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    Been wearing a heart monitor since last Friday. The idea is every time you feel a palpitation, you push this button on your monitor and it sends a transmission to where the doc can see it. So I'm pushing the button when my heart freaks out and then the doctor calls me on Monday and says I need to see you asap. Your heart has been racing up to 190 bpm! This freaks me the fuck out, since I was in California on a work trip. I went to go see him today finally and he prescribed a beta blocker/blood pressure med. I've been feeling totally fine since Sunday and haven't pressed the monitor once. Doc says if this pill is ineffective, they'll have to do an ablation where they go in through the groin (!) and shock the heart.

    Hardest part is no caffeine. That's just inhumane,

    • are they panic attacks?
      How long do you have to be on the blockers? did you journal when your heart began racing, what were u doing in those moments?
      bklyndroobeki
    • where you doing anything when it hit 190?

      sorry to hear. hope the beta blockers do the trick. Hang in there
      Gnash
    • Metoprolol ftw!PonyBoy
    • Yeah pony, exactly what I'm on - 25mg.
      Thanks all. Feeling good and staying positive!
      stoplying

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