electroconversion

[gazsi]

My mother had electroconversion done 33 times in ten years. 9 times this years. After a while her rhytem gets out of whack has really bad back pains that radiats to her stomach. Even just sitting up in her bed triggers her fast heartbeat. It speeds up to 170  beats a minute in minutes just by sitting up.
They put her on some kind of hydrocloride drug thats used in life threathening cases and has lots of side affects. I hate to see her taking these really bad drugs.
We keep telling the doctors that just by sitting up on the bed or just one wrong move sets up her fast heartbeat and
nobody belives her. They don't want to investigate what it could be that sets it up.
Have you heard anybody has same issues.
Thanks for your feedback

[gazsi]

Thanks for your comment.
What I meant by not beleiving her is that they don't belive her that a wrong movement sets it up. She turns around in the bed or gets up in the morning and that's enough to set it off.
She has a compressed vertabre in two places in her back and when that hurts even when she tries to find a better position sets it off.

[Jerry_NJ]

I have had a total of 4 electrocardioversions, and I have been "branded" as no longer a candidate for that procedure. Thirty-three is very unusual in my limited experience.  But, I can say I did get some relief from AFib in the beginning, about 18 months per electrocardioversion.  

My symptoms do not include the uncontrolled high HR.  I take beta blockers and calcium channel blockers and that combination keeps my HR below 100 even when standing.  More strenuous activity will be me up to the 140 range, where I slow down.

I'm not sure what you are saying about not believing, are you saying the doctors don't believe her HR gets to 170 with no physical activity?  Then ask them for a recorder so that they can read the facts off of that device.