Thank you, Della. Its been a tough ride. Three cardiologist, 2 electrophysiologist, and 47 monitors later, the problem was found... 🤣 . I've had this issue for a long time. I'd got to the ER and they'd tell me, "just PVC's, or anxiety..." Presribe me Xanax, or something. Put a monitor on me here and there...Nothing. Rinse and repeat. Finally went to a cardiologist/EP who started to dig....Problem was, they could never catch the episodes...Echo, heart caths all were coming back normal...Finally they decided to implant a device called a Loop Recorder. It constantly records every single heart beat,and has parameter settings to pick up certain arrhythmia's, heart rates, etc....About two weeks ago I was working a Little League game and out of nowhere, my heart just went crazy....Measured HR's of 238 at its max, and sustained at around 200 for 16 minutes. I knew within seconds I was in trouble....could tell I was gonna pass out. Byt the time ambulance got me to hospital, HR had stablized, and rythm was back to normal, BUT.......the loop recorder they implanted recorde the entire epsiode and through that they were able to diagnose me with SVT/Afib, and were able to have an idea where the problem was..
Turns out I had an extra pathway, and that was causing my heart to go into these rhythms. Although they couldn't induce those rhythms during surgery,they were able to pinpoint the area and therefore was able to do someting called a slow pathway, AV Node ablation. I had the surgery Thursday,and so far, so good. I've went from about 50-100 irregular beats a day,to hardly any.
Very, very blessed....I mean the episode at the LL game could havebeen really bad. But not only were there 3 nursesthere, but all 3 were freakin' cardiac nurses......God blessed me. And continues to do so.
Thank you for the kind words, Della..
