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As I note in my status, I'm home frm the hospital. A few people have been concerned enough to ask what happened, so an explanation is clearly in order. I have a condition that's known as superventricular tachycardia, or SVT for short. It's essentially an extra electrical impulse that sends my heart into overdrive. It is NOT related to heart attacks, but if allowed to go on long enough it can very much feel like one! My attacks used to pass off after about 10 minutes or so, and all I would have was a headache, but these last few months they have not passed off at all and I've been forced to the ER several times. This past weekend I made the bad mistake of not taking some meds I'd been prescribed that would have prevented the attacks and ended up having two bad ones back-to-back. The second one got me admitted to the hospital for all of Sunday and about half of yesterday. I'm fine now, just a little tightness when I try to breathe deeply. They've changed my meds, although the problem wasn't the meds I had, but my picking the worst possible time to neglect taking them. I may not have to take the meds for long, as there is a surgical procedure that stops these attacks permanently. I'll find out more when I see the cardiologist I've been scheduled to see in August (at least I think that dr. is a cardiologist; I've already met the other dr. I've been scheduled to see in a couple of weeks).
That's the story. Again, I'm fine at the moment; just took my new meds, even.
Thank you to anyone who happens to take the time to read this! ^_^
Troy aka The Terminal Bachelor
