Palpitating and more..

to be exact its painful in the left FALSE RIBS sometimes in the right. Its right below my booby. So I don't know if this pain is connected with a heart problem. 

Have you had a halter monitor for your heart.  That can give the Dr a 24 hour reading of what your heart is doing, the more sophiscated ones can give you a button to push when you are feeling the symptoms and the Dr can check to see what is going on at that exact time if anything.

I don;t want to frighten you, but do you trust your Dr, and your Dr's skills, or do you have doubts, if you are not sure get yourself to a cardiologist, even if it only puts your mind at rest.

I for whatever reason, still don't fully understand why, been with the same Dr for years, did not believe him when he said husband's ECG was normal, I insisted on seeing a cardiologist for husband, Gp even tried to discourgae me, but I was strong, he was wrong.

Cardiologist diagnosed severe heart failure and told us to our faces she could not understand how local GP Dr could have missed it, showed me how it showed on ECG, other than that Blood pressure normal.

Husband admitted to hospital the following day in congestive heart failure, very serious, I could have lost him that afternoon, kept for a week and stablised in heart hospital.

6 half years later he is still not at the best but alot better on the medications, we have just had another episode of illness, nothing they can put their fingers on, maybe viral, and very ill.

And even in the heart hospital I have had to demand to see senior staff, put on panadol when his liver function is showing stress, NO NO NO NO, and also putting him on a drip and allowing him to drink as much as he likes, again NO NO NO, were they trying to drown him, senior staff member agreed with me and took down drips, and reduced panadol, and talked to me as if I knew what I was talking about, I dooo.

I have studied library books, on heart failure, heart attacks, GP cardiologiy books, cardiologiy papers Dr to Dr on the internet, and scared myself silly at times, but nothing fitted my husbands condition exactly.

Back to HOW DID I KNOW, it never occured to me until family members pointed it out, my father had heart failure when i was born, his was caused by rheumatic fever, but the same, dilated cardiomyopathy, and finally died of it when I was 33 and he was in his 70's.