CT angiograms and failing beta blockers
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Thankyou for letting me join your discussion group, I was hoping that someone would have better knowledge of the CT Angiograms. I had mine today and they had great difficulty getting my heart rate to reduce, despite my morning dose of a beta blocker, 2 tablets in the clinic and then the cardiac consultant gave me 4 doses through my I.V line...Im assuming that it did eventually work as they then continued the scan and I felt like I had fainted for a short period....but Im anxious now that there is a reason behind why they couldnt reduce my heart rate in the first place? is this an indication of heart disease in itself?
Any info would be gratefully received...
Many thanks
Sarah
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lyn1951 sarah21957
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Did the same for my husband, they eventually had to give him some serious sedation to slow his heart enough to get a good picture. He also said he felt he went to sleep for a short time, I felt it was because of the levels of sedation. He was terrified of the whole procedure never having had one before and his heart was just racing due to anxiety, he still gets very anxious before his regular echos, Dr's allow me in now to help calm him and stop him going into a full scale panic attack.
sarah21957 lyn1951
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Thankyou for your reply, this is my first experience of this and I've got to wait until the end of Septempter for my appointment to get my results, I think I'm kind of worrying whether my experience is an indicator of a problem, I dont know how I'm going to cope if I have to have anymore of these tests though.
Wishing you well for the future..
lyn1951 sarah21957
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If you had a really serious problem they wouldn't be making you wait for your results, you would be seen almost immediately.
Check with your GP that he doesn't already have a letter from the specialist explaining to him what is going on, I presume you have had a referral from you GP to the specialist clinic.
I can reassure you that Echos are really easy, just exactly the same as having a baby looked at when you are pregnant, and they do some measurements of your heart just like they do for baby to see that all is well, or not in my husbands case, but they contuinue to do these echo's every six months to see how he is going, getting worse or better, last echo showed he was getting worse again, but not reported correctly, not even letter for our GP.
I kept pushing for results of echo, both ringing the hospital, and getting our GP to send letter requesting results of latest echo, and expressing his concern that the results were not being reported, I even rang the specialists secretary and expressed my concern that there was no report of husbands echo a couple of months previous.
End result was his natural electrical system in his heart was closing down, specialist when he finally saw reports was furious, and roared at junior's in our hearing, and then said my office tommorrow morning and bring mr ---- file with you, would have loved to have been a fly on the wall during that meeting, he's a pretty scary professor and terrifies the nurses and junior staff but hopefully they learn from him.