Re: Heart Health Anxiety.... Again
Originally Posted by
WorryWendy
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When I had my ECG last year, it came out with an auto reading of abnormal. I queried this with the consultant and he said it always says that if your heart rate is too high (mine was over 100 at the time)
Is this true? Or did it pick something up and they've missed it?
I had an ECG in the doctors surgery once. I'd developed White Coat Syndrome so my heart starts racing as soon as my @rse hits the seat of the waiting room chair!
The result came back as abnormal (it was about 120) and the (new) nurse was flapping, as was I by then! I had to put my head between my knees I was hyperventilating so much!
Then she got the doc in who looked at it and said in an almost bored way - absolutely fine - everything firing as it should do - just fast.
Yeah. I'd been ripping off the chest pads and preparing to be whisked off in an ambulance...
.... ten minutes later, I was in Starbucks having a brew!
So, honestly, forget this one. The ECG would have picked up if there was a serious electrical issue. Fast heart rate in an otherwise healthy heart? Consider it a workout for your ticker!
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