Thursday, March 19, 2009

A Broken Heart

And I dont even mean the figurative kind...haha! My Senior year in high school I started experiencing some heart irregularities. My heart will beat normally and then skip a beat...it happens sporadically during an episode with as many as 20 skips or as few as one or two. But I can feel it. I usually check my pulse in my neck and feel the blood pumping and then it stops and instead I feel the pulse in my chest as my heart squeezes and no blood is circulated. It doesnt hurt, but I feel it. I went to the doctor when it first happened almost four years ago. They referred me to a cardiologist, who did a stress test, echocardiogram, and gave me a heart monitor to wear for two weeks. The point was so that they could catch my heart during an irregularity and see what was wrong with it. As my luck would have it, it never malfunctioned while I had the monitor. So after reviewing my echo, and seeing nothing structurally wrong, they told me I must be fine. Well...I have continued having these, I dont know, episodes and this winterguard season they have gotten worse. My heart skips when I get my heart rate elevated. Not everytime, but often. It happens at least once a week, and once it happens it will happen several times that day. I decided to go back to the doctor and get re-referred to a cardio specialist. So thats what I am doing at 9:30am tomorrow. Going to see what the heck is wrong with my broken heart. Let's hope it is just as they said 4 years ago...nothing.

2 comments:

  1. strange... ya know, I have the same things happen to me on occasion. it usually happens when I'm really calm down and my heartbeat is slower like I was sitting on the couch earlier, not a whole lot going on and it happened. just a little flutter-like feeling. it used to not happen very often like maybe a couple times a year, no more. but since college.... it's definitely been a lot more common! it must be like my heart feeling relief from stress.. haha let me know how your appointment goes.

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  2. What is the result? I remember you telling me that you were gonna be wearing a monitor, but how's that going?

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