It was 14th of January 1997 noon time When I experienced the tachycardia for the first time and was thinking that this is merely some Palpitation but a veterinary Doctor Who was present, there told me the gravity of the situation and suggested to consult the cardiologist at earliest. Which I ignored, thinking that heartbeat can increase for various reasons, and it is not serious.
This kind of attack used to happen some 4 to 5 times every year. Once I was in a hospital for the installation of dialysis unit, I experienced the same. II made fun of this and asked the dialysis technician to put his hand on my chest to experience the feeling of Rail Gadi.
He immediately rushed To the doctor present there and told the situation. The doctor then examined me and sent me for a 2D echo.
After that, I was referred to an electrophysiologist who advised For EPF plus RFA.
But there was a very big requirement before going for RFA that Anyhow, I must be having an ECG done at the time when I was experiencing the SVT attack, because only after the study of that ECG, the experts could be able to find and pinpoint the area to be treated.
As I told that I had many number of attacks, so whenever I felt having an attack are used to rush for getting an ECG as early as possible. Sometimes I was lucky to have someone who could take me but many times I was like started my car and reached Any place where the ECG could be performed and the hilarious part was that almost every time when I reached at the reception of any centre and told that it is a tachycardia situation, and the ECG must be done immediately, The usual response was, they were asking me to bring the patient in, and at the time they were told by me that I am the patient, Their Face expressions, and response were like anything, I still Have smiles when I remember those.
These kind of treatments were very specialised and a very few specialists were there for the same in 2001. After gathering the information from across the India, I went to Escorts hospital, Delhi for the treatment.
Where they tried to stimulate the stroke to pinpoint the area for the Ablation, but it gave no results even after five hours, so they had to terminate the process. I got discharged and advised to come again after sometime.
I had many severe attacks of supraventricular tachycardia in letter years and even had to get admitted And had to be administrated with intravenous use of Isoptin .
In the year 2008, I again undergo for RFA at MAX Delhi and it Was looking like a success, but after 18 hours the AV node Of my heart stopped working, and I became a patient of bradycardia.
Being rigid not to have permanent pacemaker implant I tried to maintain myself with the help of medicines, but after having a very severe attack of bradycardia had to undergo for PPI. Which was done in September 2008.
But this was not the end to my problem. I started experiencing palpitations Even after RFA N PPI Because of high rate Atrial episodes. For which R FA was done again in 2014, which eliminated every natural heartbeat, and I Became dependent Hundred percent on external pacing.
In the year 2016, my pacemaker was replaced and the life was looking a bit smooth
What again this Was not the end of my problems. I was on a lot of medicines, precautions and diet.
In the year 2020. When the Covid wave was at its peak on 14th October, I had multiple MI attacks. ( Three in 8 1/2 minutes ) And almost no, Hospital was ready to admit me without Negative RTPcR. Anyhow, with the help of friends and relatives, I managed to get in a reputed hospital and was advised for emergency Angioplasty, but again I refuse and decided to for Thrombolization process. That Worked, but as it took more than eight hours for me to get any kind of treatment, my heart was damaged too much.
After that, even after being on heavy medicines I started Having unconsciousness attacks, vertigo very often. Again, I started consulting the experts across India, and it was found that due to heavy damage, my heart is not responding properly to the external pacing.
There were two types of opinion that one was to control the situation with the help of medicines and the other was to go for CRT-D Implant replacing the pacemaker.
After a lot of investigations in the hospital with multiple x-ray, echocardiogram, and several days off halter Monitoring it was decided for CRT – D implant. During roughly 3 weeks of time, the investigations done made a very Horrifying picture that there were very few chances of success ( less than 10% )and a very big risk For life. So as always, this was not going to be easy on me.
People Who know about such procedures may understand that such kind of implant take 45 minutes to 80 90 minutes, but once I got into the operation theatre, I came back after more than nine hours and on the ventilator.
Finally, by the grace of God in August 2021 I had my CRT-D Implant successful and with that and a lot of medicines, I started To lead towards almost a normal life.
As the time was passing by, I started experiencing multiple problems in my daily life as decreasing stamina, losing my appetite, weight, loss, lack of concentration, etc. Even the day to day routine, small work became like climbing the mountain for me, like if I used to put on my socks and tie the laces of my shoes, after that, I had to rest for 5 to 10 minutes because of feeling tired and breathlessness. I had to stop driving, climbing stairs , walking more than 100 steps and most of the time I remained on bed.
When it became very much inconvenient For me and my family, again I started search for Remedy for me, but got advised by the Many cardiologists To get registered for the heart Transplant as according to them, I was on the external pacing since a very long time and MI caused a significant damage to my heart.
After consulting N, number of Medical experts ( Cardiologist, physicians, lifestyle consultants ) Of various streams Like Apathy, homeopathy, Ayurved, and naturopathy, was not able to get any proper solution to feel get better.
As I told earlier that I was throughout the India since 2001 to meet cardiac experts, as my case was too much complicated one. I have an experience of nine times being in cath lab at various institutions. I have consulted almost every big name of the cardiac field Across India.
This year, when My brother-in-law visited to Lucknow, after observing my health conditions, he became worried too much. He holds one of the top positions in A leading pharma Company having business in multiple countries, he started looking for Some experts for me and finally he arranged one video meeting with Dr. Rajesh Mishra, Who is world renowned Intensivist and Internist at Ahmedabad. ( which I came to know very later when my sister living in USA searched For him at various platforms and told me that the kind of expert he is are very few in the world )
Hi, asked me about my health issues with extreme details and then suggested some very unusual tests and I was confused that I have problems related to my heart and I am being advised to get My B12, D3 levels check with some other evaluations, which no cardiologist ever asked for, but anyway I decided to follow him and got the tests done.
Once I sent the reports to the doctor, he studied Those and then only asked me to come in person for further checkup and treatment.
I went there and was examined by him, but again got confused that instead of asking about my heart problems, he was searching that what kind of vaccinations I had, or what kind of support medicines Other than Cardiac support, I was having And many other health related issues and symptoms.
He performed a 2-D echo and observed the condition of my heart, which was Having only 20% LVEF.
Only after that, he started describing the real problems I was having due to not giving attention to the rest of the body and by focusing on the heart only.
I was on too much medicines in higher doses to prevent my heart from sudden cardiac death, to control my blood pressure and pulse and maintain my other vitals.
He advised for sleep study and Bipap with saturation monitoring And decided the further course of treatment for me.
For anyone surprise that a severe Cardio patient who is advised for heart transplant is being prescribed for some essential vitamins, adult vaccination, and the medicines for the Cardiac support are reduced to their minimum like one by fourth.
He told me that there is not much to be done with your heart, but we can support that by reducing load on it, and also with the help of Bipap with oxygen, it can be reduced further more during rest Timings.
I had three days trial and testing on Bipap with oxygen at Ahmedabad And then, Dr Mishra finalised the Settings of Bipap / Oxygen , Potency, frequency of the medicines.
There were the miraculous improvements Observed during my Ahmedabad, stay as my energy levels, increased, sleep became better, and I started regaining my appetite.
After coming back to Lucknow on the evening of thirteenth this month only , from fourteenth to eighteenth My deep sleep increased from twenty minutes to seventy minutes just in 4 days Which was never recorded more than 30 minutes Since last many years.
I am advised to get a few tests done after one month of treatment to observe the difference. With such kind of recovery, I am very sure that there will be a lot of improvement can be seen in the reports.
Just 15 days back I was having almost no hope that I could have a normal life during rest of the period ( being bedridden or worse ), I don’t know that how long I will live, but after meeting with Dr. Rajesh Mishra, I feel myself very lucky and Privileged that I will be leading a quality life in future with his guidance and support. He is having a very unique approach that Filled me with very positive attitude towards life.
