Guest guest Posted December 31, 2003 Report Share Posted December 31, 2003 , it would be most advisable if you went ahead and made an appointment with a cardiologist, with papers in hand, as advised, being as noone would know exactly what's going on, without having full access to your records. One thing I'm going to ask: Is it possible that you mistakenly wrote down APC, rather than APB? APBs are called Atrial Premature Beats. There is a very long lengthy explanation in the Merck Manual for many different types of tachycardias and arrhythmias, including explanations, symptoms and signs and such of Sinus Tachycardia, Sinus Arrhythmia, Sinus Bradycardia (too slow a heart beat), Sick Sinus Syndrome, Ventricular Premature Beats, Atrial Fibrillation, Paroxysmal Atrial Tachycardia, and the different names for these particular problems go on and on. As you can see, you HAVE to see a cardiologist to determine which one or ones of these problems that you MAY have (some of them require no treatment). The problems noted and which one you may have will depend on which part of the heart or valves that the electrical disturbance comes from and goes to. Noone here can make even a close diagnosis of these problems. I would say that (guessing) your thyroid problems have greatly contributed in many ways to this, especially when I see that your heartbeat sped up, out of rhythm, then slowed down to what, 45 bpm, then paused, and went back into regular rhythm again, from what you wrote here. If I'd had a doctor like the one you had, who didn't even go over the results with you and at least should have given you a brief explanation of this, before he referred you to a cardiologist, I'd have sued the hell out of him/her, for having no sympathetic response to what was going on. Actually, being as you DIDN'T see a heart doctor, you probably gave yourself the best treatment that you had on hand, which was a minor tranquilizer. This will NOT do for permanent treatment though, and you have no way of telling if you have had permanent heart damage of any type, without seeing a heart specialist. I don't mean to scare you (it COULD have been only a temporary situation because of the condition of your thyroid at the time), but you have no way of knowing this until you have more cardiac tests done for what your condition may be at THIS time. Heart problems are nothing to experiment around with or guess about. In His Love Tx holter monitor report > Hi, if anyone in the group has suffered heart symptoms from their > thyroid disease and is knowledgeable about cardiac terminology, could > you help give me an early preview of what the holter monitor report > below means? To give some background, I had a terrible time when I was > first diagnosed with Hashi's/hypo, a pounding and irregular heartbeat > being my worst symptom -- I didn't know I had Hashi's, I thought I was > going to die. I went into the hospital with low sodium/low potassium > and after I was out and started on thyroid supps, I kept having these > " attacks " that would keep me awake all night running to the bathroom > every 1/2 hour, terribly thirsty and feeling like I was going to have > a heart attack. This report was from that period, when I still having > bad heart symptoms. I remember my heart was POUNDING when this report > was done... just felt like it was beating really hard, not necessarily > fast, but I just felt AWFUL. I wore the monitor for 24 hours... toward > the end I think I took an Ativan and felt better. ANyway, it says: > > AVG rate of 69. Max. BPM was 98, min. BPM 45. Wide beats totaled 4 > representing <1% of all beats. Isolated early narrow beats totaled 586 > representing .7% of all beats. > > Interpretation: Sinus rhythm. Multiple APC's. One 1.4 sec. pause > following APC with junctional escape. With sypmtoms of palpitations. > PAC's recorded. > > > My doc. at the time never even reviewed this report with me.. just > finally referred me to a psychiatrist. I still have heart palpitations > but nothing like what I felt back then... my current endo. wants me to > see a cardiologist and take this report with me so he can explain what > was happening, and if there is anything to address now. > > Thanks gang, > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 1, 2004 Report Share Posted January 1, 2004 Thanks, and Sheila. Yes, the abbreviation was APCs. Yeah, I'll go see a cardiologist.. keep in mind I haven't had this kind of heart episode since 1.5 years ago, but I still do have the palps and not many thyroid patients I run into complain of heart stuff the way I did, although I have found a few reports on 's site, even badly hypo people like me and not hyper. Well, Happy New Year everyone. It's windy and rainy as heck here in San Francisco today, I don't think I'll be straying far from home! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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