Heart diseases support thread

[haisuli]

Hi,
Is there any other with these kind of problems?

Doctor suspects that I have WPW according to three ECG which have taken in this year. There were showing quite much arrhytmias and PR-time was short. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wpw

I'm waiting to get some more further examinations to be done. I have waited it quite a long time, almost month...

Anybody else? Raise your hand up

[BeanGirl]

Sorry to hear about this. I once worked in a hospital where a lot of ablations were performed and the complication rate from the procedure was very low. If you consider ablation it's definitely in your best interest to get it done in a center that does a large volume of ablations.

[haisuli]

Seems that there aren't many with these problems. That's a good thing! Or then they're just shy ones.

I got time for making Holter-monitoring just after Easter. After that doctor will also perform ultrasonography examination. Hopefully then I will know is there any bad problems with my heart and what care should be done.

[emm7]

good luck haisuli !

[haisuli]

Thank's Emm!

I visit hospital on last Thursday and Friday. They made me cyborg for a day. Six electrodes were placed on my chest and connected to device that stored ECG for 24h.

I should get the results in two weeks. Waiting for that...

[JP]

Good luck mate!

[haisuli]

Doctor phoned up on Tuesday. Results concerning that 24 h ECG-monitoring period: 1400 ventricular extrasystoles (multifocals), couple of bigenimys and some atrial extrasystoles. Heart beat rate was 50-203/min. Those fucking ventricular extras were shown all the time, but after training frequency raised to about 8/min.

Single extras can occur in a healthy person sometimes and they are usually harmless... But 1400/day especially multifocals is quite much.

Tomorrow doc will perform ultrasonic exams to see if there's any structural problems..

I'm just trying to think that likely there isn't nothing fatal problem and it's just something harmless bug. No need to worry in advance.

[emm7]

haisuli I hope the tests go well! sending you healing wishes!

[haisuli]

Thanks again you all nice people!

Structure is fine so it looks like the problem is on the control-system side of the heart just like doc suspected in beginning. I've got now beta-blockers for calm down heart. I'm just finding out the right dozing, if I take too much, heart rate will go too low and it won't raise enough when training.

Anyway, doctor said that becouse the heart structure is fine, these arrhytmias shouldn't thread my life at the moment. He said that these could be handled also by surgical operation, but there are always risks when doing that. So it's better to try first something else in this case, becouse these arrhytmias aren't so dangerous right now.

Sometimes they can even get away when getting older. All pathways usually will get worse then and the wrong ones can just fade away.

I talked with my dad about these things, he said that he had also same kind of a problems in my age, but they just got better without any treatment. Doc's kept him even in a hospital for some days but there wasn't nothing really bad to be found.

So just have to look what happens! Maybe the shooting would be right kind of a sport for me becouse of beta-blockers? -- Hell no!

[JP]

archery?

best wishes mate!

[haisuli]

archery?

That sounds more interesting than shooting. But I think that I'll bypass that too.

[emm7]

Very glad to hear that they can help you without surgery and that there's a good chance the problem will disappear
Hope that you're on the mend and the medicine is helping!