Just had echo this morning and could use some words of wisdom

Hi - have had heart murmur for 35+ yrs. Had 1st echo 35 yrs ago (negative), 2nd echo 30 yrs ago (negative). Just had 3rd one this morning. I have health anxiety big time and have been off my Effexor for 2 months now for different reasons. My anxiety was so high going in for this that the sonography woman said "wow, your hearts beating at 100". I could not relax myself for anything and apologized if I was making her job a little harder to do. Anyway, I was hearing all kinds of machine beeps and heart swooshing noises which made me worse. Felt like she lingered at several different areas for awhile. After she was done I thought she would say something like "everything looks good" or something positive but she was very stoic and just said "one of our cardiologists will look at these and get in tough with your primary. I walked out feeling terrible and anxiety ridden. Are the technicians always like this? I'm very worried and scared

Hi Lin,

I've had a couple of echos done in the last 6 months. In each case the technician was very nice and explained a few things to me but never anything about my prognosis. I actually enjoyed the experience and found all the noises and images on the display fascinating.

Best wishes.

lin, that is wonderful news so now you can stop worrying. Take care.