Dubious achievement unlocked: had to call an ambulance. 😬
Background is I've been having some very intermittent heart weirdness over the past while and after my mum had a fall at the start of this year and had a bunch of routine scans which discovered she was at extremely high risk of having a heart attack in the next five years due to calcification of some of her main arteries, I figured I should probably actually see someone about my own issues.
I went to see the cardiologist and had various scans done, most of which were inconclusive, however I also had a 24-hour heart monitor on for a month and it picked up what turns out to be ventricular tachycardia (basically the electrical signal of the heart that regulates its beat doesn't propogate properly to the bottom chamber(s)), the symptoms are that your heartrate goes up significantly and you get really light-headed and if it's really bad you can need a defibrillator to get the heart back into its proper rhythm. 😬
I'm currently waiting to get booked in a couple of weeks for them to do this procedure which involves putting a thing up the vein in my leg and into the heart so they can actually see what's going on, the cardiologist said the problem could be a small hole between the chambers of the heart, it could be scarring from some past infection interfering with the electrical signal, or something else entirely, but they don't know until they go in there.
The cardiologist said to call the ambulance if I got the fast heart rate again and it went on for too long. It happened this afternoon and while the actual fast heart rate didn't go on for too long, the dizziness keep coming and going and I was really cold and couldn't get warm and something just felt off in the chestal region. @yayKM called the ambos and when they arrived they hooked me up their little portable ECG and checked my vitals and such, and by that point it seemed like it'd calmed itself down and I was feeling okay again. One of the ambos said they could take me to the actual hospital but there wasn't going to be be a whole lot more they could do, and all the ECG traces they took were fine, and the blood pressure was fine, and I'd stopped being unable to get warm. So I opted to stay home rather than faff around in hospital, and yeah, am pretty much feeling fine again.
Ugh, bodies.