Re: Joanne irregular heartbeats

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I had a 30-day event monitor from my cardiologist, which is especially

for " infrequent " episodes. I suggest seeing a cardiologist and

getting fit for one. I have bradycardia (slow heart rate) and

arrhythmias (heart rate speeding up and slowing down irregularly). I

am cleared to play sports, and passed my stress test, but had about 10

episodes in the month I was on the monitor, each a bit different, but

net result for me was " wait and see how much you black out from them "

as my EKG itself was okay except for the timing. Doctor mentioned

possibly a pacemaker in the future...

Even a medical doctor can't really tell what's going on unless they

get some EKG data while the episodes are occurring, could be

dangerous, could be not - best to find out (and also get a cardiology

baseline if there aren't any issues, good for ALL mito patients even

those w/o heart symptoms).

Take care,

RH

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> i did get your message, do you know if these pausing episodes are

> dangerous? why did you end up getting the pacer? Carmen

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