finally went to cardiologist

for review of my test results - well my dr hadn't sent them over so i waited and waited and all they send over was a summary of one holter which the doctor said wasn't enough.  he is very well known in town and was very busy but the man is INTENSE!  he was practically yelling while he was talking.  kind of weird for a heart doctor - he should be reasurring and calm in my opinion.  anyway, when i got home i realized the man hadn't even listened to my heart!  weird?  he wants me to retake the holter and echo stress for HIM to review - i said it was done a year ago and he said that he has it done once a year and you can get a virus which damages your heart so it's good to have done again.  hmmm.  so basically i didn't learn anything new and took 3 hours off of work.  irritating. 

anyway, i was talking to my neighbor who is a nurse and she said that i should quit thinking about it and my pvcs and give her my bp cuff and she can tell by looking at me i am healthy.  my eyes and skin are healthy and young looking and she said quit worrying about it.  taking the tests again will just make it worse by focusing on it.  she has a heartrate of 150 at the dr's the other day and has alot she said but she had a stress echo and her heart was fine.  she has anxiety but doesn't worry about her heart ever. 

what to do............i think i will just have him read what i've already had done and see what he says.  he says if i don't have any episodes of any tach or pvcs longer than a few seconds, he can't tell much though.  unless i wear an event monitor that i can record episodes.  he also doesn't think my 2 second svts are svts but prob. pacs. 

 

Hazel,

I know what it's like to walk away from a doctor's visit feeling like you have gotten no answers to your questions or problems. If you have had the holter study and other tests to show there's nothing wrong with your heart, you should take your friend's advice. My palp's have driven me crazy for years. This past summer they changed and I got them all the time, I never had them like that before. I have always felt an occasional one and then maybe not another for weeks or months. Once I was getting them all the time, I got used to them. I stop freaking out about them. I went to the doctor when they first came on, she did the holter study on me and everything came back fine. I felt like I got no answers again, it was a waste of time going to her. After a few weeks of constant palps I decided I had to be my own advocate.  I realized so many tests and doctors visits through the years were for the same thing, palpitations. I needed to calm down and change. All the many, many tests I have put myself through showed nothing is wrong. Being that the doctors say there's nothing wrong, I needed to believe them.  I decided to take magnesium because it helped others, I cut back on coffee. I stay away from caffenine now. With my new perspective on my life, the palps still come when they want to. I don't like them but I don't let them run me anymore. I do look for things that are heart healthy. I search the e-net for that all the time and come up with occasional stuff I try. Good luck and I hope my story helps you.