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Can you live a normal healthy live with svt?
I'm am currently 66 years old. About seven years ago I started getting dizzy for a few seconds then my heart would race like crazy. At the time I just wrote it off. I always kept in shape and have always been very active. But since then I've had more episodes that lasted longer and are more frequent. Finally I went to a cardiologist for tests. Had a ekg, stress test and ehcogram. Doctor said my cardiovasculer health was excellent, so they put me on a monitor for two weeks and the day before I turned the device in I had a incident while walking. My heart rate went to 240 bpm for about 45 min. They put me on beta blockers and referred me to a electrophisiologist for possible ablation procedure. I hope that works. I just want to stay active and not worry about episodes. They are scary when they happen. Luckily it hasn't happened while I was driving because it makes me feel like I'm going to pass out.
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I am currently 66 and started having symptoms about 10 years ago, but the only were a couple times a year, and just dismissed them as stress related. In the last couple of years the symptoms would happen more frequently. So finally went to see a cardiologist, all my tests were great but I had an incident with the monitor they gave me and was diagnosed with svt. With all the heart arrhythmia this is probably the most benign one. I was active before and I will continue to enjoy life with the help of medication, I'm going to pass on the ablation procedure to see how the meds do and see if I can control the symptoms myself.
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3 ReactionsI hear your frustration! I trust that you are being followed by a cardiologist who specializes in arrhythmias! On this group we are living w SVT which you seem to have in addition to PVC’s and some sinus tachycardia. PVC’s and sinus tachycardias can be more serious than SVT, so be sure you are seeing the right clinicians!
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3 ReactionsI've had 3 type II heart attacks over this. I had sustained 244 bpm for too long in April 2022, having type II MI #3, and while in ICU, metoprolol was bumped up as the troponin results were getting bigger. It's now 100 mg/day of metoprolol that keeps this under control most of the time. My BP gets a very comfortable 110/75 average on it. My pulse is usually in the low 60s. Now, the issues are not gone. They're subdued. I live without my heart raging, but it surely does throw frequent fusses that I can manage.
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2 ReactionsToday is May 18.
I have posted at length here and on other topics about benign living with PSVT.
Just last night my home-made setup woke me 7 minutes after midnight because I was in SVT. Three minutes later I fixed my SVT via the valsalva maneuver and I went back to sleep.
I use either the Polar Heart strap or (much more comfortable) Apple Watch. My alarm comes from the Smoky Cat Heart Graph ios App. ( The Apple Health App and other 3rd party apps do NOT alarm immediately upon tachycardia unless it continues for a minute or so.)
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Ps- My wife never even woke up during the episode….
Pss- Long ago, before I learned valsalva, my SVT could last 2 hours…
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