Hehe....
I told my GP about my holter-results. I told her that the cardiologist said it was pretty much OK, but that I had seen my file. That in a period of about 12 hours I had about 6500 extra heartbeats. She sounded a little shocked, nearly. First it was silent. Then she said: "66...húndred?!?" Erm. Yeah. So, now you know, I'm NOT lying.
Of course, "well just wait for the other tests then". That wasn't my point, but well. At least I got her a bit more 'alert' to the "seriousness" of the occurrence of it. (I do feel childish kind of 'enjoying' her reaction but I feel she hasn't taken me seriously in this regard at ALL so I can't really help but feeling this way
)
I also asked to get my potassium checked, knowing that much of this may be stress. She did order them,but for next week. I asked her if it could be done today. In my head that makes a big difference. I have a weekend to get through and after a few nasty evenings and nights, I just want to get a bit of rest in my head about this.
I followed her advice yesterday: I drank tomatojuice and ate a banana. But man, did I have a bad, bad night. My stomach reacted by producing big amounts of acids and my heart starting to give a lot of extrasystoles again, plus some bad sweating and cold chills. It made the relation even more clear between fruits/stomachacids and extraystoles. For me that's enough. Since I can't take meds for my stomach yet, I have to look for ways to make it a bit easier and that simply excludes fruits.
I don't want to do it like this, really I don't. But for now it seems to be the only possible way to handle it
Supplements I won't get, unless my potassium is too low. I can understand that, even though there are some doubts in my head about it. But I don't want to sound too stubborn or self-medicating so I'll go for getting it checked today and see what comes out of it.
I told my GP about my holter-results. I told her that the cardiologist said it was pretty much OK, but that I had seen my file. That in a period of about 12 hours I had about 6500 extra heartbeats. She sounded a little shocked, nearly. First it was silent. Then she said: "66...húndred?!?" Erm. Yeah. So, now you know, I'm NOT lying.
Of course, "well just wait for the other tests then". That wasn't my point, but well. At least I got her a bit more 'alert' to the "seriousness" of the occurrence of it. (I do feel childish kind of 'enjoying' her reaction but I feel she hasn't taken me seriously in this regard at ALL so I can't really help but feeling this way
)
I also asked to get my potassium checked, knowing that much of this may be stress. She did order them,but for next week. I asked her if it could be done today. In my head that makes a big difference. I have a weekend to get through and after a few nasty evenings and nights, I just want to get a bit of rest in my head about this.
I followed her advice yesterday: I drank tomatojuice and ate a banana. But man, did I have a bad, bad night. My stomach reacted by producing big amounts of acids and my heart starting to give a lot of extrasystoles again, plus some bad sweating and cold chills. It made the relation even more clear between fruits/stomachacids and extraystoles. For me that's enough. Since I can't take meds for my stomach yet, I have to look for ways to make it a bit easier and that simply excludes fruits.
I don't want to do it like this, really I don't. But for now it seems to be the only possible way to handle it
Supplements I won't get, unless my potassium is too low. I can understand that, even though there are some doubts in my head about it. But I don't want to sound too stubborn or self-medicating so I'll go for getting it checked today and see what comes out of it.
-Do not go gentle into that good night.
You've got to rage against the dying of the light- 
)
my point is...there are meds to help control arrhythmias, so
hopefully this is what they will do for you, as well. or could it be that the thyroid has something to do with this?? if only i were a doctor.... 
the other possibility is an underactive thyroid? hopefully once everything
is straighened out, you'll be feeling much better! 
Then I suppose I have to agree with you 
) together with an ultrasound of my heart. If there are no signs of
abnormal structures in my heart itself, then all the extrasystoles are considered harmless. At this point there might be a slight chance that about half of
them weren't. Not that he told me that himself, but I can't help but think: if everything was truely normal, then what's the point of a stress-EKG
and an ultrasound?
