Re: Echo results and a strange question... need some opinions...

update:

working on getting with a new cardio group and getting a 2nd opinion..
and echo test redone.


one other thing, which i totally left out in my messages before.. is..

ever since i started noticing these extra problems.. back in december..
whenever i lean or lay on my left side.. i get a strange feeling in my
neck... and feel theres 'too much' of something going through... and my
heart will make a heavy "pflumph" feeling. its like a mix of a flutter
and just a gush. like as if it regurgitated something. thats the only
way to really describe it. i can feel it into my throat.

i marked this particular symptom on the holter test diary.. and
supposedly nothing showed up on the holter matching up with that
particular times i had noted these things happening.
i dont think its a skipped beat or a double beat. its like a "gush
splumph" feeling. its hard enough where i can feel it through me most
of the time. it doesnt hurt.. its just strange and annoying and i find
it a pain in the ass sleeping on my left side anymore (which I always
have enjoyed doing) or leaning on my left side when sitting. i always
tend to favor that side.

one night i had shifted to my left, and i woke up from my sleep with my
heart racing and feeling a weird flushy feeling all over my body and my
neck... just a strange feeling and i quickly moved over to my right and
it very quickly subsided. in the beginning, and more so the week
following that fall... i found it difficult to move around in bed.
going from laying down to sitting up.. id feel that gushy thing and
feel like as if the blood was just like a pool inside my chest just all
over. like a swooshy pool inside my heart.

also, when id lean to my left when sitting... id feel my heart slamming
into my chest on the left side as if my heart was taking up my whole
chest cavity and slamming into the side ribs.
i felt like i could literally feel it. and prior to leaning oer, it
wouldnt even be racing. its the sensation of feeling it.

what on earth could that be? the docs seemed to not even give a ***.






Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD wrote:
petshopqueen007@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

This would address the question of whether you have had a pulmonary
embolus.

So, you agree this is the best test right now?

No.

Or should I be going with a CAT or MRI scan?

These would not be the best tests either.

But of course.. they're
gonna put up a big fight about that...

Would suggest that you have your doctor(s) consult with a radiologist
about what in his/her opiinion would be the best test given your
history.

Can be baseline for some folks and higher than baseline for others. It
is well within the normal range for most people.

i wasnt sure because ive been told different things about it.

i was talking to my dad after this, and he said he was diagnosed with
this, too. he has extra and skipped beats... and also has an issue
where he literally feels them every hour. hes been checked and no one
seemed concerned.

he also has a thing where he seems to not be able to take enough deep
breaths. he said he started feeling that way when he was about my age..
25-27.
same as me. been like that for a while. im always taking deep breaths.
i sometimes feel like my lungs are being squashed inside... when im
sitting down or whatever.

Could be asthma.

what exactly are these VE's?

Ventricular Ectopics are also known as Premature Ventricular
Contractions (PVCs). It is not usual to use both VEs and PVCs or to
make a distinction between them. Couplets are a pair of VEs.

what do you mean.. not usual?

Simply that they are synonymous.

so, out of all of this from the holter.. im in no danger?

No red flags in that which you have posted about your holter report.

A PAC is a Premature Atrial Contraction.

thats another thing that baffles me. the EKG shows a right atrial
'strain'.. (which also could mean a PE..), but the echo shows its of
normal size, and normal in general.

Your echo was a technically difficult study.

just seems like.. a lot of things that should be addressed. sadly,
though... its not like it can all be looked into all too soon. takes
weeks/months sometimes just to get a cardio appointment around here,
and all the other stuff...

just so many things. and i know i come across like a hypochondriac, or
someone just thnking of everything and anything, but.. i know how i
feel, i know my body and have seen how doctors have fucked over my
family, and even me in the past. if it wastn for us raising hell with a
bunch of docs, my mom would have died from a serious heart problem a
while back. turned out our suspicions were right all along and they had
refused to check for other stuff, previously. sad...

Sad to read about the difficulties of you and your family.

Prayerfully in Christ's amazing love,

Andrew <><
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