FEC and heart problems

I have had an occasional (few times a day) Ectopic heartbeat for 20 odd years now, I’ve had a couple of ECG’s over the years but didn’t seem a problem till I started the FEC. I have now had 3 sessions and I have a continuous pounding heartrate of a hundred a minute and the last couple of blood pressure tests in hospital have been vey high with the last one being 185/102 on Friday. A couple of weeks ago I had a 24 hour heart rate monitor and next Monday I am having a 24 hour blood pressure monitor. I’m hoping that these will throw some light on what is going on with my heart and I will have some help in bringing my heart back to some normality before I have a heart attack or stroke. Also things may improve now the FEC is over and I’ve just had the first of 3 Taxotere. My Onc did say today that FEC can cause heart failure.
Has anyone had siilar problems? I have not been able to find any information.

Best Wishes

Helen xx

Helen - I’m so sorry to hear of your problems. It must be very distressing for you. I don’t know much about it but I believe that it is Epirubicin in FEC that causes heart problems - so the Taxotere shouldn’t exacerbate the problem. I hope they get everything stabilised for you. I was given an ECG prior to starting FEC - did they do that for you?