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DLCNURSE
topic: Relief of tachycardia
Hi. This past year has been a hectic and trying
year. A few years back I started with chest pain and palpitations that seemed to
progressively get worse. It didn't help matters when I also was diagnosed with
high blood pressure, discovered that I have discoid lupus with a + titer to the
systemic lupus. So far that has been low. I had begun to think that I was
imaginating the fast heart rate. Wound up in the hospital 3 times with the chest
pain but nothing ever showed. Went through the stress test twice, had the
echocardiogram done, wore a heart monitor for 30 days twice and the second time
finally picked up the faster rate. Was referred to a electrophysiologist and had
the EP study in which he found a SVT with a rate of 280 and subsequently it
evolved into a atrial fibrillation. So was put to sleep and had the
cardioversion done to slow the rate and also had the ablation done. It has been
two weeks since I had it done and am still have some tachycardia. My
cardiologist has switched all my medications and now find that I may have to
have the implantable loop recorder to try and locate the irregularities that are
still occurring. But over all I am really glad to finally know what is causing
the problem and getting back to my normal life style. Hopefully in the near
future I will have everything taken care of so that I can lead a normal and
productive lifesyle and doing what I do best-nursing!
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