LEGS UP ON WALL when SVT hits
Jan 15th 2021
LEGS UP ON WALL when SVT hits. — SVT reaction when it hits:
When you are getting into SVT, you lie on floor & put your legs straight up on the wall? AND, back to normal very quickly..
IN ADDITION TO “LEGS UP ON WALL”, SOME PEOPLE DO THE FOLLOWING TO STIMULATE “DOWNWARD PRESSURE” ON VAGAL NERVE at same time:
1.) COUGH INTENSIVELY and/or at same time
1A.) Hold your breath + bear down hard !
2.) PURSE LIPS AROUND A STRAW AND BLOW AS HARD AS YOU CAN,
3.) USE A SYRINGE WITH NO TIP INSTEAD OF A STRAW AND PUT YOUR MOUTH AROUND THE SYRINGE AND BLOW OUT LONG AND HARD AS YOU CAN,
4.) BLOW UP A TOUGHER THAN USUAL BALLOON AS INTENSIVELY AS YOU CAN
and i had an odd message, that said:
5.) PUT A BALLOON AT END OF A SYRINGE AND TAPE IT SHUT AT END OF SYRINGLE AND THEN HOLD UP THE OTHER END TO YOUR MOUTH AND BLOW UP THE BALOON THAT WAY TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF PRESSURE NEEDED TO DO THIS..
Original post link on FB: www.facebook.com/AfibRelief/posts/678683269466777
Comments on original FB page post:
— i have also had great success in “pushing” most of my body all the way to almost my shoulders vertically, by doing this at the end of my bed (instead of the wall) and using the lower part of the bed frame to hold onto as leverage and to pull against while i push my body more and more vertically up
— Total inversion? like standing you your head? Someone has done a total inversion with an inversion table, which one lays on flat and then is turned so the head is tot downward and feet are up and also heard fr someone that 2 buddies holding up the legs while doing a headstand for a total inversion also worked .. idea being same as this post to halt the SVT ..
— For SVT, what it means: Atrial Tachycardia (aka Supra Ventricular Tachycardia) as in ‘above the ventricles’ .. heart rate jumps up significantly, breathing becomes very rapid & extremely unnatural and uncomfortable and U R running a marathon while standing still.. etc
— the LEGS UP ON THE WALL technique (sometimes in combination with the Valsalva maneuver, ie: blowing hard thru a straw or bearing down hard on the lower abdomen while blowing out thru a syringe).. has prevented me in the past from progressing into a full blown SVT (Atrial tachy) episode.. i would simply pop on the floor and do the legs up on the wall when i had, in the past, felt the dreaded acceleration of my heart rate begin to take a foothold… even tho i’d feel my heart rate return to a normal 60 to 80 bpm’s within a few secconds of assuming this position, i would stay down in that “legs up on the wall” position for a good 5-15 minutes before arising again and it has worked amazingly and consistently for me and prevented episodes
— what do you mean by preventing a full blown SVT episode? Do you do this technique when you feel like it’s about to trigger? Or when you have ectopic beats?
— This was in my past.. ive been pretty much episode free for last 3 & 1/2 years thru trigger management and especially supplementing with magnesium & etc.. however to answer your question, my diagnosis of paroxsysmal afib coupled with atrial tachycardia (svt), ALWAYS started with my heart rate accelerating into svt, being in svt (extremely rapid heart rate ) for anywhere fr approx .5 hours to over 2 hours, then the svt subsiding but I’d be in afib for bout a day or so prior to converting bk to sinus rythm.. NOW the critical juncture is right at the beginning, rt wen id feel the initial heart rate accelerating !, I’d assume the legs up on wall position with butt as close to wall as possible, if I didn’t feel a decrease in heart rate within a few seconds, I’d also couple this with blowing out thru pursed lips and bearing down hard in abdomen.. a form of the Valsalva technique. Usually this was enuf to halt the progression further into svt..
— This is actually a yoga pose as well.. some do this pose a couple times a day as a “maintenance measure”.. it supposedly makes the return to the heart easier and lowers BP slightly. I started getting my Afib coupled with SVT episodes in my early 50’s, it got really bad around age 57 when i was hospitalized and formally diagnosed and at age 59 I was at a fork in the road as to whether to proceed with the invasives (ablation types or maze type surgical procedures) or an alternative approach and i chose the all natural holistic route and i have enjoyed much success in finally getting this under control so as NOT to have Afib and or SVT episodes and claiming my own life back yet again, so to speak, with managing my triggers and taking a daily holistic regimen in smoothies. I’m now (April 2022) coming up on being 63 and happy to report that with a combination of managing triggers (caffeine, alcohol, high blood pressure) and a daily regimen of supplements (liquid ionic magnesium, Taurine, Citrulline -is an Arginine substitute- .. and CoQ10) I have enjoyed being episode free for 3 and a half years (since i was 59+, Sept 2018) of my now “former” predicament of episodes of Afib coupled with SVT.
Please note: This post and this entire blog was/is a part of a dedicated FB peer sharing informational page with NO selling, NO ads, NO gimmicks, purely its only purpose was to share valuable info learned firsthand. However since FB is now continually censoring such content, Who knows why, .. perhaps it goes against the mainstream “narrative”, this venue was created in case FB decides to permanently shut down all such peer sharing informational resources. The FB link to this is FB.me/AfibRelief