**Update** My regular doctors deem it necessary to have another EKG, full blood panel, chest x-ray and to wear a monitor for at least a week. They still won’t say what they think the cause is, what I can do to make it better or if it will go away. The doc I saw didn’t say much but I read her expression that she wasn’t really that sure either if it was serious or not. Yeah for feeling like a human pincushion. I’m still going to pursue acupuncture and massage therapy, even though my health insurance refuses to recognize it and wait this whole thing out for another month.***
I went to the Emergency room last night because I’ve been having issues with my heart racing lately…for hours not just minutes. I had the full run down of tests, blood work, x-rays and an EKG…they think I have something called Supraventricular tachycardia, which means sometimes the system that controls my heartbeat doesn’t communicate well with the heart itself, so it either sends the wrong signal ( like to speed up) or sends a choppy signal (my heart will speed up and slow down suddenly).
The doctors were wonderful but didn’t feel it was necessary for me to take medications since they weren’t able to get a good picture of the activity. The most likely cause of this is stress, which they said to try and reduce but really the only stress that could cause this is my husband being gone so it looks like another year of just being nicer to myself. I follow up with my regular doctor tomorrow so hopefully I’ll know a little bit more about how to handle this, what changes need to be made and so on…. and I’m going to try to get my insurance to cover acupuncture or massage, something to help.
I have a few wonderful friends that are Reiki practitioners and they’ve offered to help too. I know that anti-anxiety meds could help but I truly do not want to go down that path again. Maybe this is just telling me to take some more time for myself and slow down a little. Who knows. It could be a good thing.
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