Today I have been mostly...cardioverted!

tallaght01

So, I developed some palpitations last night, and thought I was having runs of ectopics. Didn't stress a huge amount about it, as was feeling OK.

I went to bed hoping to remove some of that vagal stimulation, but I woke up a few times and the palpitations were still there.

Same thing this morning, so i want to A+E.

I was in AF!!!

Got a fluid challenge, and a magnesium infusion. That didn't do the business, so I was DC cardioverted.

120 bad boy joules hammered into me. I would like to say I just bit a pillow and went for it, but I took the sedation.

I'm home now. Feel a bit groggy, but I'm fine.

Hoping I don't flip out of sinus anytime soon!

I will say it's totally weirs being on the receiving end in the resus room!

MrCreosote

Hope you're feeling better! Good to hear you got sorted quickly anyway.

And I would definitely take the sedation myself!

ceegee

sorry to hear that man, must have been some shock.






(sorry but i couldn't resist the pun)

Jumpy

I bent my wookie.

PhysiologyRocks

Scary! Certainly doesn't sound like fun.

Hope you're okay.

Carsinian Thau

Hope you're ok and that you'll feel all better soon.

Do things like this "just happen" or is there a specific cause? (I'm not asking for details of your medical history, I'm just curious about the condition).

locum-motion

Carsinian Thau wrote: »

Hope you're ok and that you'll feel all better soon.

Do things like this "just happen" or is there a specific cause? (I'm not asking for details of your medical history, I'm just curious about the condition).

Get well soon, tallaght

DrIndy

I was getting a blow by blow update via text of this over the course of today - thought he was taking the piss at first!

Ectopics are one off extra thumps - you're not supposed to get runs!

Hope alls well and you didn't have too many singed chest hairs!

Kernel

Get well soon doc.

How many nights were you on a trolley in the A&E with the homeless drug addicts?

[sorry, couldn't resist!]

Gazza22

Ouch, i would have taken the sed too.

Hope you and the ticker get back to normal soon!

Amnesiac_ie

It might have been a bit of holiday heart! I'm convinced I've had short runs of AF after Red Bull and Jaegermeister.

And as someone who has also been on the other side of Resus this year, I agree, it's not a nice feeling!

Rest up over the weekend mate!

Larianne

Ah, it was just Tallaght getting overly excited at the thoughts of heading to Club Nassau, in how many months/days/minutes is it now?

Nah, seriously hope you're alright my dear.

mardybumbum

Go easy man.
The other two mods haven't got the hang of things yet.

DrIndy

Oi!

lol

nesf

Get better soon mate.

ChowChow

I feel for you, I have suffered from ectopics for the last 6 years and almost always a problem exclusive to the Winter months for some odd reason. I did the Holter monitor thing which was completely useless as the symptoms had disappeared by the time I got it on. Even worse I felt like a complete time waster going to the doc and him hearing nothing but a normal heart rhythm. I finally got some justice last Jan when I had a bout that lasted for 2 days solid. My Doc calmly diagnosed it as an ectopic beat - completely harmless. His advice was to do the usual things such as avoid caffeine, alcohol and even some herbal teas where the manufacturer might have sneaked in some caffeine I sought some advice from an 'alternative' practitioner too - she recommended Solgar Magnesium and Homocysteine Modulators which had me right as rain in no time. I find I can stay very calm now when it happens and this seems to help - I wish you a speedy recovery they will pass.

tallaght01

Thanks for the kind words

I'm bloody exhausted after the whole thing. I just keep sleeping! But I think overwork played a part in it all, so that's probably a good thing.

My boss from paediatrics came to visit me in hospital yesterday, along with some of the registrars and nurses.

My public health boss rang me yesterday to offer to A) do my shopping bring me out for dinner and C) stay the weekend at his place. He rang me again today to see if I needed anything.

A lot of consultants get bad press, but I wish people could see the reality sometimes.

Still gutted over the huge chunk of hair they had to shave from the centre of my chest, though :P But medicare don't seem to fund "rug transplants" over here, which I think is criminal :P

Chunky Monkey

Oh lord hope you're okay Tallaght and get a good rest!

Carsinian Thau

tallaght01 wrote: »

My boss from paediatrics came to visit me in hospital yesterday, along with some of the registrars and nurses.

My public health boss rang me yesterday to offer to A) do my shopping bring me out for dinner and C) stay the weekend at his place. He rang me again today to see if I needed anything.

You work with some really nice people.

tallaght01 wrote: »

I'm bloody exhausted after the whole thing. I just keep sleeping! But I think overwork played a part in it all, so that's probably a good thing.

Keep resting. You deserve it. Hope you feel better soon.

Dr Galen

a real man would have stood up, made a fist and self pre-cordial thumped. then gone about his business of saving the world from swine flu.
















(above advice given in jest and in the full knowledge that this is not a remedy for A Fib, rather V Fib or V tach. The image of T01 whacking himself in the chest while standing in his spongebob boxers was too funny in my head though to be concerned with actual medical truth)

ChewChew

Dude, take it easy ya big drame llama

Carsinian Thau

Mystik Monkey wrote: »

above advice given in jest and in the full knowledge that this is not a remedy for A Fib, rather V Fib or V tach. The image of T01 whacking himself in the chest while standing in his spongebob boxers was too funny in my head though to be concerned with actual medical truth

Even though I have never met tallaght01 and have no idea what he looks like, the image that is in my head after reading that is really rather extraordinary.

DrIndy

Carsinian Thau wrote: »

Even though I have never met tallaght01 and have no idea what he looks like, the image that is in my head after reading that is really rather extraordinary.

I know what he looks like and trust me, its a funny image!

drzhivago

tallaght01 wrote: »

Thanks for the kind words

I'm bloody exhausted after the whole thing. I just keep sleeping! But I think overwork played a part in it all, so that's probably a good thing.

My boss from paediatrics came to visit me in hospital yesterday, along with some of the registrars and nurses.

My public health boss rang me yesterday to offer to A) do my shopping bring me out for dinner and C) stay the weekend at his place. He rang me again today to see if I needed anything.

A lot of consultants get bad press, but I wish people could see the reality sometimes.

Still gutted over the huge chunk of hair they had to shave from the centre of my chest, though :P But medicare don't seem to fund "rug transplants" over here, which I think is criminal :P

when it starts growing back its a real pain

I dont understand why they just dint do you a favour and shave the whole chest, its summer now and looks stupid with 6 or 12 shaved patches on your chest

tallaght01

drzhivago wrote: »

when it starts growing back its a real pain

I dont understand why they just dint do you a favour and shave the whole chest, its summer now and looks stupid with 6 or 12 shaved patches on your chest

That would be a LOT of chest hair! The 24 hour window for DC cardioversion would have been over before they'd finished the job :P

sam34

jesus tallaght, scary stuff
hope you're feeling better now

tallaght01

So, they told me to come back if I got palpitations again, which happened last night, after I went back to martial arts training. Felt like I was going in and out of AF, so thought it was PAF.

But when I got hooked up to the monitor I was having lots of PVCs and AVCs. Bizarre. They're bloody uncomfortable, and recur with exercise, but it's not AF.

It's all a bit bizarre. But going to see an arrythmia specialist soon (I didn't know they existed!)/

Hoping to avoid anything that begins with Ab and ends with Lation :P

I was quite relieved to get home, and not have an overnight admission. All I was thinking about was missing the opening game of the season if I had to stay in overnight.

Still going to training tomorrow night, and gonna keep my fingers crossed that the PVCs don't trip me into something else

DrIndy

Thump....thump.....thump....thump... thumthumthumthumthumthumthumthumthumthumthumthumthumthum....thump...thump...thump...




I'll cardiovert you if you get a. fib when you visit me!

sam34

DrIndy wrote: »

Thump....thump.....thump....thump... thumthumthumthumthumthumthumthumthumthumthumthumthumthum....thump...thump...thump...




I'll cardiovert you if you get a. fib when you visit me!

true friendship :pac:

samson09

ChowChow wrote: »

I feel for you, I have suffered from ectopics for the last 6 years and almost always a problem exclusive to the Winter months for some odd reason. I did the Holter monitor thing which was completely useless as the symptoms had disappeared by the time I got it on. Even worse I felt like a complete time waster going to the doc and him hearing nothing but a normal heart rhythm. I finally got some justice last Jan when I had a bout that lasted for 2 days solid. My Doc calmly diagnosed it as an ectopic beat - completely harmless. His advice was to do the usual things such as avoid caffeine, alcohol and even some herbal teas where the manufacturer might have sneaked in some caffeine I sought some advice from an 'alternative' practitioner too - she recommended Solgar Magnesium and Homocysteine Modulators which had me right as rain in no time. I find I can stay very calm now when it happens and this seems to help - I wish you a speedy recovery they will pass.

Just out of interest ChowChow, what homocysteine modulators where you taking?

_Whimsical_

tallaght01 wrote: »

So, they told me to come back if I got palpitations again, which happened last night, after I went back to martial arts training. Felt like I was going in and out of AF, so thought it was PAF.

But when I got hooked up to the monitor I was having lots of PVCs and AVCs. Bizarre. They're bloody uncomfortable, and recur with exercise, but it's not AF.o

I'm sorry to hear you've been through that Tallaght01. I hope it settles down again.