Medical Care???

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Posted by Glenn Camp on April 27, 2004 at 16:57:38:

This falls into the category of 'chit chat'. But is it just me that experiences what I'm going to discuss or do any of you also experience the same?

In an earlier post about elevated heartrate I have had since last Thursday I stated it has been 125 bpm for hours at a time and occasionally slows to around 85 - 95 bpm. (Some of you may not consider this to be 'unusually' high, but it is for me). I tried all day yesterday to contact my EP. Of course I got a royal 'runaround' with two nurses and a scheduler returning my telephone calls. First nurse told me she would have the EP Dr. call me. Second nurse called and told me that my cardiologist said... "tell him he needs to see an EP". (I hadn't even called my cardiologist who happens to be in the same group as my EP). By the way, the scheduler said the EP couldn't see me until the last week in May.
I told the scheduler to have the Dr. call me this morning. Another one of his nurses called me and told me the EP would see me next week, that my heartrate wasn't unusually high. WHAT???... not unusually high?

Will someone explain to me how high the heartrate is to be classified as high? I'm serious. When my heartrate is beating high enough to make me lightheaded and beating so hard that I cannot relax enough to sleep, and someone says it is not 'unusually' high.

She also told me the EP had looked at my med regimen and told me to keep following it until he sees me.

I'm missing something here and I believe it is having a good EP.

This is not the EP that did my ablation, he is 200 miles to the south of me.

Glenn

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