Heart Question..edit >>It's Anxiety

[Rainband]

I was in the emergency room recently. I had chest tightness and dizziness. My ekg said "incomplete right bundle Branch Block" They said that they wanted to keep me overnight. I signed out against docs advice. Figured they wanted to milk me for a 1100 plus hospital stay. What is Incomplete right bundle branch Block and is it serious?? Any info would be appreciated.

[Stephanie]

WHERE'S NURSE BREEZE????

If I lived close enough to you, I'd come over and smack you upside the head buddy for leaving the hospital!!!!

Anyway, http://www.webmd.com is a great source for all of your medical questions.

This thread is about heart attack symptoms;

http://my.webmd.com/hw/health_guide_ato ... ar=hw85856

This one is about heart disease;

http://my.webmd.com/hw/heart_disease/hw112708.asp

CALL YOUR DOCTOR!!!

[streetsoldier]

I'm no cardiologist, but you may have a plaque buildup in one of your blood vessels; I'd have stayed in to have it checked out.

[coriolis]

Withoug looking it up, it sounds like an electrical problem in a particular set of nerves that control a portion of the heart. Better go get it checked out before you end up needing a jump start.

[Lindaloo]

It is a code for blockage. Go get it checked, John!

[Rainband]

I read on webmd, that if it is the right then it's not serious. I have a heart mumor. Is that connected maybe??

[Stephanie]

I read on webmd, that if it is the right then it's not serious. I have a heart mumor. Is that connected maybe??

I think that pain can radiate to either side.

Webmd should be used as a guide only. A heart murmer I think is separate.

CALL YOUR DOCTOR BOY!!!!

[wxcrazytwo]

Okay, let me un-rust myself from Hospital Corps School here. Right bundle Branch Block is an apparent heart disease. Incomplete right bundle branch block is a manifestation of primary abnormality of the cardiac conduction system in middle-aged men. Your basic heart disease. You checking out of the hospital only creates dire means. You should have the doc's check your ticker.

You can also check here:

http://heartdisease.about.com/cs/arrhythmias/a/BBB_4.htm

[WindRunner]

I don't know, but being "manifested" doesn't sound too healthy - get it checked, can never be too safe.

Isn't your life worth $1100?

[Rainband]

They gave me an ekg, chest xrays and a cat scan. What else is needed??

[alicia-w]

there are several other tests that they could do, an ultrasound and a stress test being a couple of them. at 44, i had a heart attack last year and i'm telling you it was a total surprise. just sitting at my computer and it hit me like a 2 x 4. get your keister into the doc. now or sooner. dont make me come over there.

[feederband]

They gave me an ekg, chest xrays and a cat scan. What else is needed??

I have all kinds of heart problems.. Most cardiologist these days want to do a heart cath.. This shows every thing . I have had 7 of them myself..So if they want to do this I would advise it.. It is the best test although it does require a incision in your inner thigh.

[beachbum_al]

Of course I am not a doctor or nurse but I would have that checked out. It is not worth taking a chance with your life.

[southerngale]

Johnathan, your heart is nothing to play games with. Who cares what it costs? It's not more than what your life is worth. Please call your doctor immediately and follow through or I'll come over there and drag you there myself!

[GalvestonDuck]

Yup, get thee to a doctor and get advice...and then follow-up regularly.

The way I understand it, a right bundle branch block can be a symptom of an underlying heart disease (which you'll need to know in order to be treated -- simply treating the IRBBB won't cut it). What the bundle branch block does is slows the electrical signal from one side of the heart (in this case, the right) that tells the ventricle to contract. It shows up on an EKG as a widened QRS complex (different "points" on an EKQ are labeled as P, Q, R, S, and T to show the electrical activity of the heart).



The signal still gets to the ventricle, but a moment later than the other side.

I think pacemakers can be used as treatment, if necessary? *scratching head* Breeze can probably offer a better explanation. And your doc can offer even more (hint, hint). But you really need to find out the underlying cause also.

Prayers and thoughts coming your way, buddy!

[streetsoldier]

Would a Holten monitor (worn on the body) be of any diagnostic value?

[HurriCat]

Over 14000 posts, mad admin and weather skills... but not even the common sense of an average sized turnip.

Hopefully these well-intentioned barbs are finding their marks. I have a relative who is always buying the latest snake-oil and getting all preachy about "those quacks" (meaning professionals who have spent many years in demanding study of proven diagnostics, medicine and science). This persons' own health has been at risk - the tater head was actually ingesting colloidal silver - and that of their spouse (was halving a heart med dose because he reasoned that the doc hadn't taken the spouses' small size into consideration). Well, said spouse had some serious consequences but survived. The skeptic was then better for a few months but is again preaching and prescribing at the weekly family dinners. I just recalled, too, that my younger brother was tough-guying it through severe abdominal pain for days. POP! went the appendix and he dropped like a sack of grits. Emergency surgery, infections and a nasty scar later, he barely survived.

Don't be such a skeptic or penny-pincher that it costs you your life. I recently started having an unusual lower back pain while driving home. I immediately went to the ER, scared silly. It was a kidney stone (FUN ), and better now, but there was no way I was ignoring the pain or going home before they did EVERYTHING that they could. The thought of money or my time (was there about four hours) never entered my mind.

Stay with us, man!

[Cookiely]

I was in the emergency room recently. I had chest tightness and dizziness. My ekg said "incomplete right bundle Branch Block" They said that they wanted to keep me overnight. I signed out against docs advice. Figured they wanted to milk me for a 1100 plus hospital stay. What is Incomplete right bundle branch Block and is it serious?? Any info would be appreciated.

I can't believe you would leave the hospital and not know the answer to what was wrong with your heart. I know its scary, but not as scary as not having you on this board anymore. We would miss you so much. GET TO THE DOCTOR!!!

[Miss Mary]

Johnathan - I wanted to smack you upside the head too - ditto Steph.

It's pretty clear to everyone, you need to see a doctor!

Take my situation, had I listened to my Internist's dismiss that my symptoms were just hemorrhoids (sorry for that detail), I may not even be here typing as you read this! Since my father died from Colon Cancer and I had already had 2 benign polyps found during a colonoscopy after age 40, I decided to listen to that voice inside my head, and call my Gastro doc. Good thing I did - I was Stage 1, tumer an inch in size. I was told that most colon cancer patients dismiss symptoms, ignore signs, until they're Stage 3 or 4, tumors are the size of baseballs and they sometimes don't make it. This is what happened with Jay Monahan I believe.

What I'm trying to say is, this is a wake up call. And you need to heed it. Please do not ignore this!

We all care about you......who lives close to Johnanthan? Can you go over and ring his bell, and when he comes outside, hit him upside the head, saying - this is for Stephanie and Mary (and a whole slew of others at S2K!)!!!!

Mary

[DaylilyDawn]

John, please get back to your doctor! My grandfather had two heart attacks and survived both but ignoring the early signs of heart disease will ensure that the next attack may be fatal. I too would smakc you upside the head as everyone else would. Do not take your life so casually.