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Dr. Andrew Rynne
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What Are The Symptoms Of A Heart Disease?

Hello. I am 43 yr. old and had a total abd. hysterectomy 9 weeks ago. I have been on 5 antibiotics since that time... cipro and then cephalexin for UTI that cipro did not take care of. I also had a severe yeast infection - dr. put me on diflucan for 10 days did not cure so he put me on Ketacanazole for 10 days along with monistat 7 day treatment. After 4th day of monistat abdomen hurt so bad had to go to emergency room. Said I had a vaginal bact. infection. put me on flagyll. I had been having diarrhea off and on ever since I had hysterectomy. Flagyll oddly enough gave my stools shape. I had to go back to ER 4 days after finishing flagyll. Blood test showed I had some low levels including low neutrophill% and low potassium level, WBC normal. Put me back on Flagyll three times a day for 14 days... they think that I have C. Diff. infection. Went to DR. for follow up two days later and my resting heart rate was 102 (normally in 60s) blood pressure up to 135/100 (normally around 111/67). Dr. sent me to have an ecg. ecg results came back with normal sinus rhyth. Nonspecific st abnormality / abnormal ecg. Vent. rate 87 BPM , PR int. 152 ms , QRS dur. 76 ms. , QT/QTR 356/427 ms, and P-R-T 49-23-2. When I went to exercise today abd. hurt and only did mild exercises for 18 min. I usually go about 1 hour. Checked blood pressure and it was 135/109. Is all of this related. Should I see cardiologist?
Wed, 17 May 2017
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Hello
Welcome to HCM.
I have gone through your description. Your heart rate and BP are on the higher normal range because of he infection . Any infection in the body is a stress to the body and puts a load on the heart also. So I don't see any reason to worry about it as of now. Once the infection gets treated automatically the exercise tolerance will improve and heart rate and BP control will improve.
Since you had a total abdominal hysterectomy, I suppose you would have undergone a cardiac evaluation PRE op and you were cleared for the surgery from cardiac side.
So as of now please continue with your antibiotics and other supportive medications.
Wishing you good health.
Regards
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What Are The Symptoms Of A Heart Disease?

Hello Welcome to HCM. I have gone through your description. Your heart rate and BP are on the higher normal range because of he infection . Any infection in the body is a stress to the body and puts a load on the heart also. So I don t see any reason to worry about it as of now. Once the infection gets treated automatically the exercise tolerance will improve and heart rate and BP control will improve. Since you had a total abdominal hysterectomy, I suppose you would have undergone a cardiac evaluation PRE op and you were cleared for the surgery from cardiac side. So as of now please continue with your antibiotics and other supportive medications. Wishing you good health. Regards