My mom is a breast cancer survivor of several years. She hasn't been in the best of shape since then and her heart especially. Recently, she did some tests and spent a day with a portable device that measured her heart beats. When she came home from the doctor's office, I was looking at the charts and her heart rate isn't normal. The regular heart beat had distanced pauses in between each beat, but her heart beat chart went up and down without a set interval. Her doctor is looking into the problem, but I was wondering if other professional cardioalogists could give me their opinion on what might be the cause of my mom's abnormal heart rate. She says it gets worse during allergy season. Also, before she has had breif moments where she felt really tired or had a moment where she has had to sit down really quickly from unstability. Is this problem with her heart cancer realted? Could it be genetics? or something else?
2007-02-23 07:59:21 · 5 answers · asked by gotriceazn101 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
I don't know how many cardiologists read Qs & As (!), so I am going to attempt to help you, my credential being that I am a cardiac monitor technician. First, apparently your mother wore a Holter monitor which keeps a 24 hour record of her heart rhythm. From your description of the problem discovered, I think that she might possibly be having Premature Atrial Contractions. In that case there is a normal beat followed quickly by a beat which has the identical appearance but happens too soon. A PAC will then cause a prolonged pause before the succeeding normal beat. I have had them myself. When the pauses are excessively long, in the area of two seconds, the situation is similar to the heart stopping briefly. When I had them, I often felt as if I could not catch my breath (since oxygenated blood was not reaching my lungs in a regular sequence). The condition was very frightening even though I knew what was happening; occasionally I felt as if I were going to die! Fortunately for me, the problem was resolved by adjusting my medications, and I am no longer experiencing such devastating PACs. If that is your mother's condition, her cardiologist will surely be able to treat it. It may be that the reason for the worsening of her symptoms during allergy season is that medicine she may be taking to combat her allergies could be exacerbating her heart irregularities. Further information regarding PACs: they can occur irregularly at odd intervals or they can be regular, happening after every normal beat or every other normal beat (in which instances they are called bigemini or trigemini PACs). Also, there is another type of common irregular heart beat which is known as a Premature Ventricular Contraction (PVC), but on an electrocardiogram it appears as a bizarre configuration whereas the PAC resembles the normal beat. I hope that this information is helpful to you. To relieve your worries, if your mother's cardiologist had discovered a condition which was potentially lethal or required immediate treatment, he/she would have admitted her to the hospital at once...
2007-02-23 08:31:15 · answer #1 · answered by Lynci 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That device to record her heartbeat will be interpreted by the doctor, and soon you will know the cause. Her heart is apparently in trouble- could be problem in pacemaker or other heart illness. Your mother has been ill but we cannot just presume of what might be her real condition. She started with tests so she will have follow up work ups and only by then her conditions will be known. Just bear with her doctors.
2007-02-23 11:37:44 · answer #2 · answered by ♥ lani s 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your mom likely needs to carry a 24 hour holter monitor to discern the cause for her heart rhythm variance and her instability. Noone could really discern the cause from this description alone. Good luck.
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2016-11-25 19:34:44 · answer #4 · answered by giniebra 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some types of chemo can cause cardiac damage. Did your mom have chemo?
2007-02-25 04:31:50 · answer #5 · answered by sheila 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋