I've been getting these random heart attacks since the beginning of my senor year ( I'm attending college this fall) It stops just as abruptly as it starts. Lately, it's been getting longer and more aggressive, to the point where breathing is difficult.I had an attack at 3 am in the morning and went to the emergency room. Luckily, they managed to get my heart rate recorded and at the time, was going 170 beats per minute. This was the "slow" heart rate I had during my attacks, usually they feel more painfully fast. And the doctor said I had paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia. Now I'm trying to get MediCal so I can go to a cardiologist like he recommended. He says I will have to take medicine or possibly heart surgery. Is this a rare condition, do a lot of people have it? The doctor said I would have to endure this condition for the rest of my life until I can get surgery.
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This is common. It will require an electrical ablation that stops the rhythm from happening, the heart surgery. When you get this stopped, you will feel much better.
This is heart surgery that is done though a tube into the blood vessel in the groin. Your heart is tested to find exactly what spot is triggered for these episodes to happen. If it is one, then this is a fast and easy treatment. If there are multiple sites causing this, then you may require a pacemaker and lots more heart nerve ablation. But either would be a cure.
These are not the same thing as what we think of as "heart attacks." You are not having a myocardial infarction.