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Replies to "Hello there Leo @ochmnot22, and a warm welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect! I am so glad..."
Hi @karukgirl. Thanks for the warm welcome. I am hooked on the information here and just snowballing into other resources. In the year leading up to that I was feeling dizziness and syncope a few times momentarily. I had done a gall stone removal surgery a few weeks before that (Sept 2022) and was feeling great. I was back exercising and losing weight, doing intermittent fasting. Christmas day I did heavy cardio. Boxing day, I woke up feeling light headed, dizzy, faint, nervous- just couldn't relax. At the hospital my BP was very high and couldn't settle down. They called Cardiologist and that's where it all started. I had a high CK level and diagnosed with Rhabdomyolysis and had to return the next day to flush this out the blood since it didn't wash through sufficiently. That week, I went through a lot. In the end I did stress test on cardio, 24hrs & 1 week monitor, ECG, EKG, MRI, Blood test. I did feel scary palpitations a few times in the weeks after this however, this might be related to stress. I was away from the UK at the time. I was put on medication. I was then passed to a more specialist hospital and the entire process restarted. I had to return to the UK. Once I was here I had to again do over everything followed by genetic testing- that's 3 times doing the same diagnoses. After 9 months I went for check up- I think 1 week monitor and some scans. I should be back in a few months. I only get dizzy but I think that's because of bisoprolol in the morning. I do get tired during the week and after a long back and forth I have negotiated working 1 day/ week from home. I think I need to change career so I don't need to go out to work 5 days/week. I haven't had any palpitations since I returned to the UK. The only time I had palpitations was when I tested + for COVID in Nov 2024.