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Can you live a normal healthy live with svt?

Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: May 18 6:36am | Replies (14)
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@johnnoregon

I've had 3 type II heart attacks over this. I had sustained 244 bpm for too long in April 2022, having type II MI #3, and while in ICU, metoprolol was bumped up as the troponin results were getting bigger. It's now 100 mg/day of metoprolol that keeps this under control most of the time. My BP gets a very comfortable 110/75 average on it. My pulse is usually in the low 60s. Now, the issues are not gone. They're subdued. I live without my heart raging, but it surely does throw frequent fusses that I can manage.

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opiestrer | @opiestrer | May 18 6:36am

Today is May 18.
I have posted at length here and on other topics about benign living with PSVT.
Just last night my home-made setup woke me 7 minutes after midnight because I was in SVT. Three minutes later I fixed my SVT via the valsalva maneuver and I went back to sleep.
I use either the Polar Heart strap or (much more comfortable) Apple Watch. My alarm comes from the Smoky Cat Heart Graph ios App. ( The Apple Health App and other 3rd party apps do NOT alarm immediately upon tachycardia unless it continues for a minute or so.)
Picture attached.

Ps- My wife never even woke up during the episode….

Pss- Long ago, before I learned valsalva, my SVT could last 2 hours…
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