Epilepsy plus super ventricular tachycardia?

[jenD]

dose any one know if E ( paitial seizure no convulsion) could cause superventricular tachycardia?
i have svt and wonder if my seizures could be triggering it, it's not pannic attack as ive been diagnosed already.
i had another svt attack the other day shortly after a seizure and it lasted 1 hour and when i stood up everything went black,i felt faint, so i had to lay down, any one please?
thanks so much jen

[southie]

You will need to discuss with your Doctor in regards with
this, or whoever obtained this information should have alerted
your Neurologist / Epileptologist / Primary Care or Cardiologist
(that is if you have one) about that.

If they have NOT reported this and YOU KNOW such has
happened and it was disclosed to you - then you should notify
your Doctor's Office about this, providing the day when it
happened and where, so they can retrieve the information
and have it faxed to them so they can review it.

I have a Cardiologist that monitors me and watches me like a
hawk, and he's aware of all issues, so he gets alerted when
something goes haywire, and it's not unusual when things go
like this during a seizure - especially a status epilepticus (aka
back-to-back seizures). I won't disclose my cardiac issues,
because I don't want people to go around getting ideas that
they've got it too, when I already have a long standing Med
History Report to back it up.

Hope this HELPS!

[jenD]

Hi. yep 12 years ago they called it mal de debarquement,
now i have gluten senstivety,
so i thought oh gluten ataxia,(not celiac)
now possible seizure,
but dr thinks ms,
so i'm sitting around waiting researching asking questions, to anyone who might have answers,
yes i've been dx svt.
yes i see aura and feel it too
visual probs
couldnt walk with out falling like on a rocking ship 24/7
so in another month or two i suppose i'll find out if i'm a nut or not.
but for now i'll just try to stay calm.
but after along time of researching to get the answers i need, (mostly by myself) i may add. it's hard to just leave it in the hands of the same people that have allowed me to go undiagnosed for 13 years now, if you know what i mean,
just had a reaction to valium, or was it just ictil fear??
only god knows and if he was sitting here id ask him but he's not so its up to me.
MRI on the 4th june , then off to a neuro after that , when they can fit me in for an eeg.
sick of feeling like i'm learching from one crisis to the next.
thanks so much jen Australia

[southie]

Jen

I see you're from Australia ...

We call it S-Tach over here - I get those, a lot.
Sinus Tachycardia ~ especially during a seizure when
it really soars.

It's when the HR - (Heart Rate) or Heart beats more
than 100 beats per minute (BPM). I've had it anywhere from
140 - over 200 BPM.

Sinus Tachycardia aka S-Tach (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinus_tachycardia)

This might help you understand it more, and googling it
up more, may help you further.

Hope this helps!

:hug:

[jenD]

thank you . yes my sax player has the same as me and he had an procedure done for it, where they put a fine wire up through his leg into his heart and fixed it. it cost him 10.000 dollars during the procedure he died twice, he said his chest felt like a truck had hit him when they'd finnished.
they have offered me a tablet to stop it happening, but my dr said it was up to me as it dose have side effects if you take it all the time. so the hospital said it wasnt dangerous so now i just ride the attacks out, but somtimes it takes 3 hours for my heart to stop jumping through my back, in a very unpredictable manner, (flip flops)

but this epi thing hasnt been diagnosed yet, but doc thinks its seizure due to whatever??? i dont know.
i was just wondering if the s/tach was commen with seizure or not.
thankyou so much

[southie]

I don't know if it's common, but I get S-Tach if I have
seizures, and if I go status (back-to-back), sometimes
PACS show up, and if it's a bad hit of seizures, my S-Tach
will really soar, but other than that ... I'm fine.

The only reason why I have a Cardiologist is for another
reason unrelated to Epilepsy.

[jenD]

thank you, someone asked me the other day. that when they dx me, did they use an ultra sound on my chest as well , they didnt. they said my white blood cells were very slightly raised . i have no idea about all this stuff, so i said what dose that mean he said oh prob just a very mild infection, but i never had the flue and wasnt sick at the time, so its a little confusing.

[jenD]

whats PACS NOT FAMILIAR WITH ALL THESE TERMS.



I don't know if it's common, but I get S-Tach if I have
seizures, and if I go status (back-to-back), sometimes
PACS show up, and if it's a bad hit of seizures, my S-Tach
will really soar, but other than that ... I'm fine.

The only reason why I have a Cardiologist is for another
reason unrelated to Epilepsy.

[Shelley]

My husband had the same procedure with the wire up his leg. He had the most sever and rarest form of svt. THe surgeon told him at the time it was cutting edge and now the procedure is very common. It saved him from open heart surgery. Been almost 5 years now and not a single recurrence.

Good luck

[jenD]

Dear Shelly,
i didnt think this svt was caused by anxiety is it????? or is it physical only.
i know this sounds stupid but some people have sort of said it's similar to pannic attack and i have had pannic attack, and feel they are 2 totally different things.
thanks jen



My husband had the same procedure with the wire up his leg. He had the most sever and rarest form of svt. THe surgeon told him at the time it was cutting edge and now the procedure is very common. It saved him from open heart surgery. Been almost 5 years now and not a single recurrence.

Good luck

[Shelley]

Hi jen,

No its physical only but when its happening it will certainly make someone more anxious. It kind of mimics anxiety especially the rapid heart beat.

One night my hubby woke from a deep sleep to a racing heart beat. Funny it would happen most when he was relaxed or sleeping. So off the the emergency room. We only lived 3 blocks away and I was so disoriented at the time we walked out the front door and I said would you like to walk :eek: . I quickly came to my senses and got us a cab.

Well they took him immediatley and by then his heart was 178 a minute. They cold not get it to slow down. Gave him one set of drugs and it did not work and the docs stared at each other and said what now? I wanted to punch them at the time. Well the second set of drugs worked but hubby said for a brief moment it made it feel like his heart stopped. Thats exactly what it did. The drugs stopped and restarted his heart.

So they admitted him and the enxt day tried to tease his heart to do it again. It was tough but it did.

The doc then explained it as faulty wiring. It was electrical. Think of a train that goes around a track in a circle but at one end thre is one of those offshoots. The electrical circuit is going around the heart and instead of going around the circle it heads off on that offshoot. And it has no where else to go so its sends the heart into racing beats.

So they send the wire up the leg to your heart find that one ofshoot and burn it closed so the current cannot go there anymore.

I dont kow if it would have a connection to seizures but then everything is so of connected. And it sure would give me panic attacks fi it were happening.

But the procedure is very commonplace now. I remembering watching a golf tourney on TV and some golfer was taken away and had it and it was fixed immediatley.

If you have it I would talk to the doc about the procedure. Good luck

[jenD]

Dear Shelly thanks so much i was starting to believe it was triggered by stress.
but i too will get this while relaxing, and yes thats exactly how they explained it to me at the hospital. it's not only frieghtning it's makes me feel quite light headed, thanks again. jen

[Shelley]

I hope they can fix it for you. They certainly made it seem like a piece of cake for my hubby.

Good luck