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Janet Levinson
HI MY NAME IS JANET. I'M A 50 YEAR OLD SINGLE MOM OF A 12YR OLD. TWO YEARS AGO I TOLD MY MD THAT I FELT DIZZY. BECAUSE I HAD HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE AND WAS ON TOPROL SHE JUST ASSUMED IT HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH MY BLOOD PRESSURE. IN OCTOBER I WAS BLOW DRYING MY HAIR AND ALL OF A SUDDEN I FELT LIKE ALL THE BLOOD WAS DRAINING OUT OF MY BODY AND I WENT TO THE FLOOR. WHEN I WAS OUT I COULD FEEL MY BODY FLOATING THROUGH SPACE AT ABOUT WHAT FELT LIKE 500 MILES PER HOUR. I FINALLY CAME TO AND SAID OH MY GOD I PASSED OUT. I WENT TO THE DOCTORS AND THEY DID A BUNCH OF TESTS. OUT OF ALL THE TESTS EKG,24 HR MONITOR, ECHO, THE ONLY TEST THAT CAME BACK ABNORMAL WAS MY EEG. SO NOW THEY TOLD ME I WAS HAVING SEIZURES. THEY PUT ME ON SEIZURE MEDICATION AND WOULD NOT LET ME DRIVE. I KEPT TELLING THEM IT WAS NOT SEIZURES, BUT THEY SAID YES IT IS. WELL IT KEPT HAPPENING OVER AND OVER AGAIN. I EVEN WENT ON LINE AND DID RESEARCH AND WHAT DO YOU THINK CAME UP BUT SEIZURES VS CARDIAC WHAT COULD IT BE.I COULD FEEL GOD TELLING ME TO FOLLOW THROUGH WITH THE CARDIAC ISSUE SI I EVEN TOLD DR MADANI WHO DOES THE PACEMAKERS AT THE HOSPITAL I WORK AT I THINK I NEED A PACEMAKER? HE SAID OH WHY DO YOU THINK THAT AND I TOLD HIM BECAUSE GOD TOLD ME I DO. WELL I ENDED UP IN THE HOSPITAL ON A MONITOR BUT IT WAS AN EEG SEIZURE MONITOR BUT IT HAD ONE LEAD TO MY HEART. THE THIRD NIGHT I WAS IN I HIT THE ALARM AND RECORDED WHAT WAS GOING ON. THE NEXT DAY THE MD CAME IN AND SAID WHAT HAPPENED? I TOLD HIM I PASSED OUT. HE SAID I DON'T KNOW HOW TO TELL YOU THIS JANET BUT WHEN YOU HAD THAT SPELL YOUR HEART STOPPED FOR SEVENTEEN SECONDS, BUT STARTED BACK UP. I WAS BLOWN AWAY. THE NEXT THING I KNEW I WAS IN ICU AND THAT NIGHT MY HEART STOPPED TWICE. THE NEXT DAY I HAD THE ST JUDES PACEMAKER. I HAVE SICK-SINUS SYNDROME. MY HEART STOPPED A TOTAL OF ABOUT NINE TIMES. SINCE IV'E HAD IT CHECKED THEY TELL ME MY HEART FUNCTIONS 98% OF THE TIME. THE PACEMAKER ONLY GOES OFF ABOUT 2% OF THE TIME. THATS WHY IT WAS SO DIFFICULT TO FIND THE PROBLEM. THE TOPROL WAS ALSO HIDING THE TACHY.
I GIVE GOD ALL THE GLORY BECAUSE HE WAS THE ONE
THAT REVEALED THIS PROBLEM TO ME. AND I THANK GOD THAT I LISTENED TO THE SEIZURE
MD AND WENT INTO THE HOSPITAL FOR MONITORING WHEN HE INSISTED THAT I HAD TO DO
THAT. I REALLY COULD HAVE BEEN DEAD. I BELIEVE THE LORD KNEW MY SON 12 YRS OLD
NEEDED HIS MOM SINCE HIS DAD IS NOT IN HIS LIFE AND THAT'S WHY THE LORD HELPED
ME THROUGH THIS ORDEAL. TODAY I AM DOING PRETTY GOOD. MY ONLY PROBLEM IS THAT I
STILL GET THE TACHY RATE AT TIMES AND THEN MY HEART SLOWS WAY DOWN AND I CAN
ACTUALLY FEEL THE PACER GO OFF AND MY HEART JUMPS IN MY CHEST. MY MD HAS HAD ME
WHERE THE EVENT MONITOR TO SEE WHAT THE PACER HAS BEEN DOING AND HE SAYS ITS
WORKING OK BUT FOR SOME REASON, I FEEL IT. HE SAID I COULD TRY MORE TOPROL. IF
IT KEEPS UP I MAY ASK TO SEE A RHYTHM SPECIALIST IN ALBANY N.Y. I AM SO GLAD
THIS IS SOLVED. I REALLY WAS BEGINNING TO THINK I WAS GOING CRAZY. MY REGULAR MD
WHEN HE CAME TO SEE ME IN THE HOSPITAL SAID JANET I CAN'T BELEIVE IT! HE SAID
ITS NOT LIKE WE WERE NOT LOOKING FOR THIS. I TOLD THE NEURO GUYS HEY NEXT TIME
YOU HAVE TO BE MORE OPENED MINDED I KNEW IT WAS NOT SEIZURES. THEY TELL ME ITS
SO HARD TO DIAGNOSIS. PRAISE THE LORD FOR HIS GOODNESS. AND THANK THE LORD FOR
STORIES LIKE MINE ON THE INTERNET, BECAUSE I READ A STORY VERY CLOSE TO MINE
ABOUT A LADY AROUND FORTY YEARS OLD IN L.A. THAT WAS TRAINING TO BE A
FIREFIGHTER AND PASSED ALL THE TRAINING CLASSES AND ALL OF A SUDDEN STARTED TO
PASS OUT JUST LIKE I DID AND SHE HAS THE SAME THING SICK SINUS. I MADE A COPY OF
THAT STORY AND GAVE IT TO THE NEURO DOCS. SO THESE STORIES DO HELP. THANK YOU
AND GOD BLESS.
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