Thirty Years of SVT, let's chat and compare.....

Since I was in my forties I have been in and out of hospitals, doctor offices, and looking at nice looking EMT's, however, that never stopped the arrhythmia. It has been like a fine running train at 140 miles an hour, or, every where on the chart with no real beat to chart. Coffee was a trigger, so was chocolate, alcohol and stress or anxiety, who knew? I kept having the chocolate, but not with alcohol, not a drinker but liked a glass of wine now and then. After all these years, now, on a beta blocker that really never has stopped the arrhythmia, but kept it from erupting every day into full blown type, I wonder just what is going on?

I also know that since it all began, which was so very scary at the time, I was given the beta blocker, which almost ten years later was changed due to the medication causing more episodes than not. Test after test, soon tired of all of it, and I did not want ablation so I had to figure out how to live with it and not have to run to the ER everytime I could not get it stpped. I was also given Ativan, which helped so much when an attack happened. and that was the only time I had to use it. Now days, doctors do not want to give any thing like that, due to so many new policies, and I could be an addictive person, never happen, never thought about it, and no doctor ever said to me, I cannot give you this, you will be a druggie...the one thing that helped me get back to normal that I used about four times a year even if I had fifty pills.

Now it is all different. More stress, more attacks, that I mostly try and get stopped myself, but it is how you feel after, and even during that you need to do something. I know everything to do before a trip to the ER. Sometimes it does not work. What is your take on this? Now my new doctor will not let me have Ativan, and so I am trying homeopathic, so far no help on that one.Thanks for any feedback, and I am listening. I do not have spell check on this, hope it is all OK. I feel after this long if I was to become stuck on a drug, it would be in my very public records of the past...

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