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Weighing my decision of ablation, advice?

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Aliens05
Aliens05

Hello

Just a quick backstory, I am a 34 year old male from the USA, I work in the medical field and my SVT episodes started when I was 27 just out of nowhere. I had no changes or anything different in my life when the episodes began. I've always been healthy and active my entire life.

I saw a cardiologist for about 6 years who never was much help, finally decided to switch and at my first appointment with the new cardiologist they recommended ablation based on findings from monitoring that my old cardiologist had ran.

I spoke with an electrophysiologist specialist who also recommended ablation.

However, part of me feels like I shouldn't do it for a few reasons. Yes the svt does affect my lifestyle, I have to go slow and not very intense with lifting weights and do little to no cardio exercises.

however, I know what my limits are, and I can almost always do my weight lifting without causing an episode of svt, in fact my last episode was probably 8-9 months ago. SVT comes very infrequently for me unless I really do intense exercise or drink Caffeine.

I'm wondering if the ablation is worth a risk as infrequently as I'm experiencing the episodes and the fact that I can almost always guarantee that I can prevent them just by holding myself back on exercising. of course I've talked to my doctors about it and my family and I realize only I can make the decision for myself. I just feel the small 1% chance of a potentially life threatening episode for a procedure I dont even have to have is maybe not worth it, even though yes, it could greatly improve my lifestyle overall. the biggest thing is my SVT episodes are usually months apart, I think i even went over a year without one, mind you of course I do purposely hold myself back from intensity with working out and exercising or even running around in the yard. If I were to push myself in the gym, or I were to exercise at 80-100% intensity I would almost for sure have one Everytime, so I do slow, short, light workouts only.

thoughts? opinions? advice?

Thanks everyone in advance for any feedback.

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  • janet43539
    janet43539 Aliens05

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    my husband had an ablation and he feels 100 percent better. it took 5 years to get him diagnosed.

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