I am a 22 year old female that as of last week had no medical problems. Well last week I started getting these weird heart fluttering sensation and a slight chest discomfort. I passed it off as anxiety and made an appt with my doctor. Well he said it could be anxiety but he didnt think it really was so he checked me out and said he heard something weird in my heart and wanted me to have a echocardiogram just to make sure I was okay and he gave me a low dose of anxiety meds to try when this attack happened and if it didnt go away then to go to urgent care or the E.R. So 2 days later I am doing the dishes and out of nowhere this happens again except my heart was skippin beats and racing and I had felt flush so i took the meds and laid down and about an hour later my husband took my pulse and said honey you need to got to the doctor so i went to urgent care and i was hooked up to an ekg and my heart rate was 132 (when normal it is 57-68) and I had an abnormal ekg so they left me there for awhile bagering me trying think what could cause this and when he listen to my heart like my docotor he too said it didnt sound right like there was a problem so he wanted me too be seen by a cardiologist at the hospital asap well needless to say at the hospital they let me sit in a room for 5 hours with my heart rate 132 and test me for drugs came back negative so they said nothing we can do go home and see a cardio doc so since that day i have had a couple more attacks and been back to the urgent care (where the doctor there listens) He has told me that it sounds like i have an electrical problem in my heart and how he has seen a girl with the same symtoms who was my same age and whos doctor keep passing it off til she found the right one who did a simple surgery of fix the electrical short in her heart and now she fine and has been for a long time and doesnt require meds or anything. So knowing this i headed to the the heart doc today and he listened for a min to my heart does an ekg and then sits down ands says looking at me your fine nothing wrong with you who sent you to me? I am like confused does he not hear is he not fluent in the english language??? So I am like well out of the 3 doctors I say this week they say you need to check me out. He looks at me and see that i am like 20 maybe 25 pounds overwieght I am 168 pounds and i am 5'6 so he like do u work and I reply no I am a housewife, He says you ever exercise, I reply yes I go for walks hike and shop lots of shopping. He say so you walk around your house!!!! I felt so degraded he wasnt there to help me he was there to tell me to lose weight. He said I probally exercised and didnt know it and because i am not use to it my heart rate took a while to go down i am thinking yeah 48 hours right
yes everytime I go on bike rides or powerwalk my heart stays at that level for like a week what was i thinking I wish i could have had the guts to tell him off but i didnt instead i cried and now i am here with nowhere else to turn. I am to sacred to return to my normal activities because if it happens again ( I have been in bed since this happened because i was told to take it easy) were do I go who will want to help me??? Should I beleive him am I crazy??? They say i am too young for problems and not that this isnt great I dont want to be sick I just want to know why ?? And what did this where should I go form here please help me find answers!!! Should I still get an echocardiogram he says it is not nessary?

[This message has been edited by christywithq's (edited 08-12-2003).]

Christy:
Ask your doctor to schedule an echo. At the very least, it will put your fears to rest.