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Hi Toniaw, I am a bit familure with short runs of Tachycardia. I did not have the Supre part but mine was Ventricular Tachycardia. Based on the length of time your heart was in the increased heart rate I would say you Doctor is correct. Yes it feels unconfutable, but your Heart was able to correct itself. When either medicine or a pacemaker is called for would b when your heart can not correct the tachycardia, or it gets going so fast that no blood is flowing. As an example, when my heart would get up near 200 bpm and would last more than a few minutes is when I needed help from my pacemaker to bring it down. It typically would do it first by trying to pace my heart to help correct the bad rhythm and if that did not work a defibulator would shock my heart back into rhythm. So, if you're under the care of a Cardiologist who specializes with this type of heart Condition known as a Electro Physiologist of EP for short. and also, under that area they usually further specialize in either Tachycardia or AFIB which is more about the upper heart chambers.
I might mention that for short episodes that still feel terrible I've had some success with either intense coughing or what they call pelvic floor muscle compression ( this is tightening the muscle that controls bowel movement and lots of Pregnant women also will do this exercise to get ready for child birth) can actually kind of reset the heart rhythm, I would also try to relax and maybe lie down would also relax me and allow the episode to pass. I found if at least I had some things I could do helped me to feel more relaxed and help get the period to pass. Some other things to consider when talking with your regular doctors is there are some minerals that help heart rhythm, Magnesium and Potassium are important to good heart rhythm, but I would suggest getting those evaluated by labs before just adding to your diet as too much also have their problem areas. Please let me know if I can help further as I had these rhythm problems for about 10 years prior to my heart transplant. My particular heart problem got to the point that all other treatments were becoming unsuccessful which Im glad that there are always alternatives.
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Dana,
This is great information and so close to what I have experience over the decades. I have had a ICD/Pacemaker since 2006 and on my 3rd Boston Scientific device. I go through the same things when heart goes into VT with the trying to pace me out of it and does not work a shock. I have been told that the valsalva technique is also a technique and the one you mentioned. I have used the strong coughing when device is trying to pace me out and has worked .
It is great advice to say check with your doctor and labs before adding supplements. I was advised recently (Mayo EP) to take magnesium but was already taking. I had been reading on MCC about potassium helping also but when I checked with my EP/PA she said that my labs showed upper level of potassium and woud not recommend taking a supplement.
I started having some problems with VT and shocks back in January when I had pace clinic turn on my exercise function in my pacemaker. I had never had this function on with 3 devices. It seemed that the VT and shocks started again at same time I had them turn this on where I was getting VT and shock about once a year before then.
I am not in anyway a doctor or expert on this but I said to myself what has changed, what am I doing different to cause this. So I asked PC clinic to turn off the exercise mode and sure enough the VT and shocks stopped where I was getting them once a week.
Maybe had nothing to do with it or just mental stress worrying about exercise mode causing it. Appreciate your information and being a mentor.