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Constant irregular beats, almost fainted, HELP!!!
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Constant irregular beats, almost fainted, HELP!!!
by Kathy__0__0, Mar 28, 1999 12:00AM
Posted By CCF CARDIO MD - MTR on March 30, 1999 at 23:10:36:
In Reply to: Re: Constant irregular beats, almost fainted, HELP!!! posted by Kelsey on March 29, 1999 at 11:37:51:
: Dear Kathy, I think you need to see your cardiologist again. With any new symptoms (fainting, etc.) you need to be reevaluated by your cardiologist. I did have an event monitor put on me for 2 weeks. It is called a loop or event monitor. It has a button which you push after an episode and it records a couple of minutes before the episode, during the episode, and a couple of minutes after the episode. You then call a number and put the phone receiver on the monitor and it transfers the recorded heartbeats through the phone line to a person which reads it and then tells you what to do. In my case, they were all PVC's and PAC's, so she said I didn't need to do anything. I could take a shower every other day, and just had to remove the electrodes and put new ones on after the shower and rehook up the wires. They will show you how this works. The wires are color coded and it was simple to do. I hope this helps ease your mind a little. I wish you the best of luck, and am confident the event monitor would probably
catch what your heart is doing. You can wear them up to a month, if needed. Good luck.
In Reply to: Re: Constant irregular beats, almost fainted, HELP!!! posted by Kelsey on March 29, 1999 at 11:37:51:
: Dear Kathy, I think you need to see your cardiologist again. With any new symptoms (fainting, etc.) you need to be reevaluated by your cardiologist. I did have an event monitor put on me for 2 weeks. It is called a loop or event monitor. It has a button which you push after an episode and it records a couple of minutes before the episode, during the episode, and a couple of minutes after the episode. You then call a number and put the phone receiver on the monitor and it transfers the recorded heartbeats through the phone line to a person which reads it and then tells you what to do. In my case, they were all PVC's and PAC's, so she said I didn't need to do anything. I could take a shower every other day, and just had to remove the electrodes and put new ones on after the shower and rehook up the wires. They will show you how this works. The wires are color coded and it was simple to do. I hope this helps ease your mind a little. I wish you the best of luck, and am confident the event monitor would probably
catch what your heart is doing. You can wear them up to a month, if needed. Good luck.
Doctor's Answer
by CCF Cardio MD - MTR, Mar 28, 1999 12:00AM
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Dear Kelsey, thank you for your input to the heart forum and for relating your own experiences.
