Does your doctor, when you are being examined, do this procedure to check for a heart murmur:
She has her stethoscope on you and is listening. She says "on the count of three I want you to lean forward quickly and I will go down with you. I want to hear your heart when you do this"
So you both do that, she listens, and tells you her verdict.
Have you done that?
This is something else my doc has done as part of her testing. She said I had a murmur due to all this.
Coincidentally, a few weeks later I had an EKG done as part of my annual with my GP. No murmur - perfect EKG.
Anyone have any theories as to the discrepancy? Wouldn't an EKG be the final word?
Posted by kgg (Member # 5867) on :
I don't believe an EKG would pick up on a murmur. That is something you hear.
I was told 30 years ago that I had a functional murmur. Meaning it comes and goes. The physician who first heard it had me practically standing on my head when he was listening to my heart. Since then some docs have heard it most have not.
Posted by Sammi (Member # 110) on :
I have always had a heart murmur. When doctors listen to my heart, they hear it. I have never had a doctor ask me to lean forward like you describe.
Posted by Phoiph (Member # 41238) on :
Heart murmurs can be positional...for example...heard when lying down, but not when sitting up...
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
Agree that it can often be found while lying down. I was told I was born with a heart murmur. No Dr ever said a thing about it for the next 30 yrs. Then one day I went to a new Dr and he had me lie down while he checked my heart.
He told me I had a heart murmur. Yep. I do have MVP .. same thing, right?
I know an echo can prove a mitral valve prolapse, but an EKG could show to be fine.
Posted by lpkayak (Member # 5230) on :
My cardio doc hears mine but primarys never do
Just sitting up
It never shows up on ekg
So we all have murmurs?
Posted by woodstock (Member # 43072) on :
Or maybe this is something a lyme doc tells you to keep you coming back?