No gall bladder surgery...

[Elli126]

Hi Guys,

I was on awhile back and talked about my GP telling me I needed gall bladder surgery ASAP. (he's the one who said the hospital he wanted me to go to would want to run the other way from the surgery cause of my"heart issues") well it turns out, I get to the hospital, they run me through the CT scan to assess the situation, and according to the doc there my gall bladder is beautiful, the stones I did have were gone, and its back to square one. So off to the Gastro, I scheduled for all the fun tests, from upper GI series to colonoscopy to find out what's what. The Gastro decided to start with the GI series rather than the upper endoscopy, again, because of my heart issues. My question to all my Crazy Hearts here is: Why do the cardiologists tell us most of our issues (PVCs,PACs,SVTs and such) are things we can live with, or aleviateto some extent, and other doctors like to scare the hel lout of you saying things like "I hate to take a chance on that because of your heart issues"?

Just when I begin to think I'm gonna be ok with this, and just live my life....someone has to theow a monkey wrench into things and scare the S*&% outta me again.

[Elli126]

Hi Michelle,

Yes I have a very low tolerance for any kind of anesthesia. When I had my first c-section I was out for almost two days (what they called it was semi-comatose) also had similar issues when I had cancer surgery. So far there isn't definite talk of any surgery at the moment...they need to figure out what's going on first, but needless to say I avoid anesthesia whenever possible.

[MichelleP_3811]

Well I can't comment for doctors because I am not one of them but I think they are probably not as informed about the heart as a cardiologist and/or they are concerned about liability.   I had fibroid surgery about 11 years ago before I was totally aware that my episodes were svt and not hyperventilating.  At the time the episodes were infrequent so I did not even think much about them.  While in the surgery I had an episode apparently and I am sure it scared everyone in the ER since they were likely not expecting my heart to go fast like that.  So obviously there is a chance it could happen while you are having surgery.  That said, I don't think your chances of succumbing to the svt is any higher while you are in surgery than any other time.  I mean you are with professionals so you are likely in better circumstances but I probably think doctors who do not specialize in the heart probably don't feel as confident about tending to it if something arises while they are doing their thing.  But I don't think you personally really have anything much to worry about.  Unless you have a tendency to fall into VT you will likely survive any surgery though again, I am not a doctor so I can't say that with absolute certainty.  You did, however, mention in your other post that you had issues with anesthesia, what sort of issue?  That would be more concerning to me than svt or ectopics.