ekg findings
Okay, I need all of your help now. I am freaking. I went for my physical yesterday and they did an ekg, not because I was having problems but because heart disease runs in my family and I am 37 so he wanted an ekg. It showed non-specific findings which he said is nothing. He was not worried about it at all. He said those waves on the ekg should be a little flatter but mine were a little wavy which he said I should only worry if they were inverted. Now, of course, with my anxiety, I am scared. How can he be so calm in telling me it is nothing but now I now it showed non-specific findings. Of course I am thinking I will have a heart attack now or I have clogged arteries, but he said, "Do I think your ekg is normal - yes, Do I think you have heart disease - No." Please tell me how to overcome this. Has anyone ever had non-specific findings on an ekg. The ekg was not abnormal he said. Please help.
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hi cat.....
sorry that your doctor wasnt really good in calming your fears. non-specific is good....if it were something serious then it would be specific findings. Sometimes when we are nervous our hearts produce irregular beats(palpitations) these are perfectly normal and everyone has them EVERYONE.....and that could be the non specific finding on your ekg it could be a simple as that.
Most important we must believe in our professionals. We go to them seeking answers and we have to accept what we hear. For some reason to hear we have no problems is so hard to believe. Heart disease may run in your family but not in EVERY SINGLE MEMBER and you could very well be one that doesnt have a problem and you will waste all this precious time worrying. You have done all that right things...you have a family trait so you went to the doctor to have a complete exam and thats good...now when that doctor tells you you are OK you have to believe it!
You know the things to do to keep your healthy heart healhty.....good diet, excersise, work your program to lower your stress and you are doing all the right things to maintain your healthy heart.
This doctor by law could not let you walk out of there with serious heart issues and not tell you....he also would not mislead you to believe you are healthy if you werent that wouldnot benefit him in anyway.
Work on your lesson on What ifs and see if maybe you missed something that you could be doing better. And by the way Congratulations on a good EKG scan. Your lucky. Enjoy those good results.
Dodger
sorry that your doctor wasnt really good in calming your fears. non-specific is good....if it were something serious then it would be specific findings. Sometimes when we are nervous our hearts produce irregular beats(palpitations) these are perfectly normal and everyone has them EVERYONE.....and that could be the non specific finding on your ekg it could be a simple as that.
Most important we must believe in our professionals. We go to them seeking answers and we have to accept what we hear. For some reason to hear we have no problems is so hard to believe. Heart disease may run in your family but not in EVERY SINGLE MEMBER and you could very well be one that doesnt have a problem and you will waste all this precious time worrying. You have done all that right things...you have a family trait so you went to the doctor to have a complete exam and thats good...now when that doctor tells you you are OK you have to believe it!
You know the things to do to keep your healthy heart healhty.....good diet, excersise, work your program to lower your stress and you are doing all the right things to maintain your healthy heart.
This doctor by law could not let you walk out of there with serious heart issues and not tell you....he also would not mislead you to believe you are healthy if you werent that wouldnot benefit him in anyway.
Work on your lesson on What ifs and see if maybe you missed something that you could be doing better. And by the way Congratulations on a good EKG scan. Your lucky. Enjoy those good results.
Dodger
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I am a paramedic and I started having anxiety attacks because my uncle died of a heart attack suddenly, so I thought it was going to happen to me. A down side to my medical knowledge is thats what I focus on creating the anxiety. You are actually lucky because most doctors tell people it is abnormal beause they read what the sheet says and don't actually interpret it themselves. If you trust him then he is most likely it's nothing, everyones heart displays differently. Use positive dialog telling yourself the doctor said you are fine and said not to worry. If you are still unsure have him order a nuclear stress test it's a much more definitive test to set your mind at ease. Good luck
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Hi Cat,
What you had happen on your EKG is more than common, it is almost normal-we as "what if" people always read something into it that isn't there...A little bit about EKG machines, they are a machine that reads waves of muscle depolarization (muscle contraction)-non dicrimantly-meaning the machine doesn't interpret all the results...It has programmed answers for anything it (machine) reads as not what is normal...Does that mean somethings wrong? Absolutely not...It has very small parameters on what it will call normal...This machine is also set-up to give false positives-this means it is programmed to err on the side of calling something wrong when there is nothing wrong, rather than calling something right when there is something wrong? I hope that made sense?
Anyway, it is up to the Doctor to fully interpret the results, not the machine...Rest easy, well conditioned athletes always FAIL there EKGs because they have a low heart rate from being so physically fit-they don't have heart disease...
God Bless you
What you had happen on your EKG is more than common, it is almost normal-we as "what if" people always read something into it that isn't there...A little bit about EKG machines, they are a machine that reads waves of muscle depolarization (muscle contraction)-non dicrimantly-meaning the machine doesn't interpret all the results...It has programmed answers for anything it (machine) reads as not what is normal...Does that mean somethings wrong? Absolutely not...It has very small parameters on what it will call normal...This machine is also set-up to give false positives-this means it is programmed to err on the side of calling something wrong when there is nothing wrong, rather than calling something right when there is something wrong? I hope that made sense?
Anyway, it is up to the Doctor to fully interpret the results, not the machine...Rest easy, well conditioned athletes always FAIL there EKGs because they have a low heart rate from being so physically fit-they don't have heart disease...
God Bless you