Heart Problems MVP - Vasovagal? - nerve damage?

[charzanne]

I am a 58 woman. I have MVP, and a late systolic apical click, my blood pressure is 100/60, my weight about 150, inferior waves have been seen sometimes on an ECG. Other times ECG is normal. They suspect rheumatic heart damage. Irregular heart rate has been heard observed before. I have experience 4 black outs over 20 years for with no apparent reason and have not been diagnosed. Each one is getting worse. I exercise and eat well and never smoke and drink a little alcohol.
April 9th. I was feeling a little vertigo and weakness all over 2 day prior to this incident. Suddenly I just I just got red hot all over, my face looked fidget & sun burnt and I lost consciousness for several minutes. An ambulance was called and when they moved me I got convolutions. Large convolutions it seemed like in my whole body, they lasted 3 to 4 hours off and I remembered having them. I was in the hospital for a week and they did an MRI of the head and neck, EEG, chest X-ray and echocardiograph. They did mention it might be Vasovagal. 10 days after this incident I rolled over in bed and now they suspect I have sciatica nerve damage on my left side. They did check for a blood clot using ultrasound.  I woke up last night (13 days after) with chest pains for about 10 minutes and the sciatica nerve damage seems to be pain throughout my whole body, however not near as strong as it was.
Prior to this I have passed out 3 other times with no diagnoses.
The hospital suggests I follow up with my family doctor and a neurologist, and mention it isn

[charzanne]

Thanks again for your comments; I am waiting for the results of my tests to reach my family doctor so he can hopefully refer me to someone who can give me some answers.
I realize that you cannot give a diagnosis without checking me however perhaps if I tell you what my former cardiologist said (he has retired and the last time I saw him was in 1998) after one of the fainting spells he said that my PR was .22, the fainting before it was mention inferior T waves and a late systolic apical click, (they are normal at times) the time before that was brief episodes of PAT that I wasn

[Cleveland Clinic]

It is really impoossible to tell you too much more without looking at all of your data and taking a careful history and physical.  A thorough review of your case by an internal medicine physician would help you point in the right direction.

good luck

[charzanne]

Thank you for your advise I shall look into this.
Could any of this weekness and nerve damage be from the heart?
I was getting some heavy chest pressure in for 2 days after I was released and than got was they called siatic nerve damage. However now it seems to get be my whole body and not as painful as it was. When I was first admitted into the hospital I was told it was a stroke, the doctor told me the cat scan showed it however I was later told that it wasn't that the person who read the cat scan on the weekend didn't read it right.
I've heard that stroke can sometime cause these aftereffects. I just don't know. Any advise on what my next step should be would be appreicated.

[Cleveland Clinic]

charzanne,

thanks for the post.

Syncope is a difficult syndrome to manage when there is no frank strucural cause.  One method to try to tease out the cause would be tilt testing.  A syncope clinic or your general cardiologist should  be able to arrange to better understand your symptoms, or suggest more testing.

good luck