I have some questions about Anomalous Coronary Artery.
First a little background. I'm a 30 year old female, who has been in great health, or so I thought. I went to the cardiologist because I was have episodes of increased heart rate that would leave me really tired, weak, light headed and on rare occasion I would faint. I'd had symptoms for years, but didn't get it diagnosed until 3 weeks ago. I thought, great, this will be taken care of with the ablation surgery and I will be back to my normal self. Then a few days ago I started getting chest pain and my right arm felt tingly. I've never had chest pain before...ever. I've had heartburn only 1 time and that was while I was pregnant. I ended up going to the ER to get checked out. I had been feeling exhausted for the 2 or 3 days prior to the initial chest pain and I had also been having a lot of SVT episodes, but no episodes for hours before experiencing chest pain. They did an EKG and said it was normal and sent me home. I've continued to have chest pain everyday since, but thankfully it only last minutes to a couple hours and the arm tingling went away after a day or two. I should also add that my mother died suddenly at 28 from a heart attack. I don't know the exact cause of it though. Her family has a VERY bad heart history, with deaths from heart failure, and several surgeries including a heart transplant. All were relatively young, thin and active....like me.
Yesterday I had an appointment with my Cardiologist. He asked a ton of questions regarding the chest pain along with other questions. He listened to my heart again,...blah, blah, blah. He wants to do a Cardiac CT because he thinks that I may have Suspect Anomalous Coronary Artery. He explained what it is and now I'm trying to do some research, while waiting for insurance to either approve or deny that test. I also have Mitral Valve Prolapse if that matters, may or may not, IDK.
My questions...
If you have this, what symptoms started presenting themselves to make you think something was wrong?
Are you male or female, and what age did the symptoms appear?
What tests/exams were run to give this diagnosis?
Did your cardiologist have an idea that ACA is the problem prior to proving it via tests?
Did you have it corrected/fixed? If so, how?
Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated. This has been quite the month for me...geesh!