Before I just go ahead and give you my results from my heart monitor testing and my echocardiogram. I want to give a back story, I know your just here for the results, but hear me out. I never ever once had any type of heart issue until I became pregnant. There has to be some correlation between the two. My son is now 8. So for 8 years I have been struggling to figure out what’s going on with my heart. I was diagnosed with SVT years ago, than told no, it’s not that, it’s tachycardia. So I have ran with I have tachycardia episodes, that’s just a name for a fast resting heart rate. Never did anything about it. The years have gone on and my heart has become worse and worse. Finally about 6 weeks ago after I have been having heart issues so bad within the last 2.5 months, finally I see a new doctor, was put on a heart monitor, and here we are 6 weeks later with some answers and a whole new diagnosis. I did the echocardiogram today and no finding on there, my heart looks good, but I have been diagnosed with Bruit, I will add definitions at the end of this blog so you can know what all of this means. Than, let’s get to the heart monitor results, the findings were not tachycardia, a mean a episode here and there, but it is still present. But instead, I have been diagnosed with Rare Premature atrial contractions (PACs) and Rare Premature ventricular contractions (PVCs). What’s happening in my heart is that I am having episodes of a extra heart beat, than it follows by a skipped heartbeat. This is happening mainly at night 2am, 3am. The thing that has jolted me awake for the last say 6 years, I finally have answers to. My electrical of the heart is having “misfires” extra beat here, skipped beat there. He said obviously I’m symptomatic because every time I had a episode I pressed the monitor to record it. And that’s exactly what I’m feeling. So where does this lead me? Well this is not dangerous unless it goes untreated for so long. So I will be on a beta blocker to help steady the heart. I definitely have got way more info with this heart doctor than I have in the past with my last. The looks of my heart look great. Just electrical issues, of course they can become dangerous, but for now, it’s just the symptoms that are way worse and the feeling of it way worse than what it is. I am relieved to have a diagnosis and to start a treatment to see if it helps. I am one tired human being, and I’m truly hoping this medicine will help. This explains the constant tiredness I feel, fatigue as you will. Been a long time to get some answers. I follow up in 3 months.
Premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) are extra heartbeats that begin in one of your heart’s two lower pumping chambers (ventricles). These extra beats disrupt your regular heart rhythm, sometimes causing you to feel a fluttering or a skipped beat in your chest.
Premature atrial contractions (PACs) are premature heartbeats that are similar to PVCs, but occur in the upper chambers of the heart, an area known as the atria.
Bruit, also called vascular murmur, is the abnormal sound generated by turbulent flow of blood in an artery due to either an area of partial obstruction or a localized high rate of blood flow through an unobstructed artery.
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