What to do if diagnosed with tachycardia?
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You really need to discuss your options with your doctor.\n\nHowever from experience, my mother was diagnosed with it as well when she was 40.  She started taking Lenoxin and has been taking it ever since.  She's 73 now...and still well and "kickin'."
141108
Sounds like WPW sydrome, or atrial fibrilation.  Go to a cardiologist and get an EKG.
588003
Don't panic..Firstly try to rule out the Reflex acidity(if your pain is associated with indigestion,sore throat,burning type of pain,pain resolving with antacids etc etc)..\nThen try to get an ECG done so that you can rule out any cardic problem(but it seem that this chance is very unlikely by your history)..Lastly don't get anxious and try to resolve things properly ,easily but on time..\n\n\nDo follow the advice given to your Doc religeously.
554279
Could be heart arrhythmia, irregular heart beat which is usually begnine.  If you are very worried you should consult your doctor.
1165593
If what you were wearing was a holter monitor, No!\nIn the 24 hours that you wear this, something must appear in the reading as abnormal. If nothing showed up as abnormal, and you're  still concerned, you should let your Cardiologist know that you are still uncomfortabe with the results.Obviously, no one could tell you that your palpitations are benign, in that there could be a few things going on. But, palpitations are very common in all of us. You can't relate these with 'major heart problems', as you ask. Major heart problems are in a different class. In the 24 hours that you wore this monitor, an event had to take place in this time. What are the chances of this, again, no one really knows.You can't expect even an educated guess here. What you're experiencing cannot go any further in a forum like this. The question is obtuse and requires your presense, your medical history, and your current symptoms.\n\nEssentially, you need to speak to your doc. Further, please don't ASK or ANSWER medical questions online. You will find, as you already have, that you'll get answers from laymen who think they know what they're talking about and being a layman yourself, you may mistakably take their advise. In this, you could be asking for big problems. I would be happy to answer questions you may have in giving you medical direction. Feel free to contact me. \n\nGrizz\n\nP.S. If you(audience) are not educated in this field, DO NOT answer medical questions in this forum. If you do, you are far from realizing that you may be putting people in danger. This is not the place for opinion, or personal experience regardless of your SINCERE intentions.
1128142
You need to see a doctor, and they will probably either:\n1)Put a 24-hour heart monitor on you if it happens daily.\n2)Put an event recorder on you that you can keep for up to one month to capture the fast heartrate and see what it looks like.\n\nIf you do not have any symptoms such as shortness of breath, low blood pressure, or dizziness during it, that's good.  Still need to find out what it is.\n\nI would see a cardiologist or electrophysiologist, who specializes in abnormal heart rhythms.  They are experts in this stuff.
1123924
You may have PSVT which is a fast heart rate. It is very annoying and is scary when you feel it. It is treatable though. Do you drink /eat a lot of caffiene? (Cokes, tea coffee, chocolate?) Ask your doctor to put a Holter Monitor on you and see if anything shows up there. It is a 24 hour monitor you wear and it monitors your heart.  Good luck!
467333
As a cardiovascular technologist I can tell you that sometimes ablations cannot resolve the recurrence of arrhythmias. Depends what kind it is, the underlying cause and if there is coronary heart disease or any type of cardiomyopathy. There is a good method of mapping your heart during an electrophysiology study which is called ESI. What this does it inflates a ballon insite the right atrium and it has a "net" on it. The net comes in contact with the myocardium thus mapping it and can pinpoint where the arrhythmias are generating from. What an ablation does is that it "burns" the site or the group of cells that are causing the arrhythmia, however another group of cells with time or progresive disease can become irritable and start arrhythmias, or there can be another reentry pathway in your heart that can be causing the problem. The atria and ventricles are supposed to be electrically isolated from each other and with the existance of these re-entry pathways the action potential or electricity generated in the atria (or anywhere) can just travel back and forth and cause a rapid heart beat. If you live in NY the best place to have this done would be at St. Francis Hospital- The Heart Center (516-562-6000) by Dr. Greenberg or one of his associates.
1092422
Your problem is rare and I have seen quite a few person with this problems in my experience.AV node re-entrant tachycardia is actually a aberrant accessory pathwat that runs from atrim to ventricle bypassing the AV node and hence the name.For the heart to work ,it require electrical stimulation to stimulate the heart muscle.This electrical stimuli start in atria and then travels down to ventricle in a well defined pathway.When someone like you have this accessory pathway,what happens is that there might be premature stimulation of your ventricle resulting in poor function of your heart and symptoms like dizziness and even unconsiousness.Good that you got the accessory pathway ablated.Hopefully the symptoms do not come back.
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Tachycardia is defined as a sustained heart rate greater than 100 beats per minute. There can be several causes and the treatments reflect these. \n\nFrom a hospital view: When patients become tachy, one must look at the whole picture of health to determine the cause. Is the patient dehydrated? Is the patient having a severe anxiety attack? Is there something more serious causing this? What medications is the patient taking? What are his/her electrolyte levels? What is the person's underlying heart rhythm; Ventricular Tachycardia, Atrial Tachycardia, Atrial Fibrillation with Rapid Ventricular Rate, Wolff Parkinson White....? What is the person's medical history? The solution MUST reflect the cause. The goal is to CONVERT the heart rhythm back to Normal Sinus.\n\nIf the cause of the tachycardia must be controlled by medicine only (not dehydration), some possible options are Adenosine, Diltiazem, Esmolol, Lidocaine, and Mag Sulfate (Torsades). If patients do not respond to chemical cardioversion, then the medical staff may attempt electrical cardioversion. If this does not solve the issue, they may even schedule ablation (a surgical procedure that is designed to eliminate accessory pathways of electrical current in the heart). The patient may even leave the hospital with an implanted defibrillator. The majority of patients, once heart rate is controlled, leave on a maintenance medication such as Cardizem CR daily.
592021
My husband has an ICD. After he recovered his doctor told him he could resume his usual activities as tolerated. Losing weight is a good idea. You should discuss types of exercise, frequency, etc. with your doctor. It won't do you any good if you push to far, too fast and hurt yourself. Then you would have to start all over after you've recovered.
676151
Definately call your doc.  However i CAN tell you that you'll prob want to avoid cold meds with decongestants like pseudo-effedrine (sp?) because it can raise your heart rate, cause/aggrevate heart arrythmias, and raise blood pressure.\nEither way, def call your doc or his nurse to be sure!
234662
It's called orthostats, try this...  Lie down and relax for about 10 minutes and then take your pulse.  Slowly stand up and then after a minute take your pulse again.  If there is a huge difference, say more than 20 beats, you're probably dehydrated...
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Sometimes when aggression flares up and you have no outlet to express it (like, for instance, you're on the phone and you have to be relatively polite) it doesn't always feel good. Adrenaline can actually hurt, given too much. \n\nThat being said, whenever your heart is effected, you want to get it checked out. Regardless of the cause, tachycardia (heart beating too fast) is bad, unless you're excercising. If it happens again, I would make an appointment. Don't stress over it, just bear it in mind and talk to your PCP about it.\n\nGood Luck.
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You mention that you have seen several doctors and had several tests, but have you been to a Electrophysiologist ? This is a cardiologist who only specializes in diseases and disorders relating to arithmia's.While there may be several causes to your symptoms sometimes the only way to find out difinitavly what may be causing these fluxuations in your heart rate are two tests,one is what they simply call a tilt table test.simply put they strap you down to a table (only so you won't fall) and they monitor your vitals laying completly flat and start to tilt the table both forward and backwards (as if they were tipping you up side down)this is often done when your sypmtoms are caused when you go from sitting to standing.this could be caused also by a sudden drop in blood pressure from standing,the other test is is a Electrophysiology (E.P. Study)\nThe procedure involves inserting a catheter – a narrow, flexible tube – attached to electricitymonitoring electrodes, into a blood vessel, often through a site in the groin or neck, and winding the catheter wire up into the heart. The journey from entry point to heart muscle is navigated by images created by a fluoroscope, an x-ray-like machine that provides continuous, “live” images of the catheter and heart muscle. Once the catheter reaches the heart, electrodes at its tip gather data and a variety of electrical measurements are made. These data pinpoint the location of the faulty electrical site. During this “electrical mapping,” the cardiac arrhythmia specialist, an electrophysiologist, may instigate, through pacing (the use of tiny electrical impulses), some of the very arrhythmias that are the crux of the problem. The events are safe, given the range of experts and resources close at hand and are necessary to ensure the precise location of the problematic tissue.\n\nOnce the damaged site or sites are confirmed, the specialist may administer different medications or electrical impulses to determine their ability to halt the arrhythmia and restore normal heart rhythm. Based on this data, as well as information garnered before the study, sometimes the specialist will proceed to place an implantable cardioverter device (ICD) or a pacemaker or will perform radiofrequency ablation. In any case, the information proves useful for diagnosis and treatment.\n\nThroughout the procedure, the patient is sedated but awake and remains still. Patients rarely report pain, more often describing what they feel as discomfort. Some watch the procedure on monitors and occasionally ask questions. Others sleep. The procedure usually takes about two hours. The patient remains still for four to six hours afterward to ensure the entry point incision begins to heal properly. Once mobile again, patients may feel stiff and achy from lying still for hours. \n\nI have several arythmia disorders that i was born with and have been through these tests litterally over 50 times in my life,and while it may sound scary and painful it isn't ,you will receive sedation and pain medicine.Plus the info they can learn from these procedures in some instances can be life saving.Now i'm not saying you may have something life threatning.it may very well be something as simple as anxiety related but if it is bothersome enough that it scares you as much as it seems to i think i would see one of these doctors just to be on the safe side.
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no, this is too low of a stimulus or intake if it was to be a cause, you could talk to the doctor for possible causes of the exact heart beat problem, good luck
1022201
Go to the hospital and ask to see a cardiologist.