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Reply To: Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction

NEW STUDY! Parasym Plus™ for Multiple Sclerosis › Forums › PrettyIll.com Discussion › Cardiology › Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction › Reply To: Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction

September 7, 2011 at 7:12 pm #1458
Dr. Diana
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Could Diastolic dysfunction give a person a short burst of SVT’s? I have never had any SVT’s before, all mine tachycardia has been POTS/postural related. But yesterday, while just sitting, my heart suddenly just went from normal to 180 BPM’s! It did that for about 2 minutes (seemed longer!) and then just as suddenly, kind of sputtered a bit and went down quite a bit. Stayed a bit high for a couple of hours, but only like 120’s, and more POTS like. I tried doing deep, slow breaths while it was happening but that didn’t seem to effect it. Thought about standing up, changing position, but was too scared, fearing it might get worse. Thoughts anyone?

Yikes. We have to be careful not to assume everything is “just POTS” and this may be one of those times that a visit to your cardiologist may be warranted. I DO know that many of us have gone through that. I also know that mast cell reactions can cause that to occur. Do you know if you have mast cell disease? If so, treatment should calm those down. If a doctor wants to do an ablation, be careful, though. Those are usually contraindicated in POTS — not always, but usually. Please keep us posted! Oh, and left ventricular diastolic dysfunction doesn’t cause that to happen…

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