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Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: Sep 19 7:56am | Replies (551)

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What an amazing opportunity for both you and your doctor! You must be so glad that you took the time to explore other options rather than just take meds.

Do you know long it will be before the mapping is completed?

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They already know where it’s at in the right Atrial Chamber. It’s s a short circuit between the SA node (the heart’s normal pacemaker) an the AV node (which commands the right ventricle to contact) thus it pushes the chamber full of blood into the lungs to be oxygenated. My defect is a loop of rogue cells between the SA node and the AV node. When the SA node sends out a heartbeat pulse it sometimes will accidentally jump into the loop and the same pulse just keeps going round and round, triggering the command to the right ventricle to pump. Unfortunately, the chamber is not full of blood yet and that triggers my Tachycardia. That’s bad enough but the short circuit is not the only path to the AV node. The beat also goes down the normal pathway. Now I have an extremely dangerous crisis (it only happens when I’m asleep). The right ventricle is being commanded to pump by both pathways. See the problem? My heart is pumping so little blood, it will soon trigger the Tachycardia to go into A-Fib, and immediately trigger a fatal heart attack. My highest rated tachycardia was 197bpm, it’s going so fast you cannot feet a pulse and it has its own name. Pulseless Ventricular Tachycardia. It happens about one hour after I go to sleep. Lucky for me, I woke up at about the 50 minute mark and was already in PVT. The problem with the mapping of the short circuit, I haven’t gone into PVT since the recorder was placed inside me. That’s why my recorder is so expensive, it can record the the short circuit in action but the short circuit cannot be manually activated, it must happen naturally, in order to map out each heart cell involved so it cannot short out again.

Oh yeah, I’m also a Guinea Pig, actually a scientific lab rat, I mean specimen. You see, my recorder is recording every millisecond of of the day and the battery is good for 5 years. The problem is, I’m almost 79yo with an extremely weak and damaged heart. I may not live long enough to map out the short circuit but I realized something, this recorder will record every electrical pulse my SA node commands, including the very last beat of my heart as it dies. Gee, I don’t think anyone has ever had that event happen, wow, I’ll end up being a teaching tool. Just think, my heart will be dead but “The Beat Goes On!” Just had to do that if you know the oldie song!!!