ablation.....yes or no

[medtrans916]

hi i am a 31 yr old normally healthy female. i had a psvt episode that landed me in the er. i have had iv/adenosine pushess in the past by the time i made the er it quit while registering and laft chest pain and arm numbness it had never laft before. my dr is a electro physcist for cardiac prob and wants me to have an ablation done, i work in our hospital and work closely with most areas as a transporter... i trust these people but i am scared to death of the ablation. any comments good or bad will help me make my decision next week.  my psvt has been around for 13 years off and on. thanks
medtrans916

[Lorne675]

There is a risk to almost anything you do in life but in my experience an ablation sounds much worse than the procedure is. In my case I spent just 36 hours in the hospital from start to finish. I had an ablation three weeks ago for Afib and so far so good no more arrhythmias. The worst part of the whole procedure by far was having a bladder catheter installed. The actual ablation was completely non-eventful, if anything it was kind of cool to watch snippets of it on the monitors. I drifted in and out of consciousness and carried on short conversations with people.

I had bruises on my thigh,  bruises from my IV and in the weeks since bruises where I injected myself with fragmin. I had a few extra beats, a few skipped beats for days afterwards, as well as one night with an episode of SVT a week after the procedure bad enough to go to emergency. Since then everything has settled down and for the past cople days I haven't noticed any extra beats. I used to have 3 -5 episodes of Afib every day so this is a major improvement.

I certainly would recommend getting an ablation

[rosetoes]

Ditto..I had my ablation on Feb 11th after two long years of SVT and I could kick myself for not having the ablation sooner.  It sounds much worse than what it is.  I remember the ER and adenosine push and by far that was more stressful than the ablation...totally painless and  minimum to no post ablation issues.  

Best Wishes

[cuttersma]

I had my ablation a mnth ago. It was a very simple and painless procedure. Don't worry, you will be fine and hopefully better.