Forums >Health and Nutrition>Heart issues - looking for input from Doctors/Nurses or someone with same issue
Good Bad & The Monkey
My view: if you are worried about a DVT in a patient, you need to treat it like a medical emergency and have a definitive anwer before the sun sets.
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
GreyBeard
Ask your doc for a copy of your ECG printout, scan it into the interweb and post it here for Trent to analyze. I'm curious about this no-name abnormality. Even if the abnormality doesn't have a silly name like Wenckebach block, the abnormality will still have a description in terms of the P, Q, R, S, or T waveforms.
Get your stuff and a second opinion. We shouldn't be diagnosing you. We can give you anecdotal stories and advice but a second opinion is the best course of action when this happens. And read up and challenge the doctor - I love to be a pain in the ass when I visit them.
Of course, sometimes we all just want anecdotal feedback as a means to cope . In that case, do both.
2020
Runs with the pack
Get your stuff and a second opinion. We shouldn't be diagnosing you. We can give you anecdotal stories and advice but a second opinion is the best course of action when this happens. And read up and challenge the doctor - I love to be a pain in the ass when I visit them. Of course, sometimes we all just want anecdotal feedback as a means to cope . In that case, do both.
I appreciate everyone's input, but I don't expect any diagnosis. The comment about DVT was especially useful, as I didn't have a name for it, so I hadn't done any reading on it .
Regarding the doctor not treating it like a medical emergency... That is a bit of a puzzler, except he didn't and still doesn't think it is a DVT. But still...
My view: if a DVT in a patient is even a remote possibility, if the thought of one even enters your mind, you need to treat it like a medical emergency and have a definitive anwer before the sun sets.
Fixed.
To my mind, when a potentially life-threatening diagnosis is a remote possibility, it is incumbent to prove that it is not present.
Went and checked into the emergency room last night. Sure enough it was a DVT and one clot was in my leg and the other had traveled into my lung. They ran a million tests and finally cut me loose after one night in the hospital. They set me up with a regimen of blood thinners (Coumadim and Lovenox) to take care of it.
I think the doctors and nurses were pretty amused that I've been running and trying to put on miles with a DVT in my leg and a clot in lungs. Since I didn't die or anything, it seemed pretty funny to me too.
Edit: Another curiosity, my reverse T-wave EKG, corrected itself to a normal pattern after the first round of blood thinners.
Wow. Good that they caught it.
I see that this thread has percolated for over a month. Yikes. That is, as we say, not good.
Take care.
Coumadin has some side effects. Pay attention to them.
20 days.
Loves the outdoors
Glad you are ok.
A bit freaked out that it apparently took 20 days to discover the cause and that a thread on the internet actually helped. Would you have gone to the emergency room anyway?
One day I decided I wanted to become a runner, so I did.
Yeah. So. To my point about the internet not being a place to get a diagnosis? Yeah. Well. I was wrong. Apparently it can be better than your flesh and blood doctors.
20 friggen days.
Another curiosity, my reverse T-wave EKG, corrected itself to a normal pattern after the first round of blood thinners.
Yeah. That may be because the original abnormal finding on ECG that nobody could name for you was the result of your pulmonary embolus. PEs do that sort of thing.
not bad for mile 25
I had a really bad pinched nerve I suffered through (twice) since the marathon in my upper 3-4 vertebra. Could that effect the brain to heart signals?
You s'pose the "pinched nerve" was actually pain caused by the clot in the lung?
Yeah. So. To my point about the internet not being a place to get a diagnosis? Yeah. Well. I was wrong. Apparently it can be better than your flesh and blood doctors. 20 friggen days.
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