Hey Guys,
Well, I'm back again from México, and things are in the change process again. I was in Torreón for the last two-and-a-half weeks doing some medical exams to find out what is the problem with my health that has been plaguing me all my life, but has been worsening in recent months.
Ever since I was a child eating has been a problem for me because I tire and get light-headed before I can finish eating, and later my heart races. In recent months I have all but fainted several times after eating, and I have come to while driving to many times for comfort.
I went to Mexico to see a specialist because I don't have insurance here, and it was much more affordable than here. When the internist heard that my heart races in those times, he did an electro-cardiogram immediately and found that I have a Cardiac arrhythmia that had to be treated.
The doctor send me to a cardiologist to have an echocardiogram (video of my heart) done and a twenty-four hour holter heart monitor at home while I recorded my activities. The echo showed that I have a little hole in the septum between the two ventricles of my heart, but that is not the presenting problem.
I saw another cardiologist a few days later, and he surmized that I have a defect in the pacemaker of my heart. It does not regulate the beating to keep it steady, so he has given me medicine to regulate that.
I also found out that I had Typhoid, but that is treated now, and hopefully gone.
I praise God that I was given the gift of seeing the head cardiologists in Northern Mexico for free to get a third opinion. She is a Christian lady and wanted to help knowing that I had already spent all of my money. Praise our Father, the great physician!!!
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Hey you might want to inquire your physician about taking magnesium supplements for atrial cardiac arrhythmia. Most doctors will say that the use of magnesium supplements is inconclusive, but from the medical books I've read, it could be used as an alternative treatment. I recommended it for one of my professors and my mother and it was effective for both of them. Also cheap too -- at $2 a bottle. I think the hypertensive drugs they were taking were affecting their electrolyte balance, which threw their heart rhythm out of whack. Just a theory, since I'm no doctor. ;D
The only side effect of magnesium is slight diarrhea if you take too much.
Of course, if you have ventricular arrhythmia, it's probably best to try more serious treatment options. But who knows? Maybe it'll help that too. Magnesium is sometimes used to treat serious arrhythmias after surgery. Try talking with your doctor. :D
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