I just spent the day in hospital with a heart flutter. I am on beta blockers, as it happened about March last year too. Not sure if it is my age or a follow on from the 2016 chemo but it is annoying to have what is basically 2 heart rhythms working against each other. The doc said a second rhythm can start and it says, 'I can get there faster' and takes over. The old rhythm says, 'no way', and they fight. I took extra beta blockers and it slowed both beats down until one gave up and went back to sleep. Hospital just had to keep an eye on me and monitor and it eventually settled down and came good and they released me. I have an appointment with my GP tomorrow who I imagine will either increase the dose rate or try me on another type. https://www.healthline.com/health/living-with-atrial-fibrillation/paroxysmal#progression

It is fairly common the doctor said as there were 3 others in on the same day with the same thing. I hadn't been doing anything, just got up, had a cuppa and was reading emails when the palpitations started.On a good note, the beta blockers have improved my eyes and now I am off the Tamoxifen the eye clots shouldn't happen again.

New Dr, same clinic which is good because he can access all my past records. First appointment last Saturday he put me on antiobiotics, changed the heart meds from Atenolol to Metoprolol and did a referral to a psychiatrist. Second appointment yesterday he did a medical certificate for the centerlink newstart claim I have in so I can get a pension concession card so I can afford to the the Dr in the first place without paying $70 weekdays or $120 weekends. The psychiatrist will cost $500 and the appointment is next week. I have also been referred back to the cardiologist building as my old one left and I need a new one too. He won't be free either.None of this Drs ducking out and abandoning me helps toward me trying to get a disability pension claim done for the 3rd time. I haven't been able to work since 2015 when this breast cancer saga started. Just makes me so angry and frustrated which doesn't help me either.Good news is the Metroprolol seems to be working and my anxiety isn't quite as bad now. I looked up a side effect of Atenolol and it can be anxiety. Why the previous GP didn't twig about it way back when I asked to see a psychologist because I had agoraphobia come on suddenly I don't know.

He's a twitsack. Get rid of him.

Apparently I wasn't taking the right dose of one of the heart meds lol. It came in a little bottle and the label was a wrap around with a kink halfway thru the dose rate. The new ones came in a box with a good big flat label I can read so instead of half a tab morning and night, its actually half in the morning and full tab at night. It seems to be working better now with no middle of the night atrial fibrillation.I survived breast cancer, I am surviving heart troubles, I survived covid. Now if I can just survive this house move on 23rd March things should go much easier.

Like the others I want to slap this man upside of his head. Is it possible to find another gp cause he isn’t do8ng his job

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Zoffiel
Member
7 years ago
No one needs that @Brenda5. Wishing you a big All's Well. Time is better spent with the hound than connected to sticky dots Mxx
arpie
Member
7 years ago
Oh dear @Brenda5 - you weren't chasing the hound, were you??

I hope it settles down and behaves now you are home again - and that you behave too!! ;)

Take care of yourself & do what ya gotta do to keep on top of it! xx
Afraser
Member
7 years ago
Good luck with your appointment @Brenda5. I am on beta blockers too, a post chemo compounded by age arrhythmia, but I just get a bit racy at times! Or at least used too, been ages since I had any incidence or at least too little to notice. I was on medication, as well as the beta blockers, which stopped working, so my cardiologist suggested beta blockers alone rather than upping the dose (with possible side effects). The irregularity is minor, not constant and gives me no side effects. So far (nearly three years), so good. Hope you get a workable and easy solution to your opinionated heart too.
Giovanna_BCNA
Member
7 years ago
Hello @Brenda5 so good to hear that you are back home and that it has settled, take care of you
tigerbeth
Member
7 years ago
@Brenda5 that's no good , hope you're feeling better soon . Quite scary i'd imagine
Hugs x
kmakm
Member
7 years ago
That's no good Brenda. I hope it settles down and never happens again. Take care, K xox
Brenda5
Member
7 years ago
It is fairly common the doctor said as there were 3 others in on the same day with the same thing. I hadn't been doing anything, just got up, had a cuppa and was reading emails when the palpitations started.
On a good note, the beta blockers have improved my eyes and now I am off the Tamoxifen the eye clots shouldn't happen again.
kmakm
Member
7 years ago
Take the wins!
Sister
Member
7 years ago
Pretty scary, I should imagine. Hope it's all settled.
Brenda5
Member
7 years ago
Saw the gp today and he made me cry. He kept asking me what the hospital said. Asked why it happened. Branded it chronic even though it only happened yesterday and once in March last year. Said my 100mg of aspirin daily would do nothing to stop it. Said there are better drugs to regulate the heart than Metoprolol beta blockers. Hubby asked why the hospital did another chest xray and the doctor said to show I still had a heart and two lungs. He said the atrial flutter is never fatal although I might have a stroke because of it. How is that better? To be a drooling vegetable or dead?
I asked about my painful finger cancer referral. He said he had confirmation they got it. I asked how long till they contact me, another week, a fortnight, a few months. He said well it wont be years. He assured me this visit that they won't cut my finger off so thats something. He offered no painkillers at all.
So no increase in heart meds at all. A heart ultrasound in a week and he left it at that.