Your main questions for your doctor should be the following: Visit the Atrial Fibrillation Patient Education Center.You sound like the poster child for a beta blocker if you've got A-fib and your HR gets sustained in the 120s-140s with minimal provocation.
That said, I encouraged Steve to contact his cardiologist immediately. Remember, “Safe not sorry!” The last thing Steve, or anybody, needs is to have some form of undetected atrial fibrillation (A-Fib) which might result in a stroke after heart surgery. Please do not hesitate to contact your physician even if that call is for “peace-of-mind” and to hear that magic phrase, “That’s normal!” You have a right to have your questions answered. If you have a concern or question about your health condition, please contact your cardiologist or surgeon. That brings me to the second point of this blog… However, as you will remember Steve noted that he did experience motion sickness at the same time he felt his heart flutter. This article continues, “If your palpitations aren’t accompanied by dizziness or other symptoms and if you don’t have a valve disorder or other structural problem with your heart, that usually means palpitations are benign.” Sorting out worrisome palpitations from harmless ones isn’t always easy, reports the Harvard Heart Letter. Sometimes, though, palpitations reflect a problem in the heart or elsewhere in the body. So you know, Harvard Medical School just released an interesting story on heart palpitations, which states that, “Palpitations-the sensation that the heart has started to race or pound, or feels like it has skipped a beat-are usually caused by a harmless hiccup in the heart’s rhythm. Most people have heart palpitations every once in a while – even if they did not have cardiac surgery.” She told me to call her if the palpitations continued.ĭawn also said, “As for heart palpitations, there really is nothing you can do right now unless it becomes very frequent. Dawn was convinced it was nothing serious… just heart palpitations.
Sixty seconds later, I was on the phone with Dawn, the nurse of my cardiologist.
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