Heart convusions??
- From: Don <dong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 04:22:38 GMT
"Heart Convulsions", that's how I think of them.
I'M-SORRY-THIS-IS-SO-LONG. I don't know how else to ask the question.
I've had them all my life, which has been 59 years, so far. Although
they do not cause me problems themselves, I believe that whatever
causes them is probably the source of other problems.
The only time the phenomenon has been heard by a physician was when I
was 14 and being examined by the school Dr for the track team. My
heart just happened to do one of those flip-flops during the few
seconds when his stethoscope was on my chest. He looked up with a very
stunned look on his face and said "do that again". Of course I could
not. He said that a permission would be required from my family Dr and
suggested that it was important to have the problem checked out.
The problem didn't occur in the family doc's office, I got permission
for track and was the fastest guy on the team up to about 440 yd's.
I stopped riding bicycle about 8 years ago because of a back problem
but had been averaging about 3,200 miles a year for many years until
then. When I started riding I did so because I wanted to improve my
health but more specifically I wanted to get the training effect I
expected to get from adapting my body to riding thousands of miles. It
never happened. In the first 40 miles my body adapted to the
unfamiliar phenomenon of lactic acid in my muscles but other than that
my 20,000th mile was just as hard as my 100th mile.
I kept a diary of every ride with heart rate, heart recovery time,
blood pressure, etc. My blood pressure was always good but HR and
recovery time never improved and were much worse than friends that
never exercised and were quite overweight.
One day I went for a ride and could tell immediately that something
was different. I not only felt different but my heart rate monitor was
indicating 15 to 20 BMP lower from the very start. I felt supercharged
( it was probably just feeling normal for the first time) and as I
continued my HR was about 30 to 40 BPM lower than it normally was
during the same ride. The most profound difference was that my HR
would begin to drop immediately as soon as I slowed down or stopped
peddling. That was the first time that ever happened. Normally my HR
would either continue to go up or take a very long time to come down.
It would often be over 100 BPM hours after stopping. Even while lying
down on the bed. All this is after many years of averaging 300 Mi/Mo
on a bike. Unfortunately this "supercharged" state lasted only one
day.
In 1999 I had an Echocardiogram and was told that I had an MVP and
ventricular tachycardia. I had another Echo a few weeks ago and was
told that I have neither MVP nor VT. (The Dr doing the test told me
that I had a rather generously sized ???? chamber.) I had a 24 hr
Holter monitor 2 weeks ago and was told that it was normal except for
a high heart rate. I new that I had not had any of the flip-flops
while wearing the monitor. Sometime I have 100's of them in one day
and other times I notice none for weeks.
My concern is that I do not feel well and I don't know if I have ever
felt well. I thought that lots of exercise would make me feel better
but it not only did not, it probably made me feel worse. Although I
rode year round, most of the miles were in good weather months
(Seattle area) By fall I was usually so exhausted that I could hardly
finish a ride.
Today the Dr's assistant called and told me they want me to wear
another kind of portable EKG monitor for a week. I will give it a go
but am concerned that nothing unusual will show up again and I will
not be taken seriously. I've been stuck with the VA health care system
for about the last 1.5 years and do not have the greatest confidence
in some of them
I desperately want to find out what is causing these problems so they
might be fixed or mitigated.
Any thoughts or suggestions will be gratefully received. (Please don't
suggest that I write shorter messages <G>)
Thank you,
Don in Redmond
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