ebonlock | That is my least vulnerable spot

Ok so back in December I had my first really bad bout of heart palpitations. Not the usual I just ran around and my heart's pounding kind of thing, rather the I'm sitting here reading a book and all of a sudden the heart's racing and skipping beats kind of thing. I chalked it up to stress, but saw the doc who confirmed that was what was going on did an EKG and pronounced no problem.

Fine. So January comes and goes without any real issues, I mean some palpitations but not bad and I figure ok, it was a freakish thing and now it's getting better. Until they started up again last Wednesday. They weren't bad until I got it in my head to do a half mile walk on Friday afternoon and by the time I made it home I had a sensation not unlike an alien baby trying to thrust itself out of my chest. It got worse from there until I broke down and set up an appointment to see the doc again today.

And of course last night about 9 pm it stopped just as mysteriously as it had begun. Now I just have an ache in my chest like someone punched me and a really sore left shoulder, but that's about it. I slept on my side last night with no problems (it seemed to make things worse before). I felt like a bit of an idiot at the doctor's office but she seems to be taking me mostly seriously so that's good. I'll pick up some beta blockers tomorrow and then I make an appointment to do a Holter test (basically a 24 hour portable EKG is how I've heard it described...how I'm going to sleep with that thing on is beyond me, though), and then we shall see.

The funny bit was when the doc commented that she'd really like me to try to trigger the palpitations if I could and I looked at her as if she were nuts. I go out of my way to avoid them most of the time, and now she wants me to make them happen. *sigh* I understand why I have to do it but it isn't going to be much fun. Ah well, at least I'm feeling better now so I intend to enjoy it while it lasts. I'll worry about catching up with all the work that's piled up since Thursday tomorrow.

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