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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.

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@gloaming Will try that out and hopefully can start to eat healthy again. And you had two ablations done? How did they turn out for you and what was that like an was it hard or stressful? How do you know if the ablation worked? If your healed Im happy to hear that I wouldnt wish this on nobody ever its so bad. I just hope the palpitations go away when I get my ablation along with the SVT cause it's gotten to the point I can't go get a job and I don't know how to go about getting disability just yet. I took a 2 mile walk yesterday and today I stood up from laying on the floor and BPM hit 111 or higher kinda worried. I was fine till a doctor from the hospital tried to put me on a calcium channel blocker they offered me 1 pill before leaving which I knew nothing about and went back and fourth I was wanting to try a new beta blocker nothing else but they kept insisting and dismissing me and my recommendations I got from my mother. Kinda sad that I was treated as such.