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Driving to work.

So did you think I gave up, well no I didn't and I won't because I love to write and share experiences? So here's one that is a little bit scary, well it was for me.

Thursday 29th July, just another day, the alarm clock goes off at 6 am, up and out for my 45 min exercise walk/run. Then for some reason, I felt a wee bit dizzy so decided not to go for my run and jumped into the shower instead.

Showered and dressed with a cup of tea in hand, ready to drive into work still feeling not quite right. Finished my tea and had a piece of toast and started to drive to work. My normal drive to work is around 15mins traffic dependent. During my drive in I started to feel sick and my hands were very cold and the dizziness was getting worse, as I got close to my work I decided to turn around and called my boss to say I was feeling unwell.

Now the scary part, I cant remember driving home which would have been roughly 4 miles, all I can remember was sitting in my car in my driveway.

I ended up going to bed and sleeping for 3 hours, when I woke I still was feeling dizzy, sick, and my anxiety levels were high. If anyone has suffered from anxiety attacks/panic attacks you will know what I mean.

My wife called the doctor and within an hour I was hooked up to a ECG machine and the doctor was saying, something not quite right, you need to go to the hospital.

With no ambulances to be had, blaming COVID for that. My brother-in-law took me up to the hospital where I got another ECG done and lots of other tests, bloods etc.

The Doctor/consultant chap said we are going to put you on a heart monitor for 24hours. So after 2 days in hospital on a heart monitor, the doctors discharged me. I had got a huge scare and had to wait another week for the results.

Apparently, I had what you call a Bio Block which is a disorder in the heart’s rhythm due to a fault in the natural pacemaker. This is caused by an obstruction — a block — in the electrical conduction system of the heart. Sometimes a disorder can be inherited. Despite the severe-sounding name, heart block may cause no symptoms at all in some cases, or occasional missed heartbeats in other cases (which can cause light-headedness, syncope (fainting), and palpitations), which I had.

Worse scenario or may require the implantation of an artificial pacemaker, depending upon exactly where in the heart conduction is being impaired and how significantly it is affected.

To recap I am now on a lesser dose of meds for my high BP which they think may have affected me as when you get older your BP reduces automatically.

I also have made a few lifestyle changes so all good.

Anyway not the best experience to share but a lesson learned if you're not feeling too good DONT DRIVE.