EKG Findings

[shon21]

I am 22 years old male 190 lbs 5

[dafan]

I dont know if you will read this thread or not but i just wanted to thank you for your expert knowledge in the area of pvc's . If you are a Cardio doctor I would love to know where you are so i can get some expert advice from you on this issue. Seems as tho all my tests came back normal that you can determine in some way that I really do have an underlying condition. I would love to hear about  your insight into this.Again, thank you for the most helpful comments.

[mrbh]

While your symptoms are uncomfortable and upsetting, your other problem is strange, test happy doctors. What a nightmare!

Oh...knock off the diet pills. Not good if you have palps or other heart problems.

Take care and be well.

[hankstar]

LGL syndrome is a somewhat outdated diagnosis from my understanding, AVNRT, AVRT, and WPW syndrome are the most common forms of SVTs. What used to be diagnosed as LGL is probably a noraml variant of some other SVT, mainly the ones mentiones above or even sinoatrial nodal reentrant tachycardia(SNRT), even anxiety sinus tachycardia.

I would tend to agree with paule that this is probably related to anxiety , probably because of the use of few diet pills over a short period, ECGs are famous for false positive diagnosis of LVH and RVH.

Good luck.

[Paule]

Almost $50k diagnosing stress/anxiety.

Defensive medicine...

Doctors will keep testing until someone cries uncle and stops the madness.

[CCF-M.D.-MJM]

Hi Shon,

I think there are two issues here.  To answer you question, no, I don't think  you will develop pulmonary hypertension from 4 days of diet pills.  Prolonged use is associated with pulm hypertension, but this is not your concern.  On the other hand, I would not use or prescribe diet pills either.  I have heard of more problems than benefits.  The answer is not and probably will not ever be found purely in pill form, although Rimonabant may someday be effective.  It uses an entirely different mechanism than previous weight loss drugs.  It blocks the receptor stimulated by marijuana to give people the munchies.....

http://www.med.monash.edu.au/bbns/units/bns3052/cannabishandout.pdf

Regarding the EKG and LGL, I posted a link below to describe LGL.  At this point I would see an eletrophysiologist.  Your EKG shows some changes, you've been told you have LGL, a similar pattern as RVH (right ventricular hypertrophy, which is what I think you meant by RVT) is seen sometimes with WPW, and anytime you have an intermittent right bundle on EKG, Brugada syndome, although rare, should be considered.  I think an EP doctor is the only equiped to answer these questions.


http://www.emedicine.com/med/byname/lown-ganong-levine-syndrome.htm

Hope this helps and good luck