frustated and scared

hi all, i came across this page while googling life with a pacemaker.. i dont have one as yet, but looks like the path that ill be taking. I was after thoughts or advice. 

I have had SVT since 2007, they  were on and off for many years since than, they couldnt catch it but finally they caught one in NOV 2015 going at 225bpm and not stopping had to have an injection to slow it down, omg it made me feel like death. So than that followed with a heart ablation in feb 2016, all went well the doc said. last month ive been off, feeling faint , sweaty, and shakey i have had low heart rate, I had a halter for 24hrs last week.  

They found my heart rate dropped to 42bpm, im guessing thats not good? and states a rare superventricular ectopics , including atrial tachycardia runs up to 144bpm. no pauses greater then 2.0 seconds. 

So my question is i guess from your own personal experinces i will more than likely need a pacemaker ?  im 35 fit , healthy and there was no structure damage on my last scan. 

thanks in advance. 

1 Comments

Maybe, maybe not

by BillH - 2016-09-12 16:09:48

It depends on correlating the symptoms with the Holter readings.

A HR of 42 is not too low unless you are having symptoms at that time.

Depending on how "rare" the AT runs they might want to treat it with meds. And many meds that are used to reduce AT will lower the HR more and probably require a PM.

I would not be surprised that if they don't want to do a 30 monitoring to get a better idea of  how much and often these occur.

BTW, I have had simlar,  but limited to no symptoms. And they wanted to put me on beta blockers and a PM for my exsisting slow HR.

But I did not like the side effects of the BB and refused. But I can only rarely feel the palpations and never caused symtoms that affect my activities.

And my background is much different than you. 72 with bypass and moderate/sever mitral reguratation.

And after making some changes they have greatly decreased. But no way of telling if these what helped or not.

1. Started Yoga. It does have a comming effect and the body and studies have show that it help reduce AFIB.

2. Take magnessium sumpliments - this seems to very iffy by the litature and seems to help some.

3, Increased by long bike rides.

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