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@becky1024

Martin, you might want to go thru my posts and look for my reply about my rare heart birth defect and my experience with WPW, Wolff, Parkinson, White Syndrome. I’ve experienced many issues with my heart since I’m 10yo and I’m 78 now. I was experiencing Pulseless Ventricular Tachycardia, Bradycardia, A-Fib and Spontaneous Blackouts and had 3 heart attacks. My regular cardiologist had no clue what was wrong and my warning to any poster with a heart rhythm problem to get an appointment with an Electrophysiologist, a specialist in the heart electrical system.

Because my heart defect is so rare, a 1 in a million occurrence, the doctor was so intrigued by my symptoms he implanted a $25,000 heart loop recorder under my left breast. It monitors each beat of my heart for any abnormalities. It records 24/7 by the loop recorder and relayed over the internet to technicians in Oregon and sent to my doctor here in Pennsylvania every day. Regular cardiologist can be clueless like 3 of my doctors so if A-fib is a problem or any other rhythm problem, contact an Electrophysiologist immediately, it may save your life.

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Thanks @becky1024. You gave us more insights on problems lurking behind asymptomatic arrhythmia -- something more to ask our medical team about when we visit them. Having just lost a brother-in-law to cancer after years with a pacemaker, I can delve into the issues confidentially with his family -- which was not a promising option in the past. You give us a large measure of confidence that doctors can be found to help us manage the most mysterious illnesses, and I am glad your life has been saved by them. Martin