Just need reassurance!

Question

I know I'm still in the healing phase- 2 weeks and 3 days post ablation but just now I thought for sure the SVT was going to start up and I got  so scared!  I felt a thump, pause and then 2 or 3 fast wierd beats and thought Oh no!! but thank goodness the SVT didn't start up.  When I felt my pulse, it was slow and regular. I'm still feeling that adrenaline rush!!   I'm guessing that would have been an SVT episode but  because of the ablation it couldn't start up. Just need to hear from you guys if you've experienced this too. I'm trying to feel happy because it didn't start up but at the same time it really got attention!!  Thanks!!
Betty

mabebesc · Answer

Are you a stand up comic?!!!!!!!!!!  If not, you missed your calling-great joke!

lagoya · Answer

to blm-56 gald to see u are well and on the green side 

ok post ablation jokes feel free to add in 

a woman and her lover are in bed together when hubbie comes home
the woman jumps up ,shoves the guy in the corner of the bedroom
rubs him down with baby oil and covers him in white power
don't move she say's your'er a statue
the hubbie comes up to the bedroom and inquires about the new decoration
the wife explains that the smith family next door acquired a statue for their bedroom
recently, and if they could get one so could she
the married couple go to bed ,but at midnight the husband goes downstairs 
gets a glass of milk and some cookies ,and comes back upstairs.
he hands the snack to the statue and says  'here.i stood around for 3 days at the smiths,
and they never fed me a thing..

BLM_56 · Answer

I forgot to ask.  How about some of those post-ablation jokes you promised/threatened?  Put up or shut up amigo. ;-)


Bionic Bill 
Cyborg at large

BLM_56 · Answer

Betty, just be glad you're still around to worry about the funny feelings in your heart.  Also be glad you had a ventricular problem and that ablation worked.  I had an atrial problem and they don't respond so well to ablation.  Add to that the fact that I am naturally a big-hearted guy literally as well as metaphorically (atrial diameter of 5.7 cm) and my ablation didn't work more than 3 days.  Now I get threatening calls and letters from a collections agency because the hospital and the insurance company disagree to the tune of $930.00 US.  Fortunately, my heart is completely isolated from my body electrically so nothing they say can affect my heartrate (how's THAT for making lemonade?). ;-)  

Just remember this little maxim: Every day you wake up on the green side of the sod is a good one.  Over the hill is bad but it beats being UNDER the hill.  Under the hill is for hobbits.

Bionic Bill
Cyborg at large

mabebesc · Answer

OMG, I have PTSD over my SVT!!!!!!!!!! My hubby just said that to me and I think he may be right! Seriously though, thanks all for writing. I'm much calmer now , I have to realize that my heart will try to go into SVT at times -that's not going to go away. It'll probably feel wierd when it wants to but can't. I wonder if I do have a little PTSD-post traumatic SVT disorder!! I never realized how traumatized I've been by the SVT-maybe because I had to deal with it for so many years. You all are so terrific- I've grown so fond of all of you. It's so conforting to know that when I need support, the cavalry comes to my rescue!!!!

bumble72 · Answer

i'm 3 months post ablation and very occasionally still get that "thump", i just feel so relieved that it doesn't turn into svt.  my consultant has told me it takes 6 months for heart to heal and settle down.  but i know exactly how you feel when you get that thump, you think oh no here we go.  but greedave is right it should be a cause for rejoicing!

greendave · Answer

Can't think of any jokes (I'm English)), and I have no personal experince of an ablation, and hence no idea what you are going through but do know what you are hoping for, so really feel for you.!
But if I am readng this right  pre ablation you would have recognised this as the start of an SVT and it did not happen . So is this not cause for rejoicing?

Momto3 · Answer

I had the same "weird" feelings.  I thought for sure....."here we go."  Prior to my ablations, I was regularly in bigeminy.  After the second ablation, it took about 7-8 weeks for everything to settle down.  Since that time, I am RARELY in bigeminy, and if I am, it's for a few minutes....not for hours and hours and hours......

All sounds normal to me.

Did someone say jokes?  C'mon lagoya, we could use a little good cheer around here. :0

lagoya · Answer

its normal betty 
it's like the old cells trying to fire up again but they cant cause they have been ablated -try not to let this upset you or make u anxious -it is all in the healing process

you will be fine
if u are really worried we can start post ablation jokes

ireneo · Answer

I think "back to normal" means you can get back to normal daily routines like work, cleaning house and so forth. Your heart will take longer to be quiet and behave itself.

CNickels77 · Answer

Hi Betty-

Glad to hear you are feeling better.  I just got home from my cardiologist to see what is going on with me (see my latest post).  Maybe I am just being impatient but from everything I was told pre-ablation was that I would be back to normal within a few days.  Now I'm two weeks out and still don't feel normal.  I did start exercising last weekend but haven't been overduing it.  I've been speed walking three miles and that seems to be good.  A couple of time I had trouble cooling down but I think that was just nerves.

Hope all is well...

ireneo · Answer

That is quite normal. After they ablate the various spots in the heart, they try to trigger the SVT again. If they try a few times and it doesn't start up, they consider the ablation a success. What you're feeling is probably the result of the irritated tissue in there. It takes some time to heal.