18 with SVT?

Hi you dont have to be afraid to take the medication, Iam the same as you 5.3 and 53 pounds and i Also have low pressure, this medication Save me from the svt it calms my Heart and for sure it not cause you a low pressure, i have three years Taken it and i feel ok Also it lower my anxiety try it, and ser how great you will feel

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I would stop taking the medication until you can get a definitive diagnosis.  

How fast is your pulse, when you've timed it in the past?  

Sounds like SVT's to me.  It's actually common for people to start getting the SVT's in their early teens.  I have had mine since I was about 13, 14, also.  In order for them to give you a definite diagnosis, you must be in an SVT attack while doing the Ekg.  It was hard for me, because for many years, by the time I got to the hospital, it would be over and they kept telling me it was panic attacks, altough I knew it wasn't true, because I also have panic attacks, and there is a mojor difference.  The difference is that a panic attack, comes on gradually and ends gradually, it that it goes slower, then faster and faster and faster, but the SVT will start adbruptly and end adbruptly. there is now slowing down until it stops are starts, it all the sudden fast and all the sudden stops.  Well, anyway, I finally ended up buying a hand held ecg, for like a hundred us dollars, and I was able to record it and then show my cardiologist.  He then confirm that it was indeed SVT's I was having.  He did prescribe me metroproprol tarte, not sure of spelling, and I also, was scared to take because I naturally have low blood pressure and alreday get dizzy all the time.  So, I asked him if I could just take them as needed for when I get an attack, and he said that it was fine to that.  So, my advice to you, is that if you are really scared about the side effects of your medication, and if you have the SVT's rearly or they don't interefer too much with your life, then ask your doctor about taking them just when you go into an attack.  Now, if you have them all the time, or they interefer with your daily life, then I would have to say, that you would need to take your med on a daily basis.  If your still not comfortable taking the med, there are other options, such as ablation.  Best wishes...

Hi there. The first thing is to reassure you that SVT is NOT life threatening, and that most of us have otherwise healthy hearts and have managed to cope very well with it given the right meds, pretty minor lifestyle changes and some learned techniques. If you have been reading the posts on this forum you will probably have already seen stuff like avoiding ALL CAFFEINE (even decaff), and as far as possible mental & emotional stress, and gravity jolts like suddenly bending down to pick up something you've dropped. Do ask us if you need any more info on things like that.

To a layperson like myself most of your symptoms do seem like SVT, but it is possible that they could be from a mixture of low blood pressure and something else. If it is SVT then it seems that a delayed diagnosis will not actually make the condition worse that it would otherwise be (like it would if it were cancer for example), I think its more that it might delay you getting tailored medication to control it. 

I must say that what struck me most about your post is all of the uncertainty you have. It is, unfortunately, common to go several years without getting a definitive SVT diagnosis, generally because it can take that long to capture the events on the right equipment. But what concerns me is that your GP has not convinced you that he understands the symptoms you told him about, or that the meds he prescribed are the right way to go. Its a basic part of a GP's job to listen and explain stuff in a way patients can understand so I would suggest that, if possible, you see a different GP (and they in turn can refer you to a different cardio if necessary). 

Did the GP or cardio say they were going to give you another Holter monitor to try again to capture it?