Hi Evita,
I dont know why I havent seen this thread before, as I too have had a scary time recently. My story is very complicated, I lost my 14 yr old son in 1994, he collapsed and died instantly in my garden, no exact medical explanation was ever found. Because of Matthews death Harry and I were sent to London for tests, they discovered that I have a leaking mitral valve but reassured me it was very common and would not cause me any problems. Eventually in 1998 at the age of 46 I gave birth to my wonderful(though exhausting) triplets, Rebecca, Thomas and James, the result of three attempts at ivf the third one using donated eggs. Then last Oct I began to feel really unwell, very dizzy, panciky, sweating etc. After three or four episodes of this I went to my GP who basically said I was having a panic attack and what did I expect at my age with three x five yr olds!! Well a few weeks later my heart was racing around I felt so dizzy, I went upstairs and down I went, not really passed out, I poured with sweat and Harry called the doctors. They told him to take me straight to our local hospital were I was put on an ecg, it was normal! Exactly two weeks later whilst crossing the road to pick the kids up from school it happened again. This time Harry put me in the car and took me straight to the doctors, he kept me on his couch for almost two hours, did all the basic tests, nothing. He then let me go home, said he was certain that nothing had happened but would refer me to a cardiologist. The cardiologist listened to my story, especially about Matthew, so because of my concerns he put me on a Novacor monitor for a week....nothing. I have an echo every three years because of my mitral valve and had just had that done.....normal. So as the symptems were still very much going on my doctor took lots of blood tests..........all normal. So in the last few weeks I have been trying to help myself. I do believe that stress can be the cause of all this, my life is very stressful, now 52 with 6yr old triplets, still have night sweats after going through an early menopause, always missing Matthew, that is such a bewildering, painful, awful thing to live with every day, that alone makes my heart feel as though it is being squeezed with pain. Just over a week ago I went into our local Holland and Barret shop and found myself pouring all of this out to the assistant, she listened and said that in her opinion it is all a build up of ten years of stress which I never can deal with because of my hectic life with my trio. She recommended two supplements to take, I do already take magnesium, she sold me St Johns Wort for anxiety and vitamin B2. Now I have only been on them for 10 days but I do feel 50/60% better, I am not THINKING about it all the time. I have an appointment to see the cardiologist in April and I am going to ask him to thoroughly test me for all the syndromes that affect the electrical field around the heart, I NEED to know that what happened to Matthew is not going to happen to me, especially now that I have my three special ones, also if I DON`T have any of the syndromes then I will know that I did not pass anything on to Matthew. I can also tell you that I felt pretty much ok tonight until I read this thread, and now its made me feel anxious again, my chest is feeling tight, but then again I am very very tired and should have been in bed two hours ago! Evita, just know that you are not alone, it is easy to say I truly know, but worrying really does make it worse. Try the St Johns Wort, it has helped me, take care and I wish I was nearer to you, I am in Kent nr Dover.