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Just going to bed last Wednesday at about 10.30pm when I felt my pulse was racing, I took my bp and it was 133/121 (bottom reading way high for me) and my pulse registered 165bpm, took it again a few mins later and recorded 132/115 pulse 176 bpm.
I suffered an SVT or "Superventricular tachycardia" to give it its full name about 8 years ago when I was diagnosed as diabetic, it was said to have been due to my then extended high blood glucose levels, my pulse on that occasion was 188, and they had to give me an injection that momentarily stopped my heart to get it back into sinus rhythm, luckily it worked as the next step would have meant a general anaesthetic and a defibrillator to sort me out.
With an SVT the two halves of the heart start to beat out of time with each other so to get enough oxygen round the body the heart is forced to work faster and harder, hence the increased pulse rates.
Anyway long story short, this time the A&E consultant massaged my neck (Carotid Sinus Massage) and this time it worked and my bp was soon back to normal or there abouts and after my bloods came back all OK they let me go home.
I slept like a proverbial baby when I finally got to bed at around 3.30 am and have been told that once you suffer one SVT you will almost certainly suffer more, I got nearly 8 years between attacks this time but I'm not looking forward to the next.
Anyway all is well now although I have resolved not to drink any alcohol at all for a fortnight or so, not that I am anywhere close to a heavy drinker anyway bit it cant hurt can it.
The strange thing is that before I called the ambulance I took my bg levels and they were 8.8 mmol/L which is really high for me in fact I cant recall a reading over 7.5 for ages especially 4 hours after eating!! Very strange and I wonder if it had anything to do with the SVT. I guess ill never know unless any of you have suffered an SVT which coincided with high bg levels.
I suffered an SVT or "Superventricular tachycardia" to give it its full name about 8 years ago when I was diagnosed as diabetic, it was said to have been due to my then extended high blood glucose levels, my pulse on that occasion was 188, and they had to give me an injection that momentarily stopped my heart to get it back into sinus rhythm, luckily it worked as the next step would have meant a general anaesthetic and a defibrillator to sort me out.
With an SVT the two halves of the heart start to beat out of time with each other so to get enough oxygen round the body the heart is forced to work faster and harder, hence the increased pulse rates.
Anyway long story short, this time the A&E consultant massaged my neck (Carotid Sinus Massage) and this time it worked and my bp was soon back to normal or there abouts and after my bloods came back all OK they let me go home.
I slept like a proverbial baby when I finally got to bed at around 3.30 am and have been told that once you suffer one SVT you will almost certainly suffer more, I got nearly 8 years between attacks this time but I'm not looking forward to the next.
Anyway all is well now although I have resolved not to drink any alcohol at all for a fortnight or so, not that I am anywhere close to a heavy drinker anyway bit it cant hurt can it.
The strange thing is that before I called the ambulance I took my bg levels and they were 8.8 mmol/L which is really high for me in fact I cant recall a reading over 7.5 for ages especially 4 hours after eating!! Very strange and I wonder if it had anything to do with the SVT. I guess ill never know unless any of you have suffered an SVT which coincided with high bg levels.
