Sherri you will be fine....read the Heart Palpitations 101 post 1-6 and it will answer many of your questions.....palpitations that you are experiencing are most likely harmless and the holter will show that to you.

Go back and read as many of RLR's post as you can and you will see what I am saying.  Relax....everything will be fine.

Richie...I have no idea how I was given that title....must be a mistake??

First, regarding the constant palps. I was having them all day, every day too. I found it absolutely impossible to believe that they were harmless. I would think to myself "how can this possibly be nothing?" This had been going on since January this year. There were two occasions when they stopped. One time it was for 2 weeks the other time it was for 3. I had other health issues I was dealing with during these periods. I haven't had a palpitation for the last 3 weeks. 3 weeks ago I read 2 of Claire Weekes' books and since then they have stopped. Not everyone who reads Claire Weekes' books find them helpful but many, many people do. She says a lot of the same things that RLR says and RLR says a lot of the same things that my doctor says.

Regarding RLR's disappearance, I'm going to be a rebel and suggest that there is a good possibility that he has either passed away or he is very ill. I'm also going to speculate (another no, no apparently) about why this information is not being disclosed to the members of this forum. I think the forum would lose most of its appeal if RLR no longer contributed to it and some people in the know (whoever they may be) do not want the forum to become a place where its members leave in droves. I can see why this might seem like a good idea and it is probably based on the premise that the members here have a lot of good advice to offer to newbies and at times to each other. Whilst I understand this reasoning and I think that RLR himself would have liked to see this happen I don't believe that he would want the members here to be lied to. When I suggest that we are being lied to, I'm not implying that we are being told deliberate lies. I'm talking about lying by omittance. It is hard for me to believe that a man who was so honest that he shared both the death of his wife and the death of his child with everyone here would want the true state of his health status to be kept a secret for the purpose of keeping an internet forum going. I'm a member here because of RLR and my enormous respect for him. He is an expert in his field and I tend to listen to experts. Sure I read some of the other threads here and I acknowledge that some of the members here are very knowledgeable about heart related issues but none of you are experts in that field. I don't know if I would continue to be a member here if RLR ceased contributing to the forum. But I don't want to be deceived into staying a member. I am only one person and not a long term member of the forum. I know that noone would care if I disappeared forever. That's to be expected. But to deceive all members for the purpose of keeping the forum running? I'm not okay with that and nor should anyone else be.  I think a post like this has the potential to get me banned from here. I write all of this fully aware of this and totally prepared for the outcome. I believe in freedom of speech and if I'm to be banned in order to "shut me up" ( to put it in a crude way) then so be it. Someone or some people here know what is going on with RLR. I don't for a moment doubt that regardless of what is said to the contrary.

Of course I am only speculating and RLR may be alive and well but just very busy and unable to visit here for some reason. I hope that is the case.

Did you search obituaries? I did. How many of us have searched them trying to find his name? We'll never know because many seem to read the forum but never post.

I told my psychiatrist about Dr Rane. You know what he said? "How do you know he is really a retired neurologist with 40 years experience? It is the internet so it he could be some ordinary person who does a lot of internet searches and then posts the information he or she comes up with." Let's face it there are people out there who successfully do that sort of thing.  

For what it's worth I believe Dr Rane is exactly who he says he is. But I'm only 95 percent sure. Like you I have tried to find references to him in journals etc and have found nothing at all.

I live in Australia and I have not read every post he has ever made here. Far from it. I don't know where he lives but if anyone does then that would be a start. If it is true that noone here knows if he is alive, ill, busy etc etc then maybe it's time to at least endeavour to find out by using whatever information people here have about him.

It isn't as if we are rubberneckers at an accident site. We feel a personal connection to this man. If he has passed away then we need closure. Many of you have become very fond of him over the years. I only found out about him in January this year. We shared a couple of personal messages but I have read many of his posts here and I have developed a great respect for him and I have grown fond of him too. Perhaps not to the extent that you long-term forum members have but I have developed a fondness for him nonetheless.

I told my psychiatrist about Dr Rane. You know what he said? "How do you know he is really a retired neurologist with 40 years experience?


Some would say here that your psychiatrist had anxiety to think this negative  

I think more people sometimes thought that..
you are not alone..Martin Petersen did some research to find something about the RLR (at least it seems so in his last post in this thread). I did too. Its like your psychiatrist said. anyone can claim to be someone..on the net..
And I quess more people did look for some things about RLR

I agree with you Sto.. The way this RLR silence is played out is strange to say the least. Also the fact suddenly people became admins?? In all those years before never ever more admins were asked for.
So maybe someone knows something about RLR, or there finally is the simple fact we all did not know very much about RLR..so no-one knows whats going on.

Personally i was often surprised a 93 year old did weeks of work and travelling. I dont know many 93yrs old doing this..so another part of me admired that ..and I mirrored the possibility that I could live to be 93 and still be sound healthy and active.

What I dont understand is that thinking a 93 yr old has passed away..is seen as anxiety???   its normal deduction.

But I quess thats the only problem with this forum..and what I experienced  with this forum. Almost EVERYTHING was linked to anxiety..
If you got the label.. well everything you told and wrote..was anxiety..
no matter how physical the problem in the end was..

so i quess its very normal and logical for some to say that thinking a 93 yr old maybe passed away is anxiety talking..
everything they are thought is the word anxiety to be the culprid. the magic word.. the holy grail  

We all hope RLR is alive and well somewhere on a tropical island..
even if he wasnt a 93yr old neurologist . But I quess we have to face the real possibility he is no longer among us.
that saddens me..but I am grateful for his time and help.

Did i say anywhere it didnt help me???

for this you are angry at me?
But I quess thats the only problem with this forum..and what I experienced  with this forum. Almost EVERYTHING was linked to anxiety..
If you got the label.. well everything you told and wrote..was anxiety..
no matter how physical the problem in the end was..

( its not RLR i mean with this in particular??!!...its more RLR saying to someone it could be vagus induced and anxiety..with an explanation from him..and from that moment on everyone seemed to know its only anxiety in a person''s case...i had my fair share off that issue.
and in the end.. it was more physical and is more physical than anxiety..
Look at some reactions and posting lately about RLR 's "absence".. the first thing people write.... thinking that RLR could be that is anxiety..and so on).. _> this is exactly what  i mean..)

So its 'the truth 'and the only 'danger' of a forum like this ..espescially without RLR being here.  thats all i said.

thank you Sto

an opinion is scary..
especially when its over someone or a forum where so many depend on.
It says something about their anxiety by the way.

I mearly stated my opinion too..just like you Sto..and Martin..cause I admired your statement and posting. you were writing what more people are thinking.
I agree also people only read a third and for the rest they interpretate things by their own emotions..
NO one said this site has no value...

about the moderator thing. its also strange people made mods and no one seems to know anything or answer a simple question who made people mods and for what reason?

About RLR.. like I said.. man i hope he is alright.