Got home from work today to find this letter from the NHS....sent to me and the cardiologist.

blah blah blah.......ecg,which shows evidence of a shortened PR interval with a possible delta wave with a pre-excitation syndrome.This could be the cause of his pre-syncopal and syncopal symptoms and he needs an urgent cardiological review.

What the F*** does it mean.....should i be worried!!

 

Are u still with us ? Sounds like you could be prone to heart murmers and maybe sudden shock syndrome - altho i have had several tins of Stella and have now taken my stethascope off so im off duty

 

yep still alive mate......i knew i had a slow and irregular heart beat just didnt know what all those fancy words meant....its been explained to me now

 

It sounds like you may have what they call Stokes-Adams syndrome. Basically what this means is you can suffer a simple faint or temporary loss of consciousness due to cerebral anaemia. This is often caused by dilatation of the peripheral blood vessels and a sudden fall in blood pressure. If it is not sorted out you could go into complete heart block, your heart may stop beating but you will continue to breathe and your heart then has to return to its own ventricular beat.
I am not trying to spook you but it does need sorting sooner rather than later, it is easy enough to rectify so when you get an appointment, best go and see what they have to say.

Hope this helps.

 

yeah cheers mate.....i was told my temporary loss /blackouts was due to my brain tumour....not down to my heart....more meetings soon and loads of questions to ask....also having a lifecard moniter fitted for 24 hours

 

That takes the fcking piss for me, how the hell would the average joe understand what the hell that meant

 

in basic terms it means.... youre fucked sorry pal only joking hope it gets sorted asap

 

as you said m8 what the fook does that all mean its enough to scare the shit out of you.......for all you know they could talking about your bad toe there


roll on the next tests m8 n you can ask in real lay-mans terms what the hell they are on about

 

[quote="whilee"]Does wayne have a bad toe?

Hope it's nothing serious wayne and i hope you get the answers you need mate.

 

[quote="Ady Si"][quote="whilee"]oh shit i may have said this with out asking him if i can mention it...he dont like to talk about it

 

To understand what they are saying you need to be in the medical profession and to be able to understand the basics of cardiology, i cant believe they sent that letter to you!!

anyway basically when you have an ECG done they check for abnormalitys in the PQRST waves,, this may help.. http://www.tveatch.org/ekgs/pqrst.html...

& From that they can see many things, hence the shortened wave P & R, its just how they measure the waves LOL.

So in short you have something wrong with these waves and they way your heart runs, alot of the time things like this can be controlled by medicine but i dunno as you have the tumor i wouldnt like to say for sure.

HTH

 

chris, ady..........its my foot lorraine thank you