Birmingham Road Trip! With heart. ;p

Sooooo, it seems a road trip is in order to get an EPS.  I have to see an electrophysiologist about my heart and get another heart cath, this time to trigger it into arrhythmia... Afib, PAC, PVC, whatever it does when it does its thing.  Or all the above.  My cardiologist (plumbing guy) can only do so much, and the electrical guy (electrophysiologist) has to determine what and how and exactly where, as well as IF this breathlessness, etc., etc. is indeed cardiac-related.

The short bursts AF that the monitor picked up may not be the whole story.  OR... it may be.  Thing is, I only had the monitor on a little over a week, and in that time I had short bursts of AF, whereas in the past my "palpitations" could, and often did last, from 15 mins up to an hour.

As I always say (and told my cardiologist), just like that Warner Bros Frog... my heart will usually only sing and dance for me (or for anyone but a cardiologist).  That is, until the event monitor.

But then, maybe the monitor wasn't left on long enough.  Of COURSE a week or so before the monitor I had 5 episodes in a day and a half, lasting from 10+ minutes to almost 45 minutes.  At the cardiologist... "Bwrrraaaaawwp!"  Yeah.  It tends to be that way.  But little froggy is gonna get a little shock in the rumpus in Birmingham, though!  That'll make him dance! ;p

So they'll use medications to speed up my heart, medications and current, etc. to force the arrhythmia(s)... then go from there.  Maybe we'll figure something out.  Maybe not.  Maybe we'll rule out cardiac issues causing this whatever-it-is.  Maybe if we do discover what it is they can just do an ablation or block the disruptive current.  We will see.

Til then I wait for the call to see when I go... and the little frog will dance (albeit against the flood of medication lol).

Silly frog.