Hi,
I haven't posted for about a year now. Have lived with ectopic beats on and off. Sometimes constantly and other intermittently.
I went to my gp yesterday and they are a teaching facility, so we have to see a resident first.
We went over what I went there for and then asked how my heart was doing.
I have never seen this resident before ( he was reading my chart). I said not very good as the palps are changing form and am having long runs of them. I need to cough to send the heart back into normal rythum.
He then offered me this information. He said that I am getting older and the heart often changes with age. He also said that papls are caused by a faulty wiring system within the heart that needs to be regulated.
He then said that I need beta blockers or a pace-maker. I really hope that this is a very sad joke.
I hope that he is very wrong and fails his exams at school. Not a nice thing to say, but that is how I feel right now.
I am avoiding beta blockers as long as I can cope without them.
Do we really have an electrical wiring problem in our hearts?
This goes against everything that RLR has taught us.
Please RLR assure me that he is hopefully terribly mistaken in the cardiology department.
always confused
Mickey