Hello, Doctor...
I am a 44 year old woman who had a holter monitor test for heart palpatations. Here are my results:
General
109769 QRS complexes
0 paced beats (<1%)
2823 Ventricular beats (3%)
4 Supraventricular beats (<%)
0 BB beats (<1%)
0 Junctional beats (<1%)
0 Aberrant beats
0 % of total time in AF/AFL
100 bpm), 12% total
22099 beats in bradycardia (<60 bpm), 20% total
1.36 seconds max R0R at 05:33:14
Supraventriculars (S.J.A)
4 Isolated
0 couplets
0 bigeminal cycles
0 runs totaling 0 beats
Recommendation from reading cardiologist, "This appears to show recurrent episodes of nonsustained ventricular tachycardia which are symptomatic. She will require a referral to an arrhythmia specialist and need an echocardiogram to determine her left ventricular function. In the interim if there is no contraindication to beta blockers, you should consider starting her on 25 mg PO BID"
I am now taking Metroprolol as prescribed, but I am worring myself sick. I tend to breathe shallow and I do get short of breath with the palpatations. Seems when I can keep myself calm none of this is an issue - but when it happens I worry which makes it worse - a vicious cycle. I am an active, busy mother of two and now I seem to stress about this constantly. I have an appointment for the arrhythmia specialist for June 10th. Please, can you tell me if I should be this worried?
Thank you.
~Karen