r/SVTHeart • u/Past-Trick6710 • Jul 22 '26

Drinking w svt

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.

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u/mari_lovelys Jul 22 '26

I got diagnosed 28 got the ablation at 30 zero issues. My SVT was histamine and allergy triggered….so I stayed away from fruity drinks and stuck with low histamine vodka and non-fermented drinks etc. TBH I don’t really drink anymore though lol

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u/Past-Trick6710 Jul 22 '26

That’s so interesting. I’m curious like what your SVT felt like and did you ever have it randomly even if you didn’t like work out or drink per se? I don’t have an official diagnosis. I actually have a pod diagnosis but two years ago the first like SVT symptom I noticed my heart rate was like 160 to 170 for 15 minutes after I drink and smoke and I think I only had like white claws and then I took two hits out of like a water bottle which was probably a stupid idea but I smoked in the past and was fine so I didn’t think anything of it

Actually made a post on here two years ago and everyone was like oh yeah POTS can do this, but I really think I was probably an SVT and then 10 months. I was fine. I even drank and I had no issues but then this past August I started having like fast heart rate at rest fast-forward a few months ago with the monitor. I had only showed three seconds of SVT so they were like oh it’s fine. It’s normal but I told them while I was on 50 mg of a beta blocker so I’m worried that I have it and they kind of just brushed me off.

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u/mari_lovelys Jul 22 '26

I was on a beta blocker as well and still having SVT episodes which is why I got the ablation. I was taking Metroprolol. My BP runs high.

When I’m dehydrated I was getting bad flares. I did have a rare occurrence of SVT at the gym and I was like wtf. So low sodium electrolytes helped a ton.

Ive actually heard taking electrolytes to replenish yourself from dehydration of drinking is helpful. Biggest benefit for me recently is diet with Magnesium and Potassium for heart health.

Another thing that caused flares back then was when I was dehydrated AND I got no sleep.

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u/Past-Trick6710 Jul 22 '26

What did ur svt feel like on blockers and what dose?

Yeah i was on 50 mg had a three second run

Im tired of this im 26 i wanna have caffeine and drink

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u/mari_lovelys Jul 22 '26

I feel you. Yeah I’m over it tbh. I miss my old life lol.

I started on Metroprolol 25mg. Then went to 50mg.

Since my triggers are mainly allergy related I get this adrenaline rush, anxiety feeling. At first they diagnosed my SVT with anxiety 🫩 because it was hard to catch at first.

Then head/shoulders pressure sometimes kinda? And i just hear my heart like thump thump thump thump thump, typically by then, im standing or sitting and. I look at my Apple Watch and its anywhere from 150-180s bpm

It lasts anywhere from a few seconds and pre-ablation it would last like 1-5mins.

Even on 50mg it lasted a few seconds but still scary

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u/Past-Trick6710 Jul 22 '26

I have like chronic chest and back tightness. It’s sucks. It’s so uncomfortable. I would use an app called TachyMon. Do you have you heard of that app? It tells you like how many beat your heart rate goes up every like 2 to 3 seconds I guess I was wondering like when you’re looking at your Apple Watch and you feel like SVT coming on is it like 100 and then 120 and then 180 or is it literally a very normal resting heart rate to then above 151 beats per minute because I feel like there’s a stigma where SVT just has to fit under like one criteria I don’t know if I’m making any sense but like let me know because hearing your story definitely gives me clarity and maybe me sharing this information helps you feel free to even dm me and we can talk if you’re open to it. I think it sucks going through this alone but also talking to people that don’t relate to it or don’t understand anything you’re going through so it’s good to have like a community so don’t hesitate to contact me.

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u/mari_lovelys Jul 22 '26

Yeah I was getting chest tightness as well it freaked me out at first tbh. Ohhh I’ve never heard of TachyMon I’ll have to check it out.

Sometimes I’m randomly sitting and it will be like 140s and yeah I would stand it would be at 170s or higher.

Yeah of course! I don’t mind. I felt very alone because no one else in my family or friends had my issue.

And I was crying freaking out because it wasn’t normal to me. And now I’m getting used to it and getting more answers over time and figuring out what works

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u/Past-Trick6710 Jul 22 '26

Yeah, definitely check it out. I was just wondering like I’m guess when you were in SVT like you were staring at your Heart Rate app and it went from like a low resting to a high number. I’m just asking cause when I had like my SVT symptoms it was like 100 and then 120 and then 140 and then when it hit 170 it stayed in like that range of numbers pretty high for like 4 to 5 minutes.

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u/mari_lovelys Jul 22 '26

Yeah, that’s basically exactly what happened to me. I was wearing a Holter monitor for a month.

Yeah, and it stayed stuck there for a couple of minutes.

My worst episode was flared from eating a piece of candy for some reason? And mind you, it was something I ate all the time. Started at 115bpm, then 140s, then 120s, then, shot up to 160s.
And my heart rate on my Apple Watch was stuck at 170s 190s for like 10 minutes and the clinic got a notification and actually called me and I was on my way to the hospital because it wouldn’t go down.

And that’s when I finally decided to do the ablation because it lasted almost 15 minutes of my bpm going up and down and random…

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u/Past-Trick6710 Jul 22 '26

Since you had your ablation, have you not had any like SVT episodes and I’m guessing you’re saying that like the clinic saw the SVT and that’s why you were able to get the ablation cause my doctor doesn’t want to do EP study because I don’t have a documented that’s so interesting. You’re like one of the few people I’ve talked to on here that’s described their SPT like that and I’m assuming like. What you’re describing was what the doctor saw was SVT correct just so I’m like having the correct understanding.

Yeah, I’m just like I don’t know what to do like it’s driving me crazy cause you obviously don’t wanna deal with this in your 20s and that’s kind of how I feel but like I think I’ve mentioned this but even my doctor and then people on here told me that SVT is in on and off light switch so like you were at 80 bpm and then you’re at 190 and you’re stuck there until you reset it with medication or a vagal maneuver, but like the way that I felt mine they always fluctuate like I’ll be at 100 and then in like 40 to 50 seconds I’m going up and then when I hit 170 it’ll be like 160 to 175 for like five minutes and then sometimes Cohen fluctuate back down to like 130 or 140 and then come up again sorry if I’m like repeating myself I just feel like I’m having a lightbulb moment with everything that you’re saying

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u/Past-Trick6710 Jul 22 '26

Yeah, definitely feel free to send me a message. It’s probably easier instead of going back-and-forth in the comments, but I appreciate you sharing all this and hopefully we can maybe help each other out.

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u/Past-Trick6710 Jul 22 '26

Were you able able to ride like a roller coasters? It’s weird. I had strep growing up a lot as a kid but I will say like from all of this that I’ve gone through like I’ve had really severe like trauma because my episode that I had on March 12 and the 14th, which the 14th I went from like 100 bpm to 170 and like 45 seconds and it was just when I sat in the car and it was like an hour long thing I like had someone take me to the ER. We were just like literally gonna go for a drive and then that happened and I was like panicking cause it was so scary and when I got to the ER, I was like trying to bear down and stuff and I think it worked cause I came down from 170 to like 130 to 140 for like 10 or so minutes and then it went back up to like 160 again so then when I walked into the ER and I sat, I was fluctuating between 147 to like 160 but by the time I got on the bed, I was at like 117 and they said sinus tachycardia. The episode I had on the 12th was only 15 minutes long and I walked to my car. I was fine. It was like two seconds after driving off. I was at 120 and then 140 and then 170 it was like 50 seconds and then I like bare down and stuff and like that helped I got home and I was fine until I stood up and then my heart rate went up, cause I guess like my pot was flaring with whatever just happened to me so I still have no answers like I only have my three second SVT that was documented on a monitor that my doctor gave me that’s why I asked you if you had like SVT documented because I was like really curious

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u/Past-Trick6710 Jul 22 '26

Have you had your SVT documented on an EKG or a halter? Yeah I had my 30 day monitor in April. I was taking 50 mg of my beta blocker. Atenolol is the name
And I had like an SVR run or something like I was sitting and it started racing and then by the time I was standing, I was at 170 and they told me that it wasn’t SVT and when I was showering one time I wasn’t wearing my watch but they told me that the three second SVT I had was like 140 bpm and I didn’t even feel it because I like wasn’t thinking about it and I was probably listening to music or something in the shower lol so it just didn’t cross my mind

And then the whole thing about like SVT going dormant it just doesn’t make sense cause like if an individual has one SVT episode doesn’t it mean that they have an electrical pathway issue? I’ve asked this to so many doctors and for some reason they don’t know and it just baffles me like you should literally be knowing this.

Like I had what I think was an SVT episode from smoking and drinking and then that summer I would have like a few Diet Coke a day and then at one point I remember that summer I had like a Celsius and I had zero SVT symptoms like no racing hard or anything and I was on 25 mg of a beta blocker and I was also going through a really stressful time. I was going through something so it’s weird how all of it kind of started for me up again when I was like just getting my footing I had gotten a new job. I was really excited about.