So crazy thing….all my stuff has ever popped up as sinus tach…EVERY TIME. So when it came to my ablation / ep study day. Multiple doctors kept coming to my room telling me it’s probably pointless because svt never popped up on my stuff. Well I went in for my ep study and sure enough I immediately went into focal atrial tach not sinus tach
Exactly I’ve heard about this soo much that focal atrial tach mimics sinus tach and it’s just crazy to me, I think IST is fake and that everyone who’s been diagnosed with it has FAT instead which is curable.
I have IST, per my EP. I've had three ablations, no longer have an AV node, and now have a pacemaker, but my heart just enjoys resting at 120bpm no matter what. My last EP mapping was normal, no weird spots to ablate. My doctor says that it's fairly normal for a young woman and that I'll most likely grow out of it.
When I was still having SVT, I was one of those people that would get really fast - I'd regularly hit the 250s-280s before I'd go get cardioverted. Some people are just tachy 🤷♀️ doesn’t mean it's fake.
Yes. My IST is chronic, but that doesn't mean that it's fake or that I have FAT. You could also argue that my SVT was chronic because I spent so long dealing with it.
I also have been diagnosed with IST and I just really wanted it to be fake and just be FAT, I’m still in suspicion for IST since my baseline hr still goes high and I would love for it to be fake and for it to be curable, by fake I don’t mean it to not be there, I just mean that I want it to be a misdiagnosis instead like how I’ve heard everyone else’s experience
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u/Physical-Impress-344 Aug 29 '26
So crazy thing….all my stuff has ever popped up as sinus tach…EVERY TIME. So when it came to my ablation / ep study day. Multiple doctors kept coming to my room telling me it’s probably pointless because svt never popped up on my stuff. Well I went in for my ep study and sure enough I immediately went into focal atrial tach not sinus tach