Metoprolol for svt
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2) Are there any alternatives to regular blood pressure medication for treating SVT? I was taking metoprolol tartrate 25 mg twice daily, but this caused me to experience chest pressure. My cardiologist took me off of it and put me on a low dose of cardizem. I haven't experienced any ill effects so far from cardizem, but I would much rather find a natural treatment for SVT like acupuncture or natural medicines. I know that bearing down can help stop an episode of it...
I have svt for over 25+ years. Inderal 20mg once a day was working. For what ever reason it is not working.Now uped it to 30-40mg a day and is not working.It is no longer doing what it is suppose to be doing. My GP with cardiac background but not certified sent me to cardiologist. He put me on flecainide 1 twice a day. I took one at 12 noon Saturday. Heart rate was definitely slower. Did not like the feeling but difficult to explain.
The runs were shorter on the Metoprolol, but that is about all that changed. (Paroxysmal runs of SVT for 2-3/seconds up to 2-3 hours. So he said I could just stop the Metoprolol. The only plan for now is to try the TENS vagal stimulation (which he was fine with), take Propranolol for sleeping, and call him if it gets worse. The next med to try is Sotolol. For now I am just going to wait and see. I'm tired of the meds.
I was wondering if anyone out there was using Metoprolol for their SVT on an as needed basis??? I have SVT and was started out on this drug and took it for a few months. With ok from my doctor I quit taking it. I hadn't had any episodes for about 6 months then I had one last night while I was sleeping. And it was a bad one, the kind where you think your gonna die. :( My doctor had told me that some people can take Metoprolol on an as needed basis. Thanks!
Lately I am getting worse tachycardia even with the 50mg metoprolol twice a day. It seems to come and go in bouts. Overall the metoprolol has helped my tachycardia a lot in the several months I've been on it, but I wonder if it's run its course since the tachycardia seems to be coming back somewhat.
I'm only 33, in decent shape, about 178 pounds, 5'11, a bit out of shape but not terribly. I tend to not tolerate exercise too well in that it triggers my tachycardia at times.
I am on 25mg of metoprolol for my pvcs, pacs, and svt. I have realized the past week or so it doesn't seem like my medication is easing my symptoms. Is this usual for us to build a tolerance for the medication? Are there other options other than surgery? Or perhaps another beta blocker that I could try? Ideas?
Thank you in advance!
I have Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) my heart beats very rapidly for about minutes to sometimes 30 minutes . i am medications which controls the rhythm but there are times that i feel like my heart is beating very slow and at times i feel as if my heart muscles are strained because of the strenuous activities i do . I want to have a family and i was wondering if i women with my condition can have children?
I take 100mg Metoprolol er daily. I have flutters and svt. I have had ep study the dr. could find nothing to ablate. I have had many heart monitors and they all show nothing to worry about. Dr. said it is just annoying and I need to live with it. I still have episodes even on this amount of metoprolol. Why would I still be having these? I also have been having dizziness and tingling on my body. Think it might be meds causing this?
My cardiologist got the readings from an event recorder, and told me it was SVT (about 150bpm). Just last week, he prescribed Toprol XL 25mg bid for the SVT which I haven't started to take yet due to fears of it leading to other problems (impotence, diabetes mellitus, etc). Here are my questions:
1. Am I at an increase risk of sudden cardiac death and/or V-fib from the SVT runs, especially due to the bad mitral valve?
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I'm a 52 yo female who's been on 12.5mgs of metoprolol for 3 weeks. Last night I woke up in the middle of the night from the urge to urinate and my heart was racing a bit (not really out of the ordinary). I got up to use the restroom and sat down and off my heart went. My HR went up to 170bpm, I was sweating and my stomach burned. I got some ice cubes and placed them on my face and chest. I also took a xanax. I almost called 911. My HR was sooo fast.
I found that Metoprolol was ineffective in preventing SVT episodes. I was taking as much as 200mg. per day and still having breakthru episodes. There are much better alternatives to Metoprolol, bit it's often prescribed as its like the Tic-Tac of beta blockers, and easily tolerated by most. I would work with your physician to find another antiarrhythmic that is more suitable in preventing your episodes.
I had echoes, ekgs, holter monitors and a 30 day event monitor which caught also Nonsustained v tach and svt (I was told inappropriate svt). I was prescribed metoprolol ER 25 mg and I took the first dose this am about 3 hours ago. So far my pacs are worse- meaning I fee them even more and they are more uncomfortable. The intention was for the medication to help with the uncomfortable feeling of getting pacs.
My questions are...
Is the medication supposed to start working right away?
I've been taking 25mg of metoprolol for a little over a month for SVT. I thought I was going to have an ablation but at my last doctor appt my ekg was normal and doc and there was no need for an ablation. My SVT is caffeine induced and since I quit drinking caffeine I've had no palpatations. He reduced my medicine from 25mg to 12.5 and said if that worked I could eventually quit taking it. He also told me to drink plenty of fluids and walk 40 min. every day.
So after this 30 monitor I will find out for sure whats up. I went in for an ablation for my svt about 2 yrs ago and they found nothing. I have had to gradually go up from 25 mg to 100 mg of metoprolol xl. I was doing ok until I started having these skipped beats so I am concerned over that. I am working on my anxiety over this issue with a councelor so hopefully I will get some relief from that.
Hello everyone, I've had SVT for 30 years. Usually occurs 2-3 times a year. I take Metoprolol 12.5 mg twice daily. I have a couple questions. -Has anybodys quality of life been effected by taking meds? I'm not sure if the meds are making me tired or something else is causing it. My doctor has suggested ablation. BIG QUESTION - A'm I having these episodes often enough to have the procedure? I'm torn. I have had an episode while at a gathering and had to leave.
I have had recurrent SVT, usually with a rate between 120 AND 160, for over 30 years and have been treated intermittently with digoxin, beta-blockers, and calcium channel blockers with varied success and admittedly low complliance since I was never really bothered by these short episodes. I have had several Holters with no good correlation between symptoms and rhythm.
You are on one of the strong drugs, flecainide, and young enough to worry about long term (more than 10 - 20 years, my numbers) so ablation seems to be reasonable for the SVT. I'm not sure it is for the AFib. Medical studies show people (any age) who are able to reduce/eliminate symptoms with a simple beta blocker (if heart rate control is needed) and an anticoagulant (I assume you are on at least an aspirin) to protect against blood clots can (should?) live with AFib.
They started me on Metoprolol, which I am still on. He thinks it was SVT that triggered the LBBB. I hope I am remembering this all correctly. Anyway, I just read (a dangerous thing to do, I know!) that you should not be on Beta Blockers if you have LBBB? I tell you, I have never been on meds for my frequent PVC's, but so far I am having way less than I used to now that I am on the Metoporol, (please excuse spelling).
Thanks so much for listening.
I have had episodes of SVT for my entire life and was diagnosed with WPW 30 years ago. My episodes also always go away on their own -- usually with in the first few minutes if I can lay prone and do some valsalva maneuvers, although I occasionally have gone to the ER for monitoring only because if the SVT lasts too long my BP gets a little low.
t need the drugs. I competed for meany years with SVT while totally unmedicated. I did so mostly because there wasn't much available at the time to try for control of SVT. The upside of this was I didn't have any drug in me to slow me down. The downside was it left me wide open to SVT episodes. That said, once I got on an anti-arrhythmic, in this case 100mg./day of Metoprolol, it did literally nothing to prevent episodes. I still had my 3 to 5 episodes per month.
My response is not to say this is what you have, but I went through a period similar to this while trying a large dose of Metoprolol for my SVT. Headache, chest heaviness when attempting to anything that would raise the heart rate; climbing steps, walking any distance, etc. What dosages are you taking of each drug?
Also if you could ask, how long are your SVT events?
I'd advise you to not stop the medication without first consulting with your physician. Metoprolol is often the first line of medication offered for PAC's, PVC's, SVT, etc. I found it totally ineffective with any of these problems. It did however lower my BP, slow my cardiac rate, and made SVT episodes easier to convert. Also, the dose you are taking is small, so there is room to adjust. I "zombied out" at 200mg.
I can tell you that from my experience here on the forum, Diltiazem is seldom mentioned here as treatment for SVT. I think you hear the majority of people are on Metoprolol, followed by Atenolol, Propanolol, then Sotalol all beta blockers. Then comes Verapamil, which is a calcium channel blocker like Diltiazem. Perhaps is has something to do with the nature of how a Class IV anti-arrhythmic affects the cardiovascular system.
I take 200 mg Metoprolol time release that keeps the SVT in check. I had sudden death 2 days after surgery to repair the aortic aneurysm and valve. I had just tried to have a bowel movement. I had been feeling bad all morning with really bad episodes of SVT and AF as well as bycardia. The EP doctor said it was vagal nerve related. By the way this was the same doctor (Dr. Rick Page) who tried to do a electrophysiology 2 weeks earlier. It was unsuccessful.
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