Anyone else have trouble w/ doctors catching their SVT?

[CDog123]

I went to the ER and my HR was 105 and then within 5 seconds it bounced up to 175 and stayed there for 1 minute before coming down rapidly back to 105 on its own.

This ER doc said it was SVT. However, it wasn't caught on an EKG since it was so brief.

My doctor said until they catch it on an EKG they won't proceed further. They run an EKG everytime I come in their office and of course it comes back fine since I'm not in an episode. They also ran a Holter Monitor and that came back fine since I had it only for a week and I wasn't in an episode during that time either.

I'm not mad at my doc but at the situation. My doctor said while he suspects SVT, until he catches it on EKG, it is Sinus Tachy. Anyone else have this much trouble catching their SVT?

[tom_h]

Over the 54 years that I had SVT, it was caught only 3 times, when I was first diagnosed as a child of 6, then at 21 during a cardiac catheterization.  I had the kind that would run nn and on for hours if I let it.  But I would intervene and slow it as quickly as I could.  My cardiologist pleaded with me to get to the ER when one occurred so they could capture it, but I'd always halt the event.  Finally, my cardiologist put a 30 day monitor on me.  It wasn't long before the recorded captured an event.  The recorder got the event initiation and auto stopped after 3 minutes.  Calmly thinking, Impressed the recorder button to manually record, and halted the SVT.  Now they had the event initiation as well as the termination of it.  Both are abrupt and sudden.  After transmitting the telemetry to my cardiologistcalled, he me at 10 pm on a Sunday evening to make sure I was ok.  He was concerned and overjoyed that I had captured an event.  It was undoubtedly the key piece of data needed to get me into the the lab for an electrophysiology study.

[itdood]

yes, it's very tough to catch on ad-hoc EKGs.  There are monitors you wear longer term to try to catch it.  They are called Holter Monitors.  If it's really tough there is a small monitor that can be implanted.

[itdood]

yes, it's very tough to catch on ad-hoc EKGs.  There are monitors you wear longer term to try to catch it.  They are called Holter Monitors.  If it's really tough there is a small monitor that can be implanted.