rich01
Well-known member
I'll start one for the rest of this week.
I had an interesting dr appointment. For the 1st time, someone actually listened to what I told them and agreed I was right not to take the med they had prescribed. I have a weird BP problem where it is normal for weeks at a time and then suddenly shoots up very high dragging my heart rate with it. It lasts from a few hours to a day and then returns to normal. I know from experience that no drug has ever brought it back down, although nitro glycerine may have 1 time. It's hard to tell because it comes down as fast as it goes up.
I took my records from the last month with me that showed BP being normal day after day and then shooting up. I had gone in for ekg last time it happened and within 2 hours of leaving the dr's office, BP was back to normal. Anyway, the nurse looked it over and said my BP was excellent, except for those spikes. She called doc at hospital and he agreed I didn't need to take the beta blocker.
I also had an important revelation. Sometimes when my heart rate increases, I can feel the valve opening and closing. I kept thinking there was something wrong with the valve. Then it dawned on me, it was just different. The fact that the new valve doesn't feel exactly like my natural valve is something I wished the doctor had told me. I had these BP spikes and HR spikes before I had the new valve, so it is not related to the new valve, just I notice it more now.
So I think I have adjusted to life with the new valve and don't think every little chest pain is a heart attack! Sometimes it's just from raking leaves for 3 hours!
I had an interesting dr appointment. For the 1st time, someone actually listened to what I told them and agreed I was right not to take the med they had prescribed. I have a weird BP problem where it is normal for weeks at a time and then suddenly shoots up very high dragging my heart rate with it. It lasts from a few hours to a day and then returns to normal. I know from experience that no drug has ever brought it back down, although nitro glycerine may have 1 time. It's hard to tell because it comes down as fast as it goes up.
I took my records from the last month with me that showed BP being normal day after day and then shooting up. I had gone in for ekg last time it happened and within 2 hours of leaving the dr's office, BP was back to normal. Anyway, the nurse looked it over and said my BP was excellent, except for those spikes. She called doc at hospital and he agreed I didn't need to take the beta blocker.
I also had an important revelation. Sometimes when my heart rate increases, I can feel the valve opening and closing. I kept thinking there was something wrong with the valve. Then it dawned on me, it was just different. The fact that the new valve doesn't feel exactly like my natural valve is something I wished the doctor had told me. I had these BP spikes and HR spikes before I had the new valve, so it is not related to the new valve, just I notice it more now.
So I think I have adjusted to life with the new valve and don't think every little chest pain is a heart attack! Sometimes it's just from raking leaves for 3 hours!
