Dear Dr.,
When I wore a holter a couple of years ago it showed long periods of tachycardia and I was diagnosed with IST, but I rarely had palps with that. I wasn't even aware of the tachycardia. Now I get palpitations everyday here and there and never thought much of them, everybody gets them was my thinking. I always figured they were PAC's or PVC's, they felt just like everybody describes. I wore an event monitor to try to catch an episode of syncope, that never happened, figuring that might be the case I recorded several times when I had palps or dizziness. It didn't show premature beats. My primary said I sent runs of tachy, tachycardia (I guess sustained),bigeminy, and trigeminy. I don't know what else was found because that was in the beginning of the month wear'g the monitor. I was also admitted to the hospital after my 2nd syncopal spell. (They had tossed aside my diagnosis of NCS that they had given 2 yrs. ago, also, because ONE spell looked like a seizure). While being monitored there I had tachycardia and a night of afib, I don't know if anything else. I was on Toprol XL 50 mg.
Anyway, all of that just to ask if these are benign, too. I have mild MVP w/mild MR and TR, but since dr.'s seem to think this is normal I don't think that should matter, but have read...
Also, about the NCS...I was told in the beginning I wasn't textbook by both my neuro and EP. According to Dr. Blair Grubb (not my dr.) some people do experience episodes sitting down and it isn't uncommon for it to appear like a seizure. Are you aware of this? It doesn't seem my dr's are. I am now being sent to an epileptologist at a univ. hospital and I am not thrilled! I will be seeing an EP there, also. I have seen the EP once, (He needed more info.), but it seemed he jumped on the seizure ban wagon already.
Thank you for your time and any thoughts you might have.