Atrial tachycardia questions
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I am young and healthy and enjoy running for exercise. I had my first episode of SVT a few months ago and it was severe. I underwent an ablation for what was thought to be AV nodal re-entrant tachycardia but the doctor was unable to reproduce the rhythm during the procedure but he ablated an area anyway, feeling like it was the right spot. I just have weaned off beta blockers and it returned with another severe episode. I saw a new doctor who says it is not AV nodal, it is atrial tachycardia. from what I am reading, atrial tachycardia usually affects elderly and unhealthy people with underlying diseases of the heart. Are there any other young athletic people out there with this problem? If so, how is it managed? my doctor says an ablation is quite difficult with atrial tachycardia and has changed my medicine from metoprolol to propafenone (rhythmol). The side effects look terrible. Anyone else take this drug? I am frightened to take it and am very sad that I now have this chronic diagnosis and told it is difficult to treat
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Sunshine_healer Nervous123
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I am a healthy 35 yo male with quite active lifestyle. I used to play badminton ( so difficult to say used to ! ) until I was diagnosed with SVT 2 years back. My cardiologist did all the tests and said there is no problem with my heart apart from this tiny electrical glitch which he thought as AVNRT. I was put on Verapimil but It made me feel worse, doctor then put me on Metroprolol which helped me to manage my palpitations for quite sometime. I still used to get those short runs of palpitations sometimes even multiple times a day. I decided to get that ablated and underwent ablation surgery a week back. During EP study, doctor was able to trigger SVT but was not able to fix it completely. He told its Atrial tachychardia and it needs some electromagnetic mapping technique to locate and ablate it. I am still in recovery phase from my first ablation and havent given any thought for second ablation. Personally i would like to give myself some time to heal and observe before I make any decision to go for 2nd ablation. Regarding your concern, I was told that Atrial Tachychardia is curable by mapping. I suggest you talk to some good electrophysiologist and then decide for yourself. More power to you.