressure which got to 220!!! heart rate was 170-180 and you could see my heart literally trying to get out of my chest ... they wouldnt give me anything to slow it down because I had taken a strong energy drink that morning which had 2 Grammes of caffeine in it, didnt think that it would have caused this.

They wanted the caffeine to make its way out naturally plus I'm already on strong meds for anxiety. They did several ECG's and didnt find damage or anything like that but mentioned later it was a coronary tachycardia and one that is very dangerous out of the tachycardia's as it can just BOOM shoot your heart to a flatline ... I was scared out of my fucking mind guys.

Later that night I was still in the hospital and had to wear a special device to monitor my heart 24/7 ... hit 140-150 at peak with a normal BPM of 130-140 while asleep!!!

Things started to get better as the days went by and the worse went and now I'm back home but its been a lesson not to touch caffeine or energy supplements ever again.

I'm so glad to be alive and came close to having a heart attack they said in the A&E which would have needing shocking and to be done within 60-90 seconds.

Shit brotha what the hell happened?

Are you all better now? They found a reason for this episode?

I'm on benzos for anxyety and i am a smoker, you have scared me into being we...scared.

Hope you are all fine now bro... Any roids anytime for you? Any other drugs? This may very well be some medicine interaction you know? Or alcohol in the mix which is a BIG no no...

Get back to us brotha, health to you.

Peace,

Mike

Wow what a fucked up experience! Sorry to hear man, but glad you're okay now..

Is this the first time you experience this/or something similar??

They never advised you to stay off of energy drinks/caffeine while on anti-anxiety meds? Good grief Red. Those things will reduce the effectiveness of the meds. At least you know now and survived. Rest and get back to health. All that added pressure to your heart and vessels will need some time to heal. Thanks for sharing though. Your experience may save someone else.

Thanks guys. This was my 3rd time with Caffeine, it was a powder I used it as. You can buy it in powder form and labelled as a stimulant for the mind. Have exams comming up and just thought it could help. SHOULD have known allot better, as I've worked in the medical field myself. Took 2 grammes of pure Caffeine powder and shot it back with an energy drink and than my 150mg Venlafaxine meds. I could have easily died, looking into various topics on Caffeine overdose with red bulls etc I have found people younger than have died on 500mg Caffeine! I had 2000mg. What I had was estimated to be 20-25 cans of red bull taken at one shot.

At the moment I'm much better, at home and my heart BPM lastnight was in the 80-90 range which is normal for someone like me. Used my heart monitor.

The hospital did blood tests on the day and also the day I left and they all cameback great! Liver, kidneys, heart etc etc all fine and no damage the consulatant told me. The ECG's were normal, no damage indicated. He explaned to me that because I'm young, active and healthy is why I'm okay and they didnt need to intervene. With Caffeine they dont do much and like it to leave your body naturally but if they MUST than they have a few methods, such as shocking your heart at the BPM its going if it needs to but think they knock you out aswell for it. Various forms of invasive methods that leave permanent scars and tubes for life as they fliush the system out. Meds such as beta blockers could have lowered my trachycardia but they can also trigger different heart conditions off and I see now why they were so weary to use anything.

Thankfully though I'm okay and wont be touching that shit again. Just shows how powerful Caffeine really is! They market the powder so openly aswell for fat loss, its insane really.

I think the closest point I got to a heart attack and possible death was around 330-430pm when my heart rate went from at the time, a comfortable 120-130 BPM to a pounding 170 BPM and my blood pressure rocketed from 150/160 [Dont know what that was over] to 210. I know these figures because I read my notes before I left. When my BPM were at 170 they were jumping back to 150 region and than back to 170 region over the course of several seconds with speed and I felt like fucking shit. Colour was going and I was sick, clear fluid. That made me feel better though and than the women who does the ECG had to quickly get a reading of the heart while it was doing all its dancing.

I saw this reading before I left and it was a ventricular tachycardia but without the damage to the heart and it lasted seconds and got itself back to a more normal rhytHydromax, otherwise if it was have persisted for a length of time I would have had a heart attack, no questions asked. The blood pressure was 210 which is insane and it was a matter of time. I knew it was getting serious than because the doctor was very eager with the results and everything was quicker than before.

Thank god I'm okay and still alive.

irafeak01, your a doctor aren't you in the USA? should I be cautious for a but before going running again at the gym? Obviously I will be taking things easy.

Red! My God! I am so happy you are OK. Please take it easy and take care of yourself, we need you here as I am sure the rest of your family and friends do. Penis Enlargement would not be the same without you and if MOS is an example of how you do things in the rest of your life then the world could not make it without you. You are in my prayers.

Mike

Shit man, what a terrible experience. Imagine if your heart was relatively weak... I'm glad you're in a better condition now .

I'm really sensitive to caffeine. When I drunk a few cups of coffee at my internship place, I started to get heart poundings and feeling strange in the chest area.
If I drink just one cup I have sleeping problems. I replaced coffee with tea and never touched energy drink like red-bull.

Take it easy Red. Wish you the best and hope you recover physically and mentally from this soon.

KingCobra

Glad your OK RED.

Red, pleased to hear your on the mend pal, i had bad heart palpitations in my late teens, i was convinced i had a bad heart, went to see a specialist and everything, but he convinced me i was healthy. It scared the shit out of me though. Keep well.

The heart is nothing to fuck with, keep an aspirin and phone nearby always.

holy shit man. Im glad your still with us. Hey red how old are you anyway?

Think about it like your penis and clamping. Shoving/trapping extra blood in there. You only clamped every other day to give things time to heal. Give it some time. When you're feeling ready take it slow. Just walk a few laps or move a little quicker and just see how you feel. If you have any pains (anywhere) it could be from the increase in pressure hurting the vessels that are trying to heal (as in the walking will increase your pressure and if the vessels aren't doing so hot yet you'll feel pressure/cramping).

Red!! Dude!! I am thrilled that you are okay and know that cause. Glad you are still with us bro.

Thanks guys. I also passed a test today at college, so cool on that note! I was waiting to into the room for the test and looked around at the walls, like you do before a big test and oddly one of those images from a heart mnitor was around and I thought ''You know what I aint stressing over this, if I pass I pass and if I fail than it aint the end of the world cos I nearly died on Monday'' the doctor said that if that Tachycardia had not have remedied itself quickly like it did with me and on its own than it would have been likely my heart would have stopped. The blood pressure was off the scales at one pont as I've said and they would have had to take action if that would have carried on. I asked god at the time as-well to help me out and not let me die so soon. I was alone too in the A&E as my mother and father went home ... once I'm fully healed again this will make me stronger and more mature. That shit is lethal and I wont be touching normal coffee again.

Oh my god, I wish you the best and get well soon! Water is the best drink, ineed... I drink only water, have never drunken anything else (except of self-made orangejuice with apple- yumm ^^ ) and never had problems like these. There is no need for such drinks, life is so much more important!
People should start to think about it before taking this kind of stuff...

Energy drinks are extra bad. What they do over time is stress your thyroid and burn out your adrenal glands. After they are gone no amount of caffeine will wake your ass up. In fact it can start to do just the opposite ...
If the energy drink had a hot load in it, (machine overdosed a clump of whatever) you could have had 100x the safe limit of caffeine, check and see if it had Yohimbine in it, that stuff will palp your heart even at low doses.

Been there done that. So did you see any dead relatives ?,

The right way to achieve your goals is not with the use of stimulants or artificial mixtures of chemical nutrients . Natural, herbal, or synthetic caffeine are all bad. Your body will be 10xs stronger and it will last longer without all that garbage. Do it naturally. Plus you get addicted and get the nasty withdrawal headache when you put the stuff down after 12-24 hrs..... who needs a headache that comes right on time. ? F- that ! F Starbucks.

I barely touch a cup of decaf and that is only with a meal. Glad you made it. Put down all the meds. Its all poison and it is your body telling you to change your lifestyle. Learn to meditate, center yourself. Go on amazon
and search "heart math" learn visualization techniques and except for nutritional supplements, vitamins, amino acids, and a few herbs I do not rely on any stimulants. If you are tired, sleep ! Once I slept for 3 days straight I was so tired.....

Red... I just read this today. Im also glad to hear that you are ok. That sounds like it was a horrible, terrifying experience and it makes it worse that it had to happen to someone like you. I agree with DLD... I hope you take care, because this place wouldn't be the same without you. Not just from a Penis Enlargement aspect... but just from a life standpoint. I see how many people that you have helped (me included) and appreciate all the things that you do. Just like you have been there for me before, I am there for you and I'm sure that I speak for many when I say that we are all here from you. Get Better Man, Hope you have a fast, safe recovery. Take Care Red.

_RD_

A new lease on life....It is all good Red

Red, without all the pertinent details, it sounded like you just had a, albeit scary as hell, reaction to too much caffine. The docs at the ER let the caffine run its course because you are a young, healthy male with no prev med conditions (I am assuming). If you started having severe chest pain, decreased levels of conscious, or a BP that was considered a hypertensive crisis, or dropping through the floor, they probably would have given you some meds to counter the caffine. Don't get me wrong, a systolic BP of 210 is becoming crisis level, but probably not a significant danger level for a short amount of time. There was probably no damage done to your heart. If there was any concern, they would have run enzyme tests to check for any damage. I have had a couple of these same episodes myself for overdoing it on energy drinks and not eating enough, and they just self resolved with out any other issue. This rhytHydromax is called SVT, or Supraventricular Tachycardia, not Ventricular Tachycardia, or V-Tach, which is more of a life threat. Obviously, this is speculation with out seeing any ECG strips. My point is, you should not be too concerned about getting back to the gym because you probably did not sustain injury. If there were no explanation for your heart rate to be so high, besides the caffine, you would be scheduled to see cardiac docs to get to the underlying issues. If the ER doc did not give you any limitations on getting back to the gym, I wouldn't be too concerned. This was more than likely an isolated incident. Obviously, if you start feeling pain/pressure in your chest when you work out, stop and make an appointment to get checked. I hope this helps ease a little anxiety about what happened. PM me if you have any specific questions. Good luck.

Jonrhys