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Borderline Normal and Abnormal ECG Graph - HELP! Need your experiences or opinions

Hi All,

I am 25 years old, male, good amount of muscle, and with some fat, i weight 83.5kg and 178cm. I am healthy, with some cholesterol and uric acid. I do not smoke (I did before for a couple years) and do not drink often. I do exercise about 3 times a week.

I have done ECG on a machine last year in 2016 and this year in 2017.
Last year I had borderline normal reading saying "can leave patient as is if there are no symptoms or underlying disease" and this year is borderline abnormal with WPW? (with a question mark). A general doctor asked me to go see a cardiologist to get his opinion so I did.

The cardiologist said my graph last year and this year is the SAME. He said he is quite sure I do not have WPW but he cannot be 100% certain. He also said my pulse rate is normal. I don't have any symptoms so he gave me two solutions. He suggests to just leave it OR if I really do want to make sure to be fully confirmed then I have to do the test, but he says again he is pretty confident I do not have it; the graph only shows an extremely mild indicator and chances are that I don't.

Questions:
what do you guys think?
I know machine readings are based on perfect ECG graphs, I feel like if I had a cardiologist manually read the ECG, WPW would not have been written down.
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I would trust your cardiologist who said that nothing has changed.

If you do not suffer from the effects of WPW, I would not bother too much about it.
It is normally not life treathening.

Sometimes WPW gets worse during life. I would wait and see if it gets worse in your case. If it does, then it is perhaps time to take action (medication or ablation therapy)
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Hi Ger57,

I do not have any symptoms, but I need to clarify that he said he is quite sure I do not have WPW but he is not 100% sure since the machine said it.

So you're saying EVEN if I have it, I could just leave it because it is not normally life threatening and I do not have symptoms
Yes, that is what I meant.

Treatment of WPW depends on several factors, including the severity and frequency of your symptoms.

If you have WPW but don't have any symptoms, you normally do not need treatment.

Please note that I am not a doctor!

For further info, Mayo clinic offers good info on WPW on their website: http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/wolff-parkinson-white-syndrome/symptoms-causes/dxc-20266082


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