Missed warning signs

  • by 06kj
  • 2013-02-08 02:02:01
  • ICDs
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I was just thinking about how I sometimes have dreams about getting shocked. It gave me a flash back to when I was in 6th grade. (This will probably make sense to no one on here) I had a dream I was a character in the video game Red Faction and I had been shot in the heart with the rail gun. I dreamed the whole xray vision and zooming in on my heart and then firing like in the game. The rail gun is a weapon that can shoot through walls and when you scope in you see a thermal image of the enemy. I woke up to my heart racing around 200bpm and went to my parents in the living room to tell them I felt sick. A few days later I had a very similar episode. We talked to my doctor and they said to let them know if it happened again, which it never did. Then when I was 21 I had SCD. I feel like it could have been prevented if my family was more informed about SVT when I was young.

Has something similar happened to anyone else on here?

I have actually never told my electrophysiologist about this so I should probably do that next time I see him. They still have yet to officially figure out what caused my SCD but I think this might help.

3 Comments

Weeell...

by Zia - 2013-02-08 01:02:35

Hey Don

" You just might run into a listening EP."

Sounds like an oxymoron to me LOL

missed signs

by Tracey_E - 2013-02-08 09:02:10

I think a lot of things are blown off when someone under 30, much less a kid, mentions something they're not used to seeing. School physicals are a joke, imo. Unless the kid is adamant (and usually they're not, who wants a bunch of tests?!) or the parents are very knowledgeable, they'll do a cursory check and say the kid is fine.

Hate to tell you...

by donr - 2013-02-08 10:02:31

...but your EP will blow you off, just like they did when you were a kid!

I agree w/ you that what happened to you as a kid was a PROBABLY a precursor of your later troubles.

You were incapable of visualizing the event any other way, so you did it in Kid terms & descriptions.

Instead of looking at it from the standpoint of "What could this kid be describing that I know about?", they pass it off as an overly vivid imagination.

Give it a try, however. You just might run into a listening EP.

Sounds like the Schwartzenegger flick "Eraser."

Don

You know you're wired when...

You take technology to heart.

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