Heart Rhythm Conditions – Welcome to the group

I wish I would have thought more like you from the beginning! I can't turn back time, so I am moving forward with family doctor to slowly stop taking drugs. I also found a chiropractor who thinks he can help me get at least some of my life back & possibly more! I need all the prayers & crossed fingers for me please! I have very little quality of life & I am not even 50 yet. I will be at the end of December. Thank you for all your words & suggestions. It was sweet of you to reach out. It isvery lonely on my end, being ill all the time.

I think that getting off medications should be supervised if any are essential to health. One by one is a good way to go and very very slowly. Pharmacists and MD's can help but tend to suggest tapering too quickly in my experience. It will be easier to tell what is what if some of your meds don't complicate the situation but you may need some of them! We obviously aren't qualified to say and we are all different.

In the past, I had two chiropractors that helped me immensely with many issues. I would go in with one problem and he would get rid of three. A Gonstead chiropractor is the best of the best. There are very few of them. None where I live. I believe in prayer, but crossed fingers make give you a cramp in them. LOL

One of my best friends died because she followed instructions of family doctor. Was taking no meds and had one number a little too high. In a few months she was taking a handful of pills a day all with negative side effects, the last one being depression which she never was before. It was from meds. She lost her will to live, shut her eyes and two weeks later died.

Make a list of the meds you are taking, and the neg side effects and tell the doctor you want off of them. On two meds, many years ago, I was on a med and weaned off it. Took a sliver off every day taking less and less until none. I was told I had to take the rest of my life. Well, 45 years later I don't.

Thank you! I'm hoping I can do the same as you. I used to pray but that has been very hard for me to do as of late! I would like to but I just can't bring myself to do it. That has been a bad spot for me for about a year.

@saraheigen this forum is not supposed to provide medical advice, only experiences.

I have a kid on insulin who would die in days without it, and also on anti-convulsants and has not had a life-altering seizure in 10 years. My mother lived until 95+ thanks to medications. I took meds for cancer, and for my bones, and they have saved me.

So I would not say, in our experience, that meds are bad. Nevertheless they need to be carefully chosen, monitored for side effects as well as interactions, and the situation of a drug treating a drug's effects needs to be avoided unless the first drug is necessary for life. That's my view, as a lay person who unfortunately has dealt with a lot of medical situations.

Chances are you will keep some but a "wash out" meaning getting rid of candidates one at a time might be helpful.

I am very happy medications have worked for you and your family, really I am. I'm not trying to condemn that. I was born with a rare heart defect & have been doing pretty well for 49 years, until COVID. It has turned my body into goo. I have so many things going wrong now. I don't get answers I get meds. I am so terrified it's not even funny. I just found some comfort that I might possibly not be alone. I will stop writing on these forums. Good bye!

What is SVT?

I am an active 80 year old female. I am in the process of all kinds of tests to determine what is going on with me...Heart monitor, PET scan, MRI on my lungs, Echocardia. When I wore a heart monito, I was only told by my doctor that my heart is beating too fast...put me on Metrolpolol 25 mg. My doctor is a DO -- not an MD. He seems to be doing everything he can to determine why I still have this fuzzy head though I am on oxigen at night. My latest test is for an overnight sleep apnea test. At what point should I move onto a Cardiologist?

Supra-ventricular tachycardia. Essentially, any arrhythmia that results in a heart rate higher than 100 originating in, and taking place in, either of the two smaller chambers atop the heart...above the two large ventricles. Tachycardia is an arrhythmia. Also included are atrial fibrillation, premature atrial complexes, and flutter.

@dalebout123 it seems like a good idea to see a cardiologist. Is the medication helping you? You are having a lot of testing which you can bring to cardiology. What is the reason for oxygen at night? Do you also have a pulmonologist?