In April 2008 I had 2 nighttime scares in which I felt shortness of breath and very little pulse. They left my arms weak. One lasted 6 hours. I wore a monitor that caught a daytime runaway of 200 beats that lasted about 3 minutes. I have had that kind once a year or so for 30 years. I am very active and teach children.
After the 200 episode I was given150mg 2xd propafenone which seemed to bring on the worst feeling I had ever had heartwise. I also had a mild chest ache and a feeling of a pill stuck in my throat down to my stomach and back up.
I was told to have a catheter ablation after a stress test and I was given a sample nebivolol at a low dose instead of the other med, but it lowers my already normal 110/70 blood pressure to 88/61, and that bothered me. I felt dizzy and still had odd heart moments. Finally I tapered it down to nothing by June 15. I went in for the electrophysiology that lead to possible ablation on July 16, but the doctor say that I had several unsustainable trigger point in upper chambers but he couldn't ablate. He put me on atenolol at a low dose. At a friend's advice I am trying an acid blocker to see if that is the pill feeling because I have given doctors 3 months to come to no conclusion. My heart still seems to leap around uncomfortably but never runs away..
Has anyone else experience any of this?
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