Long story short, on Wednesday I got extremely lightheaded and while my bp was ok, my pulse rate fell to 37 bpm. It didn''t rise for the rest of theday. Saw the doctor,who ran an EKG (found 2 benign, non contributing problems), also did some blood work. This also happened to me about 10 days ago except it omly lasted a few minutes, but I vowed if it happened again I would call the doctor. Both times it happened I was outside when it was extremely cold.
So now I will be wearing a heart monitor for 2 weeks and if it happens again I will record the incident. I won''t start wearing it until Tuesday once the cardio educator calls me then to go over what I will need to do (1 hour phone sesson).
On one hand I hope it happens again so I get get to the bottom on what is going on. On the other hand I was so frightened by the incident (I thought I was having a heart attack and my neighbor was a cardio nurse came right over to check me out) that I don''t ever want to experience anything like that again. I was so afraid to sleep alone in bed that DH came home immediately from his business trip and he took me to the doctor the next day. Thank goodness DD was home by 2:30to take care of me.
Has anyone ever experience something similar or knows someone who has?
So now I will be wearing a heart monitor for 2 weeks and if it happens again I will record the incident. I won''t start wearing it until Tuesday once the cardio educator calls me then to go over what I will need to do (1 hour phone sesson).
On one hand I hope it happens again so I get get to the bottom on what is going on. On the other hand I was so frightened by the incident (I thought I was having a heart attack and my neighbor was a cardio nurse came right over to check me out) that I don''t ever want to experience anything like that again. I was so afraid to sleep alone in bed that DH came home immediately from his business trip and he took me to the doctor the next day. Thank goodness DD was home by 2:30to take care of me.
Has anyone ever experience something similar or knows someone who has?