simon greene

Hi everybody, Today i went and had some heart tests in the local hospital,i live in phuket Thailand,they have a good private hospital but it costs BIG dosh to get treated... anyway i had a echocardiogram ...all clear no mitral valve problem then a strest test.... no probs a few pvc's but nothing abnormal.... then the tilt test but after the first set of tilts which made my stomach feel very knotted i backed out of the drugs being injected to make my symptoms appear....why... because i was scared ,i hate my heart symptons so much i didnt want to feel so ill ......so i chickened out,the Doc said we need to do it to find out whats going on but i said no.....the outcome is i have now got new pills ....concor 5mg and zolam .25 mg ...anyone have any info on these tablets.....yes i know i should have carried on.....so is there anyone who can guide me through what happens when they inject the drugs on the tilt test as the nurses english is not so good ...and no chance of any sympathy ...just get on with it man attitude........and pay the bill! rgds wimp

Thanks for all your replies...I had never heard of POTS until i came on this website,I will investigate this with the DRS here.As for 24/48 tapes i have had these but with sods law nothing ever showed except occasional ectopic beats.. pvc.....not sure if they have event moniters here but i will ask as the for the tilt test I read about this a long time ago in connection with pace makers..but all the tests I have had they never showed that I was in need of one.....but having read your replies I think when I have these attacks my blood pressure may drop causing me to awaken and then this will lead into a palpations and the heavy heart feeling.I have head an echogram which found nothing wrong with my mitral valve butI I believe 100% something is wrong as I said before I can handle the other symptoms of churning stomach,headaches,pins and needles,nausia ,shaking,sweating hands,lump in the throat the list goes on but these attack frighten me....thankyou for your replies.Its a bit lonely over here with knowone to dIscuss my problems....THIS WEBSITE IS A BLESSING brgds simon

Hi my name is Simon, I am English but I live and work in Thailand.Recently I discovered the Mitral Valve Prolapse Syndrome Dysautonia survival guide book which has made very interesting reading. For 20 years I have suffered multiple symptoms to be told by Doctors I just have bad nerves ????.although I have had many tests carried out on my heart for occasional arrhythmias they have found nothing to be of major concern although they did offer an ablation if my pvc?s became unmanagable.Since reading this book I have recognized many symptoms with toooo.. many to list but the reason for my post is for any help from forum readers regarding my worst problem?. which is?.. When I go to sleep I am awoken by a lead heart and churning gripping middle ?. I sit up and I cannot get my breath I feel as if I am going to collapse my heart is definitely not beating properly and this is followed by violent shaking for 15 mins?..by the time I reach casualty the EKG just shows an occasional ectopic beats??..these symptoms are very worrying and almost always occur 20 mins into sleep although I have had a couple of episodes whilst swimming. It makes it worst living here as the language problem can be difficult, they seem to be always searching for cardiac disease and talking about pain which I don?t have .. They don?t understand our illness which I suppose is understandable in Thailand???my request is if anyone suffers similar problems to me?. then I would love to hear from you because I can manage my other symptoms but this one almost paralyses me and seems to be happening more frequently. Many thanks Simon