Arrhythmia

[tminskee]

I have been diagnosed with premature atrial ventricular tach, superventricular tach, sinus tach. I have high blood pressure that just isn't coming down. I have had a ECG and a hulter monitor. The holter monitor was off the charts as in 3 pages long. There was no problem with them picking up the heartbeats, both the missed beats that exceeded 8-10 beats long as well as the beats that were over 100 even in the middle of the night while resting.

I am taking beta blocker and high blood pressure medicine. They were so bad that I had lost over 30 pounds from being nauseous. My fingertips went ice cold during these excessive palps. The medicine has reduced them to a quiet 1-2 per day of the faster heart rate and I can't seem to pick up the missed beats hardly at all.

I am more concerned than ever as a dear close friend my age just recently had a heart attack and had a triple bypass.

I also had an ekg which indicated that there was no muscle damage from the irregular beats.

I don't consider myself with high anxiety. I am quite calm, cool and collected most of the time.

My doctor tells me that one type of the tachs could cause the other and since it went on for quite sometime that it could be the case.

I had advised him of the episodes over 4 years ago and that they have increased to this magnitude. I'm not convinced that its stress and don't know what to do.

Also, would the EKG and ECG have indicated blocked arteries as my friend was lucky enough to not drop dead.

Thanks!

TIna

[looking4answers]

hi,

Im not a doctor but can tell you i have had all of what you said for over 30 years..If you can pick up the missed beats ignore them .Please don't go looking for trouble.I was hospitalized for almost three months.They really couldn't put a finger on what the problem was and then a specialist came in and looked at all the scans and the test ..and I mean a lot of them..final dianosis..same as yours.. obvious from the start but no conclusive proof of cause ..Finally when the specialist looked over everything it came out to be dehydration was shutting down major organs.. and it caused the heart issues and other things.. I have lived with everything you described for 30 years and even now having missed beats.I stuffed myself quickly at lunch because i was busy now im paying the price for it by obvious missed beats..I had a brother that was a health nut that did everything right.. he had a massive cornary at 44 .. well that may seem old to you im 52 and now have outlived him.I worry too about all this..and you know what it causes? Stress, stress and gases on the stomach and missed beats and stress and misery..We are going to kill ourselves just from worry..Try to relax ..dont think about it.. if the beta blockers are hiding the missed beats from you then dont look for them you will feel enough to make up for them.If you stop looking then you will start feeling. I had to forget about mine years ago and have stress my heart enough to kill me many times so please realize that when you worry you are killing yourself more than the issue..i think that you will be fine.. Its sounds bad.. and I know that you had a friend that almost dropped dead..I had a friend that did..smiled and then fell over in his dinner..nobody knows why..It happens but hopefully the less stress we feel maybe the better we will be..I read and article a few weeks ago..and dont get me wrong im not saying im not just like you ..read my post ..post after post after post and asking questions but to tell you the truth.. This well known surgeon doctor said that they are finding more and more people that are health fanatics and do everything right dying one after the other..where people that dont care and abuse their bodies and smoke and drink..and have a really bad life style live..Want to know why? they are outliving us.. no stress..they dont worry and are trying to kill themselves with thier lifestyles and they live long and prosper..so go figure..only thing is im a natural born anxious person so guess i have to learn the i dont care attitude..But to get to my point..relax .. and if they say its stress please relax..im trying to .. do something that makes you happy.. do something to help someone else and get your mind off yourself as much as possible.. and try to think positive thoughts .. hey you and i could get real lucky and live until everyone wished we were dead lol..so laugh a little and try to enjoy life and im telling myself this.. relax...
take care..Michael