Question: I wore an event recorder for a month, and the painful lurching feeling I get in my chest correlated with sinus arrhythmia, sinus bradycardia, sinus tachycardia, premature atrial contractions, premature ventricular contractions, and ventricular couplets. My cardiologist told me these were normal arrythmias, and an anesthesiologist friend who views a lot of patient hearts beating real-time stated it can be good to have arrhythmias such as I have because it indicates favorable heart rate variability. If there are any cardiologists out there reading this, here is my question: Since these arrythmias only occur when I am exposed to high levels of toxic mold or electromagnetic fields, are painful and distressing and make it hard to function, and can occur as many as 15-20 times per hour, are there instances such as mine where these types of arrythmias are problematic?
Medical history: Lyme Disease, mycotoxicosis (toxic mold poisoning). Echocardiograms do not indicate carditis from Lyme Disease. CRP and sed rate labs very favorable. Mold mycotoxins can cause demyelination and arrhythmia.
I am not able to take beta blockers to stabilize heart rhythm because my blood pressure is naturally low.

Thank you Dr. XXXXXXX

Would you surmise the arrythmias I experience only require treatment because of subjective distress they cause, or is it possible for them to produce other potentially dangerous arrythmias or cardiological problems?

I am fairly certain I cannot undergo RFA treatment, since RF radiation is one of
the things which causes these arrhythmias for me. If I cannot undergo RFA treatment, would there be benefit to getting an EP study done?

Again thank you so much.

Thank you very kindly Dr. XXXXXXX I am impressed with your cardiology knowledge as a general and family physician. I will give you a good commendation on here.

When you are saying an EP study or 24 Holter ECG could accurately assess possible future outcomes of these arrythmias, would the ECGs that were captured every time I recorded an arrhythmia event during my month wearing an event recorder be able to be used to assess possible future outcomes? They did capture ECG readings during each arrhythmia I had.

I understand RFA is used curatively in treating arrythmias, but I have a concern such treatment could worsen my condition or cause new arrythmias, since RF exposure causes them in the first place in my case. If I get burned every time I stick my hand in a fire, it's hard for me to see the logic in putting my hand in the fire again to treat the burn, if that makes sense.

Thank you Dr. XXXXXXX I just got an email from you checking up on me. I appreciate all your insights here. I have a call in to my cardiologist to discuss some of these things. In EP studies do they essentially put a catheter in you running to your heart, put radioactive XXXXXXX in it, and administer different types of beta blockers and other drugs to assess your response to them?

Thank you Dr. Prasanna! I will close out this conversation thread and give you a good rating and commendation. If I wanted to contact you specifically again on this website, how do I go about doing that? You have been very helpful.