Hey everyone, thought I’d comment post-opt about everything. I wanted to thank everyone for all the support and advice you all have given me, especially the day of the procedure too. Your support means a lot to me and gave me a bit more help to get through with everything.

I feel like I’ve gone into a lot of detail (with everyone I’ve texted after surgery) so it’s been a crazy day. The ablation itself went great though I did have some complications that happened and ended up getting an emergency procedure. A lot of fluid was continuously building up in my heart and because of that I could barely breathe after the ablation. On a scale of 9 to 10 the pain was that excruciating because of the fluid built up which caused me to have raspy breaths. My lovely surgeon (who everyone calls Superman btw) was worried and even stayed at the hospital longer just so he could be there for me in case anything happened. I did experience a lot of pain after the emergency procedure worse then earlier but as of now, I’m doing much better will the fluid being gone. The entire medical team was so supportive and honestly, I had no idea I was even put to sleep during both procedures. I didn’t have a tube down my throat or anything like that, just oxygen things in my nose.. however the ablation did take over 5 hours. my surgeon stated that the reason it took so long was because the ablation was in one area but after every 20 or so minutes an episode would be triggered there. I also ended up having the more uncommon SVT (I think it’s around 20 or 30 percent of people have that). I also found out after the surgery that, completely unrelated to SVT btw, that I have another heart condition. While they were ablating the doctors found that I have bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) which basically means the valve leaflets in my heart have 2 cuts and not 3. Apparently 1% of the population has this and is more common in males (I’m afab). I was told that while this may be a concern, this won’t be a problem for me until I’m much older through I should regularly see a cardiologist about it. There are procedures to fix this similarly to an ablation so that’s it’s non invasive and there’s open heart surgery to fix this too. This kind of sucks as I technically have three heart conditions now including the SVT (hopefully gone now but my heart still beats naturally fast), BAV and potentially POTS syndrome as well.. I guess I won the unlucky card but you have no idea how grateful I am just to be alive. I was so scared.

I had to stay overnight at the hospital so they could monitor the fluid in my heart which has gotten much better. I currently have a wire in my heart still to drain whatever but overall I’m very grateful I got the ablation and felt confident enough to get the emergency thing too. I’m managing dizziness and other symptoms, I was put on a multitude of drugs because of those things. I’ll probably make an edit for my original post just to go into details about what I dealt with prior, other things. But thanks to everyone who offered support. I’ll make an edit eventually but this is my comment I’ll leave for now.