What can I expect if I have tachycardia?
Your experience will depend on which type of tachycardia you have. You may have harmless symptoms, life-threatening symptoms (from ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation) or something in between. Medicines and other treatments can help you manage your high heart rate.
You may need to wear a Holter monitor or do electrophysiology testing to see how well your medicine is working.
How long can tachycardia last?
If you have sinus tachycardia, your symptoms will go away once the fear, anxiety or other emotion that caused it ends. For most other types of tachycardia, you’ll need medication or even a procedure to keep your fast heart rate and other symptoms from coming back.
Tachycardia that puts you in danger doesn’t go away on its own. You’ll need to live a healthy lifestyle and take medicines to manage your condition. You may also need to have a procedure, like an ablation.
Can tachycardia be cured?
Although medications can’t cure tachycardia, they can help you regulate it. Ablation may be a long-term solution to certain types of tachycardia. It may even cure them.