Re: New Problem - Dropping Beats? Pauses?

January 31, 2004

In a message dated 1/31/04 7:45:56 AM Pacific Standard Time,

rossk@... writes:

<< trigger, but I need some advice. I ran to the ER 2 days ago because I

was having several palpiations per minute. When I got there and got hooked up I

noticed that I was feeling things that showed nothing on the monitor?? >>

I had this on my ER trip before being admitted to the hospital for 4 days

after the SVT ablation a year ago that caused heart damage in me. The ER doctor

was listening to my heart WHILE the EKG was going and SHE said " oh wow, I am

hearing things that are not showing up, this is quite odd. " That obviously

gave me a lot of confidence! ha ha ... I just think there is a lot they don't

know, and often, when they don't know, they blame the patient or say you're

crazy or making it up or something. That was actually a confirmation to me that

what I was feeling WAS real whether or not it showed up on the EKG or the

monitor. I've also had ER docs and cardiologists tell me I can't tell when I'm

in

a-fib because it can't be felt. HELLO? Then how come I don't ever end up in

the ER when I'm in NSR? DUH. Fortunately, most cardiologists know most of us

can feel it, though there are silent episodes as well. That's what I'm

afraid of at this point. That it's happening when I don't know it. This whole

a-fib/SVT business just bites the big one.

Toni

CA

January 31, 2004

Hi Ross,

I get this same thing. The one thing that scares mo to death is the long

pause in between beats. I feel lightheaded for a second and sometimes I cough

to bring the beat back. I also was hooked up to a monitor, at first for 24

hours and then an event monitor for 30 days. On the 30 day monitor they found

one episode of AF and one of atrial flutter. I was taking Cordarone and

Aspirin. I have now found a new and bettre Caridologist and he , thank god,

took me off Cordarone and Aspirin and put me on Coumadin and Cardizem LA. By

the way, I am 52 years old.

New Problem - Dropping Beats? Pauses?

Hello Everyone,

I'm a 33 yo male and had my first Afib a year ago today -- I recently had

another episode last week that lasted about 20 mins. I think I've figured out

trigger, but I need some advice. I ran to the ER 2 days ago because I was

having several palpiations per minute. When I got there and got hooked up I

noticed that I was feeling things that showed nothing on the monitor??? I also

felt some things that I thought were palpitations, but when I looked at the

monitor there was simply a pause -- Dropped beat??? These things are now waking

me up a night?? It almost looks like is missing beats - Has anyone else had

this???

Thanks,

Ross

January 31, 2004

In a message dated 1/31/2004 8:12:25 AM Pacific Standard Time,

mpignalosa@... writes:

<< The one thing that scares mo to death is the long pause in between beats.

I feel lightheaded for a second and sometimes I cough to bring the beat back.

>>

Michele and Ross,

I was having the same problem with long pauses between beats the day I

finally left work in the middle of the day because I felt I was about to faint

at

any moment. The feelings of dizziness and imminent fainting produced by those

long pauses are the scariest symptoms I have ever felt in my twenty years of

afib. When my brother drove me to my cardiologist that day, the doctor

increased my dose of Tenormin to 100 m.g. and added Verapamil 240 m.g. The

feelings

of dizziness had disappeared within two hours of starting the new med and dose

combination. I converted to sinus about four hours after seeing the

cardiologist and ended up feeling fine on that day when I had been too dizzy to

even

drive myself to the doctor. My point is that the right med and dose can make

all the difference between being incapacitated as I was and being able to live a

normal life. You must keep searching for the right doctor who can prescribe

the right med or combination for you because my experience and that of my

brother in permanent afib has been that the right meds and doses make all the

difference between living a life of incapacitating fear and living a normal

life.

Good luck.

in sinus in Seattle

January 31, 2004

,

Do you and your brother have AFIB? Is this hereditary? I too sometimes get