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Suggest Treatment For Irregular Heartbeats
Question: I have irregular heart beat, palpitations I can feel in my chest, no pain, normal blood pressure, but heart rate of about 50. This ha been going off and on for a few months
Brief Answer:
I would recommended performing some tests:
Detailed Answer:
Hello!
Welcome and thank you for asking on HCM!
I passed carefully through your question and would explain that your symptoms could be related to a cardiac arrhythmia.
Other possible causes that may trigger this symptoms wold be : chronic anemia, thyroid gland dysfunction, blood electrolytes imbalance or anxiety.
For this reason, I would recommended consulting with your attending physician for a careful physical exam and some test:
- a resting ECG and cardiac ultrasound to examine your heart function and structure
- an ambulatory 24-48 hours ECG monitoing to examine your heart rhythm trends for a prolonged time and exclude cardiac arrhythmia
- complete blood count for chronic anemia
- blood electrolytes for possible imbalance
- thyroid hormone levels for possible dysfunction.
You should discuss with your doctor on the above issues!
Feel free to ask me again whenever you have any other questions!
Kind regards,
Dr. Iliri
I would recommended performing some tests:
Detailed Answer:
Hello!
Welcome and thank you for asking on HCM!
I passed carefully through your question and would explain that your symptoms could be related to a cardiac arrhythmia.
Other possible causes that may trigger this symptoms wold be : chronic anemia, thyroid gland dysfunction, blood electrolytes imbalance or anxiety.
For this reason, I would recommended consulting with your attending physician for a careful physical exam and some test:
- a resting ECG and cardiac ultrasound to examine your heart function and structure
- an ambulatory 24-48 hours ECG monitoing to examine your heart rhythm trends for a prolonged time and exclude cardiac arrhythmia
- complete blood count for chronic anemia
- blood electrolytes for possible imbalance
- thyroid hormone levels for possible dysfunction.
You should discuss with your doctor on the above issues!
Feel free to ask me again whenever you have any other questions!
Kind regards,
Dr. Iliri
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