Awaiting test results.

Morning all

So yet again I'm playing the waiting game after having a holter monitor on for the past 3 days to hopefully find out whats going on and move forward.

During the past 2 years I've had many test and was told I had mild lvh, mild mvp and bradycardia, also visits to A&E once blue lighted from work with a pulse of 30.

Back in March my cardiologist requested I stop taking my meds 1.25mg of bisoprolol as he want to get a clear picture of my resting heart rate on its own meds free so requested a 3 day holter test and said I may need a pacemaker if its still low.

Last Friday I had the monitor fitted and took it back yesterday and during this time had some bouts of bradycardia at 41 bpm, PVCs and my bp was high at 151/103 with headaches and chest pain.

Then yesterday afternoon my heart rate dropped to low 40s making me feel tired with some PVCs again but bp was ok around 128/68 but typically after the monitor was taken off I'm having more episodes which is so frustrating.

Also while using my oxymeter my pulse would be mid 50s/60s then drop to mid 30s/40s the up again and back down in seconds like being on a roller coaster ride and I recently bought a kardiamobile 6L which has caught these episodes even last night with bradycardia.

So I'm now awaiting the test results and if all comes back ok then yes thats great news but also frustrating after being told I had lvh, mvp and bradycardia plus you know your own body and when things aren't right

I await the call.

Regards

Taz71.

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Dear Taz71

Very interesting to here how your journey is going and as you have stated it will be interesting to know your latest results.

Have they given you any indication of returning to the drug schedule that you were on or are they waiting {like you} for results to set up another plan of attack?

Take care, it looks like the answers that you have been seeking for so long are a step nearer.

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Morning Blue1958,

I think its just a waiting game now to see what the results are before any decisions are made but the cardiologist did say if my heart rate is ok then he wouldn't put me back on the bisoprolol and I would just have to learn to live with the PVCs.? Not sure how that goes with also having left ventricular hypertrophy and mitral valve prolapse but I'm no expert and he's the doctor.

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Hello,

He may well be the dr but you are a concerned patient and your questions need his expert answers, keep asking until you get them and not only that, but you are satisfied with them and that he/she has listened to you.

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I will do, thanks.

[rankin1st]

Hey Ta71,Your post reads like a diary from the page of our daily walk, so my heart goes out to you! My hubby has tachycardia bracycardia and his oxyximeter does the same as yours when he has an episode with tight chest headache palpitations and arterial flutter. The cardiologist explained that it's because the oximeter can't read the pvcs that's how it shows up, hope that will reassure you a wee bit. We are waiting for yet another holter. Was booked in for a cardioversion but flipped back into sinus rhythm when we got to pre op and then reverted to in out in out and shake it all about later grrr, so back on the merry-go-round again 😊 Do hope you get a planned way forward

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Hi rankin1st, thanks for your reply and yes like your husband its a bit of a merry-go-tound too. Fingers crossed I will know more in the coming weeks and I hope things go ok with your husband too. My wife is a nurse and I'm driving her mad with all these episodes so it needs sorting out once and for all.Best wishes

Taz.

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Hi Taz71 I’ve recently had a monitor on for 5 days. This was for irregular intermittent random palpitations racing heart and other symptoms. I’ve had cardio version for AFib after a heart attack. I was concerned that the monitor might not pick up what was going on. As like you I can have busy and quiet heart times. So I’ve got an Apple Watch and I printed off recordings Where I’d caught my heart up to mischief and with a nice polite letter sent them to my cardiologist’s secretary. It took a week but then I had a phone call from the cardiologist he’d looked at my recordings and they showed similar issues that 5 days monitor showed. I’d do that again and as I’m being referred to an electrophysiologist for broad complex tachycardia I’ve already started collecting a few recordings to show him. It’s quite reassuring. Good luck.

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Morning Ewloe, thanks for your reply. Like you I have a smart watch but a galaxy s4 also an oximeter and i recently bought a kardiamobile 6L too. They all provide information as it happens and are very similar in readings which helps back up my symptoms. I haven't yet forwarded them onto my doctor or cardiologist but like you I may do if needs be.