A story from a Mitral Valve Prolapse Patient
I have mild MVP with trivial Mitral Regurgitation. My heart rate always goes higher, more than 105 bpm when sitting on the couch few minutes after eating since I was diagnosed 3 years ago, although I’m already on beta blocker, I’m on Concor 2,5 mg/day btw. I’m always struggling with
Mitral Valve Prolapse (MVP), or the collapse of the mitral valve at the left side of the heart, can be diagnosed in people at any age, but not all cases require treatments. However, if the condition affects your activities and even threatens your life, your cardiologist will recommend one or several treatments.
Living with Mitral Valve Prolapse (MVP) requires means being more careful with your lifestyle. Since MVP affects your heart’s ability to pump blood, you are prone to symptoms such as dizziness, palpitations, irregular heartbeats, shortness of breath, cold sweat, and swelling on feet or hands. If left untreated, this disease
Mitral valve is a part of your heart that regulates the blood flow, so when it is damaged, you experience symptoms such as palpitations, cold sweat, and heart murmurs. Called Mitral Valve Prolapse (MVP), this condition affects two to three percent of populations but normally does not require treatments. However,
If you have any heart condition, including Mitral Valve Prolapse, you may hear the term “ejection fraction” (EF) many times. It describes the ability of your heart in pumping blood for each heartbeat. However, EF is often more specifically described as the amount of blood pumped out from left heart
We commonly see anxiety disorder as a psychological condition that has physical effects. People affected with this condition show symptoms such as palpitation, struggles in breathing, and cold sweat. However, a physical condition such as Mitral Valve Prolapse (MVP) may also trigger anxiety-like symptoms. MVP is often connected to anxiety
Regurgitation is a term used for a backward flowing of a body fluid such as in vomiting or in blood flow. In mitral valve regurgitation, the blood sloshes back to the left heart atrium when it is supposed to be flowed out to the left ventricle. In simpler term, the
These past two years after being diagnosed with Mitral Valve Prolapse (I was diagnosed in 2015). I learned a lot of things about MVP and how to cope with it. Because MVP will sticky with us for the rest of our live. One of the things I learned is the
Mitral Valve Prolapse is one of the common heart valve issue. Mitral Valve Prolapse or MVP is a condition where both your valve flaps not closing properly. Most people who have MVP have this condition since the day they are born. In most cases, Mitral Valve Prolapse doesn’t cause any
I was first diagnosed with mild Mitral Valve Prolapse with trivial regurgitation on 2015. It was all started in March, 2015 when I started feeling my heart beat is faster that usual. Last year in 2014, I noticed the same thing for about a week but my heart beat was