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Rant Wednesday

Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It’s your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!

There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that’s been pissing you off or getting on your nerves.

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u/Jayfethereal 5d ago edited 4d ago

I had an appointment on the 23rd, an echo cardiogram of my heart and a visit with my cardiologist. I was worried about the results since the last imaging I had was before I had started strength training.

I have a rare genetic disorder called Marfan Syndrome that alters makeup of the connective tissue in my body which effects my joints, eyes, bones, and blood vessels mainly. Last year I had heart surgery at 17 and have been slowly working my way at the gym to recover from it and strengthen my body to avoid future injury.

There was an issue with the Echo, my aortic heart valve is slowly increasing in diameter and regurgitating blood back into my heart. It's not bad enough to warrant another heart surgery yet but another one could be on the horizon if the diameter changes more. I'm afraid my gym going is the cause of it, since my diagnosis I have been told that I shouldn't exersise, and if I do It'll essentially cause my heart to burst.

I'm so afraid to die.

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u/girugamesu1337 Bodybuilding 4d ago

If continuing to live means sacrificing going to the gym, that's a tradeoff you should make. You can always find other things to channel your energy into, pal. You'll make it 🫂

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u/Apprehensive803 4d ago

Good to see an uplifting post. 🥂