u/EggLuver74_

My friend has had this cat (Mogwli) for a few years now. He's around 5 years old and only has 3 legs. When they got him he was skinnier, but he's up to around 14 pounds now.

She feds him a quarter of a wet food can in the morning. She also keeps a bowl with around a cup of cat food in the cupboard and puts it down when he screams (around 3 times day). He mostly sits around on the catio, but they have a 6 month old kitten who he plays with throughout the day which does give him some exercise. Even when they do play, Mowgli hops around fast as he cant run. Is there anything my friend can do to help him get more meaningful activity? Should she feed him less or maybe in a more structured way?

They also have a cat wheel but he just sits on it lol

I'm 20F and I feel like this has ruined the last year of my life. As a kid I'd faint upon standing but eventually grew out of it. That was it, no heart rate issues nothing. Everything was good until I got a pelvic issue that turned into PID at 18. After finally treating that (took months of trail and error so was sick for awhile), I thought "that's finally over with, back to my regular life!"

But NOPE. One month after being cured for PID, I get palpitations. One month after that I start getting tachycardia up to 160bpm just standing and walking around. On my poor man's tilt at the internal med doc my heart rate was 130 standing, and my blood pressure dropped as well. I got 2 hour long adrenaline dumps where I had to lay down with my HR at 120, numbness in my chin/neck/chest, unable to breathe and probably other symptoms I can't think of right now. I couldn't even move a desk without having a flare up. I quit my ADHD meds thinking that maybe that was it, but no (I had also tolerated them for a year prior totally fine).
My holtor montior only showed tachycardia, and my heart ultrasound (?) showed that my heart was completely heathy.

It's been 8 months since then, and I'm really grateful for all the support and improvement of my quality of life. I take bisoprpol along with my psych meds to control my heart rate, I use a stationary bike most days to try and build muscle in my legs back up. I get tachycardia techinally most days (around 100 walking around now) but it's just annoying more than anything. The beta blocker has been working less lately too and I'm just worried I have to up it.

I'm so so grateful that I can be so functional based on where I started.

But despite that, I just want to be back to normal. I don't want to worry about my heart rate at all. I don't want to take a medication, and know that without it my HR would be so incredibly high. If I don't carry a water bottle around I get ridiculous brain fog too. If I want to go out and drink my tachycardia comes back in full force (I usually drink anyways) and has lead to me having to lay down at parties haha. These are such small complaints, and I'm very aware of how good I have it but I just WISH there was a cure. I feel too young to have this kind of thing screw up my life. I'd love to come off the bisopropol one day, and have my heart rate be at a normal rate. But the more this goes on I keep losing hope. Tachycardia is my main symptom and the cause of all of my other ones. Additionally I have been having pelvic issues since my PID which isn't related to this but makes me feel more like I'll never get better.

This was mostly a rant, but I was also wondering if anyone also has tachycardia as their main symptoms, and made a full or semi full, medicationless recovery from it? I'm so scared thsi will be the rest of my life.

How to help my friends tripod dechonk?

I hate that there's no cure