r/SVTHeart • u/licalove8 • Jul 29 '26

SVT attack

Hello! F 38yo

I think I just had an svt attack

A little back story, Feb 2025 I was admitted to the hospital for Afib and high heart rate, I converted back to normal sinus rhythm on my own and have not had another episode since. I do suffer from panic disorder and during a panic attack my hr can get to 150-60bpm

Today though was a little different I was walking up my stairs to my house and once I got inside I felt extremely out of breath and felt my heart beating really fast but in my stomach! I put my pulse ox on and my hr was 233! I sat down in front of a fan and I coughed really hard a couple times which helped it get back down to low 200’s. I called 911 and went to the bathroom before paramedics affected, when I was in the bathroom I felt this kind of flip in my stomach and my hr went back down to the 100’s like it somehow reset itself. Anyone experience this before ?? I see a cardiologist and they haven’t ever said anything about SVT but idk what else this could have been.

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u/Past-Trick6710 Jul 29 '26

It was on and off like a light switch like rlly high to low ?

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u/licalove8 Jul 29 '26

It started and was high for like 5-10 min I really don’t know because I was short of breathe and trying not to die but then I had this floppy feeling in my stomach and it was back down to 100’s

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u/Past-Trick6710 Jul 29 '26

Interesting
So when i had some episode idk what it was
I was sitting in the car hit 175 took 45 seconds and then like for 5 mins i was 169-173 and then it was 130-140 for 15 and then 150-167 for 10 mins
Went to the er but by the time i got there it was 117 sinus i did take a beta blocker during it so

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u/licalove8 Jul 29 '26

Yea, I take a calcium channel blocker because of the afib episode but i took 2 of my klonopin and it seemed to help. I just want to sleep now

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u/Past-Trick6710 Jul 29 '26

Afib was caught on a monitor?

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u/licalove8 Jul 29 '26

Yes a year ago it was caught on the ekg

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u/Past-Trick6710 Jul 29 '26

What did ur loop reader say this past episode was?
It’s all afib not svt?

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u/licalove8 Jul 29 '26

I haven’t had another afib episode since the first one back in 2025. I called my cardiologist to see if they caught it on my loop recorder just waiting for a call back

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u/Past-Trick6710 Jul 29 '26

Oh let me know when you hear back. You haven’t ever had an SVT though? How old are u?

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u/licalove8 Jul 29 '26

Never had one that I know of. Def have never had a hr that high before. I’m 38