jayware33
15-09-16, 16:40
Hi all,
I'm driving myself into panic with this one.
I've always experienced palpitations / ectopic beats as far back as I can remember. I've had a number of ECG's over the years too. My most recent one was 6 months ago when I started to experience more ectopics than usual. I had a standard 12 lead ECG and all was normal, the ectopics weren't captured during that time.
I have since started cycling to work and I'm now getting them during exercise, which scares me. I went back to my GP who asked if I'd like to be referred but he didn't think I needed to seeing as a cardiologist looked over my last ECG (but no ectopics then). I asked to be referred and got an appointment through shortly afterwards for a 24 hour monitor. I worn this and experienced several ectopics and even went cycling again and had most of them during the cycle. This totally freaked me out and I was anxious the whole time. I also seen that palpitations during exercise is a red flag indicator too, this made me panic even more.
I handed the device back in and they said someone will evaluate it and call me if anything urgent is found. I'm a total nervous wreck and feel so depressed and scared, waiting by the phone terrified and imagining the worst case scenario. I'm not a smoker, don't really drink and a healthy weight with no family history of cardiac issues. The palpitations happen in isolation and no other symptoms and can happen at rest too.
They said if i don't get called within the day or two then it goes into the pile for the cardiologist to look at and can take 8-9 weeks for the results. This is just going to be 9 weeks of pure anxiety and panic.
Please, any words or advice is welcome. :(.
I'm driving myself into panic with this one.
I've always experienced palpitations / ectopic beats as far back as I can remember. I've had a number of ECG's over the years too. My most recent one was 6 months ago when I started to experience more ectopics than usual. I had a standard 12 lead ECG and all was normal, the ectopics weren't captured during that time.
I have since started cycling to work and I'm now getting them during exercise, which scares me. I went back to my GP who asked if I'd like to be referred but he didn't think I needed to seeing as a cardiologist looked over my last ECG (but no ectopics then). I asked to be referred and got an appointment through shortly afterwards for a 24 hour monitor. I worn this and experienced several ectopics and even went cycling again and had most of them during the cycle. This totally freaked me out and I was anxious the whole time. I also seen that palpitations during exercise is a red flag indicator too, this made me panic even more.
I handed the device back in and they said someone will evaluate it and call me if anything urgent is found. I'm a total nervous wreck and feel so depressed and scared, waiting by the phone terrified and imagining the worst case scenario. I'm not a smoker, don't really drink and a healthy weight with no family history of cardiac issues. The palpitations happen in isolation and no other symptoms and can happen at rest too.
They said if i don't get called within the day or two then it goes into the pile for the cardiologist to look at and can take 8-9 weeks for the results. This is just going to be 9 weeks of pure anxiety and panic.
Please, any words or advice is welcome. :(.