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Paroxysmal Supra-Ventricular Tachycardia (SVT)
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same for me! 100mg twice per day and it has settled things a fair bit. I take aspirin too, never used warfarin. I was hill walking last Saturday in very hot conditions all day and managed fine but the following night felt like my heart was having a wee drum solo to itself! always seems to be after the event for me and like yourself, when trying to sleep.
If I had attacks after exercise my pulse only went up to 140/150 (as against 230 with an exercise attack) but my blood pressure dropped really low to the point I was almost fainting. Another trigger for non exercise related attacks was tiredness/lack of sleep. I tended to have more attacks in the evening but this might also have been a coincidence.
I was on aspirin up to 6 weeks before the ablation when I had to change to warfarin for the op. Hopefully after seeing the consultant next month I might be able to come off it.
Progress wise I ran a 3000m in 12-12 (same time last year I ran 10-14) which is about 6-30 miling so things are still going in the right direction pulse 164 av/183 max. Stopped taking the flecainide a week ago. Had a couple of flutters but they only lasted a couple of minutes. Haven't been able to train since 3000m due to a sore hip and can't take ibuprofen because off the warfarin !!!
I'm lost, is this still the latest thread on tachycardia?
How's everyone doing? My sad tale is that I had an ablation in January which only made things worse, I went from having an episode every 6 weeks to having one every week. I spent Easter in hospital because they couldn't get my HR down, it was 150 for 75 hours (yes, 75 hours). I'm on a beta blocker now, but the dosage had to be halved this week because my pulse was going down to 39.
I'm seeing the consultant next week, hopefully he will suggest a way forward.
F'tB
Sorry to hear yours is worse, hopefully this time they will have a better understanding and get it sorted.
My consultant told me the ablation might not work first time and if you go back through the thread you will see this was the case with Corinthian. I was also given the choice of a one hour under local and home the same day or a more complicated 4-6 hr under a general which carried more risks but was more likely to fix the problem. Which one did you have Matt ?
I saw my consultant yesterday. I had a right side ablation under local, but I would need a left side ablation to maybe sort this out. Because of other medical conditions I am unable to have a left side ablation. He hopes to control the tachycardia with medication, but if not they would need to stop the atria communicating with the ventricles and I would need a pacermaker.
F'tB
I am having an ablation 18th December. Hopefully will sort out the tachycardia and will not be off running for too long.
Good luck spen!
About 4 weeks ago I got out of an ice
bath and jumped into a shower, my heart immediately went into what I believed was atrial fibrillation. It was a Friday night and I had to get up very early for work the following day, so I’m typical man fashion I ignored it, drove home, turned up the TV, tried to relax and it went away after about 2 hours.
i seen a gp 4 days later, he heard ectopic beats and what they seen on the ECG was ectopic beats. Told me he would put me on a waiting list for a 24 hour monitor and told me not to worry.....there’s still no sign of a
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</div><div>I was told to got to a and e the next time it getting the sensation of atrial
fibrilation to try to get it confirmed by ECG.
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</div><div>I have suffered with random ectopic beats since this incident but in the last 4 days Ive been waking up first thing in the morning with my heart is repeating ectopic beats.... this morning it was so bad I had to go to hospital. The ECG again confirmed ectopic beats....they told me they have written to my doctor, advising starting medication.
these ectopics started this morning at 7am, it’s not 12:30 and they haven’t stopped.
We have the longest waiting lists in the United Kingdom (northern ireland) and as of now, I can’t even look forward to Christmas or a holiday I’ve booked in January.
Anyone else on here suffer with these regularly.
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First of all, thank you to everyone above for the documentation of symptoms and progress. It has been very heartening.
I'll keep you all posted.
So I had my ablation on Tuesday morning.
My heart has a couple of interesting "features" in the way of plumbing so it was a more complicated operation and I was fully knocked out.
It's Sunday evening now and I am starting to feel better. My resting heart rate is within range of before and I have managed to walk a couple of km ish each day since Thursday.
I still have mild chest pains and funny feelings/heart beat occasionally but I suspect this is just the scarring from the operation working its way out.
More updates to come - interested to know how long it took others to get back to running. I feel about 2 weeks away at the moment and that concerns me - did the operation work? should I feel better already?