Q: Occasionally I feel my heart skip a beat or “flutter” a few times a week. This can happen either when I do excerise, or even at quiet moments. Its very scary. I am healthy at 153lbs. 44 years old, and did have a EKG checkup 2 years prior to 2010. Everything checked out normal on the dr’s printout then. …
Chest pains
Q: my mother(55 year old) has felt chest pain(left & center)with left hand pain more than two times.also felt chest cogestion.she felt relief after taking isodril once.today she has checked up by doctor.ecg and tmt test reports is normal.but has some high level of cholestrol.doctor said that there is no heart problem.it may be muscular pain only due to less …
Chest pain after thymectomy
Q: I’m 48,had TAHBSO for endometrial ca (stage1) then Thymectomy (benign thymolipoma) both surgery 2008. Nov2010 had sternal wire removed due to constant nerve pain. Feb2011 thought I had heart attack, as the pain started from left arm radiating to my heart, searing or tearing kind of pain. Prior to that, been having left arm pain/weakness pre and post thymectomy. …
Inferior Q-wave follow up
Q: What sort of other causes would lead to an inferior Q-wave besides the MI? Upon further review of the EKG, the cardiologist does want me to come in for the stress test. Is it really possible for one to have an MI and not know they had one. I have not had any issues with my heart at all …
Aberrant beats
Q: I have recently had a 24 hr ECG which showed frequent aberrant beats, 3 couplets and 4 cycles of trigeminy. I am 26 weeks pregnant. I first noticed an irregular heart beat about 3 weeks ago. Is this anything to worry about? My doctor is sending me for an echocardiogram. Thank you
Inferior Q-wave on my pre-op EKG
Question: After having a pre-surgery EKG, the surgeon told me I have an inferior Q-wave and wants to refer me to a cardiologist. I am working on making an appt so I hopefully won’t delay surgery but was very curious and a little concerned in the meanwhile. I am a non-smoker (quit 14 yrs ago when I became pregnant), non …
Heart murmur
Q: I am a female, 38, ~5 ft, ~120 lbs. In 94 my echocardiogram said: Mild MR (+2)with eccentric posteriorly directed jet; Mild MVP – anterior leaflet bows beyond annulus plane LA. Mild anterior leaflet MVP with mild MR. Otherwise normal study. What do they mean? Should I be worried? Will they deteriorate with time? Thanks a lot for your …
Husband with heart skipping beats
Q: Hello…my husband is 36 year old white male that is 6’4″ tall and weighs about 350 which I know is a heart attack waiting to happen right there.He just starting working out & has lost about 7 lbs so far so hopefully it will help all this.So about 2 years ago he went in for a stress test & …
Pericarditis and Prolonged QTc in my daughter
Q: My daughter is almost 14, she has had incessant recurrent pericarditis since she was 12 and has to remain on medications or the pericarditis returns. She has had several effusions, one of them moderate to large, which caused her heart to start collapsing in. My main question is that she has ekg’s done every 1-2 months and always the …
I have long QTsyndrome. How dangerous is that?
Q: We got propably lqt syndrome 1 or 2 in our family. We undergo genetic tests these days. It was discovered incidentally on my routine ECG, than confirmed on another. I´m now 25, I had only 2 presyncopes/no collapse up to now.I have been played strenous sport all my life including soccer, basketball, snowboarding, I played ice hockey for 10 …