Re: Heart convusions??
- From: "Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 14:01:32 -0400
Don wrote:
>
> "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>)
Would suggest you seek a second opinion from another independent (non-VA
connected) cardiologist.
> Thank you,
You are welcome, Don.
All praises belong to my heavenly Father, Whom I love with all my heart,
soul, mind, and strength :-)
In Christ's love and service forevermore,
Andrew
--
Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
Board-Certified Cardiologist
**
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