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@gloaming Thank you so much for the reply it's helped relax me some. I been only eating slices of bread here and there and I'm fine same bread, I ate a turkey sandwich plain after my last visit in hospital but that was after I had a SVT episode so I don't know if I got lucky or if the turkey I buy is not good for me .I've been trying to see a neurologist as well to rule out any other possible problems but don't know how to go about getting one scheduled. I'm sorry to hear your cardioversion didn't work out for you I hope all is well and your healed asap. Not sure what kind of turkey to get other then like low sodium but I'm scared to experiment or try new things or food cant afford to go back to the hospital anymore this month sadly.

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@nelson1996 In order to find exactly what sets your heart off, you'd have to methodically eliminate any suspected triggers and then introduce them again....BUT.....only one at a time. You'd start with your favourite bread, eat it over two/three/four days, and wait a couple of days with only that change to see if your heart breaks into SVT. Even then, it might just be 'idiopathic' in nature, meaning of unknown origin, but you'll think it's the bread because that was what you reintroduced to your diet. [ see 'post hoc, ergo propter hoc' fallacy. I did this, so the unpleasant event was because of this. Not necessarily so!] But, say your heart didn't go into SVT or AF, you've waited three days after eating the bread you enjoy, and next you introduce your fave turkey slices. Eat that each day for three/four days, and then let two/three more days pass. No SVT or AF? Try the mayo, or the pickle, or.....whatever you consume must be dealt with one item at a time, plus a couple of days for your heart to act up.
If none of those seems to bring on SVT or AF, now you're in a quandary. What else sets off my heart....dammit!? People eventually learn that sometimes their arrhythmia is indeed triggered, most often by stress or cardiomyopathy which has little or nothing to do with occasional dietary tweaks. But it can be alcohol, caffeine, too much calcium over a short period, too little rest, being to warm, uncomfortable, in pain....you'd be surprised to see all the things patients insist is what their trigger is/are.
Thanks for your sentiments about my cardioversions. They can work, sometimes for months and years, just not for me. So, I had to have a catheter ablation, two of them it happens, and those have had me in NSR for over 30 months now.