Hi, there. I am a 20 year old female suffering from PSVT. It was incredibly random how it happened. I went into the ER after having a fever of 104 for 5 days. On the 5th day, I noticed white puss balls on the back of my throat & just felt miserable in general, so I went to the ER. The nurse in triage took all of my vitals & admitted me into acute care. After being hooked up to a heart monitor for SIX HOURS before ever being seen by an actual doctor, although my male nurse was adorable, I finally got tested for strep, mono, H1N1, everything. All tests were negative for infection. Then the male nurse said, "Hmm, your heartrate is mighty high. I'll send the doctor in." After being checked out by the doctor, he said, "Wow. Your heart is going crazy & I'm very concerned about that kind of a rate." He sent me in for a CAT scan with an iodine contrast to check for clotting. The iodine contrast was MISERABLE, by the way. I felt like my body was on fire & that I was peeing myself, literally. It was awful. Anyway, once the CAT scan was done, they wheeled me back to my room & waited on the results. I was laying on the bed (mom was sitting on the chair infront of me) & I suddenly felt like my heart dropped. You know when you're on a rollercoaster & you drop to the bottom? Or you get some REALLY bad news? That's what it felt like. I turned around to look at my monitor & my oxygen level was at 0 & completely flat-lined. All of the alarms on the monitor were going off & flashing red. My heartrate had jumped from 154 to 282. EIGHT, count 'em, EIGHT doctors came running in & asked me to lay down & did an EKG. I remember one of the doctors saying, "I can see her pulse bulging from her neck." At this point, I'm thinking I'm dying & I'm waiting for them to shock me with those paddle thingies. They said my EKG was totally normal & I had some great P waves. Yay. Then I got some nice relaxing drugs through my IV & I was asleep in about 30 seconds. A few minutes later, doc came in & said, "Sorry, but you're sticking with us for a few days. We legally can't send you home with this kind of a heartrate." I was admitted into Critical Care for 3 days & I was the youngest patient in there by about 80 years. On my 2nd night in CCU, I woke up at 3am literally FREEZING. I was chattering, shaking, & my fingers were purple. I was incredibly nauseated & dizzy, even though I was laying in the bed. The nurse came in & asked me if I was ok because my heartrate had gone from 74 to 205. I got another EKG & all was normal. Got some more drugs & went back to sleep. On day 3, I was told that I could go home with a Holter monitor & needed to relax for a few days. I did just that but still had an episode of a racing heart about once or twice a day. When I was finished with my Holter monitor, I returned it & waited for the results from my PCP. Two weeks later, my PCP calls me in for a follow-up & tells me, "I'm putting you on Atenolol." He never told me the results of my monitor even though I asked. He told me that he didn't have "access to that hospital." Whatever. So I had another follow-up with a cardiologist. Once I was there, her PA was listening to my heart & said he heard some "unusual rhythms." Okie doke... then the cardiologist comes in, asks me how I've been feeling, if I'm addicted to caffeine, starving myself, getting too anxious or stressed, or if I might have "white coat syndrome." I tell her no to all of the above & as I'm sitting in the chair, I can feel my heart going nuts so I ask her to listen to it. She does & says, "Very interesting." She asks me if I've been fainting at all lately. I admitted that I did faint while shopping in Target but that I really don't remember much else. She shot her PA a very concerned look & said, "PSVT. Order an event monitor. No therapy till firm diagnosis & clear echo." At this point, I'm thinking I'm dying again. I ask her if I'm ok to exercise, have a Starbucks now & then, go to Disney & ride the rides, live my life in general. She says, "Yes. You are young & you have a young heart. It's likely that you've been living with this your whole life & didn't know until you were hooked up to a monitor. If you were 60, I'd be concerned. But you're 20 & your heart can handle it. We'll order a 2D Echo just to be sure." So a month later, I get my 2D Echo & I find "all results normal." YAY! Then, I had a few episodes while wearing my monitor & my cardiologist said my EKG strips were "totally normal other than the fast rate." So we have no idea what's going on with me. No family history of heart problems at all. I don't smoke, I don't drink, never done a single drug in my entire life, I exercise regularly, blah blah blah. No clue.
Anyway, I got breast implants in 2008 & I'm ready for a new pair. An "upgrade" so to speak. I'm wondering if it's ok for me to undergo surgery again when no one knows what's wrong with me other than PSVT. Any takers?