NSR with supraventricular ectopy!

[Vonnegut]

I just woke for a wee and my heart felt weird with odd pulse so used my Kardia and got this. I’ve had a nasty cold and cough for about a week - might that be what’s causing it. Last time it happened I’d taken something that contained caffeine so haven’t had it again and did have some cough medicine yesterday! Hope it calms down soon so I can get some more sleep!

[MummaSoap]

Hi Vonnegut

The reading you got means that you’re in normal sinus rhythm (which is good) and the supraventricular ectopic beat just means that the extra heartbeat originated above the ventricles so in your atria somewhere.

Although uncomfortable, ectopics are usually harmless and personally I tend to experience more ectopics when I’m ill or generally run down, it could be true for you too. However, I’m not a medical professional so I couldn’t say that definitively.

Hope you are able to get back to sleep and feel better soon.

Best wishes

Soap 🧼

[Vonnegut in reply to MummaSoap]

Thanks MummaSoap- it was over and back to normal quite soon! By the way, it says somewhere here that I’m 80 but I’m still 79 and won’t turn 80 til the 29th!

[Rainfern]

Easy to underestimate just how nasty coughs and colds can be. Must be awful with ectopics on top of that. No advice except rest up, remember to breathe (not easy when it triggers coughing!) and helpful distractions like a good book. Hope you feel better soon.

[Vonnegut in reply to Rainfern]

Heart got back to normal soon, thank you, Rainfern. Colds are nasty, aren’t they? But that too seems a good deal better now too.

[Camelia23]

I read somewhere that some meds for colds and coughs can disrupt heart rhythm

[Vonnegut in reply to Camelia23]

Yes, crazy isn’t it? It seems the same with most meds - that they come with a cure for one problem with a few additional ones!

[meadfoot]

Dont be rushed. Research fully. Sorry to hear about your families accident.

[Vonnegut in reply to meadfoot]

Sorry, meadfoot, what accident? And what should I research? Is yours a reply to someone else?

[meadfoot]

sorry wrong post.

[Rainfern in reply to meadfoot]

😅copy and paste job!

[meadfoot in reply to Rainfern]

Just me loosing the plot lol. X

[Goldenre]

I've had a bad cold the last couple of days and started feeling those blips in my chest. Ran a few ECGs on my watch and saw I was having one or two PVCs with every 30 second tracing.

[Singwell]

Glad you're feeling better. Any viruses or other similar that produce an inflammatory response can trigger AF or ectopics. If there's only a few of then and they're with NSR they are harmless. Although sometimes they feel uncomfortable. I usually see mine off with slow breathing - slow your breathing down to 6 breaths a minute, breathing through your nose if you can.

[Vonnegut in reply to Singwell]

I thought my cold was over but it’s back again- the dreadful chesty cough has gone though and heart is behaving. Thanks for the slow breathing idea- it seems a good idea generally.

[Singwell in reply to Vonnegut]

This cold hangs around apparently so do take care. Generally I mean. Maybe your heart kicked off in response to the onset of the virus and now your system is doing its job and fighting it off. Viruses these days seem to come back for a 'round two'

[JOY2THEWORLD49]

Hi

Have you AF?

Are you on anti-co.agulant?

No cough mixture allowed with certain additives.

I add a nasty cold back in September. Seemed to get a sniffle then over that but I met with a friend who works in child-care. The following days lots of phelgm difficult to swallow and breathe. Hot water, some real lemon with honey helped.

At 2 weeks I showed blood in sputum.

So I sent a sample to lab with Dr;s lab certificate.

Came back with pneumonia strain and cocci.

Dr put me on 5 days Amozil and it finished the bug off.

Wasn't COVID but I expect you tested for it. COVID starts with sore throat, and then congestion.

Be careful and don't pass it on.

Cheri JOY 74. (NZ)

[CDreamer in reply to JOY2THEWORLD49]

COVID piggy backs on a strain of pneumonia and there is talk of giving antibiotics if cough develops and persists for more than a few days, my grand-daughter had it as it is rife in London. The new strain of COVID in UK is not always showing up on the antigen tests.

I had COVID few weeks ago - AGAIN (4th time) no sore throat and the main symptom was overwhelming fatigue, very slight runny nose, headache on day 4-5.

[JOY2THEWORLD49 in reply to CDreamer]

Hi Dreamer

Sadly Friday my 84 year girlfriend passed in hospital.

Events started with fall on day 2 xrayed to find fractures, ribs and coccyx.

Getting over that lot she on Day suffered chest pains during night, then following night sore throat. I asked her to have a COVID test. She tested postive - thursday before Christmas. She really struggled with phelgm and was given the anti-virus.

At 2 weeks after she tested COVID negative. She said she was very tired still with symptoms. Perhaps she should have been on antibiotics. Although she took antibuiotics for a left infected Mitral Valve. At 13 years it was infected but Auckland Hospital couldn't remove it so moved it and replaced the valve with a replacement man-made one.

Thursday I was told in Kawakawa Hospital a small local hospital in her area. She was taken there after the am carer found her semi-conscious.

Friday I was rang to say that Diane had passed.

She was 84 with debilitating MS. One leg unable to walk. She had a Walker and bought herself a scooter. She had AF.

I am sad because I couldn't drive the 75kms to her - arm in a sling. I thought that carers weren't giving the care she needed. She was paying for it, and at bedtime wanted more help but 3 times a day. She was eating very little nutritious food. She was in a Retirement House 1 b/r.

They stopped her statin avorstatin 20mg reduced from 40mg!

I looked up PAX... and I can't have it as I am n CCB Calcium Channel Blockers.

I don't think I would take it anyway. Recent research says take it for 5 days. Diane had tested negative but still had symptoms and it reads that COVID can return after a negative result.

Sounds as if COVID is being delayed just to return!

I will attend her funeral next week. Some poetry might surface to read at the service.

Not a good start to 2024. I'll still get to fish at her farm.

cheri JOY. 74. (NZ)

[Aegean56 in reply to JOY2THEWORLD49]

My sincerest condolences. May she rest in peace and may your memories be of some solace to you.

[JOY2THEWORLD49 in reply to Aegean56]

Hi

Thanx.

Great the family went onto me.

A Great Aunt died days after ringing tosay let me know. There was a change in sisters looking after her and this one who lives in Australia I haven't met.

I was left out. But that funeral was 2 days I was down to the hospital to be admitted for surgery the following day.

There was someone that I wanted to see amongst attendees.

So 3 elderly have died in the last year.

Sad because 2 were in Retirement and had a fall on concrete.

Why do retirement places have concrete floors and in their home/room?

Thamk you just SAD.

cheri JOY

[Vonnegut in reply to CDreamer]

My cough is a whole lot better today, virtually gone and we live in the country far from London ( and tested negative for covid) - apologies if this reply appears in the wrong place!

[Auriculaire in reply to CDreamer]

My daughter in the UK had a very bad cough that lasted weeks. She went to the doctor as she was coughing so much she was vomiting sometimes and was told to come back in a fortnight if it had not gone. She did go back and was given antibiotics. We had a bad cold followed by a horrible cough before Christmas. The fevers in the cold phase put me into afib 3 times in 4 days . The covid test was negative. My cough lasted just under a fortnight and I felt very tired for a few days after it had gone but both of us recovered much quicker than my daughter did.

[Ppiman]

I guess these are PACs, which I get along with PVCs. They do feel much the same as AF to me, although without the racing. I gather it's thought that these ectopics, PACs especially, might be a trigger for AF in prone individuals. I think tiredness is a major cause, at least for me. I seem to get them worst just after getting into bed, and sometimes over breakfast.

Caffeine, in the low quantities that occur naturally in foods like tea, coffee and chocolate, has been shown not to cause arrhythmias, so you should be safe. I gather a very few people can be extra sensitive, though. I have noticed that quite a few cough and cold remedies contain caffeine, by the way.

Steve

[Vonnegut in reply to Ppiman]

Thank you. Cold symptoms almost totally gone now and heart behaving well too! But did have a cough just now!!