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Svt

Posted by kate26 @kate26, Sep 2 1:47am

Hi
I was diagnosed after 4 years with svt and thankfully I’m able to have the ablation.. just on the waiting list and I’ve been told it’s about 3 month wait.. so I’ve been put on Bisoprolol 2.5 and the side effects were nasty for about 5 weeks and then I started to feel great.. I’ve only had a couple of svt episodes in 10 weeks and I’ve been able to deal with them.. but the last 5 days I’ve had such bad anxiety and I hate it as it’s starting to take control of me.. I’ve had all the tests and my heart is healthy so I have no reason to be worried and I’m getting the ablation but this ball of stress in my chest and back is effecting me so bad.. my doctor has been great and told me it will pass but obviously I expected to be diagnosed and then that would be all my questions answered and the anxiety would go.. I worry that they have it wrong and my heart isn’t healthy I worry I will suddenly have a heart attack.. it’s so hard to explain to your family if they just don’t get it.. I meditate have reiki and I walk do yoga you name it I’ve done it and it hasn’t gone.. any advice please x

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gloaming | @gloaming | Sep 6 3:30pm
In reply to @brigid4 "Thank you for your response. Getting older is not for sissies as we have found. My..." + (show)
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Thank you for your response. Getting older is not for sissies as we have found. My biggest concern is that it is so difficult to get to a really knowledgeable diagnostician these days. Most specialists do not want to hear about any complaints that are not in their realm of specialty. My intuition says that is not the way our bodies work. A prescription for one part may not be good for another part. I have a feeling we will all be shuffled off to AI docs soon as no human can keep up with everything. I just want to be able to be here with my family as long as I can do so without being a burden. So I am trying to educate myself enough to be able to get answers from some of these specialists by asking lucid questions. In doing so, I find that there are questions they should have been asking me, again our bodies organs are "connected". A what came first the chicken or the egg discussion comes up in most of my research. My blood work and liver markers do not show a reason for having the CT scan show cirrhosis but my liver is scarred and cystic. And I do not drink. If or how that is connected to my AFib or what causes it, is still a mystery to me. The only connection I can fathom is the chemo/radiation I had nearly 25 years ago for NHLymphoma. And no one could tell me why I had that. So pumping more "drugs" for heart issues and gastric issues is not an ideal plan in my mind. This chat site has been very informative and at least it let's me know I am not the only one with these issues. And you are so right, I read responses and even those with different problems face similar symptoms. I appreciate the learning experiences.

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For your liver to be in the condition it is, and no history of alcoholism, obesity, or of a hepatic infection, it must be due to genetics. That's all I can think of (I who am not educated much in medicine at all, certainly not in liver pathology).

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gloaming | @gloaming | Sep 6 3:34pm
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Also, I go for a second cardio version next week. They say I am always in AFib. Then they will discuss an ablation and they did bring that up before but again, not my first choice without more information. Now I wonder why they rushed to do the pacemaker and now I still have AFib. My symptoms have not changed except for the gastric issues. I have had the palpitations, etc. all my life and in my childhood. The fatigue is what sent me to the cardiologist in the first place. But maybe the fatigue was due to something else, as after chemo and radiation, a lot changed. Maybe it was my liver complaining but no real obvious issues in bloodwork. That is why I am being cautious, because I do not like going under anesthesia or being in the hospital for anything. I always seem to "lose a part" in those places. Don't have any left to lose that I don't need.

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The pacemaker must have been to regulate the speed of your left ventricle. Many people have what is called 'rapid ventricular response', meaning that the left ventricle wants to keep up with the signal making the left atrium beat chaotically. This is dangerous because it's a tachyarrhythmia (abnormally fast, any HR upwards of 100 BPM). So, as you have found, and as hopefully someone should have made clear to you before the pacemaker, a pacemaker doesn't preclude AF. It might help calm the heart enough with a regulated HR that it makes AF happen less often....which is good. But a pacemaker only regulates the ventricles, not the atrium, and that is why people with a pacemaker can still have AF. They just no longer have RVR, the rapid ventricular rate that becomes more and more dangerous as the hours pile up.

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sandwalk | @sandwalk | Sep 14 9:12am
In reply to @brigid4 "Thank you for your response. Getting older is not for sissies as we have found. My..." + (show)
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Thank you for your response. Getting older is not for sissies as we have found. My biggest concern is that it is so difficult to get to a really knowledgeable diagnostician these days. Most specialists do not want to hear about any complaints that are not in their realm of specialty. My intuition says that is not the way our bodies work. A prescription for one part may not be good for another part. I have a feeling we will all be shuffled off to AI docs soon as no human can keep up with everything. I just want to be able to be here with my family as long as I can do so without being a burden. So I am trying to educate myself enough to be able to get answers from some of these specialists by asking lucid questions. In doing so, I find that there are questions they should have been asking me, again our bodies organs are "connected". A what came first the chicken or the egg discussion comes up in most of my research. My blood work and liver markers do not show a reason for having the CT scan show cirrhosis but my liver is scarred and cystic. And I do not drink. If or how that is connected to my AFib or what causes it, is still a mystery to me. The only connection I can fathom is the chemo/radiation I had nearly 25 years ago for NHLymphoma. And no one could tell me why I had that. So pumping more "drugs" for heart issues and gastric issues is not an ideal plan in my mind. This chat site has been very informative and at least it let's me know I am not the only one with these issues. And you are so right, I read responses and even those with different problems face similar symptoms. I appreciate the learning experiences.

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You need to go to an EP and find out how many operations he has done. That is the best way to find a a an experienced doctor. The more experienced The better he will be

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