@A MyHeartDiseaseTeam Member Thanks so much for sharing all of this with us. Like you, I have episodes of my heart just stopping. I am going to discuss some of these devices with my EP when I see him in September. My issues are part of a congenital valve deformity and the ventricle may be too small on the right side to do any of this. I will be seeing a congenital heart specialist at Emory next April. I am hoping he will have some ideas Like you, my heart is very enlarged and I have heart failure, I never have any chest pain and no plaque buildup. Thanks again for all the info and I hope you are looking forward to a nice holiday. Hugs🤗

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Caryn,

Outstanding video. I was diagnosed with Paroxysmal AFIB in 2019 and went the medication route of beta blocker and blood thinner. As I started having more episodes due to triggers like sinus infections or root canal infections they would trigger episodes. Finally had a team of ER doctors bring in Cardiology and Electro-Physiologist (EP) and sent me down the path of Dofetilide and then an Ablation. I wore a holter monitor and it did record less than 1% of PAC's and PVC's in a two week period but no AFIB. Wish I had seen this video back years ago. He explained things so well. Thank you for sharing. I think there should be a catalog i.e. Library where a link to these wonderful video's could be on the menu for those people visiting the site as well as those of us who have been on this site to review as well. I do have many senior moments.

@A MyHeartDiseaseTeam Member, I will bring you your suggestion at the ambassador meeting for consideration by the site managers. I would love to have a video section on the site too. Until then all of the videos I post can be found in the Q&A section. Use the search on that page for what you want to learn more about and they should come up. If not if you let me know what you are interested in I can be sure to search for something like this video. I liked his explanation as well.

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Nice little explanation, I suffer with severe SVTs and PVCs. I have coronary artery disease involving native coronary artery of native heart without angina pectoris. I don't have chest pains i will just fall out because my heart will stop beating. For years I thought I was clumsy and moving to fast but never knew why. Even after suffering an AMI/ STEMI widowmaker with massive irreversible progressive damage it was still happening. On one of my many 3 day observation stays because they couldn't figure out what was happening i had several of those episodes sitting in my hospital bed. My cardiologist said he didn't know what was reviving me, but for a moment I had died. It isn't a slight problem, I now have an A-ICD and am monitored 24/7. I get alert from my hospital letting me know that I have been in SVTs for hours or a combination of SVTs and PVCs. My device has a CRTD built in that works to correct my severe arrhythmia problems.
I've never felt my heart racing or pounding or anything and had been falling from them most of my life. My cardiologist said he didn't know what was bringing me back. I told him I'm tiny and falling hurts so "pain" was jolting me back.