'The answer cannot be nothing': The battle over Canada's mystery brain disease

Re:'The answer cannot be nothing': The battle over Canada's ... by jemmyw on Sunday January 11, 2026 @02:59AM (#46573568)

I mean, I had a similar experience with the old doctor not being very worried when I had the same symptom. But when I raised that I was worried about having a heart attack and dying he was equally unworried about that "people die, don't worry about it". And yeah a surprising number of athletes also die suddenly from heart conditions, so I'm not sure I find that very reassuring.

In any case, they did diagnose SVT or some variant. But it pretty much went away, it seemed that getting dehydrated and/or alcohol was triggering it for me.

I actually find a smartwatch that monitors my heart rate very reassuring. I have suffered from anxiety in the past and if I think I'm having anxiety symptoms I can glance at my watch and it tells me everything is fine before I start stressing and making it manifest physically.

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Re:'The answer cannot be nothing': The battle over Canada's ... by silisili on Sunday January 11, 2026 @03:05AM (#46573596)

Dehydration is the biggest trigger for me as well, as far as I figured out.

Not to be crude, but if my pee isn't basically clear, I immediately start slamming fluids until it is again.

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Re:'The answer cannot be nothing': The battle over Canada's ... by lostlogin on Sunday January 11, 2026 @03:18AM (#46573666)

I’ll add fatigue/stress.

A long bike ride after a stressful week and off it goes.

An interesting observation from a cardiologist to me was that cyclist have 5x the rate of rhythm disorders compared to to general population.

But… ‘It’s hard to work out if that’s drug induced or not’.

Say maybe lay off the performance enhancing drugs.

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