Low heart rate and blood pressure

[spikynana]

Hi,

I have a mitral valve prolapse which is still being investigated as to it's severity. I had a stress echo last week and had to stop my beta blockers for 48 hours prior to the test. During the test, my heart flipped and was beating at over 200 bpm. Since then on exercising my heartrate has been moving between 47 upto 122 in a short space of time, with no exertion of note. I feel really tired and lethargic and have experienced chest pain. The prolapse was diagnosed following a very frightening episode of atrial fibrillation with a resting heart rate of 150. The issue seemed to have been controlled by 2.5 mg Nebivolol daily.

I spoke to my GP yesterday and he was just useless! He just said I should wait for the surgeon's follow up phone appointment a week on Monday. I asked if it was a cause for concern and if I shoud go to A and E if it persisted. He just didn't come up with anything useful. Any advise would be very gratefully received

[Mark_tourguide]

Hey - sorry to hear of your troubles. I have similarly found myself apparently at the whim of GPS who seemed to think that all work related to MVP would be done by the hospital - when I think in truth the hospital should keep the doctor informed and the doctor should then follow up and recommend further investigation.

Unfortunately I had to continually badger my GP and the hospital to get my six month Echo check and then to get the results! To be fair we moved to a new area just before `Xmas so it may be that it took some time to ‘come to attention’, but I think the truth is that you very often have to take things on yourself to press this.

It’s highly regrettable but COVID is of course a factor but if you don’t feel your GP is helping you could threaten a complaint- it is your health after all!!