Hi Judy,
Thought I'd tell you what happened to me just yesterday. I had the WORST arrythmia, lasting the ENTIRE DAY and of course all the light-headedness, dizzines, pressure in my head and chest that i could take. I could feel the irregularity every 30 seconds od so -- it was constant. The funny thing was, I was calm, I was breathing normally, and I tried not to let it get to me because I thought I knew what it was, however as the day progressed the symptoms got worse so i got in the car with some family memebers to drive to a health food store to pick up a homeopathc rememdy when it hit me -- i started to have an attack in the car. my left hand/arm went numb, the arrythmia was CRAZY which only made the light-headedness intolerable. I started thinking "is my brain getting enough oxygen with this happening all day long??" THe attack itself wasn't the worst I'd had because I was able to remain somewhat calm since i knew what was going on, but the arrythmia was making me ill and raising some concerns. My PCP is a cardiologist, she had me get an Ekocardiogram and was put on a 24-hr heart monitor to determine if I had some sort of arrythmia or not. Of course, the days that I was tested I barely had any sypmtoms, but some minor evidence of irregularity did show up none the less. I did infact have a slightly irregular heartbeat (the one beat coming in too fast) and slight ventricular regurgitation. My PCP said it was very common with a lot of people, and not to worry, just live with it, but she was also only looking at the results in paper, and not really listening to me when I told her my symptoms are usually MUCH worse than when I was tested. What she was also not able to tell me is if this was due to or part of my panic disorder, or if it was seperate from it, and i was hoping someone might have had some similar experence with this because I'm totally confused and concerned! :quest: :8o:
