A Holter monitor study in Sept. 2012 showed i have had sinus rhythm along with junctional rhythm....In 2010 i had an event monitor that showed some parasysmal atrial tachycardia....In past, i use to have more episodes of rapid heart rate, but in last year it seems to have subsided...Now, i experience more skipped beats type of feelings, BUT the rapid heart rates and anxiety seems to have disappeared....I don't know if its coincendence, but i seem to have gotten a piece of mind (so to speak) when i had a normal cardiac MRI last fall...I also had 2 echos done, one in 2009, and one last year, both were normal...The EP thought that the MRI was justifiable since my father died of a heart attack when he was 48 (I'm 43 now)...
1. In the prescence of a NORMAL cardiac MRI and/or echo, can skips and certain rhythms be ignored without any treatment...I really, really, really don't want to take any medications or go thru an ablation unless there is some significant benefit to be gained...
2. Ablations are risky for junctional rhythms are they not?....If the procedure would go wrong, wouldn't the end result be needing a permanent pacemaker?...
Thank you!