AboutDavid Richardson Expertise Adult heart function and disease. Not very good about children lesss than 12. Hypertension is o.k. Heart rhythm a special interest.
Experience Certified in cardiology by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Was chairman of division of cardiology at the Medical College of Virginia. Am now mostly retired.
Organizations Fellow of American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology and member of American Physiological Society..
Publications Circulation, American Heart Journal, Hypertension.
Education/Credentials M.D. from Harvard Medical School. Residency training at Yale Uhniversity School of Medicine and Medical College of Virginia.
Awards and Honors Gold Heartt Award from American Heart Association in 1995.
Tink wrote at 2007-08-10 10:10:08
Hi I'm sorry you have had this. I have too or similar. An overdose of thyroxine over several years left me very ill, to the point I could hardly move. My doctor told me I was suffering panic attacks and anxiety, and it was all in my mind! I had severe tachy episodes, and the thing he thought was panic attack was breathing difficulty due to two things. 1. The thyroxine gave me GORD (reflux) and Oesophogitis making breathing harder. 2. My heart racing, stopping, re-starting etc. also caused breathing strangeness, feeling of not able to breath. Once diagnosed, it took a while but I now don't get these awful episodes! It took a long time though, and I've got a long way to go, but traveling in the right direction. Hope you are too!
