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multiple symptom but no answer
I've had 2 heart attacks, ischemic, and numerous stints. Now my heart rate is continuously low, between 55 and 42. Diastolic pressure runs low, typically no higher than low 60s. At times mid 50s. Chest pain occasionally, dizzy constantly, shortness of breath on lite walks and at time sitting. I believe its a weakening of heart muscles due to past heart attacks and beta blockers including metoprolol which now has been stopped, but symptoms remain with chest pains increasing. My cardiologist says dizziness and shortness of breath aren't the heart and seems to busy to get involved. Any thoughts. Where I live makes it hard to change doctors because we don't have them. Going on over a year. One added thing a abnormal EKG that says abnormal. Doctor said probably wrong. They are wrong a lot. Other doctor said it's a blockage .. a bit confusing.
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If you have heart paint that comes and goes, but seems to come on with more activity or stress, that is probably, not certainly, angina. Angina is a sign of ischemia. It's a warning. If you have had an infarction already, then it means you have heart disease.....plugged arteries.
Note that I am not a doctor, not even a nurse, and claim no special knowledge. But I have read a lot about the heart and its typical, not the rare, medical conditions that require intervention or prevention. Pretty much every adult over the age of 30 has some heart disease. By the time we reach 60, it's worse. Not all of us will have heart attacks or strokes; some of us will die from something else if we get past 75. However, the heart does have a finite life, and if it is allowed to progress into severe atherosclerosis, it has a visible horizon that gets closer with every passing day.
If you are not getting satisfactory care or explanations, you have two choices: shrug and move on, or find another ear to listen to you and to take action.
Your stated numbers for pressure and HR are somewhat low, and this is a danger for aged people. Falls happen due to balance problems, perception problems, or weak musculature. People with diseased hearts that are inefficient are likely to experience at least one of those three problems. If it costs you a bad fall...........................
@gloaming .. thanks. Actually the chest pains mainly just come, last a few then go, when im not active. Like you I've been really looking into the heart and am pretty knowledgeable (not being a doctor), and while I can't c say with all confidence what it is, I can't seem to get cardiologist to take an interest. I am VA but use community doctors because I'm 125 Mile's from the VA. Hopefully, wearing a monitor right now, something will show to at least get the doctors attention. I appreciate your help.