Hello lovely people. In July 2023 i found myself needing to go the A and E as i was breathless and my GP sent me there for a chest xray but i ended up calling a ambulance and when they took my HR is was 200 beats a min i was taken straight in to the resuscitation area at the RSCH. I had no chest pains but they keep asking me if i did. Had the chest xray showed some fluid retention I spent 16 hours in And E being moved about in and out of corridors etc and i did get a place in the cardio unit the next evening i had ECG etc and was diagnosed with permanent AF and hypertension Given Bisprolol 2x 5mg Dagliflozin 10mg Edoxaban Furosemide 40mg Ramipril and i was sent home the next day. I went back for the echo cardiogram August.2023 .In October 2023 had out patient appointment at the Heart failure clinic.I saw the registrar not the consultant and was offered Cather ablation. I had to ask about the Echo result and was just told my heart failure was mild and the ejection fraction was preserved. I was never sent the report so i made a GPDR for my information and i was able to see and read my ECG and results/ notes etc during this appointment i had a 12 lead ECG and i was told my heart was 117 beats and i was given Digoxin 125mg As i am a carer to my son ( adult autistic person and my older brother who has Parkinson's I felt i had no choice but to turn down the referral to the electrophysiologist becuse i did this I feel they have lost interest in me. I had further appointment this time with the consultant who has said he is happy with my heart rate and i have been discharged back to my GP I take my medicine and i kinda just got used to symptoms. I am a highly sensitive person and i have lived with flight or flight sensation all my life. In my 40's i went into menopause and unknown to me i did have heart palpitations at that time. Many years on I had covid in January 2021 it took me almost a year to overcome this virus. I then went on and had the covid vaccinations the third one i had in Oct 22 left me with with heart palpitation for a week unknown to me i think it was AF I found it hard to get though my day feeling tired all the time .I did contact my GP a couple of times but just could not get an appointment during the covid period. My problem as a carer it that i just feel that the that the cardiologist has no understanding of my situation. There is no social care support and that i really have no one to care for me during any recovery period or care for my Autistic son or brother so i could undertake this medical procedure Just to add my Dad died of a heart attack when he was 52 having had very high blood pressure and some heart condition all his life and my mum died of Leukemia when she was 65 . I have an A and D medical blood pressure device which shows if you in AF, i take it daily and Average120/80 and my pulse rate shows anything from 46 to 114 i really have a haywire heart as readings seem to flip about all the time. I take magnesium from following advice on here and i feel calm most day with no chest pain or breathlessness. I Follow the DASH diet, i do not smoke or drink ( never have) The cardiologist did say that it would be another year before Pulse field would be available at the RSCH cardio unit.
Kind regards Pam
Ended up in A & E on Monday - did the heat get the better of me!!!
Paramedic experience
Feel like a bit of a Fraud
Misdiagnosis
AF gone but GP suggests ablation
