A LITTLE WORRY!

Do you know if anyone in either side of the family has ever had this?  I have Wolf Parkinson's White it is a congenital (non-lifethreatening) heart defect that is usually diagnosed at exactly the age your sone is.  It causes a rapid heartbeat.  It is hard for a lay person to explain...but one of the conductors of pulses in the heart is defective and can send excessive beats...it can be triggered by caffeine, stress, and who knows what else.  I take Cardiazem daily and haven't had any episodes since my diagnosis.  I was not diagnosed until I was 40 because it was labeled as panic attacks...my parents were in a bitter divorce when I had my first episode.  Anyway, you can have what is called an ablasion where the go in and map the heart and figure out which "conductor" is faulty and they zap it with the laser and all is well...or you can take Cardiazem if that works...like it has for me.  It may not be this...but I would definitely ask about it.  If he has an episode while he is wearing the heart monitor they will be able to figure it out.  I was finally diagnosed when I went to the ER with a heart rate of 293!!!  That was wild!  They couldn't believe I was able to walk and talk!  My whole body was pulsing with the heart beat like I was dancing or something. 

Anyway, try to hang in there.  I know it's hard when it's your baby!  My thoughts and prayers are with you all!  Diana

My oldest son expierienced this similar things beginning about age 15.  We always blew it off to his asthma medication but the older he got the worse and more often it got.  After dragging him to many cardiologists and them blowing him off and telling him he'd just have to learn to deal with it we finally found a doc that would listen and take his time.  He had a terrible episode when he was a senior in collage and it started by just bending over and putting his socks on.  He had gotten to a point where he was afraid to do anything like spots and had ALWAYS been very active.  He never new what would set them off.  We found an awesome cardiologist in OKC after seeing one in Tulsa who wouldn't listen.  He then sent us to Dr. Jackman at OU who did an ablation.  Turns out he was born with an extra nerve in the electro system of the heart which caused the arithima.  They went in a basically electronically induced an episode and killed that extra nerve.  He has never even had to take medication since that date!!!  Dr. Jake Jackman at OU basically invented the procedure that my son had.  People travel from all over the US to have this done with him. 

Of course, they diagnosed his problem by him wearing the heart monitor.  He wore it the prescribed amount of time that the insurance was going to allow and he said he needed to send it back.  I told him no...we're not sending it bac****il you have another episode that can be recorded.  Sure enough, the next day he had one and they got the necessary data. 

We were so blessed to finally get this resolved for him.  I felt pretty guilty that it took so long dragging him here and there and the medical profession basically blowing him off.  He is now a doctor himself and says he learned a lot about dealing with people during all that crap.  He is a very compassionate person and I know a compassionate doc as well.

My comment is...don't let them blow him off.  Hopefully it's an isolate incident and won't happen again but if it does...don't let them blow him off!!!  If you'd like to pm me with any questions I'll be more than happy to share!!!