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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sid Bonkers" data-source="post: 873069" data-attributes="member: 19121">I was admitted to hospital at diagnosis having suffered an SVT (Supraventricular tachycardia) where basically the two halves of my heart were beating out of time with each other, I had a heart rate of 188 at rest and had to have my heart chemically stopped and restarted to get it back in rhythm.My bg level was 19.something mmol/L and I had an HbA1c of 12.6%, a cardiologist was convinced that a mini stroke was to blame but various tests ruled that out and as my bg levels were so high a SDN was sent to see me to put me on MDI treatment, I was first put on an intravenous insulin drip to get my levels down, anyway she said immediately that it was my high blood glucose levels that had caused the SVT but my cardiologist still rejected this idea and carried out numerous other heart checks all turned out to be normal. Quite why two different specialists should not concur over a diagnosis frankly was worrying.I write this to pose the question could DIB syndrome be due to high bg levels rather than hypos? I didn't know anything was wrong, it was only at a routine doctors visit that he sent me straight to A&E after failing to get a blood pressure reading!! I walked into A&E and was immediately told to lay on a stretcher and wheeled straight into the resuscitation unit when it all hit me high series it could have been, had they not been able to restart my heart on the second attempt they would have had to sedate me and use a defibrillator to stop and start my heart.Probably unconnected but I have thought about this often at how normal I felt with a heart beat of 180 + and very high bg levels.....</blockquote>

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