Should I push myself too far for a 48-Holter monitor?

I have some form of SVT. I'm a 32 yr old female with twin girls. I've had 3 failed ablations, and numerous EP studies. I have been on every anti-arrythmic drug and beta-blocker combined. Nothing works on me, and my docs threw me too the curb a few times. I have medi-cal and I'm currently trying to get off my health-care plan, which is a royal pain, but eventually I will get it done, so I can see a specialist at Stanford, who actually wants to see me. I'm severly handicapped from my arrythmia and pluerisy that is agitated by my icreased heart rate. I no longer work, or exercise much anymore because of the pain that get worse as my heart rate gets worse. I run about 150 standing to 250 walking. I'm debating on pushing it to the point where I will have an psvt episode, it's not very hard these days. So that the doc at Stanford will figure it out. I know that I will be in a ##^*load of pain and unable to move for days, but I'm willing for a correct diagnoses and maybe a fix. I just don't know if I can do it for 2 days in a row. I'm sure most of us have worn the holter monitor before including myself, did you push it to the extreme, for results?

[ireneo]

Well, yes, I did things I knew would trigger my arrhythmia. That's kind of the point so they can see what your heart is doing when it misbehaves. Nothing worse than going through the hassle of wearing a monitor and have your heart act perfectly normal. Blecchh.

150 bpm when standing is not normal. Neither is 250 when doing an average walk. There's something going on that needs to be addressed. Have they given your arrhythmia a name? Perhaps IST? We can share our own experience if we know more precisely what's going on.

[cindy707]

Wow that was quite the post you did there.....to me it is like playing Russian Roulette with your life just to get a response on the holter and one of the worst case scenarios i can imagine is purposely setting it off w. no medical personnel nearby and tossing a clot or worse just taching out your heart so much that it can't be reversed.  Like ireneo says something just isn't right here if your pulse rate is that high ......the docs at Stanford don't need to figure it out they already know how to do that and can generate and espisode thru meds....I understand your frustration but my personal advise is don't take this chance because you may not recover from it unless you are in an controlled environment with the equipment to help you out.  If your heart rates are accurate you need to get ahold of someone sooner not later because this needs to be dealt with and if it means bombarding them with telephone calls i would do it...its your life and they don't know its happening unless you tell them....good luck

[ireneo]

The poster mentioned trying to trigger a PSVT episode but it sounds like she's practically living in PSVT with those rates. I have PSVT but mine only bump up close to 200. And mine turn on and off quickly like the typical PSVT.

Something's going on and she needs to be seen sooner rather than later as you said Cindy.

[mammaoftwins]

Thank you for your advice. I have been diagnosed with svt, sinus tach, psvt and was told by an ep doc that I might have ist, but he did not want to take me on as a patient because "I'm too complicated of a case". I've had numerous angio's both angiogram and ct angio's, I have no other health issues, my heart is structurally sound, no cholesterol problems and I have clean arteries. I started a holistic program not to long ago, and I'm started to feel a little better, heart rates are lower and more energy and less pain. My docs just think I'm nuts, but there meds nearly killed off my kidneys and they are the ones who told me to go somewhere else for help. I just had another useless cardio apt, yesterday, and my docs don't seem to be phased by my extremely high heart rates anymore. They just blame me for my condition because they couldn't get the job done. And I won't kill off my organs with meds that only work when I'm stationary.