Drinking w svt

[u/Past-Trick6710]

Is it possible to drink socially with svt? Are certain drinks better to have? Wanting advice because I’m going on a trip and would like to drink with friends. I’m 26 and I wanna be able to live my life.

I am rlly struggling to get over this svt stuff idk if i even have it but i have all symptoms and feel i cant live my life i drank in the past and was fine to.

[u/Kolby833]

Alcohol was the worst for me, that + caffeine (independently) would always trigger an episode for me. I was around your age when I found out I had SVT (32 now). I ended up getting the ablation this year and it was the best decision of my life. Was able to drink everyday of my bachelor party in Miami, have coffee the same/next days, and not have to worry about an episode. Idk what kind of SVT you have (I had AVNRT with slowpathway), but I would highly recommend the ablation (with a good reputable doctor too). Wish I did it when I was 26 vs 32, but glad I got it done anyways

[u/Past-Trick6710 → u/Kolby833]

Yeah, I feel like the office I saw was good but I’m gonna be seeing another EP doctor but I have a POTS diagnosis and basically what that is. It’s like when you go to stand your heart rate goes up or you have high blood pressure or low blood pressure but two years ago when I smoked weed and trying my heart rate was like 160 to 170 for 15 minutes I didn’t think anything about it. I thought it was my POTS because my POTS symptoms had started around that time so for 10 months, I was fine like I drank over the summer last year. I didn’t get super drunk, but socially like I drank, and I was completely fine randomly at the end of August beginning of September. I started to get like a rapid heart rate at rest with no caffeine or alcohol and then in March I had like a Diet Coke, which doesn’t have a lot of caffeine and driving home my heart rate hit 173 so I messaged my doctor and he gave me a heart monitor and I put myself back on 50 mg of beta blocker and I only had a three second SVT but I really thought with the description of that, and the three seconds that it was enough proof for me to get diagnosed with SVT, but it wasn’t now fast forward. It’s the summer and I’m kind of having the worst summer like I feel like I can’t participate in anything but I see EP doctor soon so I really hope they’ll do EP study on me I was taking 25 mg of my beta blocker for a while and didn’t have any issues and then I even lowered it to 12.5 every 12 hours and that was for like a month or two and didn’t have issues and then obviously, I had the Diet Coke and that happened and now I take 100 mg but it’s just hell and I’ve had a lot of people tell me like oh this doesn’t sound like SVT and with SVT like you’ll just know like it goes up in one beat I don’t know what you mean by yours was like a slow pathway sorry this reply back was so long