I had a device check appointment at Dr. Shock's today. I was expecting a routine everything looks good, come back in three months visit. But something very odd happened. The PA interrogated the device, said "Everything looks good." and started looking through the stack of reports he'd just printed. Then he stopped abruptly about halfway through the stack. He put the sensor back over my defibrillator and re-ran some tests. I could see the area that he was focusing up on the screen. It looked like a thin line going across the graph, then in the middle of it the the graph the line became a square box then went back to being a thin line. He didn't tell me what it was all about, But that has never happened before.
I think it may have been related to an event that happened last summer. I wrote about it on The Pink Tee Shirt. I fainted and hit my head hard enough to cause a large goose egg on my forehead and blacken my eyes. I had a bad concussion from that. I assumed at the time that I caused the faint by jumping out of the bed too fast. Now I wonder if I didn't have ventricular fibrillation that had to be shocked. If so, I'm glad that I wasn't conscious for it. Oh well, maybe it's a good thing that I made AETNA pay for my defibrillator.
I remember that faint/fall. And I think I would be pushing for an explanation of that anomaly.
ReplyDeleteI have fainted like that since I was 7 years old. The two symptoms of the heart condition that I was born with are fainting and sudden cardiac arrest. I also have a neurocardio condition where my sympathetic nervous system lowers my blood pressure when it needs to be raised. And I take about 5 medications that cause my sympathetic nervous system to be slow to react. Most of the time when I faint it's the sympathetic nervous system. This time I might have gone into VTach, but that's what defibrillators are for.
DeleteDid the tech explain that square, though?
ReplyDeleteNo, but Dr. Shock did when he called this afternoon. The night that I fainted and hit my head I had actually gone into sudden cardiac arrest. I now have positive proof that I have congenital LQTS. Very unsettling.
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