EP Check Up Today ...

[Kaz747]

... and a few photos from the weekend (sending some midwinter sunshine your way).

Had a lovely chat with my EP about my health and my new business which he was excited to hear about and very supportive of.

My heart is doing well, although it does go a bit crazy (mainly tachycardia) when I’m sick or in pain. He said he believes I cope well with work and life stress (I think that too) but my heart doesn’t cope with physical stress. My body releases a high level of adrenaline when anything is out of whack and that triggers my heart. Like when I broke a tooth a couple of months ago and had the worst pain ever. At the moment I have tendinitis in my ankle so I am in pain and hobbling. Interestingly he said if I am in a lot of pain or need to have a procedure (like a cortisone injection) I can up my betablocker dose for 3 days which will keep my body in a better balance.

I’ll see him again in March next year but any dramas I can call or email.

Have a great day everyone!

[Angie06]

Hi Kaz, so glad to hear you're doing well and hope the tendonitis gets better soon.

Lovely pics, and memories for me, but no more winter sunshine please as we're about to have another mini heatwave! 🤣🤣

[BobD Volunteer]

All sounds good Kaz. Funnily enough I had a telephone consult with my EP yesterday too. . My "three month follow up" to my ablation last August. We are going to try nebivalol and drop the propafanone which I try not to take and chat again in three months which probably mean next August! Don't you love the world right now?

[Kaz747 in reply to BobD]

The world right now certainly is a bit different, that’s for sure!

[jeanjeannie50]

It's good to hear that your heart is doing well Kaz, long may that continue. Also your EP sounds really lovely and caring.

You have my sympathy with your tendinitis, I had it last year and could only wear flip flops for months. If I wore a shoe back it would come. Hope it all heals quickly.

Jean

[Kaz747 in reply to jeanjeannie50]

Thanks Jean. I’ve got a good physio but he said if it doesn’t settle soon I may need a cortisone injection. The doctor doing the ultrasound said I’d need anti inflammatories but of course I can’t take them. I am using anti inflammatory gel.

My EP is lovely, I even took in the death certificate of my great grandmother who died at 22 six weeks after my grandfather was born and asked if he thought what was recorded (kidneys) would be pregnancy related (preeclampsia/eclampsia). He said it was as highly likely. I had preeclampsia with both my pregnancies and my doctor said, with my first, that had I been a generation or two earlier I would likely have died.

[C66t]

That all sounds very positive Kaz good to hear.. rest that ankle. 💕💐🙏🙏

[Hidden]

Thank you for the great photos!

It sounds like you had a nice chat with the EP.

Sorry about the tendinitis.

My wife has had chronic tendinitis in her right ankle since the tendons tore as a result of taking Cipro for a sinus infection in 1987. She can no longer have any steroid injections as she maxed out on those years ago. When got really bad she would wear the boot that sits on the closet shelf for 4-6 weeks and the swelling and pain would recede.

She accidentally discovered that a 5 day water fast takes all her aches and pains away and they stay away for several months at a time. When the pain in her ankle or back gets bad enough, she does another water fast. (She had a complete rupture at L4-5 10 years ago, has 3 bulging discs and hereditary spinal stenosis.)

The water fasting has been working well for her for the past 3 years. She can't tolerate any pain medications because they all upset her GI tract, but she does take Tumeric and it seems to help too.

[Kaz747 in reply to Hidden]

Thanks Mollybear.

This is my left ankle. Four years ago I had reconstruction surgery on my right ankle as I damaged that in an accident and the tendon came away from the bone. I spent three months in a wheelchair and 4 1/2 months off work. Fingers crossed I don’t end up down that path again. It was that surgery that triggered my arrhythmias. I have a moonboot from that time and I’ll see what my GP says on Friday. My physio gave me a compression bandage but that was before I had my ultrasound.

I take Tumeric as I have dodgy knees (too much netball and ice skating as a kid - I have had both of them operated on) and helps immensely. I rarely have any pain in them now but they both click every time I stand up.

The water diet sounds interesting but I am on medications which must be taken with food. My diet is generally good and includes lots of antioxidants and anti inflammatory foods (my husband has rheumatoid arthritis so we are very aware of diet and inflammation).

And yes, nice chat with the EP 😃