Does anybody get onset of sob, racing heart and dizziness when you do housework or gardening?

[Okayletsgo]

Hi everyone. I'm new to this group. I have TV, MV regurg, and I also have quite high hypertension. On Wednesday this week I started to lift small bags of garden waste and fill up bags of pebbles, when I got the feeling I was going to pass-out the blackout sensation, the back of my neck became excruciating painful and I felt nauseated and hot and irregular heart rate started. This was the worst episode I'v had.

[BorderCollie2024]

I would speak with your doctor, it could just be your BP, or maybe your medication needs adjusting, all the same I would check with Doc. Best wishes, take care 🙂

[Okayletsgo in reply to BorderCollie2024]

Thank you for your reply. Yep agree, maybe back to the doctor. What ever it was, it didn't feel great.

[rubyred5051sew]

i have a MVR back in 2003 and i find no matter what i do do gardening changing the bed clothes hovering it only takes between half to an hour and i have to stop short of breath heart racing exhusted then have to sit on for and hour to calm down the best thing i do is pace myself knowing what will happen and ask for help to doctor told me to slow down knowing my condition so just a bit at a time but definatley speck with your doctor

[Okayletsgo in reply to rubyred5051sew]

Yep thats it. Any activity that goes to too long ( my time frame of too long), will bring on the, short of breath, and dizzy, light- headed sensations, chest discomfort. The change has been sudden. From this time last year to now, things have become sensitive to activity. The fatigue is alot now.

[Welshbird123]

I have MVP and slight aortic valve prolapse and yes I do my housework and gardening and feel dreadful ,breathless and pressure in chest after. It quite depresses me because I like being active and can,t do what I used to do.

[Okayletsgo]

So it's sounds like, the reactions - the symptoms are from the valves - heart, not coping with what the body needs.

[PeterJG]

Hi, I'm new here too and have severe MR. I'm also a doctor but not an expert on hearts! I experience SOB and palpitations when gardening or doing even just moderate exertion, but can walk briskly for miles . I know I have not got heart failure, so think the more moderate exertion is just more than the valves/heart can cope with. Do see your doctor though as you'll be at risk of irregular heart rhythms.. so worth getting checked out. Take it easy.

[Okayletsgo]

Hi. This all started in Sep/2020, with T-wave inversions in leads 3+4, in the Ambulance ECGs and the ED ECG, (the conclusion - nothing but Costochrondrites (me, what??) this was day 8-9 feeling unwell. The next fifteen (++) something Ambo trips, (21,22,23) same readings, + changes, BP, 195,198,207/110,114,116,(I'v never ever had BP over 120/75-80: never in my life before. This yr 2022, i was shopping, I had felt unwell that morning, thought nothing of it, got to the shop, it got worse. Contacted Dr, drove( feeling yuck) BP climbing, so Dr rings for Ambo; in I go again. But these Ambo-trips; me feeling like I'm choking, head about to explode queasy (vomit sometimes) with a achy-pain in my back by my left shoulder blade it would feel really uncomfortable. Result, nothing, must be anxiety, or reflux, or unfit - umm no, my job is very physical: not sedentary/static for 5-7 hrs and weight-bearing for 5-7hrs/5dys a wk. Was told Ectopics no concern. But each year it has gotten worse. Anyway to 2023, Echo done; oh MV+TV regurg, LH thickening, told this, Jan/2024, when I was on the Ambo, stretcher back to ED, ( why; BP too high, chest pressure checked by Pharmacist who said, ring the Ambo), back in again (this yr 3x).ED Consultant (great Dr) said, BP wayyy too high, and climbing/ could have a Stoke: me yeah I feel ill. Fell asleep, woke up BP 128/85: me oh good/phew. Got up went home. I'v had Bradycardia and SVTachycardia/and T-wave Inversions/SOB, reads, in hospital out of hospital - fainty feelings for these past four years; why I have no clue. But when they happen I know it. That last one, I wrote up: three wks ago, was the worst I ever had the pain in the back of my neck-shoulders was excruciating, took fours days to recover; at home. But here is something I had not thought of. When I was 18ish, I got into a hot pool, got out and woke up under the bench seat, this happened twice. Then I remembered, hot water, or at school athletics - running especially sprints I would get dizzy. Hot water bath or showers would cause this too. When I was in Labor with my 2nd child a Dr in hospital picked up Tachy, because I felt like I was going to faint; asked me if I had this often. Me I had no idea what he was talking about, shrugged it off, had my baby - hrs later, all good had four babies; same, but nah it's all good just Labor. Had an op in 2014, started op at 7:30am out cold woke up 4:45pm, dizzy and excruciating back pain; few wks prior to op, passing-out, woke up on the ground a few time - nah it's okay. There is Hrt/F,HV and arrhythmias in my family on my mother and father's -(WPW), side; 1 of my sister's, and my brother. I had no clue about that history as I thought nothing of my uncles being so sick or my siblings ( aka just kinda normal, I guess). I was just living my life till 2020. Never gave a thought to any of it. Yeah here I am..... waiting.

[PeterJG in reply to Okayletsgo]

Don't know how it works in Australia but can you get yourself referred to a Cardiologist?

[Okayletsgo]

Oh, yes. I'v seen a few of those in clinic: Outpatient, and...all is well, apparently.Me, hmm?