{"id":283,"date":"2018-06-25T20:44:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T03:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kreklewetz.com\/asd\/?p=283"},"modified":"2020-11-18T07:24:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T15:24:57","slug":"and-now-butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/2018\/06\/25\/and-now-butterflies\/","title":{"rendered":"And Now Butterflies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>I have now been acquainted with heart butterflies, aka, atrial flutter. Let me backtrack&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-284 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/heart-butterflies-27433063-300x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/heart-butterflies-27433063-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/heart-butterflies-27433063.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was still feeling short of breath whenever I&#8217;d exert energy, i.e. having a shower or trying on different outfits, and my chest still felt like I was wearing a lead vest, so I called Cardiologist #2, and was able to get an appointment for today. In addition to those symptoms, I started feeling this odd fluttery sensation in my heart\/throat. I first felt it after I climbed my apartment stairs a couple of days ago, and then it started happening on and off more frequently throughout the day. It&#8217;s an odd sensation, like there&#8217;s a butterfly in your chest, and it takes your breath away slightly. It happened frequently today, including the entire time I was sitting in the waiting room at the cardiologist&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>When he called me in, he asked me what was going on and hooked me up to the ECG monitor. Luckily the &#8220;heart butterflies&#8221; were active at that time so he could actually <em>see<\/em> what I was talking about. Apparently, atrial flutter is the correct term for heart butterflies. He&#8217;s ordering me a holter monitor and gave me an RX for a beta blocker- that I&#8217;m a bit scared of because my blood pressure is already hella low. Anyway, I went next door to get a stress test, which part of me loved because I could finally get back on treadmill! But unfortunately I couldn&#8217;t even finish it because I was so out of breath. I didn&#8217;t even run! I just walked quickly. I even told the tech and my cardiologist that I <em>just<\/em> ran 8km quite easily two weeks ago! So we stopped there and my doc ordered me a CT to see if I have a blood clot in my lungs.<\/p>\n<p>Holter monitor appointment is July 17th and I&#8217;m just waiting on my CT appointment now&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have now been acquainted with heart butterflies, aka, atrial flutter. Let me backtrack&#8230; I was still feeling short of breath whenever I&#8217;d exert energy, i.e. having a shower or trying on different outfits, and my chest still felt like I was wearing a lead vest, so I called Cardiologist #2, and was able to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,9,23,17,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-journey","7":"tag-arrhythmia","8":"tag-asd","9":"tag-atrial-flutter","10":"tag-interventional-cardiologist","11":"tag-stress-test","12":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kreklewetz.com\/asd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}