Anyone experience occasional palpitations or premature ventricular contractions?

[3mm]

Anyone have a good cardiologist or PCP within a couple hours of Cleveland? I’ve already burned through a dozen or so bad ones.

The University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa is 8 hours west of Cleveland on I-80. Dr Gebska is an excellent cardiologist. Dr Farjo is an excellent electrophysiologist. I'm sure the other cardiologists and electrophysiologists at the U of Iowa are also excellent. Gebska and Farjo have given me wonderful care. 8 hours means an overnight trip, but your life is worth it! Please contact me if you have questions about the U of Iowa.

I strongly encourage you to find a cardiologist and an electrophysiologist to work with.

 

[Amy]

@3mm

Thank you for the recommendation.

Yes. Not having a good, capable, trustworthy PCP, let alone cardiologist, is extremely stressful when I have scary mystery symptoms.

I would much rather have one.

But continuing the search for one becomes its own stress.

When you have been ignored, mocked, laughed at, lied to, never been given advice, insights or understanding; left hanging when it’s 4 months postop and your incision has STILL not healed; literally walked out on in the middle of an appointment; threatened with legal action if you contact them again (this my surgeon’s office, by the way, for trying to find out if the low dose aspirin he prescribed with the warfarin was really necessary after all, as I thought I was reacting to it); when you see nothing but blank stares (when they bother looking at you at all) incompetent looks and blatant unconcern.... well, the idea starts to come to you that maybe you’d be better off without them... even if it means maybe dying... just as long as you don’t have to meet any more of them. Or their nurses. Or their secretaries and appointment-makers.

 

[CAG12345]

I had palpitations and my cardiologist gave me a holter monitor to wear for 48 hours. It helped to determine it was a very small amount of PACs and PVCs (less than 1%) that wasn't dangerous. Also I had been taking omega 3 supplements at high dose and stopped, as well as more vitamin d3 than was needed, stopped both and palpitations stopped. Now I get my omega 3 from fish and taking low dose of vit d3.