Nicola Cook
09-06-08, 10:30
Hi all,
I can see from some old postings that there are others on the forum with Heart Murmurs, so maybe you can offer reassurance. Mine was diagnosed when I was quite little, but my mother never told me until I was older, which I think made it more scary.
I had an ECG and ultrasound about 10 years ago and it didn't really show anything up apart from a slight thickening which my doc says is nothing to worry about. However, the cardiologist 'clinically' diagnosed a Ventricular Septal Defect (some type of hole, I think!) although as I understand it there was nothing visible on the scan. I have to take antibiotics every time I have dental treatment, this in itself is OK but I am just so scared of the implications of the heart thing. This sounds like such a dangerous thing to have and I just get in such a state everytime I get dental problems.
I've started doing more exercise which my doc says is OK, but I spend so much tme worrying that exercise is dangerous.
Help!
Nicola
I can see from some old postings that there are others on the forum with Heart Murmurs, so maybe you can offer reassurance. Mine was diagnosed when I was quite little, but my mother never told me until I was older, which I think made it more scary.
I had an ECG and ultrasound about 10 years ago and it didn't really show anything up apart from a slight thickening which my doc says is nothing to worry about. However, the cardiologist 'clinically' diagnosed a Ventricular Septal Defect (some type of hole, I think!) although as I understand it there was nothing visible on the scan. I have to take antibiotics every time I have dental treatment, this in itself is OK but I am just so scared of the implications of the heart thing. This sounds like such a dangerous thing to have and I just get in such a state everytime I get dental problems.
I've started doing more exercise which my doc says is OK, but I spend so much tme worrying that exercise is dangerous.
Help!
Nicola