Trouble Diagnosing SVT?

Thank you for that information.

I find when my SVT comes I'm usually at rest as well. Take care and hope you continue to feel good!

Yeah I was wearing a holter monitor and got the attack.. Maybe I am just being paranoid.. It just doesn't feel like an anxiety attack.  For people who might think they have svt or something.. If my results are true.. than that means there are certain forms of sinus tachy that can really trick you.  My heart was racing SUPER fast.  Probably at least 160 minimum.   The heart doctor was like its not your heart, you have a very strong heart..  I said than what was it an anxiety attack?  He was like thats exactly what it was. 

If I were you, I wouldn't  take that for an answer. If you feel like it wasn't an anxiety attack, than it probably wasn't. Like I said before, my mother was diagnosed with SVT a few years ago and it took a long time for them to find it.

So i shouldn't trust the test results from the monitor i was wearing?  I don't really get what you are saying.  I thought the way to diagnose SVT is to have it recorded while you are in the episode.. I was in an episode of the super fast heart heart racing and I was wearing a monitor.. What the hell else is left for me to do.. How could i trust the monitor than?  If it didn't pick it up and errored while I was in SVT, than how could I trust it if i really don't have it and now the monitor says I do and i get a false positive. 

Molly do you suffer from anxiety.  I was totally convinced I had svt or some kind of heart arrythmia.. It felt like it would hit me from left field even when I wasn't thinking of anything or nervous.. My heart would just start to race like crazy, i start to sweat and feel horrible..I tried so hard to figure out wtf it was. It didn't feel like an anxiety attack..  But according to the holter monitor from the cardiologist it was sinus tachyrdia, aka most likely a panic attack.   I still have doubts, its like I don't believe the test result..  If it really is from anxiety .. all I can tell you is that it is possible that your body shoots off a load of adrenaline in a second and can cause your race to start pounding. 

Thanks Molly, and good luck!

no its not anxiety related. the doctors have completely ruled it out as an anxiety attack gradually builds without you noticing. I have had a lot of panic attacks in my life and I know what one feels like. mine occurs when I walk the stairs or bend down to pick something up. I am breathless all the time and I feel physically tired too. When I have a palpitation I have no anxiety I have trained myself to grab control of them. still would rather live without them and be able to do all the things people my age can do!

I don't know.   For me personally my anxiety has morphed and changed forms throughout the years.  It went from feeling dizzy all the time and like hell and super tired with skipped beats.. than that disappeared and i started getting panic attacks.. than I started getting adrenaline rushes out of no where at the flip of a switch out of the blue for no apparent reason..  All I know is.. if the test results I got back from the heart monitor are real.. than anxiety attacks can fool you pretty bad.  They hit me when I am relaxed about to fall asleep not thinking of anything and than BAM its like a release valve out of no where.. 

Well I am so sorry that you suffer from that level of anxiety. I hope you find a manageable way to be able to cope with those symptoms your having.

I first had my heart palpitation after having a cough medicine. It was an 8 hour long thing and terribly scary. I should of gone to hospital but it was Friday night and the hospital would of been heaving. They say medications like that can bring on your SVT. So weird how the body reacts and responds to things. I wish you all the luck with your journey.

Thank you Molly and the same goes to you.. I think the biggest sufferers of anyhting heart related are those that get effected pscychologically by the sumptoms. I have read stories of SVT sufferers who had it since they were like 10 years old their whole life into old age and they had such a good attitude about it.  The attacks never really phased them and they learned maneuvers how to stop it themselves.  I have no idea what the hell I have.. The only thing that tells me it might be anxiety is i know I have anxiety.. and I always know when the fast heart rate is coming, i get a warning by the way i feel. I get a tense feeling with a little excelerated heart rate and hot, and than it escalates.  Been getting these since 2009 or so..  They always stop on their own.. most of the time they don't last longer then a min to maybe a couple of mins tops. 

Yeah I understand that.   I realize you have to be in SVT for it to show up.  My heart was in that weird racing mode when I wore the monitor and they picked everything up.  I questioned him about it and he said the monitor got a clear reading.  I should trust in that, but than you read online and have people like. Mssteed telling you the machines aren't accurate... so than you don't know what to think. 

Hello Palladinx,  My main comment on that is that there are so many variations of heart conditions including variations of svt.  A friend phoned me the other day and said he had been diagnosed with svt the same as me.  However on discussing his condition it became obvious his was very different to mine and he needed to undergo further tests to establish exactly the extent of his problems.  My advice to anyone is to put your faith in heart specialists who are better today then ever with all the technology available to them.  A general practitioner no matter how skilled cannot have the same ability as a fully trained specialist. 

I totally agree with you Geoff. Also, Paladinx, If you don't think the doctor is right, get a second opinion. Doctor's are human, they make mistakes.

I understand.  People with anxiety become very paranoid and end up getting tested like a lab rat non stop.. I don't want to become like that either. I went to a heart specialist.  From what I hear he is good.  He gave me an ekg at the office, an echocardiogram and than the holter monitor which i was wearing when I had the attack.  After the tests he basically told me I have a good heart that is strong, and that my problems aren't cardiac related.  I called him again to question the holter monitor test because i thought the way the girl set it up on me seemed weird but he didn't seem concerned.. He said it got a good reading.  I realize that the machine itself can pickup the rythm and identify it as well as the doctor looking at it.  So i doubt the machine and the doctor would make a double mistake.. the only thing is if the machine itself wasn't hooked up right or didn't pick it up correctly.. but maybe that is just paranoia 

it not just the doctor its the machine itself.  the machines today can auto detect what heart rhtym you are in.  The machine didn't detect it and I would imagine the heart specialist looked at it as well..  If both of them are wrong.. my faith in health care isn't high..  

Well I hope what ever treatment you do works for you. Good luck. Let me know of any further developments and I will do the same.

Even if it was SVT and the monitor was wrong somehow. I don't think they would treat me.  My episodes only happen now as im going off to sleep.. all of the sudden i feel weird like hot .. and a sort of nervous tension feeling thats hard to explain develops out of no where... Sometimes at that point I can fight it off, but sometimes i can't and than my heart starts racing.  Its not instantly,, there is a build up towards it, but the heart accelerates pretty fast quickly.. It usualy lasts maybe a minute or two.  than it goes back to normal.. Again not instantly in a flash,  but pretty quickly it slows down.  I know I have anxiety problems, and its possible this is just a manifestation of anxiety.. Some kind of nocturnal panic attacks that aren't the typical where you are awake and nervous about something... Its like your body can dump some adreanline in your system to speed up your heart out of no where.  There was another guy on this forum whose pulse used to go up to 180.. and he was diagnosed without having SVT either on the heart monitor... IM just telling you that if my test results were accurate which they SHOULD be..  Its very hard to tell the difference.. I think with SVT you get a skipped heart beat like a flip flop feeling and right after that your heart is racing.. Than you get the flip flop feeling and than ur heart is back to normal.  the flip flop feeling by itself doesn't mean anything.. everyone gets those.