Ventricular tachycardia

[wmac]

Hello and thank you in advance for taking my question. First off recap: I have pacs pvcs, svt, aivr and nsvt. Longest nsvt was 26 beats with 187bpm when I was on low dose of toprol xl for three days. I just recently went and saw my cardio/ep and she said that the only two options I have is to do nothing or try flecinide. Well flecinide scares me to death. I would have to be hospital for the first three days. She did a echo and everything is fine with trace mvp. My ef is 74%. She believes flecinide is my answer. I have had two attempted rf ablations at the university of Utah no luck. My cardio in Boise Id will not attempt one she says im not fixable. Well im getting 3-4 runs of nsvt a month. It is controling my life which it has for five years now but my runs are more often and its very disturbing to me. What would cleveland do would they just send me out the door and say dont worry or would they try another eps and ablabtion? I am willing to go there if you think that they would try. All my other heart test have been normal, mri, stress test, ekg, tilt table, etc... I would just like to be fixed and live a normal life. Thank you
also who would you recommend if I go to cleveland?
thanks wmac

[knightrider]

Mountain Home Arkansas.The ICD is all one unit.

[wmac]

Why do you have a pacer and an icd?? knightrider do you mean Mountian Home Idaho??

[wmac]

Ok im a bit confused. If your heart is quivering wouldnt you be in vfib and if your in vfib you would be unconcious right. So when you got to the er were you in VT? Did they ablate your vt did it turn into sustained vt  explain to me more info to why you had an icd implanted???  Had you had heart problems before or symptoms you said they found a small blockage but it had nothing to do with it right? explain to me all you can please.
wmac
thanks for your post

[knightrider]

OK,I had a pacemaker placement in 2000.Betweeen 2001 to 2004,I had 4 ablations.The 4th one they made me pacemaker depended.2006,I needed a replacement due to the battery was low.Dec.2006,they tested it and everything was OK.Jan.2007,I had a episode where for about 20 mins.with the sweating,weak,and my chest was pounding with my shoulders feeling like they had a ton of weight on em.In mid Feb.I had another one,but it lasted close to an hour.I went in to my Cardio and he checked my pacer and the findings were,from Dec to the present time,I had 250 episodes but felt only 2.He put me on Cardizen.It was the 2nd day when the 3rd came along.This one lasted forever,but I had passed out for a few seconds.The wife took me to the ER.There they ran a EKG and B/P was 50/40 with a pulse over 200.I seen the pads coming and was shocked.This brought me down and B/P backed up.
While in the Mountain Home Hospital,they done a Angiogram to see if a blockage caused it.Results had shown no.They sent me to Little Rock Hospital to have a Electrophsiology Study done.Test results had shown I needed the ICD.

[PikaPika88]

knightrider,

Isn't it your pacemaker already had and ICD?  If I'm not wrong, why your pacemaker didn't kick in?  I think yours pacemaker is same as mine.  Would your cardio turn it down to too low?  or your Pacer had some reason FAILED! Don't scare me!  

[knightrider]

It took me awhile to find some of U.Where has everyone been hanging out.Besides U,I found VA TONY.OK,I had only a pacemaker which it's
use was for preventing my pulse from going low.With this ICD,it slows my pulse down from racing high.I have a Pacer and a Defibrillater (ICD)