My 49 year old smoking, drinking, coffee addict husband went to a new neurologist for cluster headaches. The doctor noticed his heart had an irregular beat. Said it was probably nothing and sent him to md for a ekg. The md did ekg and said it was probably nothing but sent him to cardiologist. The card gave him a stress test which he passed without even a sweat but noticed his heart did dip down on the monitor. (like some beats up one beat down, etc) So he started talking about doing a heart cath and possibly putting in stints. My husband feels fine, his headaches are gone. When they called to make the app. for the heart cath. I asked if it could be done on another day. The nurse said (altho this doc has about 12 associates) that "he" wanted to do the heart cath because he was familiar with the stress test. Alarms went off, this could be unnecessary surgery. My girlfriend has pvc and it sounds like the same thing. Too much caffeine, alcohol, lack of sleep. What to do??
2006-12-19
02:31:29
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Heart Diseases