I've noticed that my gf breathes more than twice as fast as me, even when she's relaxed/sleeping. Not really heavy breathing, just fast. I've heard that respiratory rate is a health indicator, is this something I should be concerned about?
She's 24 years old and not fat or anything, but she does smoke.
>she isn't fat
>but she smokes
Just as bad you fucking idiot.
I bet she doesn't even work out either. Enjoy her turning into human garbage. But the fact you haven't left her yet, tells me you are as bad as her so you wont.
better break up with her man
Chill lil m8. Being angry in the internet is not going to make up for you being the weird kid in class.
Nice cope, did it make you feel better?
Not the same guy.
Okay, so smoking is fucking stupid, I got it. It goes in her family a lot. Her parents smoked, grandparents smoked, whole extended family smokes (not a lot of obvious health problems, interestingly. Though my own grandma died early from smoking). That in mind, is there anything I can try to get her to stop instead of jumping to the nuclear option? We've been together a long time and we're on the same page about everything else (and she does work out, by the way).
Her cardiovascular system is still fucked user, just look at any sport training regiment, she probably will pass out from that
Imagine being this mad.
>"Either you stop smoking or I leave"
That should do the trick.
For greater effectiveness sprinkle with a bit of:
>"I can't see you just hurting yourself like that because I love you D:"
Invite her to work out with you and get her to vape?
Smoking doesn't kill you, weak lungs do. Get yourself a gf with better genes.
break up right now
this is called the chad cock syndrome. deepthroating chad cock makes women breath faster.
You just made that up
Detective Anonson saves the day
Gigacope
Maybe her nasal passages are clogged? I breath way faster than my gf despite being in good shape, because my nose is all fucked up from MMA and simply doesn't allow sufficient airflow for slower breathing.
Imagine being such a loser that someone merely mentioning that he has a GF sends you into a massive sperg overdrive rage fit.
I'd absolutely HATE to be you.
Count her breaths. Under normal relaxed conditions, 12-20 per minute is considered normal. You also can't tell someone you're measuring their respiratory rate or else they become conscious of it and this affects the reading (just like reminding someone that they're now breathing manually, like you are right now)
I actually would like her to lift with me, she only does cardio. How do I destroy the "but if i lift i'll get bulky and gross" myth that 99% of women can't seem to shake?
What if it's mine though?
If I do measure it exactly, I would do it while she's sleeping. From memory, I would say that it's between 30-40 breaths per minute.
I don't think you're counting that right. You're probably counting inhales and exhales separately, doubling the actual number. If her RR were actually 30-40, that'd be super tachypneic. It's what you see in sepsis patients, those with severe COPD/astham/allergic reactions, really bad congestive heart failure, diabetic ketoacidosis, etc.
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I count one inhale and one exhale as one breath. It's almost definitely upwards of 20, but I'll count for sure soon if that's as big of a deal as it sounds like.
Tell her you're going to take her pulse. Place one hand on her radial pulse like you would when normally measuring HR, but then also causally have your other arm around her shoulder like it's no big deal. Don't tell her you're counting her respiratory rate. Then just watch a clock and count how many times you feel her breathing with your hand on her back in 30 seconds and double that.
I seriously doubt she has any of the aforementioned problems. If her RR were truly elevated you'd know why, or at least see that something else was wrong with her.
I can actually hear her breathing easily if she's facing me. And is it not a good idea to check while she's sleeping to make sure it's her real resting rate?
My gf also breaths double as fast as me, my pulse is higher than hers tho
Stop being autistic and do it as I've told you. You're trying to reinvent the wheel hear. You could do it your own ad-hoc way or you can do it the way nurses and other clinicians all over the country/world do it, like I've told you.
Get her on snus or vapes, it's the nicotine high she craves.
My girlfriend does the same but she's pretty fucking heavy. Thing is, I'm fat as fuck (240 lbs) and I breath at about half her rate.
does she work out or something?
I smoke a pack a day and still I breath half as much as most people around