Prolonged QT? Or a false alarm
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Hello all....i need a little help with some ecg i did a week ago...
Im a male,26 years old and an anxiety sufferer.
I was obsessed abouth my heart for about 6 months and i did 3 ecg's... all of them showed the printout "normal sinus rythm" and nothing else.
One ecg i did in middle of a panic attack...bpm 95, all the values normal except QTc.... QTc was 544.... it was just a panic attack like all the panics i had in my life. I dont have fainting episodes in the past, neither a family history of fainting or cardiac arrests. The T waves in this ecg were normal, not notched, not far from the S wave...not assymetric.
20 minutes after the panic attack ..i took another ecg ...showing normal sinus rythm...bpm 83, and QTc 438...
The third ecg o did after 2 days showed normal sinus rythm, 72 bpm, QTc 417...
Could the QTc 544 have been an error of the ecg machine? (It wasnt a modern fancy one), or i do have a prolonged qt...i repeat...i do not have a family history of fainting, prolonged qt, or cardiac arrests.
Ive been very active in the paste, and never fainted.
I just had some tachycardias in my life (around 120-130 bpm) for a short time, attributed this to panic.
Must add: im skinny, im not anorexic but some days i skip meals...and eat bananas everyday, so i dont think potassium has anything to do here.
Thanks
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