Need more info about LBBB

[tinylady2021]

Hello everyone,

I am trying to understand. I couldn’t find much about LBBB in google. I’m looking for what happen in the future when the LBBB beside everything is good?

I have see the info about life expectancy. 50 percent with one year will die. That’s scary me.

[Dancingdreams]

Hi, I was diagnosed with LBBB in2002. I'm still here!

[tinylady2021 in reply to Dancingdreams]

Great to hear that you are doing good. Do you have any symptoms? Were you young in 2002? How is your heart doing?

[tinylady2021 in reply to Dancingdreams]

Please advice me what have you take care of yourself. Did you take any medication? Excerise? Yea, decaf coffee, apple cider? What did you avoiding?

[paj24 in reply to Dancingdreams]

I've had heart failure diagnosed in 2011 and lbbb in 2019, though my cardiologist was aware of the lbbb some time before!.I'm doing okay at the moment and still hard at work, you just have to carry on and not dwell on the negatives.

Keep safe.

[London13]

Hello, I was diagnosed with lbbb in 2019 after experiencing shortness of breath, it felt different from my asthma attacks, which was very scary. I was prescribed Atorvastatin, Losartan , and later after an angio exam Diltiazem. I was to lose weight which I’ve been trying to do and record my blood pressure. Life is changing where I am starting to think of No1 a little bit more(☺️) Diet has also changed. Please keep in touch with your cardiologist/doctor if you notice any changes in your breathing and blood pressure, and lose weight if you’ve been advised. Hopefully we all should live a long life 😊

[Ada-eve]

Please don’t google most of the information is incorrect .If you can go on YouTube Dr Sanjay Gupta does a presentation on LBBB which is very informative he is a consultant from York .

[tinylady2021 in reply to Ada-eve]

I have a grade 1 diastolic dysfunction and 65% ejection friction. I have a pre hypertension blood pressure. Is that a reason? Should I go for more tests?

[edplayer]

Hi, I have had LBBB (along with my dilated cardiomyopathy) since 2010 at least and quite probably long before that. I'm living a good life with few symptoms. You may already know this but LBBB needs to be investigated by a cardiologist to find out what the cause is and discover if there is anything that needs treatment. Until possible problems have been identified or eliminated you can't really know much about future possible outcomes. I mention this because in 2010 my GP didn't refer me when my ECG showed LBBB and told me everything was fine. This was a serious mistake by the GP. It was picked up again 6 years later by another ECG and this time I got the medical care I needed. As other's have already said, steer clear of Googling if you can, there is loads of bad / wrong info out there and even if you find legitimate info its easy to get the wrong idea with partial information or info that doesn't apply to your situation. You'll find lots of support here from people who have had similar experiences. Good luck!

[nilmonisikdar40]

I am not a general practitioner general practitioner but still retain active interest in anything new particularly with cardiology with which I have been grappling the issue for a long time. On 10.3.1995, I suffered a syncope at home lasting few minutes but recovered my senses fully. Was referred to cardiology. ECG showed definite L.B.B.B with left axis deviation. Echo showed 71% ejection factor, No further tests done as no chest pain. On 22,2,2000 I developed complete heart block and permanent pacemaker implanted. In December I developed symptoms of congestive heart failure. Was referred to Cardiologist who did consult me on the phone. Consultant was sure of ischemic changes . Coronary angiography result inconclusive because of calcium plaque. Treated successfully with diuretics and others. However not happy about not being able to see face to face. Attended pacemaker clinic and complained of clear static heart rate at 60 despite exercise and emotion. Decided to see cardiologist privately because getting no where. He was planning to do transducer procedure as he was sure of ischaemic changes. However 24 lead ECG showed total disconnect of of atrial lead. Complete different expectation of diagnosis. Plan now is to reconnect atrial lead, have a left ventricular lead, synch lead and others to update VV1 to CRT. Has there been lot of misses from 10.3.95 when I had the syncope and not supervision of leads since implanting PPM.

[Palpman]

Two years ago I was diagnosed with borderline LQTS due to medication.QRS was 112ms which is just above max.

My ECG flagged this wide QRS as an incomplete LBBB.

I was on Flecainide and Sertraline at the time and both are known to delay QT.

Now I am off both and this QT delay shortened to normal plus the QRS duration shortened to 87ms.

Now the ECG does not report LBBB due to the normal QRS duration.

[nilmonisikdar40]

Hi Tinylady, don't you worry about L.B.B.B. The news about life expectancy is not correct. I was diagnosed with that condition since 1995. However the cardiologist who saw me at that time the tread mill test which was okay and echocardiogram was okay. He should have offered me angiogram but not done because LBBB is associated with ischaemic heart. However in 20.2.2000 I developed complete heart block. I am a retired GP with still lots of interest in various topics especially cardiology. The follow up from 1995 to 2000 was not done and I was concerned that i developed complete heart block and required P.P.M.

[tinylady2021 in reply to nilmonisikdar40]

Thank you for sharing. It is varies how long they live with LBBB without any underlying heart disease. I’m concern about how long that I will live with LBBB. I wish they could tell me with honest answer but they are not god.