Anyone with a murmur or heart disorder?

Very rapid heartbeat even when I wake up. Usually over 100. Chest pain often, palps around the time of month. No doctor has ever been concerned.

I was diagnosed with a murmur as a child of 10, but I think it was a bad diagnosis because after about age 16, no doctor ever could find that again.

Does heart murmur just go away sometimes?

Yes, I understand heart murmurs can come and go as a child grows and the heart gets larger with the valves not always closing/sealing entirely.

I've a quiet systolic murmur - a couple of guys from here have taken a listen lately and found it kinda interesting

Was going to have some minor surgical procedures and Doctors wanted medical workups before giving clearance. Well cardiologist had me get a chemical stress test and said a little abnormality showed and wanted to do an angiogram to rule out anything. Said stress tests can have false positives many times. Went for angiogram and he found major artery 99 per cent blocked. Said I was very close to having a major cardiac episode and possibly death. Feel very fortunate as I had no symptoms. My advice is get checked regardless how you feel.

I have had a heart murmur since childhood. I have vague memories of having tests when it was first discovered. I don't have to see a cardiologist or anything, but they do certain things like give me antibiotics before surgery, especially dental, etc.

I have mvp and get it monitored every two years

I’ve had a few people tell me they can hear a flow murmur when they listen to my heart. I also can hear an s3 most of the time! Never had a doctor comment on it though, haha!

I had 6x bypass 22 years ago and never went to a cardiologist until a year ago except for the mandatory stress test before starting rehab. Last year I was having problems with exercise related breathing so I had all kinds of tests. Turned out to be caused by owning a parrot. Bye bye parrot and now I'm fine but the results of all those tests made me feel even better. They found nothing wrong with my heart and the bypasses are all working fine. They did an EKG of course then a test where I laid on my side while she did an ultrasound of my heart. She didn't like the video so she asked if she could add a contrast agent to see it better. In came a linebacker for the Patriots with a needle wearing a dew rag and I got the contrast stuff. Next was a test where I guess they took about a bazillion photographs while I was laying on my back. This machine moved up over me and the head started moving from one side to the other so slowly I went to sleep. Just as I was about in the arms of Morpheus it made this loud klunk that woke me up and it reversed direction. They scheduled me for the next day to do it all over again but after they stuck this Kevorkian looking needle with a knob on the side of it into my arm. He put half of the stuff in then pulled it back a bit till blood showed up then put in the rest. I had to wait about and hour then they did the same klunky machine test again. At some point I also got a stress test where I didn't do anything but lay there and feel like I'm dying when they shot the juice to me. At least that was attended by a nurse I knew from cardiac rehab 21 years earlier so it wasn't as scary as it might have been. At least I felt my death was going to attended by a friend.

Then came the appointment with a cardiologist. I'm sitting in his exam room and the first thing he said upon entering was "you should be dead by now". That was a great attention geter. Then he continued: "people who have what you did usually come back for more in 10 years and by now they are gone. He wanted to know who the surgeon was who fixed my plumbing because he was really impressed. He said I have nothing wrong at all.

However it's now a year later and he want's to see me again. Not sure I'm going to make an appointment based on last year's tests and the fact that nothing has gone wrong in 22 years plus the cost as Medicare doesn't cover everything. If he wants other tests I dam sure will say NO. Two years ago my regular doctor sent me to the lab for blood work and Medicare denied payment of that so I was on the hook for over $200.

A few years ago during an appointment with a cardiologist I was told I have a functional heart murmur. I don't know if it's heard on plain auscultation since this was discovered on echo. Also have a slight tachycardia.

^I wonder if doctors listen too quickly nowadays. Seems they only have the stethoscope on you for a second, then they move it. How they can hear effectively that way is beyond me.

I have severe tachycardia as a result of he respiratory medications I take. Generally my resting heart rate is between 110 - 120, with activity it generally runs in the 140's. This is on large doses of calcium channel blockers ( beta blockers tend to exacerbate the respiratory issues). Other than commenting on the fact that my heart rate is fast they do not seem to be concerned.

Quite a few years back now when i was stressed with a lot of work i had irregular heartbeat ( i forget the technical term) at the time i thought i was going to croak....but it went away eventually.

When I was examined at the ER a few months ago, the doctor heard a murmur on my heart. Never been heard before. When I checked myself at home, I.also heard it.

At age 3, I contracted rheumatic fever. It left me with a heart murmur that slowly went away over a period of about 5 years.

Now, I've had stress EKG's, echo cardiograms, worn Holter monitors and my heart is fine. I was told I had the ejection fraction of a 35 yr. old male.

I had an undiagnosed case of strep throat as a teenager that became rheumatic fever. It did a number on my heart. The consequences were 2 separate heart murmurs, a pulse deficit, and some electrical problems with the beat. Fairly controlled now, though it occasionally results in lots of dizziness and a fuzzy quality to my thinking. The good news is a stethoscope through cardiac auscultation can tell when it’s coming and how intense it will be.

Thankfully no, knock wood.

I have a heart murmur and have an annual heart examination.

The doctor listens to my heart and lungs and records my bp.

Then I have tests done, ekg and echo where I have to be completely naked on the top.

As much as I do like auscultation but I am glad that I don't have any heart disorders or murmurs.

^I wonder if doctors listen too quickly nowadays. Seems they only have the stethoscope on you for a second, then they move it. How they can hear effectively that way is beyond me.

And about your post: I often wonder the same. One time I had a doctor who would listen exactly like this and I just can't understand how they are supposed to diagnose anything if they move the stethoscope that quick.

...I just can't understand how they are supposed to diagnose anything if they move the stethoscope that quick.

Practice.

i listen to hearts and lungs all the time and after time you pick things up very quickly. The average heart rate is 60-100, so a few seconds is equal to several heart beats. i can hear a "murmur" in one to two beats, especially if it is pronounced. A murmur is valve regurgitation (i.e., blood leaking through faulty a faulty seal in the valve). Your heart has 4 valves and we listen to 4 locations, R of sternum, second intercostal space is aortic valve, L second space is pulmonic valve, right below that in the third space is tricuspid, then 5th space mid clavicular is the mitral. You can hear rhythm at all those places, plus you can pick up dysrhythmia from taking the pulse. There's also other symptoms that fill in details about the condition of the heart that give more reliable info if needed (blood work, EKG, echo, stress test, angiogram).

...I just can't understand how they are supposed to diagnose anything if they move the stethoscope that quick.

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Practice

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That isn't necessarily true. Severe defects are easy to spot. Some defects are slight and infrequently displayed so they do not make their appearance in every beat, or even every ten beats, so careful auscultation takes time

That isn't necessarily true. Severe defects are easy to spot. Some defects are slight and infrequently displayed so they do not make their appearance in every beat, or even every ten beats, so careful auscultation takes time

So true! Sorry, i didn't mean to come off as absolute. It isn't necessarily untrue either. It would be more accurate for me to say this is 'a' reason why one might be able to go fairly quickly. It is not an, or the, absolute answer, but a possible explanation.

I’ve gotten over this but for about a 2 year period I had very severe premature ventricular contractions (PVCs), likely due to stress. It felt like my heart was skipping a beat, and the weird thing was, if you were feeling my pulse at the time, if would actually pause for a second and then come back.

I’ve gotten over this but for about a 2 year period I had very severe premature ventricular contractions (PVCs), likely due to stress. It felt like my heart was skipping a beat, and the weird thing was, if you were feeling my pulse at the time, if would actually pause for a second and then come back.

I have something similar. Once in a while it feels like my heard skips a beat which I can verify by feeling my pulse or watching the pulse indicator on an O2 sensor. The doctors have never said anything about it even after a series of heart tests a couple years ago when I was having serious breathing problems. That turned out to be my parrot so he's been exiled and the breathing is back to normal.

After the tests the cardiologist was impressed with the job the heart doctor did 20 years ago constructing 6 bypasses because they are all still working fine and so is everything else related to my heart and no mention of the skipped beats.

I don’t have to see a cardiologist regularly, but do have MVP with regurgitation. Had an echo/ekg and murmur does not require monitoring or any restrictions. I always let new doctors know about it and some comment on it.

I don’t see a cardiologist, ever. Should I? Ummm probably. I go in and out of SVT (supraventricular tachycardia) quite frequently these days. I wore a holter monitor for awhile and my SVT registered on that triggering an echocardiogram. There has been no permanent heart damage but it’s something to watch for in the future. There are a few changes on my EKG. Cardiology had been recommended... just haven’t gone. Nurses are some of the worst patients you know...

While not interested in such a topic (i.e. med, not fet), upon logging in this thread showed up within the "Recently active Topics", so I thought I'd like to chime in.

About 11 years ago I suffered from the sudden onset of random arrythmia which started about a few years earlier with isolated syncopated beats - the most common occurrence was a recurring pattern where an anticipated beat would follow two regular ones, at first for a few seconds then for several minutes at a time, mostly in the morning short after waking up before breakfast. I soon discovered by chance that performing a short run or going up a flight of stairs would resume normal beat on the spot.

It took an extensive exam drill to track down this oddity. To make a long story short, a thyroid hormone test pinned down a (still unexplained) reverse tolerance to levothyroxine I've been taking regularly since puberty as an external metabolic support for the congenital hypopituitarism I was born with - more or less successfully treated with HGH in a 17-year span until puberty.

A color doppler ultrasonography discovered a mild case of mitral valve prolapse. I was scared to death, knowing the increased risk of heart failures from extended replacement hormonal therapy which allowed me to grow enough to live a normal life. I first gradually begun to reduce dosage following medical advice but that only reduced the frequency of arrythmia to isolated episodes which went on every few weeks or months. In 2017 I totally quit levothyroxine. No consequences aside from increased sensitivity to cold, and absolutely no more arrythmia episodes ever.

Just had a complete cardio workup. I had a bypass after a heart attack 18 years ago and have had stents, 4 or 5 angiograms and yearly testing. It's not my cup of tea fetish wise but it is what it is. Better than being dead anyway!

Had Rheumatic Fever in 8th grade and got mild heart damage. Was drafted into US Army. So, apparently not badly damaged.

I see my cardiologist every 3 months due to my hypertensive heart disease. I have a thickened left ventricle as well as aortic stenosis and arterial stiffness. Last visit she did a sequential blood pressure test. Cuffs were placed on both of my upper arms, wrists, thighs, calves and ankles. They were inflated at the same time. I also had a Ambulatory bp test done in both arms simultaneously over a 48 hour period. During a treadmill stress test my pressure was 276/140. The test was terminated but my pressure took a extremely long time to come down l was told.