Geeezzz How scared you must have been Jeff! It is weird wearing this thing...On the one hand it is somewhat comforting, and on the other it is nerve wracking. I am almost pissed at my own heart for not acting up more, I am trying to do things to almost provoke an event...i.e. coffee...LOL
I did read on the cardiac medical's lab website that each Dr. and or hospital gets to decide how and what type of information gets a red flag.
Interesting...but I suppose there are many cases where there is a notable problem, but it just does not have to be life threatening, that you won't find out about till our time with our monitors is over.
My M.D.'s gut feeling about this is that in the end I will end up with new BP med's and a drug to slow whatever is a causing the skips and racing heart. I was put on Verapamil 240mg about 5 years ago for hypertension and rapid pulse but no testing was really done, no monitor, no cardiologist, no
echo, he just sort of guessed at what the problem was....My recent
echo results said Hyperdynamic Left Ventricular Systolic
ejection fraction and just a trace mitral valve regurgitation...The regurge I know is a common thing I am not worried about that but I would like to know the real numbers of the
ejection fraction it only said over 70% It just might be a computer calculation...I will wait on that one. But the good thing is that the practice I go to currently is wonderful...My new MD e-mail's me and asks me how I feel and I can e-mail back... I can also access my medical records online...that is a comfort. In that way a patient is not hit with the mystery of what is really in my chart. All information that is sent to her I can open it as a document...Isn't that amazing? Sometimes switching MD's is a good thing...
So I am starting Day 10...Maybe it is time for me to start my own journal?