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I was dx'd with arrhythmia today
So yesterday I went to the doc about my pulse rate (super fast and skipping beats). I had a ekg, blood testing and had to wear a heart monitor.
Starting Monday I have to have the monitor again for 48 hours, and we will talk meds that day. I also have to do a running test (where they monitor while on a treadmill). The doc say that if meds do not work, then a possible pace maker.
My doc is slightly confused because when I run or work out my rhytmn is very close to normal.
If you have had experince with this could you tell me more about it?
Re: I was dx'd with arrhythmia today
Did he say what type?
I get PVCs pretty regularly. They're basically harmless even if they annoy me. If I drop caffeine, they pretty much go away.
I also have occasional tachycardia, for no known cause. It's untreated as they've ruled out anything dangerous, and it's hard to treat a symptom without knowing the cause. I even wore a monitor for a month and did a 24 hour pee catch.
Sinus arrhythmia doesn't really make sense to me. That's when your heart rate changes slightly as you breathe. It's really common in kids, and I've always had it to a degree. It's normal.
When I have my tachy episodes, I'm in sinus tach at around 130, plus or minus 10, for about 30-40 minutes, not all day. And it doesn't occur regularly.
So, perhaps they were saying that you were in sinus tach? It describes the rhythm. An arrhythmia describes the cause of the rhythm, and they may not know that yet. So, like v-tach is tachycardia of the ventricles. A-fib is a fibrillation pattern originating in the atrium. Does that make sense?
OK, like I said, sinus arrhythmia is considered normal. So it's not likely to be your diganosis (btw, it's dx'd, not rx'd).
When your heart skips a beat, it can be either a PAC or a PVC, depending on where it originates. The only way to tell which type is an EKG. Generally, these are also harmless, although there are times when it indicates a bigger problem. My cardiologist couldn't care less about mine. What type did your ekg show?
I agree that the tachy all the time warrants a further look. But you don't yet have a diagnosis of an arrhythmia.
When dealing with cardiac stuff, you basically have 2 things to describe. Rate and rhythm. Your rate is tachy, but that doesn't say anything about the rhythm. Skipped beats are a type of arrhythmia (they often don't have a pattern). I assume they are trying to find the rhythm of your rate, like if you go into an SVT rhythm before switching to sinus, like they suspected of me, which can help indicate the cause.
So, more testing for you, and not all of it is likely cardiac, like your thyroid test. I know how much it sucks for me to deal with just a short time period like that, so I can't imagine what you're feeling.
Thanks, I feel bad for H cause he is over in the sand and about to be with no internet while away doing a job.
It was a lot of info take in and very well could have mixed things together. I am starting a list of questions to ask on Monday. As far at the in office EKG he did not talk about it yet because he wanted to get the monitor on.
Thank you for helping and sharing with me.
Weird to not do an ekg. I'm no doc, but that's the first thing they've done with me (on a few different occasions), and you can run it while on a monitor.
I had to wear a monitor for a month since my episodes happen rarely. That sucked, especially when nothing happened in that month. All that skin irritation for nothing!
Write down what you're told next week. Having been through this while in nursing school, I spent a lot of time tracking down information, so hopefully I can help you make sense of it. Just be aware it might be a long time before they have a diagnosis, although hopefully they know enough to get you medicated pretty quickly.
ETA A monitor can show basically everything an ekg does. Sorry, I use the terms interchangeably sometimes. I'm just used to the ekg being a first step b/c of the level of detail it shows that a monitor doesn't.
I meant he did do the EKG in the office, but didnt tell me what the findings were.
Those little electroids keep pulling my skin and I did not like it for the 24hours I had it on. I do not know how you did it for a month. More power to you!