Heart Work.....
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I have. A few times in the last two months. It's a a long story, so I'll give you just the cliff notes. I was trying to have a foot surgery to fix a problem I've been fighting for a few years. Dering the pre-surgery work up, they found a real bad arrhythmia. After some monitoring and more test than I care to count, they told me it was ventricular tachycardia. I've been hospitalized 4 times (Once I got a cool ride to Washington DC in a helicopter. lol) and I've had two radio-frequency ablation. Now they have me on Verapamil and Flecainide twice a day. The Flecainide is some nasty stuff that is used to fix the irregular heart rhythm. On the down side of it, one of the side affects of it is it can mess up your normal heart rhythm big time. Every time that they change the dose I will have to be in a hospital for 3 -5 days to make sure its not killing me LOL. I hope they got it right the first time. I go back to DC on Monday and hopefully can get the all-clear from them. I've been off work since the first part of June and would love to my life back to normal. In the last week or so I've finally been able to enjoy a smoke. When I last came home from the hospital, every time I had a cigar my body would feel like it was set on vibrate for an hour or so. I think all that is behind me now. Ok, thats about as short as I can make it. LOL
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I was VERY lucky they found it. I had no clue that I had a problem. If fact, the day I had the halter monitor on for the first time, I had spent about 6 hours on a Harley. I drooped off the monitor (still on the bike) and with in an hour the Dr. call and the first thing he said was "stop what ever your doing, go to the nearest ER and have them transport you Sinai Hospital in Baltimore MD." Turns out I had 409 events of tachycardia. Some lasted for over 100 beats. They said I should have passed out on the long runs, but I had no idea.
Yes it changes you. It takes some getting use to the idea that, as a buddy on the boards put it, your no longer invisible and bullet . lol The worst part is setting around waiting for it to happen again. It didn't help that I had to constantly wear a portable heart monitor. It was like a 24 hr a day reminder. But after a few weeks I just got tired of sitting around and waiting for the next episode. I had to come to terms with it and for the most part moved on.
Yes it changes you. It takes some getting use to the idea that, as a buddy on the boards put it, your no longer invisible and bullet . lol The worst part is setting around waiting for it to happen again. It didn't help that I had to constantly wear a portable heart monitor. It was like a 24 hr a day reminder. But after a few weeks I just got tired of sitting around and waiting for the next episode. I had to come to terms with it and for the most part moved on.