Hi everyone!
A lot has happened since my last post. A little background; I am now 27, under 115 pounds, and generally healthy as can be --- minus some crazy heart-pounding, fatigue, chest pain and intense dizzy spells. I've scheduled an ablation for my SVT .. and I have a question about that -- (that I'll be asking my cardiologist, but in the mean time ...) both my holter reports and a hospital ECG show SVT (up to 9 runs in a 24hr period, the longest being about 700 beats long on a holter monitor, and just under an hour at the ER @ 230bpm), but I still am not sure what type. Is that something I should have asked the EP Dr?! will my regular cardiologist be able to tell me by looking at my ecg from the ER?! I always mean to write down all my questions for doctors, and never do. I assume I'll remember everything and blank out EVERY TIME. I thought SVT was the arrhythmia, but after researching, I now know that there are multiple forms under the umbrella SVT.
Anyway, the EP Dr is also going to see if he can "modify" my sinus node, since I have inappropriate sinus tachycardia on record up to 205 bpm (according to the hospital! I never knew it went that high! holters have only shown 190 something) So I left the EP Consult / scheduling thinking, awesome! finally, it will be fixed. Of course, days later, I'm thinking things like, what if he can't replicate my crazy arrhythmia? how will he know what to ablate on my sinus node?! has anyone had their sinus node modified? or unsuccessful induction of SVT, IST?
if there is no underlying cause for my IST, and the symptoms are bad enough, should I be open to a pacemaker? The high rates honestly do not bother me. I can't differentiate between 140 and 205 -- in my hospital report it says "patient is quite unaware of palpitations" .... and I was, then. Why do I notice pounding sometimes, and others, I'm oblivious?! it's the dizziness that bothers me most. I get so close to passing out, and it happens every day, starting with getting out of bed.
I'm on a BB and CCB and they make my blood pressure bottom out (70/40) so I'm water loading and taking salt tablets per my cardiologists instructions till the ablation and my blood pressure is still low. I cannot wait to stop taking medication!!!