“Heart problem?”
I am a 25 year old female who has recently developed intermittent heart palpitations combined with chest tightness and dizziness, sometimes it's hard to catch my breath. These episodes can last for a few minutes or a few hours, and it almost always wakes me up out of bed. I have obstructive apnea that I'm waiting for a CPAP to treat. The onset of my symptoms came after being diagnosed with an allergic reaction to the drug Effexor or Venaflaxin, which started giving me heart issues. Now, two months later, it feels worse somehow. Everyone including myself thought it must've been anxiety. Now that I'm struggling to even walk my dog, I went to a walk-in clinic for an ECG while I wait for an appt with my primary to come. The clinician did not give me a diagnosis but told me that she among a chatroom of other doctors agree that my ECG results showed...
"The top heart's chambers are sending an electrical pulse to the bottom chambers, but the bottom chambers don't always receive the message". Does anyone know what this description is pointing to? Could it be anything *other* than heart block?
"The top heart's chambers are sending an electrical pulse to the bottom chambers, but the bottom chambers don't always receive the message". Does anyone know what this description is pointing to? Could it be anything *other* than heart block?
Female | 25 years old
Complaint duration: +2 months
Medications: Yasmin
Conditions: Bpd/anxiety/depression, asthma, snapping scapula, cyclic vomiting syndrome, endo/pcos
1 Answer
The description of your ECG could be interpreted in several ways. Heart block is a possibility, but you are quite young to have this diagnosis. Some illnesses, such as Lyme disease, might lead to heart block at practically any age. You may have atrial fibrillation, in which case you sometimes do not want every electrical impulse generated in the top part of your heart to be received by the bottom part of your heart. From what you have written, it is not clear to me what the ECG said. You either need to get the diagnosis from the ECG or bring the ECG to your primary care doctor to have them sort it out. If you are unable to see your primary care doctor soon, you may need to go to the emergency room if your symptoms get worse.
