Yes I did it again. Spent Sat. night at the Bundaberg hospital. My heart decided to throw another wobbly. Heart rate went up to 190 beats a minute. Too high & as heart requires a bigger blood supply to keep up that rate & doesn't get it the response is strong chest pain. Rang 000. Luckily on Sun. enzyme level (shows on blood test) went down & so they let me go home. Today visit with oncologist & I have to get my portacath flushed. So my social life is still revolving around medical facilities. Alice
Oh, Alice - whatever next!!!! My heart rate apparently went up over the 200's when I was wearing the monitor - and that was when I was sleeping!!!! I felt absolutely nothing, if we hadn't been taken blood pressures with our own machine, would not have known I had a problem. No pain, no shortness of breath, nothing! The specialist scared the daylights out of me when I first saw her - she thought I was going to have a heart attack if I did anything - but, apparently my preventative medication of Cholesterol lowering meds and a half aspirin did a good job, I had plaque, but no outcrops which could have blocked the artery. So, prevention is a life saver.
Now on five pills a day (incl. cholesterol, aspirin, bloodpressure, and happy pills).
Take it easy Alice - thinking of you. When do you move into Booroo??????? can't remember how to spell it!!!!!
Love to you both, from us!
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Hi folks. Jules we move to Boonooroo early Feb. After our cruise leaving on 22/1 for New Guinea & Islands - 11 days. I am determined to do it - heart will just have to behave. Regards Alice
So sorry to hear this Alice. Hopefully things will turn for the positive after this. Thinking of you every day, sorry o have missed you, do hope your trip to Brisbane went well.
Will be back up here in March, see you then.
Pet scan 8th Marc Oncologist 15th March.
This may not be applicable to you, but I refer you to my post of 26 Nov 2015 about Atrial Fibrilation. I had an ablation done (in Adelaide) and since then I had one very minor event about 2 weeks after (I am not even sure if it was AF), but certainly nothing since then. The procedure was scary - yes - but once I had decided to have it, I was relaxed about it. 24 hours later I walked out of the hospital a new man. Hope your problems settle soon....
