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New here. My name is Faith. 49 yo mother of two boys. Work in medical field. Had to call 911 yesterday because I had an SVT episode and I panicked. I think I get an anxiety attack on top of the SVT episode which makes it worse. I’m concerned because it’s beginning to be more frequent. Now a day after it happened I am paralyzed in fear that it will happen again. And tired because I had to take a Xanax. Does anyone know if magnesium helps these episodes or bothers them. I’m new to educating myself on this diagnoses. Any info is appreciated.
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@faithb Faith, see my posts about my experiences with severe SVT over the last six months. I am 100% in touch with what you're going through. I saw the specialists (cardiologist, electrophysiologist), did what needed to be done. Spoiler: my 6-month journey has a really happy ending. Yours can too!
@faithb I am also new to this. Everyone is different. I am in an evaluation for autonomic disorders. There seems to be a link between my events and stress. The stress I feel and my reaction to it isn’t really me and seems more physical than emotional. But it seems very important to keep the stress in check to prevent a snowball effect. More sleep helps and so do simple things like getting in the shower or tub or being in nature. These things get me out of my head and into a better state. Hope you feel better soon.
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@faithb It depends on whether your nutrition is sufficient or maybe an endocrine problem. It is said in some sources that few modern citizens in the western world get sufficient magnesium these days, but only an RBC test will be definitive. Meanwhile, healthy kidneys will dump modest excesses over what their hosts can use, so often cited is a figure of supplementing up to 400 mg daily, which is not normally problematic. For most people.
I'm nothing close to educated on tachyarrhythmias, but I would think that PACs or AF might be much more common for electrolyte deficiencies....but it is also linked to SVT:
https://academic.oup.com/ehjcvp/article/3/2/108/2669829
I hope this won't sound patronizing or lecturing....don't mean it that way: your worst problem right now is the anxiety. You HAVE TO find a way to quell it. Your heart may or may not be permanently electrically disordered...only time will tell. If it's a temporary concern easily diagnosed and corrected, great! It will soon be history and you'll have learned something. If it's a journey toward other arrhythmias, or just more frequent PACs and it's incremental 'burden', then you might be further ahead to consult an electrophysiologist (EP) soon and get in line for an ablation. Ablating SVT has a pretty good record of success, albeit with variance between EPs, their training and experience.