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Suggest Treatment For Tachycardia

I ve been having runs of tachycardia. When I visited my pain doctor, they mentioned that my heart rate was high. I started using my husband s oximmeter and found out my resting heart rate was not going below 90, even when I was sitting in a recliner with my feet propped up. Most of fhe time it between 95 and 98. After walking about 5 to 6 feet down the hall of my house it went to 140. I looked at my health record through the patient portal, and found that since last June of last yeart it had not been below 92 and most were between 95 to 100. My family doctor did an EKG and ordered a Holter monitor. He said the monitor showed runs of tachycardia. He tried to get the cardiologist to see me, but they didn t even respond for 2 weeks. On my return visit, the family doctor did another EKG, and then called the cardiologist to get them to work me in soon, which they refused. He said my resting heart rate was 120. He gave me a copy of the EK, and it says Inferior infarct - age undetermined. Low QRS Voiltage in precordial leads. Does that mean I ve had a heart attack?
Thu, 27 Jul 2017
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Do you have any symptoms?any chest pain, breathlessness or palpitations?
i can"t comment on ECG report without seeing actual ECG.Inferior Infarct means...you might got a heart attack,but don't reply on it....as this reporting is done by ECG machine only which most of the times is incorrect.
All voltage complexes can be due to pericardial effusion also....again this is just one probability not the exact diagnosis.
The best thing will be if you can get your ECHO and stress ECHO done.
If you are not having any symptoms,it could be due to anxiety also.
So with echo and stress ECHO,we can be assure what is the cause.
Meanwhile don't exert yourself and don't be too much anxious as this can cause increase in heary rate also.
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Suggest Treatment For Tachycardia

Do you have any symptoms?any chest pain, breathlessness or palpitations? i can t comment on ECG report without seeing actual ECG.Inferior Infarct means...you might got a heart attack,but don t reply on it....as this reporting is done by ECG machine only which most of the times is incorrect. All voltage complexes can be due to pericardial effusion also....again this is just one probability not the exact diagnosis. The best thing will be if you can get your ECHO and stress ECHO done. If you are not having any symptoms,it could be due to anxiety also. So with echo and stress ECHO,we can be assure what is the cause. Meanwhile don t exert yourself and don t be too much anxious as this can cause increase in heary rate also.