Hi,
I am a police officer and I have had similar symptoms to what you were referring too. Approximately four years before I became a police officer I was experiencing paca pvc's but the doctor told me all was normal. It was not until I joined the police academy and was trained by a former marine corps drill instructor to figure out that I had such stress and PVC problems. One day the stress level was high in the academy and alot of different slthings were being taught to us and my anxiety level jumped through the roof. While crawling in the ground through an obstacle I felt my heart beat go all out (like someone was playing the drums with it). I went to the hospital and everything was ruled out and the doctor told me I had pvc's and or another name and that my heart went into a fib do to the exercise we were doing.
Since that has happened, I would always go back and think of the time when I was 14 yoa playing baseball and remembering when I did not have these condotions and wish my life could go back to that. But in all actuality I can not so I am here to say, Do Not!!! Let these incidents ruin your life, deal with them and laugh and then stop and think, ( I am STILL HERE) and I'm going to keep pushing foward with my life. Just remember you can spend your whole life worrying about this until you die or you can accept the unacceptable (that is not the correct word but who is grading this anyway, lol). Guys and girls I live with this everyday and some of yal have it worse than I do or maybe even less, but control your mind and i promise you will find relaxation and relief. The mind is the most powerful tool in the world. Any questions check my profile out and shoot me an email.
Alcohol does not cause VF in a healthy individual with normal test results. PVCs and PACs are common among healthy people and SVT is also common and sometimes needs to be treated but is not associated with VF.
To your original question: The interpretation at the top of an ECG is only the computer's interpretation and a computer cannot give accurate interpretations of an ECG and are commonly wrong in their interpretations. An ECG is a picture of your heart's electrical activity and therefore should be examined by either a cardiologist or Electrophysiologist. They never go by what is written on the top and no one should be worried by what is written at the top.
One of the last possible things responsible for your symptoms would be an ion channelopathy. Not only are they rare, but they most commonly are associated with abrupt fainting and cardiac arrest. The symptoms come on suddenly and usually people have no symptoms between events. PVCs can initate the arrhythmias in these syndromes but just because you have PVCs does not mean you have an ion channelopathy.
If you are concerned you should get checked by a doctor but this is not somthing you should worry about.
can alcohol cause ventricular fibrillation in a healthy individual with normal echo's, ekgs, event monitors and holter monitors??? with the only thing showing is pvc's, pac's, and svt?????
As JJ1017 said, ECG only caught the events happen right in that few seconds when you've the ECG done. When 1 was 6 yrs old, my svt only happened once a year until 14. During the svt, I saw the family doctor. He said it is something very wrong then he refered me to a cardiologist. I'd seen this cardiologist, did an ECG (1982 this is my first ECG). He told us and wrote to the family doctor, it was a perfect normal ECG. My family doctor didn't accept it but had to believe what he said. Pushed me to do all the physical activities, running 3 miles cross country...... He told me if palpitations non stopped then go straight to the ER. Don't go to his clinic. That was nothing happened during the cross country (LOL). I think if you've any abnormal symptoms that you feel, you should go straight to the ER. Hopefully they can catch those abnormal beats and give you a proper diagnoses.
Have you ever had a stress test done? Any of your ECG showed RBBB? Sometime they turn off the ECG auto diagnoses so it won't spit out "non-sense". You actually need someone who can interprete that ECG and go through. Not only Brugada is dangerous, they are others also can be a life-threatening as well. Take care.
yes, i wore holter monitors, and 2 event recorders, with just pvc's, pac's, and svt
From my experience its not unusual to have normal ECG's one time, and another one show up abnormal. Some conditions are not always caught on ECG's because your arrhythmia is "inactive" at that time..thats just my experience though (I had WPW) Has your Dr. suggested a 24 hour holter or a 30 day loop recorder? With the loop (event) monitor, you can wear it all day and push a button to record any symptoms. It worked well for me since my arrhythmia would go into hiding for a few days.
so could the computer print out have been an error?? I've had MULTIPLE ECG's and thats the only one that stated the ST elevation, or could it have been going on only at that time and coincendentally caught it???
Hi, I'm sure I can't help you much but I can share what I understand/experience with you. ST elevation could be MI as well. As wpw also can find ST elevation on the ECG which is NOT MI case.
My stress test was written by a doctor stated Brugada variant. Told me to see a rhythm doctor. As the ECG automatic diagnoses, it printed about 6 possibilities. The doctor crossed out one by one..... End up with his own writing. I was told the ECG usually spitting out are not reliable.
After the treadmill stress test, during the second stage recovery, my heart was beating few beats then stopped. Pacemaker kicked then it's beating again ...... about 4 beats, sometime 6 beats, sometime 7 beats it stopped then the pacer kicks in. Continue like that for a little while.... I show my ECG to a nurse, I asked were they pac or pvc or skip beats? She said it is definately not because it got no P waves. She said don't know what it calls. Ask my cardiologist. One day, I brought that stack of ECG and ask my EP. He read that ECG to me. He told me my heart ...... beat beat beat beat stop then beat ..... then stop..... What it calls? It calls "STOP". It is pretty normal.
I also got ST elevation in V1 and bundle branch block on the ECG during the stress test. I think the patient with Brugada Syndrome also can be found right bundle branch block on ECG as well. Although I match the criteria but I didn't have Brugada Syndrome. Take care.
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