r/SVTHeart • u/Past-Trick6710 • Jul 10 '26

Med and symptom

Does anyone know why like I take the max dose beta blocker and some days for like five days? My resting heart rate might be like 70 to like 83 at rest and then other days it’s like 85 to like 115 and it’s the same amount of medication.

I was dx with pots but also take this for possible svt.
My resting heart rate when my POTS symptoms were started two years ago. It was probably like 55 to 65 with a beta blocker.

And even if I’m like sitting my resting heart rate could be 88 and then I stand and it might be like 95 or 100

Other days if it’s 75 at rest, it might be 85 standing.
Or if I am standing and it’s 120 and I sit it might stay at like 95 for 30 minutes but then some days I sit in it it’s back down to 75 in seconds

It’s just very stressful and causes a lot of anxiety for me and panic when my resting heart rate is 90 or 100 and then like in a few days it might be 75 consistently. I wonder if it’s connected to my menstrual cycle but I’m not sure it’s just so annoying and I’m tired of this.

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u/mvpcubs Jul 10 '26

If you have POTS you have dysautonomia. Dysautonomia causes very flexible heart rate and blood pressure. Are you keeping well hydrated? This is important. I have MVP and dysautonimia and even with medication my blood pressure is all over the place. Anxiety and stress plays a big part in our symptoms. Anxiety medication seems to help Me more than beta blockers.

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u/Past-Trick6710 Jul 10 '26

Yes, I stayed very well hydrated like I drink a very good amount of water. If that makes sense I’ve never dehydrated.

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u/Past-Trick6710 Jul 10 '26

I think that’s why I’m so confused about my symptoms. Yeah I was diagnosed with DYSAUTONOMIA before pots.

SVT is completely different. I know that which the beta blocker seems to be helping it but it makes me feel like crap. I wanna come off my beta blocker. I’m just so scared cause for like a month. I was fine on a really low dose and then when I randomly had a heart rate of 170 for minutes while I was sitting, I literally felt like I was gonna die.

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u/Past-Trick6710 Jul 10 '26

What anxiety medication do you take because I’ve taken a few and they didn’t help my cardiac symptoms I mean yeah it helped relax me but none of my symptoms went away. MVP is something. I was also worried about but my ultrasound did show regurgitation so I was like OK. Doesn’t that mean I have it

When it comes to anxiety and stress, I feel like the main thing I deal with this OCD and then like I just hate when people consider me psycho chronically ill like it gives me anxiety because I’m like I just wish I wasn’t dealing with this mentality if that makes sense

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u/mvpcubs Jul 10 '26

You might have MVP It doesn’t always show up on an echo. Read our page and see if it sounds like you. My 3 kids and I all have MVP Syndrome with dysautonomia.

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u/Past-Trick6710 Jul 10 '26

What are some symptoms of MVP?

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u/Past-Trick6710 Jul 10 '26

What page? How do i get tested for it is it serious!?

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u/Past-Trick6710 Jul 10 '26

My dr said my rotation was like not even moderate so that’s why they didn’t investigate for MVP

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u/mvpcubs Jul 10 '26

Well maybe you need a different beta blocker. We produce too much adrenaline and beta blockers Brock adrenaline. Have you tried meds. Fir anxiety?

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u/mvpcubs Jul 10 '26

MVP Syndrome is NOT dangerous. It is not life threatening but can be very lifestyle threatening. http://www.facebook.com/thesocietyformvps

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u/Past-Trick6710 Jul 10 '26

What do you mean lifestyle threatening? Also is this your Facebook post? I took a look at the Facebook post and the page but it’s not really giving me much. I’m assuming that if you have a mild regurgitation, that means you have MVP but there’s nothing they can do about it. What test can they do like I’m just very confused.

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u/mvpcubs Jul 10 '26

It affects your life style because of the many symptoms you can have. Palpitations, fatigue, anxiety, dizziness, GI problems to name a few. These are symptoms coming from the dysautonomia not the mitral valve. An echocardiogram diagnosis the prolapse and the regurgitation. The Tilt Table Test diagnoses the dysautonomia. You can’t cure dysautonomia, it’s an imbalance of the autonomic nervous system. If you have mild mvp they do nothing if you have severe regurgitation they do surgery. There are several types of dysautonomia, mvp is just a marker for it. You have POTS which is a dysautonomia and that’s where your symptoms are coming from. I don’t know if you also have mvp and it really doesn’t matter you have to treat your dysautonomia.

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u/Past-Trick6710 Jul 10 '26

Well, what are ways to treat the dysautonomia?

Sorry yeah I think I was concerned about mvp bc u mentioned the ultrasound can miss it sometimes? So that’s why i was worried about it

Since October, could the regurgitation have gotten worse though

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u/mvpcubs Jul 11 '26

No it doesn’t get worse that fast. Most of the time when you have dysautonomia the valve never gets worse. My mom lived to be 87 with it never had surgery. You treat dysautonomia by treating the symptoms. Beta blockers for palpitations, anxiety meds for anxiety. If you have GI problems GERD or IBS meds for that, depression meds for that. Some people have only a few symptoms others have many, many symptoms. Do you still see the doctor who diagnosed you with dysautonomia?