I had a cath lab for SVT and don't know if it worked or not what do I do ?

[IvanaZavala]

Hi. I'm 15 and I've been dealing with svt since I was 7. The highest recorded bpm I've had is 278. I've gotten svt while working out, while laying down, when nervous, when calm, when excited, when bored, and at multiple other times. Right before an episode I feel as though my chest gets heavy and I can't breathe for what feels like three seconds, I wouldn't feel a heart beat in that time and the first beat into svt would be so hard it would knock me out of being frozen from the sudden fright of not being able to breath. However most of the time I would get that feel which I get right before I go into svt and lots of times not actually go into an episode is just get the very strong beat and the chest tightness and the wind knocked out of me. But when I did go into an episode, my heart beats were very difficult to be felt anywhere on my body. It wouldn't be possible to feel my heart beat from any of my veins. It would be difficult to feel my heart beat over my chest even when pressing your hand into my chest since it was so faint. But I could feel it beating super fast in my chest and I would start sweating badly and turn super red and hot as if I just ran a few miles. My heart would also get to the 200s when I just walk across my house(I live in a fairly small house for my area but it's probably quite large for those who don't live in my area of Houston) or when I would shower and it'd cause me to get very tired to where I'd take hour long showers because I'd have to take breaks in between washing my hair. And after if get out the shower if have to lay down and rest before I could get dressed or get ready. In December I started getting sharp pains on the left side of my chest near the area where my heart would be and was put on a recorder that had to be attached for a month and they said the pains were not effecting my heart beats and my doctor said the heart doesn't feel pain so I shouldn't be too worried about it. Also, the svt caused me to stop doing sports and not be able to do many things that I would love. As for medication, a few years ago my doctor prescribed me with atenolol and I would take 25 mg every 12 hours. It helped for the first year but then I had another episode so my dosage was changed to only 50 mg in the morning. I would get episodes later on in the evening so my doctor changed my prescription but the side effects were terrible so I went back to atenolol and my doctor put me back to every 12 hours. The svt wasn't going away and for my age and weight my doctor didn't want to increase my dose so she suggested the ablation. I had researched a lot about the procedure and talked a lot about it with multiple doctors. I decided I would do it so I raised the money and two months ago I got the procedure done at the Texas children's hospital in downtown Houston. I had woken up with a massive headache and was give Tylenol and I fell asleep after. When I woke up again the headache wasn't as bad as before, but I could feel pain on the outside of my head. So when I placed my hand there to check I had a golf ball sized mass under my skin as if I was dropped or hit very hard. Multiple doctors came to check on it and each had a different opinion on what happened. Thankfully my procedure was outpatient because the fiber was on the right side of my heart so I was able to leave that night. However the fiber was very close to my AV node so they decided to freeze. The doctor said they had to freeze it multiple times since it didn't want to go away. And as you know, freezing damages less than burning so there's a slightly larger chance that the svt will come back. Well a week later I began to feel better and the golf ball sized mass on the back of my head had gone down. After two weeks the mass was gone and I could shower like normal again, I took my first "normal" shower and I cried since I wasn't so tired and I took a 10 minute shower and was able to change right after. I could walk from one side of the house to the other and back without feeling faint. Until about a month later I got the feeling I was going to have en episode but I never did get it. And I've been getting the same feeling multiple times a day and I'm back to feeling tired after doing little to nothing and I can't shower 'normally' anymore. My parents are going to contact my doctor but I'm not exactly sure what to do. She had said that if it comes back my opinions would be to either go back onto atenolol for the rest of my life or maybe get a pace maker put in depending on the situation. Has anybody gone through what I'm going through ? Does anybody have any advice or help. If you need me to clarify anything go ahead and ask and I'll be glad to answer. I just would really like some help. Thank you.