Hi, my symptoms have been random palpitations (extra and or skipped beats), sometimes the flutter in my chest last just long enough to give me near fainting, but usually not. My doctors office called and said my holter monitor showed these palpitations but it's not dangerous, but since when do benign palpitations that flutter long enough to make someone faint? This is only part of the picture though, I constantly am feeling like something is tugging at my heart, or putting extra work on it and I feel weak and lightheaded almost all the time, but there is a rare day where i feel better. I have also developed some +1 (as i was told) edema is both lower legs, and my lower legs are sometimes crampy or my legs feel sluggish and stiff especially at the ankles. Not only that, my urine is intermittantly dark yellow and foamy, and I have mild left sided pain aroudn the kidney area, but I also have some vague reasons to think this could possibly be muscular.
I don't understand what's going on, I do cardio exercise 45 mins a day and cut back my calories to 2500, and as a 29 yr old man at 250 pounds I still keep gaining weight.....I mean, after I started back into my exercise routine seriously, I gained weight. It makes no sense, on this same routine a few years ago I steadily lost 3 lbs per week.
Ok, so the tests i've had are Echo, Chest xray, urinealysis (urine wasn't dark that day), CBC CMP, Liver and thyroid, BNP, cardiac CTA and stress test. Had an abdominal CT 14 months ago for unrelated reasons and I do have bilateral renal cysts by my own reading of the report but my CT was reported normal then to me.
I guess I'm not in heart failure with my EF of 59% and squeaky clean CTA/BNP, but what gives with all this? Any ideas please?