EKG question

Sounds EXCELLENT! There are often slight differences from person to person. It's good to have a baseline EKG. Make sure to keep a copy for your own file at home. Your Doc gave you a good analogy.
Take care!

Oona

You have got to love it when a doctor says any type of heart test is "basically" normal. I don't like to hear that either, I want perfectly normal. My last ER trip ( doc sent me to get vitals done due to panic attack, his office was loaded) I had an EKG done...about the 10th one and the nurse who did it let me look at it. It said "marked sinus arrythmia"... since I understood any arrythmia to be a bad thing I almost fainted. I was panicky to begin with, and that did NOT help me any. The EKG also stated Normal EKG.... okay I was confused and the nurse was confused also. She didn't understand it... it showed a nice even rhythm. So the doc comes in and I grabbed him right off with what was wrong with it... he just grinned ( didn't appreciate the humor at that point) and said it was common in children and thin people to have this arrythmia lying down. The heart gets a little extra blood flow for some reason and it pauses longer between beats while filling with extra blood. Apparently, people who are sensitive to any changes in heart rate can feel it but most people do not.

Well...doc did another EKG yesterday at his office. He says that it's normal. But he still wants me to go do an exercise stress test. Don't know why exactly, since all these docs say my heart is fine. So now I am stressing over the stress test..lol.
To me, totally uneducated about EKGs, do not think it looks normal. I sat online for a couple hours last night, looking up stuff on EKG's and I still can't find any that look like mine. I know it's bad for my anxiety to do stuff like that, but since I woke up with the racing heart thing (after taking klonopin) I figured..why not??
Maybe someone here can explain the EKG thing to me. The very first space on the top... the left side..really had no "spikes" to it... jsut kindof a squiggly line thing going on. The rest of EKG looked fairly even and normal, except for normal sinus arrythmia, ( see... learned something from research)... but that first section really has none of that. Is the first one registering something like electrical activity and not the actual beat or something?? I am really thin, too... could that account for it?? All the doc would say was.. totally normal. I know I should content myself with that, but... I can't for some reason. Probably my lovely anxiety/panic disorder.
I'll quit whining now..lol
-Sarah