Is this normal.. my p

[snglmother]

Okay.. my story is a long one.. so I will try to shorten it up a bit. I am 30 and female. I have high blood pressure since I was 24 with no known cause?! I have been on and off medication since then.. one of my doctors thought I didn't have HBP, though this doctor did say I had a heart murmur. I have had echo's, EKG's and have worn a holter monitor twice. The most recent EKG concerns me.. and so I asked my doctor for all of my records.. then I see my holter monitor report and that does not seem "normal" to me either. Okay.. so this is what the EKG said..

Changes is V3-V4 are probably due to left ventricular hypertrophy but consider anterior infarction (3/20/07)

The one I had before this didn't state any of that.. it had this.. incomplete right bundle branch block / ST-T changes in the septal lead.. my DR said that I had flipped T-waves? (6/7/06)

So now I read my holter monitor report and it says this.. which I do not understand at all:

Few premature atrial contractions with 2 short runs of supraventricular tachycardia.
Few premature ventricular contractions with multiple trigemini.

What does all o this mean and is it normal?

[junebug88]

I'm not sure what it means but my advise is if it is worring you maybe you should call your doctor and ask so you wont be worring about it so much.

[snglmother]

My PCP said it was normal though I know what I have been feeling and it doesn't seem normal. I don't know if my meds need to be changed or something.. I am already on a beta-blocker for my blood pressure and for the MVP.

[Al Dente]

young people can have hypertension--sometimes the docs can track down the cause.  usually it is treated with diet, exercise, & meds.  Hydrochlorothiozide is often used, calcium, ACEs, ARBs, & betas.  it can run in families with no real identifiable cause.

[CollegeGirl143]

did your doctor tell you the ekg you are worried about is normal??

From the looks of the holter, you had normal palpitations and a possible svt.. if the doctor looked at the strips and determined it was a false positive, that should be reassuring, its easy for a doctor to spot the false positives and the actual svt's.

You cannot take an ekg's diagnosis of SVT as fact.. Any heart rate over 175 is automatically labeled that.. you need a doctor to tell you if it was actually svt or not.... If you are very concerned, call your doctor and ask him about the ekg, or take it to another doctor for a second opinion.