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Suggest Treatment For Tachycardia In An Elderly Person
i am experiancing acute irregular heatbeats ,around every 10th beat .have had the monitor ,nothing happened at all while this was on .Had an electrocardiogram same thing .This has been going on for 3 weeks now and is really scary ,i am a female age 69
occasional premature beat VPC as they are called are considered to be normal if they are in certain number in 24 hr, if there are no other co existing heart disease in fact up to 1000 in a period of 24 hr ,
once you have felt one you may be apprehensive and keep feeling the other ones too which in normal course you may have not.
please consult a cardiologist and if need be go through a 24 hr holter monitoring if not already done and get it checked, you may also discuss the possibility of you being prescribed a beta blocker and an anxiolytic to get over the problem
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Suggest Treatment For Tachycardia In An Elderly Person
dear madam occasional premature beat VPC as they are called are considered to be normal if they are in certain number in 24 hr, if there are no other co existing heart disease in fact up to 1000 in a period of 24 hr , once you have felt one you may be apprehensive and keep feeling the other ones too which in normal course you may have not. please consult a cardiologist and if need be go through a 24 hr holter monitoring if not already done and get it checked, you may also discuss the possibility of you being prescribed a beta blocker and an anxiolytic to get over the problem