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Ventricular tachycardia

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tavidu
tavidu

Hi all. I am a member on another group (PMR) but my wife has just been diagnosed with the above (Ventricular tachycardia ), is this totally different from SVT and if so can anyone guide me to the correct forum. Many thanks.

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  • tavidu
    tavidu

    Posted

    I posted the above discussion 4/5 days ago and wondered if anyone out there also suffers from V.T as I have had no replies at all. If anyone can offer advice it would be greatly appreciated.
  • sue73
    sue73 tavidu

    Posted

    The "supra" indicates that the impulse arises above the ventricles; without supra presumably the impulse arises from the ventricles themselves. There are loads of different sorts of palpitations: the heart is a mass of different "wirings", the fault can be anywhere, and the name tells you from where (once they've diagnosed it!). Or so my consultant explained to me.
  • carol_72118
    carol_72118 tavidu

    Posted

    After suffering for about a year, and a cardiac cath, I discovered that my VT was due to taking too much calcium supplement.  After discontinuing calcium, my heart went back to normal.  I have mentioned this to two other friends who did the same and said that their feeling of being "heart tired" and heart flutters also went away.  This may not help every one, but I wonder if the reason so many people are suffering with heart arrythmias might not be due in part to doctors advising us to take so much calcium these days.  It is, afterall, an electrolyte.
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