Hearts & Tummies Lover

You can call me Cardiotum! 👋🏻

She/Her | Mid-20’s | 🇬🇧 | 9 stone 4lbs in weight

I’m a lover of everything to do with the heart and the stomach and all the sounds they make. They’re just some of the key organs that help keep us living and breathing, and we love them for it!

This is mainly a place where I post my recordings of the sounds my heart and stomach make on a near daily basis. I record these sounds on my iPhone SE either using a mic on my earphones or on the bottom end of my phone. I also post some other things related to those organs from time to time, from my personal entries to physical media.

I hope you like what you see (and hear!) 😁

🏷️ TAGS:

#Cardio Tag 💓 = Heart related content

#Tummy Tag 🍽️ = Stomach related content

#My Cardio Diary = Personal log entries about my heart

Listen out at around 1:11 where I take a big intake of breath!

I was listening to my heart with a stethoscope last night, and because I was laying down flat on my back in bed and getting ready to drift off, I noticed how slowly my heart was pumping. It must’ve been somewhere below 60bpm at least! But the moment I realised, my heart pumped a little quicker up to its original rate. It’s only when I zoned out that it slowed down again.

Whenever I have cravings, it’s usually for something sweet like chocolate. I’m a huge chocoholic! I take one look at the stuff and I go weak in the knees for it. Today’s craving is a nice, big Lindt gold bunny. I was just casually eating my breakfast when I noticed its beady black eye looking at me from the kitchen shelf at the corner of my vision, just begging to be eaten. I resisted the urge and carried on about my day. The feeling however, persists.

This’ll be a strange one to introduce.

So basically, I was rudely awakened by these intense period cramps at 7 in the flippin’ morning and I couldn’t fall back to sleep at all after that because of how unbearably sore I felt. I ate some paracetamol tablets to dull the pain, but it didn’t seem to do much. It just kept fluctuating from weak to intense throughout the day! 😭 I’m fine now. Dead tired, but fine. The pain seems to have gone away for now. But god, was it a struggle to focus at times! 😭

This was recorded that morning, right when I’ve just given my empty stomach two paracetamol tablets. It was not happy with me at all! (Excuse the mic popping in a couple of areas)

This is generally what my normal resting heart rate sounds like, which is between 72–76bpm. 💓 Recorded sometime this evening.