Ablation

[ozmi]

After much waiting.  I finally got tired of the delays from my cardiologists office.  I felt like I was having a heart attack except for the extremem crushing pain.  I had the same deep nauseated feeling, light headedness, confusion sometimes, hot, then cold, and unbelievably tired.  My heart rate was registering in the thirty's due to my PVCs.  After a week of waiting to hear from my cardiologist on results from an event monitor, I went to the ER at a different hospital.  They took me in, scheduled me for a nuclear stress test, and then a cath on the following day.  I ran on the tread mill with hr reaching 150+ with no symptoms.  It wasn't until I arrived on the scan table afterward that the PVCs hit hard and heavy with all of the prior symptoms mentioned.
The cath revealed that my right artery, previously angioplastied, had renarrowed.  Also a lesion was found at that location.  Presumably the site of my plaque rupture that caused my MI on Sep. 28, 08.  They also learned that the stent in my left artery, placed on Oct. 28, 08 was fine.  I have a minor amount of thrombosis below the right artery as a result of my heart attack, possibly larger now due to the two month period on low blood flow, whos boarders may now my be causing my bigeminal/trigeminal rythms.
They stented the right artery, and changed my medication from Metoprolol to Sotalol to help with the rhythm issues, and added Niaspan, and fish oil to lower my trigliceries and raise HDL.  My LDL is below 70, which I was elated about after seeing that above 160 for a while now.  I'm still having some PVCs but they're not nearly as detectable or symptomatic.
My ejection fraction was found to be 67 and my ECG displays a normal sinus, as though I never had a heart attack with occasional PVCs and brachycardia due to my new beta blocker.  All altogether, I'm beter through acting like a giant pain in the butt to all of the docs at the hospital who persisted a getting to the bottom of my symptoms.

[Crickett559]

Great to hear your feeling better. I dont know why its so hard to get doctors to listen sometimes, I guess when they see so much worse that what some of us have its nothing compared to that, but to us its the worse. I glad you kept pushing until you got the answers you wanted. I go in April for my holter for my yearly check up but I am going to demand another echo as well, its been five years. I would really like to get off some of the med's I take, and look in to nature remedys.