I know the votes so far are from a small sampling of people, but the results are still really interesting to me. It shows that more of us have fast heart rate, high blood pressure, and low body temperature. Like me. Makes you wonder...
Everything for me is low and slow.
I've had a lot of people telling me that I give off a lot of heat. I have no idea why.
So what's the point of this thread? Is it just good old fashioned obsessive-compulsion, or are there others here with a history of heart failure ?As someone who has a history of heart failure,stretching back to Rheumatic Fever as a child,and has nearly died of it more than once,it's not something to make light of.
So does anybody else here have a history of one acute infection after another? For me,2007 was a return to my childhood/teenage years/twenties,I have been sick for the past seven months,first with streptococcal meningitis,followed by a septic blood infection,followed by reactivated RF.
There is an element out there,in both the medical community,and among so-called "autism activists",who want to deny the coexistence of autism,with immune disease.I take this sort of stuff very seriously.For me,immune disease is a BIIIIIGGG part of what it means to be autistic.Just as much as elopement,destructive behavior,and headbanging is.I also have a history of being told I was somatizing from doctors.It wasn't until I was able to get some of my symptoms under control,like this year,and some of the information about autism and immune disease tricked down to mainstream doctors,that I was able to be taken seriously.
So I am VERRY touchy about this stuff.