A teaching moment

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This morning one of my readers gave me low rating: he had asked for advice about his heart pounding in his heart at night after heavy drinking. My advice included to stop (among many other things), but since he “already knew that”, the rest of my consultation was useless to him. 

Marfan’s Syndrome and smoking

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Q: So i have Marfan’s Syndrom, diagnosed at 9 months, been followed for it my whole life(18 now). the last few years ive been having unexplained chest pains, been to the cardiologist and they say everything is within normal range and my MVP is no longer a danger of happening. sence i had started smoking 2 years ago its been …

Very slow heart rate and fainting

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Q: Have had high labile blood pressure for last twenty years. Getting ready for cardiac pulmonary stress test became cold, clammy, excessive sweating heart rate dropped to 35. Skin color gray. I fainted and was sitting down. Have 3 heart stents, last one placed 10/2010. Have Cad.  What could cause this? And is there some testing I should have done?

My husband had an abnormal ekg

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Q: my husband went to the dr.s for a check up last week. The dr did an ekg on him because he has never had one..he is 53. They called today and said he had a specialist or wanted a specialist to see him to do stress echo.  They said his ekg was abnormal…maybe poor circulation, blocked arteries…my huband was …

Heart Palpatations

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Q: Occasionally I feel my heart skip a beat or “flutter” a few times a week. This can happen either when I do excerise, or even at quiet moments. Its very scary. I am healthy at 153lbs. 44 years old, and did have a EKG checkup 2 years prior to 2010. Everything checked out normal on the dr’s printout then. …