--- In heartrhythm-AA@yahoogroups.com, Amanda wrote:
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> Hi Kate,
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> I have suffered from SVT for around 5 years now. It just comes on for
no reason and my heart rate is usually 180bpm. Sometimes it slows on its
own, other times i have to go to A & E and have Adenosine to slow it
back down.
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> This has been investigated twice, with ECG, scans and a holter
monitor. Both times it came back my heart is fine, just a problem with
the electronics. Thankfully, its not too frequent and its just an
inconvenience. I have been told i can have surgery if it becomes more of
a problem, but at the moment its not worth it.
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> It doesnt really scare me anymore, just annoys me. Knowing that i
might end up in A&E again, is more of a pain. Having to find someone to
meet me at the hospital to bring me home.
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> I live with it, and so far its not been too bad.
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> Amanda
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> --- On Sat, 23/5/09, Kate@... Kate@... wrote:
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> From: Kate@... Kate@...
> Subject: [heartrhythm-AA] Re: tachycardia and ectopic beats
> To: heartrhythm-AA@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, 23 May, 2009, 9:34 AM
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> Hi Jaqui, and thanks for the reply, do you also get the tachycardia ?
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> i have had this quite severly for two years and have found it hard to
> cope with, i usually have to rest a lot with it, to get the heart rate
> to subside, i have asked my cardio if any of it is linked to hormones
> because i find that once a month my symptomes are even worse, i
thought
> there was a link, he says they are not sure,
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> i also get most of my ectopics at this time and a burst of "svt" ...
> one of the times i was in the hospital i was having the ectopics every
> other beat for hours and you could see them on the monitor my husband
> was amazed and kept on saying "theres another one" i am glad he was
> having some amusement out of it,
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> this episode occured after being admitted with an "svt" attack ... i
get
> these from time to time they just come from nowhere, and my heart just
> goes so so fast ....
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> re stress: well we all know that stress will make any situation worse
> and when you have a heart problem then stress is something to avoid if
> you can, i just let things go over my head now i can't handle stress
or
> anxiety very well .....
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> i found that reading others stories about the missed and ectopic made
me
> less afraid, and i agree even though you are being told they are
normal
> you still feel something is wrong ... i trust what my cardio tells me,
> although i too still get a little anxious about it all.....
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> kate

Hi Amanda nice to have more input on the svt, i have been having rythem
problems for many years and paid them no mind really .... i would get
woken up during the night with palpitations that would go on and on but
i never really worried about them, for as far as i can remember i have
always had a fast heart rate resting around 80-90 and when ever i went
to visit the doctors for any reason they would do your bp, they would
say your running a bit high is that normal for you, i would say ..
"well i don't know i can't feel it" ... i always thought it's a woman
thing you know!!!! (palpitations / hormones ) ... but over the past two
years i have had an incessant tachycardia that started after a bout of
chest pain and frequent svt's that have found me on many occation at the
A and E department ... and the tachycardia now i am being told is a
fault in my sa node and is not normal and is a difficult situation to
treat .... not like the svt that can be treated definitivley and
successfuly, as far as i am aware, ( now looking back to the two years
prior to my incessant taachy problem i was having problems at work with
severe breathlessness and terrible dizzyspells i would be walking to the
bus and could not feel the floor beneath my feet and again i thought
women trouble /hormones and now i think it may have been my heart "who
knows" but if your not worried and can cope i don't think that i would
be doing anything about it ...... the fastest mine has gone is 210 and i
have been given the adenosine to slow it up, although i must say the
first time i was addmitted to hospital with it i was so so scared!!!!!
it is only time and reading others stories that as allayed my fears ....
although not completely....

Re: the tests ... i have been told that it is difficult to catch these
arrythmias on the tapes because inevitably when you get kitted up with
one you don't have an svt that day and when you get the three week self
activating one by the time you press the button the attack is relenting
and so they don't see the beinging through to the end do they
Mmmmm!!!!!!

well i hope you continue to cope well with them and not have to many
...kate