Hi All!
I just wanted to let you know what's going on with my heart. I wrote a blog about what happened called, *Had A Little Scare Tonight*. You might want to read that one first.
It's been about a month since the hard PVC's started. PVC's are premature ventricular contractions. Basically the bottom part of your heart throws in an extra heartbeat between the regular ones. Sometimes they are so strong that my chest hurts and my head aches.
Last Thursday, I spent 24 hours wearing a Holter monitor. The little recorder is attached to your body by 5 leads that are similar to EKG leads. It records your heartbeat for 24 hours, and that information is uploaaded to a computer for a doctor to review. The results of that were that I have an occasional elevated heartbeat with pvc's and I don't need medication unless I'm uncomfortable. My doc is waiting on the other test results to make a decision on that.
Today I had an echocardiogram. It's a sonogram that checks all the ventricles in your heart and watches the blood flow going through the ventricles. Very interesting to watch. I also had 2 chest x-rays. Next is fasting blood work. Fun fun. This is getting exhausting and expensive. Ugh.
That's about it for now. I'll keep you updated when I hear anything from the tests.
As always, I love you guys!
*Hugs*
Laurie
