Quick history:
1. Around mid October 2017 started to get anxiety, panic attacks, and heart palpitations. Never had any of these in my entire life. The previous year and a half I had been living very unhealthy, no exercise at all, bad diet, lots of alcohol, and some "stimulant" use.
1a. I started exercising daily, and cut out all alcohol, caffeine, all kinds of stimulants, everything.
2. Mid december it was recommended by the cardiac electrophysiologist that I wear a 30-day heart event monitor.
3. Results showed that I was having PVCs "more than normal"
4. Got an echocardiogram. It shows everything normal except my right ventricle is "dilated". Wall thickness is normal and the volume of blood pumped is normal so they don't think it's "weakened".
5. Now I'm wearing a 24 hour holter monitor (just got it an hour ago). Pending the results of that, the cardiac electrophysiologist thinks an MRI might be warranted.
My symptoms of palpitations (at least my awareness of them) has gone down to nearly zero over the last few weeks. The doctor said I still have some, because they noticed at least one PVC just in the time they had the stethoscope on my while doing the routine checks like take a deep breath etc.
A couple questions:
1. Is right ventricle dilation common of endurance athletes? I grew up competitively swimming and basically all of my life been doing heavy endurance training.
2. Should I be looking into a sleep specialist? They said they'd give me a referral if I want. The dr. is the person who brought up the possibility of sleep apnea, and I do know that I never sleep well, never feel refreshed in the morning etc.
Anyways...does the conclusions thus far seem to be generally in line with things? Should I be getting a second opinion on the right ventricle dilation or anything like that?
Thanks!
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1. Around mid October 2017 started to get anxiety, panic attacks, and heart palpitations. Never had any of these in my entire life. The previous year and a half I had been living very unhealthy, no exercise at all, bad diet, lots of alcohol, and some "stimulant" use.
1a. I started exercising daily, and cut out all alcohol, caffeine, all kinds of stimulants, everything.
2. Mid december it was recommended by the cardiac electrophysiologist that I wear a 30-day heart event monitor.
3. Results showed that I was having PVCs "more than normal"
4. Got an echocardiogram. It shows everything normal except my right ventricle is "dilated". Wall thickness is normal and the volume of blood pumped is normal so they don't think it's "weakened".
5. Now I'm wearing a 24 hour holter monitor (just got it an hour ago). Pending the results of that, the cardiac electrophysiologist thinks an MRI might be warranted.
My symptoms of palpitations (at least my awareness of them) has gone down to nearly zero over the last few weeks. The doctor said I still have some, because they noticed at least one PVC just in the time they had the stethoscope on my while doing the routine checks like take a deep breath etc.
A couple questions:
1. Is right ventricle dilation common of endurance athletes? I grew up competitively swimming and basically all of my life been doing heavy endurance training.
2. Should I be looking into a sleep specialist? They said they'd give me a referral if I want. The dr. is the person who brought up the possibility of sleep apnea, and I do know that I never sleep well, never feel refreshed in the morning etc.
Anyways...does the conclusions thus far seem to be generally in line with things? Should I be getting a second opinion on the right ventricle dilation or anything like that?
Thanks!
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