INTRO

My name is Andi. I live with a heart condition called AVNRT (AV Node Re-entrant Tachycardia). We are not sure how long I've truly had this, but my family believes I was born with it even though I was barely diagnosed in 2011.


So I will start with a quick intro, I've never written a blog so I apologize ahead of time if it sounds weird, I think it's weird to talk about myself HAHA!

I had a few fainting episodes growing up which seemed random, but now in retrospect, I had the same exact feeling and warning signs/symptoms as my most recent syncope episode which led to a series of events leading to a diagnosis. I know now that they were all caused by tachycardia and not dehydration like previously believed.

I had a cardiac cryoablation on November 19th, 2011 at Lucille Packard Children's Hospital, a branch of Stanford Univ. Hospital that considered the AVNRT "cured" (a cessation of declined quality of life). I was 19.

Now I am age 22, going on 23.

I am one of the few 2% that regressed after the ablation, and now have had to resume cardiac care.

I'm here to share my story.

I started a bucket list in 2008 and one of the items needing to be checked off of my list is to create my own blog. So here goes nothing!

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

First NEW Cardiac appointment

Recently I have regressed. So I figured I needed to resume my cardiac care.

I had my first appointment yesterday, I was fitted with my FAAAVORTIE Holter monitor (totally being sarcastic lol)

For anyone who has ever worn one of these, you know how uncomfortable they can be

I did have a whole lot of palpitations/arrhythmias at bedtime lasting for several hours. Hopefully they were enough to get us started in making decisions for our next steps of action.

I am scheduled for an echocardiogram (ultrasound of the heart) on 2/13 and will provide that update as well as my Holter monitor update once I get results.
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