No medicines, the only difference was I was laying down for the first ecg and sitting up for the other, but I don't know if that would make a difference.
Thanks so much for your help.
I totally get that. They always seem so rushed you feel like you are bothering them. But you actually did ask him to look at it and he refused. I would take that to mean if the ekg he did on you was clean enough in his opinion your issue is likely not that troubling. You did have a some prolongation so he did see an issue but doesn't deem it troubling. But seriously, just go get a second opinion. Long QT can be serious so I would go a for a second just to be certain. By any chance were you on cold or allergy medicine before you went to see your pcp and not when you went to see the cardiologist? These are some of the medicines that might cause it, antibiotics, antidepressants, antihistamines, diuretics, heart medications, cholesterol-lowering drugs, diabetes medications, as well as some antifungal and antipsychotic drugs. Were you on any of them when you went to the pcp? Anyhow, they may be drugs you want to avoid if possible.
Thanks. It's not so much that I don't trust the cardiologist, I'm just afraid that I didn't explain the situation to him correctly. It probably is nothing, I just would have felt much better about it if I had insisted he look at the original ecg. But I didn't want to be a pest.