Is anyone on the combination of flecinide and diltiazem for SVT? Or either or for SVT? Do you work and live a normal life on it?❤️🩹
I feel very broken down inside. I went for my ablation today for my SVT that I have been suffering with since last year.
I arrived at the hospital at 6:30am. My care team was amazing. At 8am I went into the OR/Cath lab. My anesthesiologist gave me “happy juice” and I knocked out.
When I woke up my doctor apologized and explained that he put the catheter in, did the EP mapping, and then attempted to trigger my arythmia my blood pressure dropped to a fatal level. He had to stop or I would have died on the table. He refused to just give up so he went in from the other side and attempted to trigger it- again I dropped.
I had some troubles in the recovery bay and felt like shit for hours from the anesthesia and am really just struggling with this mentally. I had a terrifying moment that will stick with me forever. I went to go to the bathroom and got up too fast and everything in the room turned rainbow, I started to sweat, lost my hearing and vision for a moment. They hooked me up and my blood pressure had violently dropped.
I have a double incision from the two attempts and my groin is sore. 🥲
I’m trying to tell myself that maybe… just maybe my prayers of “please protect me from complications” was my blood pressure dropping disguised as diving intervention. I have tried to tell myself that maybe this happened to save me from something worse. I am saddened by the fact that my surgery was unsuccessful.
I’m just having a really hard time processing this.
I just don’t know what to do. I’m supposed to go back to work on Monday as I have been off work for a month.
I just need some support.