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Possible Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome or just stress?
Hi, guys
I have always had a rather sensitive heart (heart palpitations when I'm really stressed or are not sleeping enough, sensitivity to pseudoephredine, etc).
The past few days was really stressful and my heart is worrying me. It is beating irregularly and it quite often flutters or lurches. I am constantly slightly dizzy when standing up and tired. So, it could just be stress.
However, I have a family history of heart diseases. My mom has WPW syndrome, my aunt has some other heart disease and my grandpa died from a heart attack at 54.
My other worry is that symptoms of WPW often starts in the early 20's and I am 21 now. I am currently using an app that monitors your heart (I know, it's not all that dependable) but it keeps warning me about heart arrhythmia.
Does this sound like something I should be worried about? I know that I preferably should get to a doctor soon, but I would prefer to wait until I can pay for myself. I finished my studies this year, so this should be sometime next year.
I have always had a rather sensitive heart (heart palpitations when I'm really stressed or are not sleeping enough, sensitivity to pseudoephredine, etc).
The past few days was really stressful and my heart is worrying me. It is beating irregularly and it quite often flutters or lurches. I am constantly slightly dizzy when standing up and tired. So, it could just be stress.
However, I have a family history of heart diseases. My mom has WPW syndrome, my aunt has some other heart disease and my grandpa died from a heart attack at 54.
My other worry is that symptoms of WPW often starts in the early 20's and I am 21 now. I am currently using an app that monitors your heart (I know, it's not all that dependable) but it keeps warning me about heart arrhythmia.
Does this sound like something I should be worried about? I know that I preferably should get to a doctor soon, but I would prefer to wait until I can pay for myself. I finished my studies this year, so this should be sometime next year.
It could be alot of things, not necessarily wpw.
Wpw fortunstely is easy to diagnose on ecg in the more serious cases. Some wpw is a little less serious and only manifests itsself on an exercise stress test.
If youve ever had an ecg the odds are favorable for them to be able to make a diagnosis of wpw based off that alone.
As with most heart *rhythm* (future discussions better fit into that forum) issues, the only way to know for sure is to have a holter monitor placed.
If youre unable to afford that kind of care i can offer an alternate suggestion...
There is a type of heart monitor/ekg system that connects to your smartphone..
They run about $100 and if you can get a snapshot somehow of how your rhythm looks like on that and post it here i could probably give you a heads up as to whether it looks like avrt/wpw, svt or some other rhythm
Such a picture unfortunately would provide insufficient data to make a precise diagnosis, but it could give an approximation as to the nature of the problem.
Wpw fortunstely is easy to diagnose on ecg in the more serious cases. Some wpw is a little less serious and only manifests itsself on an exercise stress test.
If youve ever had an ecg the odds are favorable for them to be able to make a diagnosis of wpw based off that alone.
As with most heart *rhythm* (future discussions better fit into that forum) issues, the only way to know for sure is to have a holter monitor placed.
If youre unable to afford that kind of care i can offer an alternate suggestion...
There is a type of heart monitor/ekg system that connects to your smartphone..
They run about $100 and if you can get a snapshot somehow of how your rhythm looks like on that and post it here i could probably give you a heads up as to whether it looks like avrt/wpw, svt or some other rhythm
Such a picture unfortunately would provide insufficient data to make a precise diagnosis, but it could give an approximation as to the nature of the problem.
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