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Just wondering if anyone here has bradycardia (slower than normal heart rate), and if so, what is being done for it?
I've had some fluttering or irregular heart rhythms for about a year or so. Typically only happened right when I went to bed, but has happened at other times recently. During a follow up appointment for my, now gone, DVT bloodclot, I told my doc about it and he did an EKG. Afterwards he said he was concerned about my low heart rate on the EKG. My resting heart rate has always been lower than normal (bradycardia) but now that it's gotten down into the 30s (beats per minute), he thought we better find out if something is going on with my heart. He said we would see what the echocardiogram and heart rate monitor showed, but mentioned a pace maker was a possibility in the future.
This past Thursday I had an echocardiogram and then got a heart monitor put on after that, which I'll wear for two weeks. I go to cardiologist near the end of August to get the results of both the echocardiogram and heart rate monitor.
Just wondering if anyone here has been through the same thing, what was done for the condition, and how having bradycardia has impacted your daily life.
Thank you!
TripleB
I've had some fluttering or irregular heart rhythms for about a year or so. Typically only happened right when I went to bed, but has happened at other times recently. During a follow up appointment for my, now gone, DVT bloodclot, I told my doc about it and he did an EKG. Afterwards he said he was concerned about my low heart rate on the EKG. My resting heart rate has always been lower than normal (bradycardia) but now that it's gotten down into the 30s (beats per minute), he thought we better find out if something is going on with my heart. He said we would see what the echocardiogram and heart rate monitor showed, but mentioned a pace maker was a possibility in the future.
This past Thursday I had an echocardiogram and then got a heart monitor put on after that, which I'll wear for two weeks. I go to cardiologist near the end of August to get the results of both the echocardiogram and heart rate monitor.
Just wondering if anyone here has been through the same thing, what was done for the condition, and how having bradycardia has impacted your daily life.
Thank you!
TripleB