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Old guy with new SVT diagnosis

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bobzam
bobzam

I am very active at 85 in golf and walking and some bicycling.  In June during last part of golf I got light headed, and faint and very fatiqued. This happened a few times also walking long distances like over mile. I have pacemaker for low heart rate some 3 years ago.

So yesterday the cardio did a  teadmill and echos and said I have SVT. He has put me on beta blocker starting today as I was only  on a diarituc before.

In reviewing messages and other stuff my case seems  wholy related to excessive exercise.

My only questioin now is how effective will the beta blocker be in getting back to a full 18 holes of golf? 

I have been very interested in the techniques to deal with AVT here on this forum so will have that knowledge handy in future.

Of couse I could just quit golf and other exercise routine and spend more time in my recliner but i have already dummbed down my golf to short courses and with a group of old guys now.

Thanks for all the good info here.

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  • ciaran33745
    ciaran33745 bobzam

    Posted

    Hi Bob. I'm 58 and live in Ireland. I too play golf, its probably the only healthy vice I've got because all the other ones are pretty destructive! A friend of mine, John McMahon, is in his 93rd year and is hard to keep up with on the course.

    I had SVT for about 20 years until I had an ablation 5 years ago that cured it. 

    I've got no medical qualifications whatsoever, but your case does seem unusual in a few ways. 

    I don't think I've heard of another SVT sufferer first diagnosed at such a mature age. Sudden bending movements apart, I'm very sure that excercise was not a trigger for my SVT. Lastly, my SVT rarely, if ever, involved the fatigue, faintness and light-headedness you mention (in my case they remind me most of the side-effects of the meds I used to try to prevent SVT).

    I don't Google my own medical stuff because past experience reminds me that the search results too often told me I would probably die from whatever it was (if it didn;t tell me I was already as good as dead already), so I'm ignorant of some variations of SVT such as the ?AVT you mention.

    How condident do you feel in the SVT diagnosis?

  • linda90194
    linda90194 bobzam

    Posted

    Did your doctor tell you that the exercise causes the SVT? My doctor has said the exact opposite. He has told me that caffeine and stress can contribute.

    He also told me that it's like when you go in a room and turn on a light switch and the light switch doesn't work. 

    Mine came on suddenly and left suddenly.

    I can be sitting on a sofa and it happens and lasted 2 hours. Came on suddenly and left just as suddenly. 

    My doctor encourages me to exercise. 

    Hopefully the medication will work for you, if not you may need an ablation. 

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