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I have idiopathic cardiomyapathy with LBBB and frequent PVCs. A year and two months after diagonsis in Jan. 2025 I saw finally got in to see an EP. I have no heart disease or co-morbidities. He said my PVCs we so frequent and scattered around my heart that he could not reccomend ablation. That was my hope to address my heart failure. Three cardiologists said my LBBB was likely caused by an unknown virsus (code word for Covid caused). I had Covid in 2020 but didn't go to the ER because people were dying in the hospitals. I stayed in the house isolated from my grandchildren and son and got better. Also I was caring for my grands, whose mother died of Covid, because son was essential worker and there was no daycare. Now I have unexplained electrical heart failure. How many others are there in the USA like me?
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I also have a LBBB. It was diagnosed as virus caused because a heart Catherization did not reveal and cardiovascular disease.
Any virus can get into your heart so not just caused COVID. I had a bad virus 20 years ago and my first stress test revealed the LBBB. With the recent virus infection and no cardiovascular disease my LBBB was attriubuted to a virus getting into heart and causing scars.
You say you have heart failure. What is your EF. My EP says the heart develops different electrical patterns to compensate for the LBBB.
Your EP said same thing to me about doing ablations. My PVCs in LV were coming from 3 different areas so wanted to try medication. I was put on Mexiltine (spell) which cut my PVCs in half and did not have any episodes after going on it of tachacardia.