Hi, had a load of tests done, halter monitor, echo, etc. Came back with some very minor ectopic beats and extremely mild diastolic dysfunction. Cardiologist says no further action is necessary and gp says the same, it's nothing to worry about at all. Anyone else had any of this? Not sure how I should feel
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Lateguitarist made me laugh, always a good thing on a Tuesday!
From reading your profile I see you were diagnosed with pericarditis a year ago. Everyone is different and only your medic can advise definitively but it's my experience (multiple mild-ish heart conditions including recurrent pericarditis since the late 1990s) that pericarditis can cause lingering symptoms and some 'minor' or 'trivial' heart/pericardial affect (like your ectopics).
You've had a good battery of tests and your medics feel there is nothing to be overly-concerned about - that's GREAT! However, you're clearly concerned about your symptoms.
Do you have a home upper arm cuff blood pressure (BP) monitor? If not, I can highly recommend the Omron range - even the least expensive (usually under £40 at Boots) of the line gives excellent readings and can be easily taken along to the surgery to compare for accuracy.
Another piece of good home health care monitor kit is a pulse-oximeter which measures oxygen saturation of your blood in an painless non-invasive way (you clip it onto a warm dry clean finger, it uses infrared to calculate ox-sats. Brilliant tool and it's usually around £20 to purchase).
Lob in a good quality digital body temperature thermometer (around £10 or less) and some probe covers, and you're set to keep a 2xday log of your 'vitals' (vital signs - temp, ox-sats, BP) and any symptoms+when and what you were doing when those symptoms arose.
Keeping a log is an excellent way to monitor your health - the log can alert you (and your medic) to any worries but more importantly, serves to ease worries if there are no readings indicating a looming problem.
Lol, but the last thing someone with worries needs is to start an un-advised work-out programme If the OP has spoken with the medics for advise on beginning a fitness programme, though, definitely trainers!
Hi, thankyou so much for all the advice! I have non of those things at home and I wouldn't understand the results if I did. You reassured me with regards to the ectopic, they are mostly very minor but some of them can be quite alarming. With regards to the trainers, I was going to the gym 3 times per week just prior to lockdown. No problems there! Thanks for replying, it has definitely helped and you are right, the results are great and I should be very happy. Guess I was just expecting them to find nothing at all and put it down to anxiety. Thanks again
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