Catheter Ablation- Post Surgery Experience- SVT's

hey guys so today was the ablation and I've been home from the hospital for a few hours now when I talked to my cardiologist office they told me that I should plan to stay overnight they told me I probably get out at noon the next day and this morning when I got to the hospital they told me that there was a good chance that I'd go home the same day and if you're wondering I learned that if the site that they need to ablate is on the right side of your heart they typically are able to let you go same day if they have to go over to the left that's when they have to keep you overnight mine was on the right and yeah I just wanted to tell you a little bit about what happened today all right got a hotel in Milwaukee down the street from the hospital that I stayed at and yeah they have you stopped your beta blocker at least a day before your surgery which was uncomfortable it was I kind of felt up and down without it and I found that xanax and klonopin agitated my SVT's so it's my anxiety side end there's really nothing I could do so I really didn't sleep last night I literally woke up every 20 minutes and this morning I freaked out bad I I was taking a shower and it just every every negative scenario possible including death what was was just I mean I'd literally like was having trouble bringing like a washcloth to my face I just locked up completely panicked and didn't want to anybody you know I didn't want anyone to know how freaked out I was and and then when we were leaving the hotel I came outside and my friend just like her face was like just completely you know freaked out and her truck died and we had to get our truck jumped and like a half an hour late to the hospital and I got there and yeah I asked to be brought back to my room by myself and left my family and friends and when I was in this hallway back to the realms the nurse thought it was strange that I didn't want anybody with me and I said yeah I'm kind of freaking out and and then I didn't want anyone to know and I just said I just want some time to gather myself and she asked me if I wanted something to help to help you know settle my nerves and I told her that benzos tend to agitate my svt's and I said I thought it's a bad idea and I say I can do this I can really do it so she brought me back to my room they got me changed over into a gown and my anxiety got worse and worse and worse and worse and worse in fact it got so bad that I literally like couldn't read things like they gave me some information on the procedure and like I would like look at the paper and just hand it off to somebody and ask them to read it to me and then finally a nurse came in and told me she had something for me that she wanted me to take before the procedure and and I said what is it and they told me they give patients ativan as a pre surgery thing and I told her eyesight was like well you know the unit's gonna flirt my species and she said good because they're trying to catch them you know during the procedure anyway it was just like yeah I guess that's true and then I thought you know it might help me a little bit or whatever take the ativan take the ativan I mean 20 minutes after I had it I mean I I just I felt very very sober minded I felt like I was completely there still I didn't feel stoned at all I just completely relaxed totally relaxed I I had that very distinct everything's gonna be just fine feeling and and I started to remember why we were there and how how positive this all was and I was finally gonna get my life back and all this kind of stuff and I just everything took on a new light and um one of the one of the operating assistance and I'm sorry I don't know what his term water you know title was came in told me a bit about the procedure the anesthesiologist came in they were more than happy to answer all of my questions my family's questions I like a whole entourage with me and and I walk myself down you know to to the operating room and I'd already had an IV put into my arm and when we got in there they had me set up on a table and the anesthesiologist connected an IV bag to you know the IV in my arm and the guys are talking to me and I have a lot of tattoos and they're asking me some questions about him and I got that cold trickle of the IV start and I'm gonna go to after that I was talking to a guy and then I started feeling really kinda tired but I thought I you know I didn't really sleep the night before and I haven't eaten in like a day and a half and I was just like you know that's probably it and then I was like wait a minute and I looked at the guy and I was just like you already started the drugs did and he's like yeah we did that's it that's all I remember I was out cold apparently they woke me up a bunch of times ask me questions they had to bring my heart way up to try to catch the SVT on you know their their machines to correct my problem which incidentally they never caught mine and I don't know if this has happened to anyone else they told me they were not able to get me to produce the arrhythmia um but the cardiologist told me that she saw an irregularity in my heart like a physical thing that she was able to alter and she told me with 80% certainty that was absolutely what the problem was and yeah I woke up in the patient recovery room I felt completely okay like I wasn't foggy I wasn't you know struggling to wake up or anything like that I just kind of woke up and all my friends and family were there nobody was smiling and it was all over it was it was such a relief and as soon as I woke up was like I'm totally okay and and again like some people talked about having a burning in their chest they they talk about like like pressure they talk about hard to breathe all this kind of stuff absolutely none of that I had no pain at all no memory of the procedure I didn't wake up a single time nothing happened and yeah like when I would kind of move I was absolutely still under the medication and in fact I still am a little bit and it's 9 o'clock at night now and I had I was done with my procedure a little bit before 1:00 so it still hangs on a bit but there's there's there's nothing unsettling about it like it's it's it just feels like you're kind of sleepy and like like you just woke up and you feel absolutely 100% okay you're not alarmed in the least and they inform you that I'd be going home that day which was a big surprise I mean in fact they're like yeah we're gonna kind of gonna walk you around in a bit and we'll get you out here in a couple hours that's just like you kidding me like that's it and that was it and got out of there and I'm talking about we went shopping you know which is probably the stupidest thing you could possibly do but I did and I'm standing in a Walmart buying soda for dinner and I'm looking around and I'm like these people have no idea that I just had heart surgery and I'm okay and and and it was just like it's the most surreal feeling in the world and and if you can get anything out of this I hope it's just like absolute relief these people I mean they must see people with with so much anxiety and so much concern and all this kind of stuff every single day they're there with you every single step of the way I was concerned that I hadn't actually talked to my doctor very much that was gonna be performing the surgery I knew that she had done tons and tons and tons of him and I knew that she was well regarded for her practice but I was concerned that you know she hadn't really spent a lot of time talking to me but the reality is most of your time is gonna be spent with nurses and the nurses that I had were so nice my anesthesiologist was a very very very nice guy who's very in tune with me and my comfort level yeah it couldn't have gone better it couldn't have possibly gone better and I'll tell you something else you know I've seen other people that that have had to have like second ablation some people have had three ablations if we had to go back again tomorrow I wouldn't be scared at all it is so simple when I got my wisdom teeth taken out in high school that was way worse than this was I mean I was groggy and it took me forever to come out of that anesthesia this was nothing the only complaint I have in the world the only one they did have to put me down pretty deep at one point I guess and they put some kind of a breathing tube in for me and I woke up with an awful sore throat and they're giving me lozenges and I still have that sore throat a bit but it feels like I slept in a really really really dry room in the middle of winter and it's that like really really dry feeling it's not like a sharp like like stinging pain or anything it's just like you'd swear to god you just slept in a dry room it's nothing if it's nothing to worry about they had to go into both of the veins in my legs I guess for some people they're able to do just one they did have to do both for me and honestly most of most of what I'm feeling is the tape around they have these big like cotton pads you know over where the veins you know the incisions went in and most of what I'm feeling is just a pulling of the tape like this there's no like real pain there anything like that and again I I just can't stress enough nothing to worry about don't worry about a thing it's so simple you go in they take great care of you you will not remember a thing you won't feel a thing just if I can help anybody feel better about this I'm glad because you know I'm so glad that it's over so anyway I'm gonna do another follow-up video I have to go into my cardiologists office in two days she wants to be taking the beta blocker again until I see her but I'm hoping they're gonna discontinue it at that point I'll let you guys know how that goes I'm gonna let you know it comes up and the last thing I want to mention the way my SVT's were I would get like these like let go I feel like my heart would kind of like like like balled up like with kind of like Boop and then the svt's would start like I would feel like kind of swell and then go I've had like a couple of these I'm calling them like ghost flares like okay I'll get that little push but then there's no SVT behind it like I get the little the little push feeling in my heart but then there's no erratic beating there's no shortness of breath there's no nothing and like I take these deep breaths and I get no heart flutter behind it and like I am completely starting to appreciate how screwed up my heart was and I never knew so I'm telling you going confident they're gonna take great care of you take the medication that they offer you that add event is a freaking lifesaver you're gonna be just fine so anyway I wish all you the best of luck we'll be back for my follow-up video and I hope you guys have a great surgery

Channel: tydogg

Views: 66,733

Keywords: catheter ablation surgery, catheter ablation, post ablation surgery, Tyler Falduto

Id: mVYHD_c2XD0

Length: 11min 49sec (709 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 04 2012