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Heart all over the place?
I went to the ER today, while I was at work I all of a sudden got very hot (never been hot like this) like so hot I could not breath and then my left side of my chest started to hurt (not bad) just kind of dull and my left arm also, which I have been having for a few days now on and off (without the hot part). I went to the ER because I got dizzy and the combination had me worried. They said all was good with the EKG and blood work and told me to follow up with me cardio. I am 28 years old (female) with a family history of heart diesease on my fathers side and I too since the age of 22 have started to have some things like high blood pressure and SVT. The cardio says all else was good with the testing and my heart was normal. I lost about 36 pounds within the last year so my BP has came down (I think because of the lose weight and the pain medication that I take).
Anyway my question is while I was there the monitor that they had me on was all over there place. It would be going normal and then all of a sudden it would scribble all over the place. I was not moving at all, and that seems strange that it would do that. It would be going normal and then just go crazy like it does when you move but I had been still. It also counted 13 PVCS in the hour I was on it. I told the nurse when she came in to discharge me but she said that it was probably because I was moving but I did not, I laid still and just watched it. DO they normally do that? I am kind of worried about it. I mean even now I am still with pain in my chest and arm and a little dizzy. Any thoughts. Sorry for the long question:) Sorry I do smoke (trying to stop. scared enough to make it happen) and I am over weight.
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Anyway my question is while I was there the monitor that they had me on was all over there place. It would be going normal and then all of a sudden it would scribble all over the place. I was not moving at all, and that seems strange that it would do that. It would be going normal and then just go crazy like it does when you move but I had been still. It also counted 13 PVCS in the hour I was on it. I told the nurse when she came in to discharge me but she said that it was probably because I was moving but I did not, I laid still and just watched it. DO they normally do that? I am kind of worried about it. I mean even now I am still with pain in my chest and arm and a little dizzy. Any thoughts. Sorry for the long question:) Sorry I do smoke (trying to stop. scared enough to make it happen) and I am over weight.
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I will send you a note. I thought about you last night. You are the same age as my daughter and I couldn't imagine her having to go through all of this. Ally
I am really going to lose it now. I have not slept at all last night, I went to the ER becuase I was having many PVCS the fluttering kind, one after another. I am so freaked out, I have never ever had this. I get that feeling once in a blue moon and the past 24 hours have been none stop flutters worse when I lay down or fall asleep. I am really worried now. I am calling my doc and if he can not see me then I am going back to the ER. There must be something that can be done to help me with this, this is one problem that I can not handle.
Thank you so much for all your help, I honestly have no one to talk to and its really taken a toll on me as I feel alone and helpless. My email is mrs.***@****. Please feel free to email anytime for a chit chat:) I will follow up with the news from the doctor.
Thank you everyone for all your great advice:)
Thank you everyone for all your great advice:)
As an added note, thank God that the results have come back normal so far. In the last 6 years I have gone through so much & would love to have test results that came back normal. The most recent episode I had a month ago has left me zapped of almost all of my energy. It's an effort to do alot of things I used to do. I am going to get back to walking again to see if this will help bring my energy level back up. I will be waiting to hear from you again. And let's pray that all comes back good news. Ally
Hello there dear friend. It's not unusual for them not to discuss the results of the echo until it has been read. I know, I have asked before. The fact that the results will not be back until Friday tells me the reports were sent out to be interpreted. I wish I had some concrete answer for you but, unfortunately, I don't. As far as the pain meds, I too have chronic back pain and take a daily dose of a potent pain reliever in the mornings. That has never masked any cardiac pain and hasn't interfered with any of the tests that I am aware of. All we can do is trust what the doctors are telling you and try not to worry. Anxiety can play some awful tricks on the body, and we all know what stress can do. My heart reacts to the slightest bit of stress these days. Brings on the spasms, so I try to take life in stride and with a grain of salt. Sometimes I just have to agree to disagree and accept, even when I don't want to. Take care and keep me informed of what the further testing is showing. Ally
I had the echo today but I wont know the results until Friday:( I would like to think if they seen something very wrong they would have said something before I left though as I had it at the cardio office while doc was there. New question though, I take oxycodone everyday for chronic pelvic pain due to a very bad case of PID that had me in the hospital for 7 days. I was thinking about this one thing, if I have pain now is it masked any by the oxycodone? Meaning is it worse then I realize and would that interfere with the stress test meaning I had some pain but did not feel it because of the oxycodone? I dont like being on this drug at all while its good for taking away the pain it comes with tons of other effects and it has me really thinking about pain coming from other places important or not. What do you think?
Let me know how the echo goes. I will be waiting to hear back from you. Take care, Ally
No they have not done any of that. I had my stress test today, I was suppose to have one with die or something but my insurance would not approve. The doctor said it looked good, we did 8 minutes. I did not have any chest pain just arm pain and 2marro is the echo. The sugar test was fine, cholestral he said looked good. My tri was elevated but I have brought them down, last year they were 399 and this time they were 169. So now I just wait some more. Yes I am very stressed now, I did not sleep at all last night, I know stressing over it makes it worse but its so hard not to. I do my very best:)
Hello. I feel so bad for you. I know how agonizing this must be for you. Have they done any pulmonary tests? How is your pulmonary function, or do you know? Ally
could it be the stress from all the worry? stress is a funny thing it can cause chest pains/arm anything you are having . i know my bp has been running high 168/88 so i get stressed my chest hurts/ i get lots air traped in chest where i burp alot i feel tired and my chest feels hot/burn/sore / am going to my cardio today geta ekg done and see what they think of my raised bp. will get back what they say if you want me to. take care try not stress i know it only makes systoms worse.
I ended up goin back to the ER last night and they said EKG and blood work were good, so why this constant arm neck chin and chest pain? I am starting to become very anxious. I really feel like I am going to drop dead. Maybe I am not having a heart attack but maybe its a warning sign? I honestly hope its not. My husband was so frustrated last night after we had gotten the discharge paper, it says to return if you have pain in your arm or face which I have already, he told the nurse and she rudley said the doctor said it was not cardiac related but they would do another EKG to ease my mind and they did and it was normal but it did not ease my mind. I know I have to wait for Tuesday for my first run of test but every time the pain comes its hard to tell myself that I am ok and not to worry because I feel like my body is telling me something. I wish they would keep me and so all the testing the next day. What else could be causing this? That one day at work I was sweating so bad, I never have felt like that. It was like the heat was smothering me.
Please keep me informed. I want to know what they find out. Hug those babies today! I will keep you lifted up today and until I hear back. God bless you. Ally
Well I went to see my cardio today and he is having me come back next week for an echo and stress test, my bp was little elevated 130/90 in both arms. He did an EKG and said it looked good. I told him about the monitor and he said it was probably my breathing. Still having chest and arm pain and its getting more frequent. I am also having this thing where I feel like my chest is tired and my breath is leaving. I go for blood work in the morning and I guess I just have to wait and see what happens next week. Thank you so much for your help, all I can do is pray.
Oh one thing he did say is the that my glucose from the test in the ER was high 127 but it was without fasting so he wants to check that out.
Oh one thing he did say is the that my glucose from the test in the ER was high 127 but it was without fasting so he wants to check that out.
I understand what you are saying, and I just kept telling that nurse "it only happens when I have the chest pain". She finally knew I meant what I said and looked at the data again. She handed the doctor the print out as I was heading into the cath lab. Take care, and keep me posted. Ally
Hi and thank you, actually I was having pains when it did and sometimes I was not. They did not say anything about looking at the prints. I told her but she said I was probably moving and I know I was not so I dont know. Do they review it before they discharge you? I am still with the pain on and off. I have had palpations in the past but my HR is always fast. Now I am having just a pounding with a normal HR like 81 and my chest feels tired like I have been running. I am just so fed up with this, it had runied a few years of my life, when I first started having palpations I was consumed by anxiety and then I just learned to deal with it, I still get anxious but I am cool for the most part. Now this pain and arm pain and my heart beating so hard. Oh another thing, I wore a holter before for like a whole month or event monitor anyway it caught PVCS and SVT, in all the times I have been on the monitors the PVC always showed 0 but this last time it was showing a few. Maybe I am just reading to much into all this and making myself worse but its hard not to when you just dont feel normal and something as serious as your heart is a big worry. Another thing that makes me mad is when no one believes you. I put up with this for years. Its my body and I think I have been in it long enough to know what feels strange. It just just has me so depressed because I dont know what to think and I feel like I am falling apart. A young mother with young kids that need me you know? God bless to you all and I pray that all of us live a long life:)
Same thing happened to me a few weeks ago. Thought I was having a heart attack, but wasn't. When I would have a chest pain the monitor would start flashing, beeping and the lines were all scribbles. At first they said it was "junk, because I had moved". After it happened the same way for the next 3 times, they reviewed the data that it prints out and found that I was having vasospasms. If the data in your case wasn't showing anything unusual, then I wouldn't worry. So like Ed said, if you weren't having any of the chest pains at the time this happened, then I wouldn't think it to be anything. Ed, if you are talking about the telemetry monitor, you are suppose to let the nurse know before you leave the floor. Take care, Ally
I was told that I had a small hole in the
Top of my heart. I was also told not to
Worry this was normal? At birth I would
Turn blue like I was dying. The doctors
Said the main valve going into my heart
Was to small. I still feel as if I'm having
Heart an attack at times. This last anywhere
From 30 min to 2 days. Afterwards I feel
Compeletly drained for days. All the test
Say my heart is fine. I've taken the anxiety
Meds without success. And the stomach meds. Anyone
Have any suggestions...I do have hpb and
Migraines.
Top of my heart. I was also told not to
Worry this was normal? At birth I would
Turn blue like I was dying. The doctors
Said the main valve going into my heart
Was to small. I still feel as if I'm having
Heart an attack at times. This last anywhere
From 30 min to 2 days. Afterwards I feel
Compeletly drained for days. All the test
Say my heart is fine. I've taken the anxiety
Meds without success. And the stomach meds. Anyone
Have any suggestions...I do have hpb and
Migraines.
Yes they can, I've witnessed it with myself many times in hospital. Sometimes it went mad when I breathed in, sometimes even if I held my breath. If it suddenly goes crazy on the monitor, you would feel something odd in your chest if there was something wrong. I've even had alarms going off but nobody came to check me. The gel on the pad doesn't always make good contact with the skin, and the clip on the wire isn't great either. Next time (if) it happens, press the pads one at a time to see what's causing it. I usually find it's the red or black one. One problem i have is lots of hair on my chest, so they shave silly little squares over me which makes me look a bit like a chess board.
Monitors are scary things if you sit and stare at them. The respiration monitor for example said I was taking 23 breaths a minute. When I counted them, I was doing 14. Big difference, which is why nurses look at you out the corner of their eye when taking your obs. They are counting your breaths.
The last hospital I was in had those portable monitors you wear around your waist so you aren't restricted to the bed. I decided I would to and visit the hospital library because I had nothing to read. This meant going downstairs in a metal elevator. When I returned, all the nurses were charging around in a panic. They thought I had died somewhere because the metal elevator cut off the radio signal. Boy did I get in trouble.
Monitors are scary things if you sit and stare at them. The respiration monitor for example said I was taking 23 breaths a minute. When I counted them, I was doing 14. Big difference, which is why nurses look at you out the corner of their eye when taking your obs. They are counting your breaths.
The last hospital I was in had those portable monitors you wear around your waist so you aren't restricted to the bed. I decided I would to and visit the hospital library because I had nothing to read. This meant going downstairs in a metal elevator. When I returned, all the nurses were charging around in a panic. They thought I had died somewhere because the metal elevator cut off the radio signal. Boy did I get in trouble.
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