Liz - fortunately my electrical problem is nothing like that.

All I have is an occasional very irregular heart beat(arrythmia? spelling??) There I am pottering along at around 60 heart beats per minute when one beat goes up to 160, then it's back to 60. It is not heart disease (ie. heart muscles are not affected)

The first time I went to hospital cos my heart was racing & I was also hyperventilating which made it worse. I spent 10 hours hooked up to a monitor & had lotsa' tests, & when nothing showed up I was sent home & prescribed Beta blockers when/if needed.

No. 2 trip I was being released after 6 uneventful hours when the monitor showed the problem, so they kept me in overnight cos they finally had a diagnosis & a treatment.

sandra

Kat reminded me about school - I was useless at sport & had a nasty sports teacher who didn't like me cos I was useless at sport. To this day I don't put my head under water because she held my head under, & the only way I could swim was breast stroke with my neck up like a turtle, which is no good for my back, so I no longer swim. Another time she threw a medicine ball at my chest, surely she didn't expect me to catch it & throw if back? I couldn't run, jump, climb ...

It was only when I saw my first physio in the mid-late 80s that I was properly diagnosed. According to her my legs needed calipers when I was very young, & my hips & knees don't move & bend like other folks' hips & knees. Another proper diagnosis, about 40 years too late.