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I am so sorry I am going through this now. The past 3 weeks I have been to the hospital ER 6 times and because we don't live close it takes so long for an ambulance to get me there (at least an hour to 1.5) it settles by the time I am there. The doctors keep telling me my heart is healthy so it's fine but the last episode the night before last I almost lost consciousness multiple times and felt like I was going to throw up. I am so weak I have lost 10lbs in 3 weeks and I'm smaller to begin with. My daughter is also 15 and I couldn't imagine if she was going through this. No one is taking it serious even though I can feel in my body that it's getting worse. It took 2 weeks just for them to finally decide to put a monitor on me and it was just a 7 day where they get results back after I turn it in and they said that can take up to two weeks. I have 0 life, even at home I am scared to shower I can't sleep. I wake up every 15 to 40 min scared which makes my HR go up. I feel like everyone is going to keep telling me it's fine until I die I don't know what to do.

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I have several types of tachycardia. The worst was super ventricular, tachycardia and was discovered while having a loop recorder placed in my chest. My heart rate was 210 for an hour and 59 minutes. They did an ablation of the chamber in my heart that was causing the tachycardia. However, I do have other arrhythmias as well as atrial tachycardia, and another type of tachycardia. The ablation did help my SVT, but I am beginning to have smaller episodes. I do have coronary artery disease and recently went through a stress test, which I’m waiting for the results on. I have been having a lot of shortness of breath on exertion and my heart rate stays between 93 up to 160.