by crazykurst

Created on: August 25, 2008   Last Updated: September 05, 2008

Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) is a general term describing any rapid heart rate originating above the ventricles, or lower chambers of the heart. SVT is an arrhythmia, or abnormal heart rhythm. Specific types of SVT include atrial fibrillation, AV nodal re-entrant tachycardia, and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. I do not know anything more about my condition other than it is Supraventricular tachycardiaand not Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.

It all started when I was young, I'd say about five is the earliest memory I have of having tachycardia, I remember waking up in the night feeling shaky and noticing my breathing was a bit weird, I don't know how to explain it, a bit like if you breath in, stop for a second and then breath in again, this happened when I breathed out as well. This would happen when I was in bed at night. Feeling weird and not quite knowing why, I climbed in bed with my Mum eventually went to sleep and in the morning I felt fine again.
My mum being obviously worried took me to the doctors whilst I was having an attack so he could see what was going on. I remember feeling sick and I couldn't walk too fast. Sitting in the waiting room I threw up every where, there were no cleaners on at that time of day and someone just threw a paper over it and there it stayed. So feeling rather ashamed of myself I sat and waited, it was no good I had to find a toilet, I was sick so much there was nothing left and my heart was normal again. This all happened before I got to see the doctor, but I still went in to see him. He gave me an ECG which records the rhythm of your heart beat and prints it out on a piece of paper. But of course I was fine.

The next time I had an attack we managed to get to the doctors while it was going fast and get an ECG, what a pretty pattern I made I was doing around 200 beats a minute, the lines were from top to bottom with no gaps in between. The doctor gave me a copy of the ECG to keep. I think my mum still has it somewhere. I had got tachycardia. But which sort, the doctor wanted me to go for tests. My mum didn't like it but had to take me to see specialists I got proscribed propranolol little pink tablets to take tree times a day, I think these are a beta blocker and are used to cure hypertension as well, because I was only young I didn't look into them too much I trusted my mum and obviously my specialist. I had to give my teacher my tablets at school so she could give them to me at lunch, I'm sure I was only 6 or 7.
I only

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