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Heart aflutter again.
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 t...
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.
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.