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Hydroxychloroquine - Increased Pulse Rate
- By Elderly_Gentleman · Posted November 5, 2009
- In Tales of the heart memorials and tributes · 0 replies
- I have had palpatation issues for the last 20 years. Normaly about once a month my pulse rate doubles to about 150 and the experience lasts for approximatly 1 minute then the rate goes goes back to normal ...
Hello
wish i had denial back
- By Jamesrochelle · Posted November 5, 2009
- In Building awareness · 1 reply
- Until this week I had been going along in what I refer now to as denial. My SCA happened in July and within a week I had an ICD. It all happened so fast and without warning. I had a dream last night and ...
CPVT
- By jdm111 · Posted November 3, 2009
- In Building awareness · 3 replies
- Hi Everyone....found this board through Google...been a tough 30 days or so...the short story is I found my 6 year old on the garage floor after he went to get his school bag after dinner....went through ...
the diagnosis is in
- By BrookesMom · Posted October 27, 2009
- In Help desk · 0 replies
- Well, Brooke went to see the pediatric cardiologist today and she felt that she does not have LQT. Her opinion was that Brooke's sodium is slightly low, still in the normal range but on the low side and ...
LQT question for everyone
- By bortner · Posted October 18, 2009
- In Building awareness · 1 reply
- i am 24 years old and have known i had LQTS for quite some time. i was diagnosed by ekg in 1987 when i was 2. i was put on betas and have been taking them ever since. but, a week after i had my son (last ...
What is a normal QTc in a child?
- By BrookesMom · Posted October 16, 2009
- In Help desk · 5 replies
- I've looked and looked, scoured the internet but I really am not finding much on what is considered a normal QTc in an 11-year-old girl. Do the values differ for children versus adults? My 11-year-old ...
Long QTc - possible new diagnosis
- By BrookesMom · Posted October 15, 2009
- In Help desk · 9 replies
- My 11-year-old daughter was being worked up for dizzy and lightheaded spells during and after sports, when she got overheated and even sometimes just when out shopping. She had one episode during class ...
living
- By msplace · Posted October 14, 2009
- In Tales of the heart memorials and tributes · 1 reply
- Hello to all, At 19 my first son died, At 22 I lost 8 pts of blood with my second son , At 26 I broke my neck in a car reck , at 28 I had a blood clot in my right leg for 18 months and turned upside down ...
Ventricular Tachycardia
- By lyssies13_mom · Posted October 11, 2009
- In Help desk · 7 replies
- I have a 13yr old daughter who has been diagnosed with nonsustained Ventricular Tachycardia...I am looking for anyone who can give me any helpful information about this...she has had many tests (stress ...
Beta Blockers
- By tones005 · Posted October 7, 2009
- In Building awareness · 10 replies
- Hi All, Last tuesday I was diagnosed with LQTS. I'm not sure which number I have at this stage but was curious. As the specialist gave me a prescription for Beta Blockers Metoprolol (I think its called ...
LQT Numbers- What do they mean?
- By CuriousDee · Posted September 28, 2009
- In Building awareness · 4 replies
- I keep hearing about LQT numbers and that they influence diagonsis or treatment. My own numbers range from a low of 396 to 488, with a third test showing 483. Now people are throwing out things like Genetic ...
long qt's and antidepressants
- By weillfan · Posted September 27, 2009
- In Clinical and scientific research · 2 replies
- Lots of stuff out there about long QT's and various antidepressants. I am currently trying to figure out meds to alleviate this interaction. Others have ideas ...
Support Group
- By redhead4u777 · Posted September 22, 2009
- In Building awareness · 2 replies
- There will be a support group for women with heart disease starting in Lower Westchester County, Ny at the end of October. It is sponsored by the National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease. Please ...
Pocket revision surgery infection
TINGLY, WEAK ARMS, BELOW THE ELBOWS...
- By scrubzT · Posted September 13, 2009
- In Tales of the heart memorials and tributes · 0 replies
- Does anyone know what that means? maybe once a week I get this helpless feeling in the arms, from the elbows down, I cant make a fist, or raise my arms up, I would have to shake them to make the tingly ...
VT
Brugada Syndrome
- By traciefinn · Posted August 31, 2009
- In Help desk · 2 replies
- My son was diagnosed with Brugada 4 yrs ago when he was 17 years old. He has had an ICD since. Does any one know of any limitations as to careers that he can pursue due to his ICD? We have a family business ...
atrial tachycardia
- By cazza1961 · Posted August 29, 2009
- In Building awareness · 2 replies
- Hi i have started discussions before about my tachycardia but I have never been able to get to the doctors when it happens. I live in the country and by the time I get to the hospital or the doctors it ...
Innaproprate sinus Tachardia
- By Tuffy · Posted August 20, 2009
- In Clinical and scientific research · 3 replies
- I found on the NIH website that for anyone with IST they are doing research.(only until 2010) I have called. The doctor did call me back and we have set up an appointment for this saturday to talk about ...
