[bypeep]

Stressing again...

This morning I got up and was having coffee while uploading some pictures to Facebook when I got what I thought was two strong palpitations back to back that felt like they were up in my throat. I pressed my monitor button and sent it in. While it was transmitting, I was shocked to hear that during the palp, I was actually having a very fast, but regular beeps. The tech said, "well you definitely had a little run there, I'm faxing this over to your doctor." Then she confirmed my phone number.

Have any of you had this happen while wearing a 30 day monitor. Strange thing is, today is my last day and this "run" is nothing compared to the others that I get several times a year. This was brief, and the big bad ones I sought out the cardio to investigate last 5-10 times this long.

Is it even possible that they would have faxed over an atrial event? I'm really hoping so because I counted out 7 beats a pause then a couplet on that recording. Since I get this rather frequently, but lasting way longer, I can only imagine how many beats my bad ones last for.

Freaking out.

What is considered a "faxable" event?

[poohbear2026]

Sounds like mine. It scared me too when they said they were sending it straight to the dr. I immediately called the dr office and had them look at it. Thats when I originally found out that I had a run of NSVT. If it would have been life threatening they would have sent you to the ER.

Anita

[bypeep]

I wanted to call the cardio so badly, but the thought was actually winding me up worse and I filled up my monitor two more times until finally going back to bed. And this is where I sit. I'm afraid to eat, move, drink or do anything because my heart is being such a monster today and I do not, under any circumstance, want to have another of those today.

I am off the monitor tomorrow and will be at my cardio at around 2:30pm. I'm hoping he has some answers for me. I can't do another 30 days on the monitor (though I WAS going to demand it) because my skin is coming off and I have to change out my lead pads every hour because the blood and fluid coming from the sores on my chest and side are making them fall off. I ruined my wedding dress on Saturday because I bled and oozed through my slip and onto it. I even had to buy an extra corsage to pin to my neckline to cover the palm sized open sore.

I'm so upset, annoyed. I just want my heart to be normal and I hate worrying about it.

My issue is that I can't imagine why they would have gotten ahold of my doctor immediately if it'd just been a run of PAC's.

Feel like just staying in bed until tomorrow.

[poohbear2026]

Did you get married through all this?? They do offer sensitive skin lead pads. I had to get those because it was hurting me too. But I never let it get to the point of bleeding. Why don't you just call the office before they close. If they didn't call you back it shouldn't be too serious. Your Dr would have called you if it was life threatening.

[bypeep]

I'm sure it's not life threatening - at least in their opinion. I'm just freaking out thinking that it might be NSVT instead of the SVT/afib/Aflutter the cardio was willing to bet his life on.

I can't do anything about it today and am praying that they have my strips tomorrow when I go in.

Yes, I got married on Saturday.

Actually, I'm afraid to call because if they say something that to me seems rather dangerouus I'll stew about it even more tonight. And I'm already holed up in bed like an invalid.

I wish I hadn't heard that stupid recording. I would have assumed it was just a slightly nastier normal palp. Now I know it's not.

How do you cope? I just don't get it.

[poohbear2026]

Well congratulations on your marriage! I cope with taking Ativan, I have been having to take it almost everynight here lately. I have been having some kind of weird feeling in the heart lately. Doesn't feel like NSVT feels like it is beating too weakly.

[poohbear2026]

Maybe it was just nerves from the wedding, I know I was a nervous wreck at my wedding. Also, in my picture of me at my sister's wedding, I had just got finished wearing the 30 day monitor and the dress barely covered those scars.

Anita

[bypeep]

I know I'm being a pain and I apologize for it. But no one around me seems to get the fear that is taking over my life because of this crap.

Dan, my new husband, and my father both believe that I'm having panic attacks that are manifesting in a rapid heart rate. I can't get it through their heads that the vast majority of the time I'm just sitting there doing absolutely nothing and completely relaxed when I get these runs. They both think it's a normal heart rate/beat, just accelerated. I can't get through their heads that it's abnormal, feels entirely different and not only does it take my breath away, it makes me woozy feeling. It makes me so mad.

They say, "Just don't think about it." I try telling them it's not as easy as that. Lately, the very moment I drift off to sleep I get a series of chest slamming palps and it wakes me up, so I'm constantly awake until late at night. Waking up exhausted.

I'm willing to bet that the reason for my evil palps today are because I'm ovulating. Which probably means that I'm going to get slammed with them on my period which will come after the monitor is off.

I am so nervous about my appointment tomorrow because I get the rhythm results and the echo results - neither of which I have a clue about as of yet.

You said they weren't originally going to do an MRI to check for ARVD/scar tissue. I hope they at least schedule me for a stress test/stress echo if this captured rhythm turns out to be ventricular. I'll probably freak out and beg for an MRI too.

Maybe I do need ativan.

[poohbear2026]

No problem, I am just telling you the things my husband tells me when I have my panic episodes. My cardio says it is not just in my head. He says you have an irregular beat and then you get anxious which makes it worse. My husband goes to some of my appointments with me so he can tell me exactly what the dr said when I am going crazy with panic and can't think straight. They may give you a beta blocker. I have one but am scared to take it. So I just take Paxil and then the Ativan when I need it. The electrophysiologist dr was the one who suggested the MRI since I had two episodes of NSVT caught, just to make sure it wasn't causing any scar tissue.

[poohbear2026]

How did your appointment go today?