Compassionate companions in this misery

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It is a blessing to realize one is not alone in all of this. A perverse blessing

perhaps because if one were alone then nobody else would be in these straits.

Pure idealism but wouldn't it be loverly?

Sorry Pete I've got you beat--over 48 hours again with a climbing bpm. Over 130

for over 4 hours--but to some on this board that would be a piece of cake

compared to 200 or so. I used to set an upper limit of 130 for considering going

to the ER--now I've upped the marker to 140. When I get there I'll probably

increase it to 150 if still basically asymptomatic. This is a form of roulette

isn't it?? When I was in the ER on New Years Eve they wouldn't even let me off

the guerney to pee because I was 'over 130' and they didn't want me 'passing out

on them'. Honestly, medicos are such extremists

Wore a holter yesterday and am curious about whether anybody actually looks at

24 hours of data--do they digitize it and put to a computer to do statistics? I

can't imagine any cardio or EP actually giving the raw data more than a

perfunctory look. The first (and only other) time I was on a holter the silly

thing stopped working before I left the Heart Center, not that I knew. My cardio

blithely said oh it doesn't really matter you keep such a good history anyway.

Translation: we really hardly look at the stuff. The gal who put the holter on

checked this time to see if it was working (what a concept). Yes and of course I

was in AF. She looked at the spikes and said oh there's a PVC--but everybody has

them. Is that true? (PVC=premature ventricular contraction).

Bummed out and grateful just to have a compassionate audience to vent to.

Shelby/Huntsville AL/Toprol 100 mg, Verapamil 360 mg, Coumadin 6 mg/

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>Wore a holter yesterday and am curious about whether anybody actually

looks at 24 hours of data--do they digitize it and put to a computer

to do statistics? I can't imagine any cardio or EP actually giving the

raw data more than a perfunctory look. T....The gal who put the holter

on checked this time to see if it was working (what a concept). Yes

and of course I was in AF. She looked at the spikes and said oh

there's a PVC--but everybody has them. Is that true? (PVC=premature

ventricular contraction).

Yes, they are looked at but my impression is that someone other than

your doc, perhaps a specialist tech, sifts thru them first to isolate

the interesting parts, and then either your doc or another doc reviews

the results. My old cardio would go over parts with me. They get a

big printout of graphs and a summary page, so many pacs, so many pvcs,

etc. and a copy of interesting parts pulled out to look at.

Pvcs are nothing to worry about if your heart is healthy.

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> ... The first (and only other) time I was on a holter the silly

thing stopped working before I left the Heart Center, not that I knew.

My cardio blithely said oh it doesn't really matter you keep such a

good history anyway.

That's stupid. The purpose of a holter is to find out what's really

happening, not what the patient may be able to detect.

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Alas, I think everybody, even those not in our fix, does have PVCs from time

to time. However, I don't like it much when I have them, although I've

never gone into afib as a result.

Brenta

Compassionate companions in this misery

snip--. She looked at the spikes and said oh there's a PVC--but everybody

has them. Is that true? (PVC=premature ventricular contraction).

> Bummed out and grateful just to have a compassionate audience to vent to.

> Shelby/Huntsville AL/Toprol 100 mg, Verapamil 360 mg, Coumadin 6 mg/

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