Anyone with a murmur or heart disorder?

I do not have any heart problems that I'm aware of but I know every heart problem under the sun is in my genes from my dad's side of the family.

That being said, I haven't had a genuine checkup since middle school. Every time I get sick, I just go to urgent care. Maybe it's just because of the med fet but I do want to have my heart examined at some point. If I lay on my right side and sometimes my left side too, I have a weird feeling in my chest. It feels like my heart is really squeezing itself to death to pump the blood through the muscle. Like it's working too hard.

One fun fact: I'm so intune with my heart that I can feel this whooshing sensation when my heart is beating too hard or too fast and I've shared my heart online witb a friend while this was going on and he said the feeling I had was actually the blood surging through my heart muscle.

I probably do...

I don't "do" doctors, but when listening to my own heart I have a loud murmur (I can hear it clearly even with a cheap nursing stethoscope, and it's very clear through my Cardiology IV) and regularly get missed beats and skips.

I don't suppose it helps that I'm overweight and get out of breath easily!

I have bradyacardia, and have had a pacemaker for a little over a year. I dumped my first cardiologist because of his unprofessional behavior, and becan seeing a new one this year. I see him every six months (most recently ltwo weeks ago).

The first visit he used the steth over my tshirt, and didn't want me to even lift it yp (which is common these days in florida). When I saw him earlier this month, I deliberately wore a button-down floral print shirt. He looked surprised when I began to unbutton it, but I expalined that I don't like how it makes fabric against my torso. He told me it was ok if I preferred it on the skin. He then listened to my heart and lungs. I was nver ausculated, percussed, or examined with my shirt on until about seven years ago.

I have a systolic murmur, a mild mitral insufficiency for about 20 years.

I can be to various doctors at various times"the patient they love" or their Kryptonite.

I was a medical professional, so doctors don't have to "talk down" to me , I understand them perfectly .

If you know me ,and are expecting an "educated patient" not a problem , however when you "sneak up" on them ,it really pisses them off , i will suffice it to say ,i am a "complicated patient" ( i joke with those who can handle my dark humour ,randomly open the Merck manual to almost any chapter other than "poisoning, pschiatry,obstetrics & gynecology " and you will find "my chart". Doctors ,fall into 3 groups in my life , Fired, resigned and "good to see you my old friend" unfortunately the later of those groups is pretty exclusive and in fact is comprised of my colon rectal ,and my Urologist.

Easy way to get fired , I am the boss ,I make all decisions with advice/council from you, cross that line ,there's no going back your done !

Anyway I should answer the damn question right ?

Arteriosclerosis ,atherosclerosis, Dilated cardiomyopathy with left ventricular failure, congestive Heart Faiĺure ,murmur,Angina .

As you can imagine I get tons of doctor time and those aren't even the intresting parts of my health , the intresting parts of me would sell out stadiums coast to coast around the globe , just for the chance to be mentioned as an examining physician ,anybody who makes it there knows they will be talked about for the next 200 years (not all good, not all bad ,but lots of wondering what was it like to be there in person ?.

I am a "teddy bear" unless and until you put me on the defensive ,then I am anything but courteous and civilized .

I wouldn't know. Nobody's ever examined my heart properly and thoroughly. Looking fir volunteers?

Dawnguard217, I will gladly give you a proper and thorough heart exam!

I have a heart Murmer & a very irregular heart beat. I have had ekg's, echo's, cardiac stress tests (plural). The only thing the discovered was that I had a heart attack some time in the past on the bottom of my heart but it seemed to have resolved itself. Since I was a child I had lots of episodes of crushing chest pain. Still have that at 71. The cardiologist said the heart attack could well have happened when I was a child. Heartbeat is sometimes so irregular that I feel faint. I take metoprolol twice a day to regulate my heartbeat. Got a clean bill of heart health last year from the doctor though.

I've had afib, triple bypass, enlarged heart and many many tests. I get by with it and try to keep some weight off. I guess it sucks to get old!

I guess it sucks to get old!

Yeah there are some features of being young(er) that I miss.

I used to have a 90+ year old customer who always told me not to get old because I wouldn't like it, every time I went to fix her TV. I don't remember which would come first for her, the year 2000 or her turning 100 but I used to ask her if she wouldn't like to see either or both. She said no to all. I thought she was doing quite well. She seemed to be walking OK and she was doing her own check book.

I had a heart rupture from a bad fall. They put me back together. 😃

When i listen to my heartbeat with stethoscope in lying position, i hear a murmur. It is heard at pulmonary, erb's point, tricuspid and faintly at mitral area. I don't hear it in sitting or standing position.

Am not too much experienced but after exercising when i lay on my left side i can hear murmur, ive tryed with Littmann classic, cardiology and master

There's no part that can be engineered or made, that lasts 80 years...so our hearts are pretty great pumps!

I have a very slight heart murmer, which apparently can be heard with a stethoscope. I remember having to have my heart checked about 2 times throughout my life, perhaps more. It's never affected any part of my life other than that. Apparently heart murmurs can become more pronounced if your immune system is fighting something? That's what my doctor said, he was saying I must of had a cold or something of the sort when he initially found my murmer and then gave me a referral to check my heart.

There's no part that can be engineered or made, that lasts 80 years...so our hearts are pretty great pumps!

I don't know, I've seen some vintage bags and nozzles that still work pretty good. I know what you mean though. I think the heart beats a few million times a year. That's pretty amazing.

I first experienced a runaway pulse at age 8. It converted to normal within an hour. I was at a boarding school and told no one.

It occurred from time to time. I told doctors it never occurred when I was having a physical. A couple times it ran for more than 30 hours but I had no access to medical help.

It happened twice during basic training in the US Air Force but converted as soon as I laid down.

Over the years I learned to force a conversion by lying down, pressing very hard against my heart and holding my breath to force my lungs against my heart. This would cause my heart to momentarily halt and then to start with a normal pulse. The first time my wife felt this happen it really freaked her out.

I'm my 50's a cardiologist took me seriously. I wore a heart monitor for several weeks. I was shoveling gravel at a Habitat project when my heart pulse took off. I went home, laid down and called the monitoring service. The doctor told me to call 911 for an ambulance. I told him it wasn't necessary. I then did my conversion procedure and my heart stopped for about 8 seconds, all the while the doctor was screaming over the phone. When my heart started again with its regular pulse, he was uttering a string of curse words. When he calmed down, I asked him to be sure to foreword the tracings to my doctor.

A few weeks later I underwent heart ablation which cauterized the secondary node in my right ventricle. That did the trick. No more run away heart pulse

Hey and Good Evening everyone,

My name is David and I am 27 years old now.

I was born with a congenital heart defect. Six weeks after I was born, the doctors diagnosed a grade 4 mitral valve insufficiency and an atrial septal defect. I was operated on for the first time when I was 2 years old. The mitral valve was reconstructed and the VSD closed with a patch.

When I was 8 years old I had to have surgery a second time. The mitral valve was so damaged that it had to be replaced with an artificial mitral valve prosthesis. Since then I have to take the drug Marcumar. Unfortunately, I developed a grade 1 AV block after the operation because the doctors had injured the nerves of the cardiac irritation system.

A year later, I was diagnosed with a rare heart virus. The virus caused my own mitral valve to be damaged. Even today, my specialists are researching a drug that kills the virus. But unfortunately it will no longer be possible to save me because the virus is raging all over my body and has already affected other organs.

In 2007, my doctors found another heart defect. The virus had damaged my aortic valve so much that it became just as inadequate. Today I have a grade 3 aortic valve insufficiency. Soon I will have to have a fourth heart operation because this valve will most likely also need to be replaced with an artificial aortic valve prosthesis.

Not so far as I know

I’ve got a innocent heart murmur since I was a child and it misses a beat every so often and find it sexy knowing I have this murmur and I have had a few hospital operations to do with the bladder and the operating team haven’t picked up on it, strange.

I use a propaq ecg machine for fun and I have seen it on the screen where it misses a beat or two

I have a murmur due to mitral valve prolapse. I go for check-ups every year. I have an ekg and echo done.

I was diagnosed with a S3 innocent heart during a school physical at age 11. Outgrew my murmur and no longer a problem.

Have a mild mitral insufficiency. Was just at doctor today for physical. Said it sounded the same as it has for the past 7 years. Do have high blood pressure but take meds and is controlled. Today was 126/78. Pulse 104. Told him about palpitations I’ve been having. Did an ekg and found some PVCs. Don’t think it’s anything to worry about now though.

Hey and Good Evening everyone,

My name is David and I am 27 years old now.

I was born with a congenital heart defect. Six weeks after I was born, the doctors diagnosed a grade 4 mitral valve insufficiency and an atrial septal defect. I was operated on for the first time when I was 2 years old. The mitral valve was reconstructed and the VSD closed with a patch.

When I was 8 years old I had to have surgery a second time. The mitral valve was so damaged that it had to be replaced with an artificial mitral valve prosthesis. Since then I have to take the drug Marcumar. Unfortunately, I developed a grade 1 AV block after the operation because the doctors had injured the nerves of the cardiac irritation system.

A year later, I was diagnosed with a rare heart virus. The virus caused my own mitral valve to be damaged. Even today, my specialists are researching a drug that kills the virus. But unfortunately it will no longer be possible to save me because the virus is raging all over my body and has already affected other organs.

In 2007, my doctors found another heart defect. The virus had damaged my aortic valve so much that it became just as inadequate. Today I have a grade 3 aortic valve insufficiency. Soon I will have to have a fourth heart operation because this valve will most likely also need to be replaced with an artificial aortic valve prosthesis.

Wish you super good luck with this. Sometimes I wonder why things go the way they do... why several random events can happen and seem to link together. I think the only thing I've gotten from having "challenging things" happen to me in life is that I am a stronger person and I have this weird prism view of things. I hope things go ultra well.

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Wish you super good luck with this. Sometimes I wonder why things go the way they do... why several random events can happen and seem to link together. I think the only thing I've gotten from having "challenging things" happen to me in life is that I am a stronger person and I have this weird prism view of things. I hope things go ultra well.

Thank you very much for your words. I also hope that maybe there will be a possibility of hope again. My American specialist and his team are not giving up yet. They keep researching and trying to find something to help and heal me.

Despite everything, I'm fine so far. I live with a lot of restrictions, but I don't let them make my life difficult. Of course, I'm often in the hospital, I've already spent a third of my life in hospitals (9 years from my age 27 years). But it was kind of a nice time ...

Even if you are sick, you shouldn't give up. Live your life as you can. Live out your dreams so that they come true and come true. Until your last heartbeat, until your last breath. Maybe even beyond death.