My ef is 45% and I feel like I’m being ignored.
Hey all! I’ve been having more symptoms and that thinking are from my ef. I recently moved and I’m still in the process of finding new doctors. However my old cardiologist made me feel unseen and ignored. At my last visit before I moved he said we needed to be more aggressive with my treatment but didn’t say as to what. Once I said I’d be moving he said ‘Oh. I’ll leave it to the next doctor.” And walked out. I didn’t get a chance to get any more information. I’ve now moved and need to get scheduled with someone. I feel like I need to stop taking my metoprolol 100mg (my only heart med!) in order to get help. I wish I could get a pacemaker or something to just end this now. I’ve had a cardiac mri, many EKG’s, and a few echos. No other heart related tests. I’m constantly exhausted, sort of breath with minimal exercise, and have chest pains on and off as well as daily palpitations. Am I just being impatient? I can’t be the only one who feels like this.
Edit: I’m not going to stop taking my metoprolol! My cardiologist told me in 10ish years I’ll need a pacemaker. I remember asking questions about that but can’t remember why I’ll need one. I also went to a electro cardiologist at my cardiologist request. They did no testing but put me on diltizam (sorry definitely not spelling that right) unfortunately it did not do anything even after being put on a much higher dose then at the start. My cardiologist took me off of it after explaining that I next opening they had was October.