HEART HELP PROBLEM
hi i had tachcardia of the heart for many yrs now and all of a sudden it just got worse due to stress so i finally got up the courage to go to a cardiologist. and when i got there he did a EKG and he told me the results were i had a heart attack sometime in my life before?. how can he or anyone tell by that test and if i had one wouldnt i have know it Now he ordered for me to come back to have a ultra of the heart and also go home with a heart monitor for 24 hrs and also a stress test in which i they have to insert a radioactive dye into me and for me to walk on a treadwill also is there any side effects of the shot. also now i have chest pain and it is not that bad so i hate hopstials and im scared
it just got worse due to stress The increased rate also could have been that your heart wasn't operating as well as it did before, therefore it had to beat more rapidly to keep up. in my life before?. how can he or anyone tell by that test and if i had one wouldnt i have know it No, you could have had one, but just didn't realize what it was. They are also different from a man's typical symptoms. What I thought was really bad gas and indigestion turned out to be a heart attack. I didn't realize it until a year later when I got those same funny pains. I still didn't think it was possible to be a heart attack. A friend of mine also had the same thing happen. He had a couple heart attacks, but not so severe to knock him completely down. The EKG can reveal previous heart attacks. I think it's the S-T segment that looks sort of funny compared to a normal EKG. Plus, with your tachcardia they probably have a history of EKG's to compare. If they say you had one, you probably did. The ultra sound will tell how much your heart actually pumps. The 24 hour monitor is a good tool also. The stress test with the radioactive dye, I can't help you on. Perhaps someone here has experience with that. hopstials and im scared If this is a new pain, you should get it checked. NOW. You've had a heart attack in the past, and didn't recognize the feelings of it. So it's very possible that your body won't exhibit many symptoms for the next one. Again, if this is a new pain, you need to have it checked NOW. It can be a pain in the chest, a pain in either arm, on the back, even your jaw. Linda, I absolutely hated hospitals, and doctors. The last doctor I had before I had my MAJOR heart attack was a pediatrician. I was 46. DON'T TAKE ANY NEW PAIN LIGHTLY!!! Fred Rolls
The radioactive thallium test provides pictures of how well the blood is getting to various parts of the heart. When it was done to me (two or three times) the cardiologist was reluctant to put me on a treadmill (i.e. stress test). Instead I got an injection of adenosine which is supposed to induce a similar stress to the treadmill exercise. I remember two things about the adenosine treatment. The first is that I got an unpleasant rush - a feeling of flushness in the face. This only lasted a few minutes at most, but I didn't much care for it. The other item is that I could see the pulse monitor and I was surprised to note the my pulse was not very high - only about 70. I had thought that if the adenosine was supposed to mimic stress it would raise my pulse just like exercise. I guess the idea is that the adenosine produces some of the effects of exercise, but not all of them. The picture taking runs about a half hour and has to be repeated about three hours later. I was on my back in a large machine that moved the "camera" around an arc taking views of my chest at different angles. When the cardiologist showed me the images afterwards, he pointed out the areas where it clearly showed that a certain part of my heart was getting less blood when it was under stress than without stress. It is boring to lie in the machine while it is getting the images, but there is no pain involved. As I said, I didn't like the feeling that the adenosine induced, but those undergoing the treadmill treatment instead shouldn't be having that problem. regards, Bob S. On May 9, 2005, at 12:35 PM, Fred Rolls wrote: The stress test with the radioactive dye, I can't help you on. Perhaps someone here has experience with that. Fred Rolls