JerJer
11-09-2010, 07:10 AM
I would greatly appreciate all your opinions. I am really having a bad one.
I was taking the Magnesium stuff lately, and I was feeling much better. Then I woke up with major heart palpitations and completely panicked. I am waiting for the proper Magnesium, Amino Acids and such to come here. I am an American living in Shanghai. Anyway I woke up at 5 AM completely freaked out and it got harder and harder and faster and faster. All alone, in a compound at 5 AM with noone around made me so scared. For the first time in my life I called an ambulance. I was convinced I was going to die. Within 10 minutes from the beginning of the episode, in the ambulance my heart was 108 beats per minute, but I was pretty sure it was much higher earlier. It seemed liek my heart was automatically going into a massive tachycardia.
Every test at the hospital came out ok, but I was much calmer by the time I got there..
I then went to another place and took every test imaginable. The heart Echogram was all norma. EKG normal. Every blood test was normal except the TSH was slightly high. The T3 and T4 was normal but TSH was slightly high. Not sure if it means anything.
Then I wore a 24 hour monitor. On the monitor I had 2 episodes. Pretty lucky.
Here is what is showed:
my heart got up maximum to 162 beats per minute. Is that extremely dangerous or what? 2 doctors looked at it and said besides being fast, it showed noting wrong. Then I went to a Cardiologist who said he thinks I have a PVST or even a PAST, and maybe I should have the surgery where they burn a branch of the AV node of the hart. He said maybe I am born with 2 fibers instead of one. He said after the surgery I will be normal.
Then the cardiologist went outside and had a cigarette. He gave me Xanax because I am nervous and a beta blocker. But said the beta blocker may or may not work. WEIRD!
I then went to 2 more doctors. Both said just Tachycardia, not PVST and one said take the beta blockers and another said take propafenone hydrochloride. The first doctor said probably not dangerous and this probably won't kill you but I can't guarantee anything. WTF! The second doctor said besides being fast there is nothing wrong but don't take beta blockers. Take propafenone hydrochloride. He said this is a small problem and not life threatening. I look up the side effects of this drug and it is massive. It also said its only for life threatening arrhythmias. Does that mean that doc thinks I have a life threatening heart thing? Even though he did say it isn't.
So I call up the doctor from yesterday, who recommended surgery, andhe said propafenone hydrochloride can give you other arrhythmia and in America they would not give it to you.
I went to the Chinese herbal medicine department and she gave me a very good herbal formula that I'm taking.
You all see where this is going. I am utterly confused. I assume some of you have totally gone through all this.
I have definitely the past month had major anxiety, especially in crowded places, (which is all of China) , subways and places with no clear exit. Even an elevator. I wake up scared then heart palpitations start and they get really fast!
Last night I woke up scared and anxious but did major breathing and relaxation techniques so the heart beated normal. Yet I felt very anxious, but no tachycardia.
Is this all from my anxiety? Do I have a real heart problem? Am I a walkign time bomb ready to drop any second?
P.S.
It can get lonely here, despite the good friends, from all over the world I do have. If anyone wants to be there for me and take to me, I would very much appreciate it. I can skype you.
I look forward to your responses.
Thanks!
Jeremy
I was taking the Magnesium stuff lately, and I was feeling much better. Then I woke up with major heart palpitations and completely panicked. I am waiting for the proper Magnesium, Amino Acids and such to come here. I am an American living in Shanghai. Anyway I woke up at 5 AM completely freaked out and it got harder and harder and faster and faster. All alone, in a compound at 5 AM with noone around made me so scared. For the first time in my life I called an ambulance. I was convinced I was going to die. Within 10 minutes from the beginning of the episode, in the ambulance my heart was 108 beats per minute, but I was pretty sure it was much higher earlier. It seemed liek my heart was automatically going into a massive tachycardia.
Every test at the hospital came out ok, but I was much calmer by the time I got there..
I then went to another place and took every test imaginable. The heart Echogram was all norma. EKG normal. Every blood test was normal except the TSH was slightly high. The T3 and T4 was normal but TSH was slightly high. Not sure if it means anything.
Then I wore a 24 hour monitor. On the monitor I had 2 episodes. Pretty lucky.
Here is what is showed:
my heart got up maximum to 162 beats per minute. Is that extremely dangerous or what? 2 doctors looked at it and said besides being fast, it showed noting wrong. Then I went to a Cardiologist who said he thinks I have a PVST or even a PAST, and maybe I should have the surgery where they burn a branch of the AV node of the hart. He said maybe I am born with 2 fibers instead of one. He said after the surgery I will be normal.
Then the cardiologist went outside and had a cigarette. He gave me Xanax because I am nervous and a beta blocker. But said the beta blocker may or may not work. WEIRD!
I then went to 2 more doctors. Both said just Tachycardia, not PVST and one said take the beta blockers and another said take propafenone hydrochloride. The first doctor said probably not dangerous and this probably won't kill you but I can't guarantee anything. WTF! The second doctor said besides being fast there is nothing wrong but don't take beta blockers. Take propafenone hydrochloride. He said this is a small problem and not life threatening. I look up the side effects of this drug and it is massive. It also said its only for life threatening arrhythmias. Does that mean that doc thinks I have a life threatening heart thing? Even though he did say it isn't.
So I call up the doctor from yesterday, who recommended surgery, andhe said propafenone hydrochloride can give you other arrhythmia and in America they would not give it to you.
I went to the Chinese herbal medicine department and she gave me a very good herbal formula that I'm taking.
You all see where this is going. I am utterly confused. I assume some of you have totally gone through all this.
I have definitely the past month had major anxiety, especially in crowded places, (which is all of China) , subways and places with no clear exit. Even an elevator. I wake up scared then heart palpitations start and they get really fast!
Last night I woke up scared and anxious but did major breathing and relaxation techniques so the heart beated normal. Yet I felt very anxious, but no tachycardia.
Is this all from my anxiety? Do I have a real heart problem? Am I a walkign time bomb ready to drop any second?
P.S.
It can get lonely here, despite the good friends, from all over the world I do have. If anyone wants to be there for me and take to me, I would very much appreciate it. I can skype you.
I look forward to your responses.
Thanks!
Jeremy