Physiological effects from switching?

Hi everyone,

We wear one of those fitness tracker/smart watches and discovered something unexpected.

Yesterday during a workout on the stationary bike, I had a black-out, and actually had a 'coming-to' moment. The first time I can remember that happening. When I came back, I was still excercising, and the odometer on the bike had incremented 1 or 2 kms since I'd last noticed, so I know whoever took over did not stop.

When I look at the heart-rate trace for the workout, there's about 5 minutes where it showed the heart rate dropped almost to baseline. Then shot back up to workout level at the end. No gradual cool-down or warm-up, just one moment it was showing strenuous workout, the next it was closer to resting levels.

Then 5 minutes later it was back to workout level. And the time when that happened corresponds more or less with when I remember coming to again.

I also found another correlation, when I was texting with my best friend and Rebecca came out for a bit then teen Violet came out for a bit, before I returned.

From the timestamps on the texts I could track pretty closely when each switch happened, and looking at the heart rate data, there's obvious changes. Rebecca's always calm, and our heart rate dropped almost 10bpm when she emerged. Teen Violet was really anxious that day and the hr spiked over 15bpm when she came out. Then when I returned, it dropped back to my baseline again.

Has anyone else noticed stuff like this, or tracked this sort of thing? I'm fascinated and wondering if there's other stuff that could be monitored or watched, to correspond with switches.

Thanks!

our former doc who had other DID patients as well said that he witnessed differences in ECG activity, and differences in results from blood tests taken from different alters within a short time.
there are studies out there about differences in brain activity too.

there is a difference between switching and dissociation here. if you dissociated your heart rate would drop too, as well as body temperature, skin sensitivity etc. that is a freeze response, that would cause changes in physiology as well. but they are all shut down responses. with switches there might be spikes as well.

HI violetflux, i haven't tracked it but have noticed things. But what you are observing is pretty cool - regardless of whether it is switching or dissociation. Maybe you should invent an app/tool to help people, especially those who might be less aware of dissociation episodes and switching. I can see how in hindsight this would be useful information!

I also know that my blood work has been all over the place lately. Perhaps I need to convince the same part to go in for the tests....yes fluctuations will happen but consistency for a single part is probably the target.

quantifiable data is pretty cool. For us it is things liike headache, sudden extreme irritability, light headedness, depersonalization, and fear.

Thanks for the feedback! It hadn't occured to me that the gap in the workout could have been just straight up dissociation. I'm positive my legs were still going, but they may well have slowed down during that time.

The last half of the workout wasn't great either, I felt like someone was interfering or didn't want me to keep at it.

I don't know if it's ok to post images here, if this is wrong please let me know. This is what I was looking at, and the black-out / heart rate anomaly is circled at the bottom.

is it possible to ask your others if someone was front at that time?
maybe your system can give you better answers than us

how do you make a picture please?

Hi BeccaBee,

There's two ways.. the way I used was with the "Img" tag that appears above the reply box. This requires you to have somewhere else to host the images though. Like Flickr or Imgur or something like that? Then you put the link to the image on that other side, into the "img" tag on here.

The second way is with the 'upload attachment' section, that's under the reply box. It's a tab, next to Options. I don't know what this forum's rules are though for uploads. It might not allow them, or it might be very limited. I always use the remote-hosted option on forums because I have access to a web server and I have more control over the images that way.

Cheers!

p.s. there is more information here: faq.php?mode=bbcode#f5r0

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birdsong87 wrote:is it possible to ask your others if someone was front at that time?
maybe your system can give you better answers than us

I've asked, but I haven't got a reply yet. Rebecca is my go-to 'helper' but she's very vague at times, and picks and choses what she wants to answer.

I'm going to try and meditate this evening and delve a little deeper, this is just one of many things I'm looking for answers on.

thank you that is very good directions.

We do have changes. eyesight changes. eye color changes. blood pressure changes. (we think the blood pressure is why we only sometimes need our glasses. body temp changes.

the other thing I've noticed is my gait. I tore my knee many, many years ago. and my limp/gait changes. I've even seen it in my footprints. like sometimes I turn that foot out when I walk and sometimes I don't. it's weird.

It's a slight limp. **I think** I doubt many people notice it. ###$. they wouldn't tell you if they did. damn.

1 thing evident for me is eyes changing colour depending on which part(s) are present as the ability to move my eyebrows (a lot of my parts cannot control eyebrow movment at all)

Actually tracking things like heart rate, brain function activity, etc is fascinating in theory to me but never something I have been able to track