Post Ablation symptoms / new meds

[Dustin121]

I have spent the last hour reading the many posts, and one comforting thing is I'm not alone with all the heart issues! I'm 28 I just had my second ablation for an AVNRT (SVT) I thought the first was succesful until one year later I had a severe episode where the heart went to 240 bpm and had to go to ER to get it dropped. A month later they did another ablation. The first night after the ablation I had some of the worst epeisodes of Tach, irregular heartbeat, and it honestly felt like another SVT. They kept me another day, and the heart eventually returned to a normal sinus rythym. They switched my metroprol to a diltizem. 120 mg twice a day. My heart rate has been ok, but standing up siting down and moving, the heart rate jumps up, it skips around. and feels like it is ready to go into a SVT. This normal? Its only been 5 days since procedure. I have always battled PACs and PVCS along with the SVT. Anyone know of better drugs? Should I expect to feel better soon? I hate standing up as I fear the heart will go on its own, and I will be stuck in hospital again. How much does stress and anxiety play into all this? It has obviously been a long few years, and I just want to live a semi normal life and not live in fear of what my heart will do next! Tanks all for the input

[Dustin121]

That defin makes a lot of sense. I appreciate the respnse, and it does put me at ease a bit. I have been battling this heart issue for awhile now, so along with that the stress and anxiety constantly builds. I am afraid the next move I make will be the one that sends my heart into an uncontrollable rythm. The Doc did says he had to ablate quite a bit this time around, so makes sense it needs time to heal. Thank you again so much, and will keep the community posted with updates, and anything helpful I find along the way. It is nice not feeling alone!!

[cindy707]

Hey Dustin i read your post.....and what you are feeling is normal 5 days out after the ablation we all went thru it.  My heart doc calls it ghost tach where it feels like the episode is going to start and and peters out and doesn't.  I went thru that countless times and think the way he explained it is that the heart was so used to beating in an irregular pattern and firing down the wrong electrical pathway and its not used to firing correctly and is trying to go back to the bad way instead of the right way and that is what is happening,  Makes sense if you think about it.  We all went the the short bursts, long bursts and then ghost tach after the ablation and for me anyway it took until i hit the four month mark for my heart to calm down and its pretty much been a breeze since then.  My doc put me on .25 of antenolol to take the edge off of the incidents about a week after the procedure and it worked as well as an aspirin a day as a safety net.  Each day Dustin the episodes will become less and less and less until the day comes when you no longer feel your heart which is a good thing believe me.  We all had the exact same fear that the procedure would be a fail...i think thats normal because you don't want to have gone thru all that you did just to fail...patience is the word of the day here my friend and even tho we want it and want it now it doesn't work like that.  Your heart was poked, prodded, penetrated and zapped and now its mad, swollen and irritable and you need to give it time to calm down.