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miche... here is my personal opinion and take it solely as that. If your "SVT" is debilitating and not successfully controlled by medications than yes do the EP study. However, I highly recommend you try some medications. There are many medications out there that you can try, both to help control your anxiety and/or to slow your heart rate down. If this is something that you can try to work through without having a procedure, then do whatever it takes. If you have an extra pathway in your heart that is causing this "SVT" then yes medications and ablation via the EP study will likely be the only thing to cure or help with this problem. However if your "SVT" is caused by anxiety, then you have to control the anxiety since this is more likely the cause of you SVT. It is a very hard thing to deal with, as I deal with tachycardia day in and day out (although thankfully i dont have the anxiety issues). Be strong and work with your physician. And try to get educated about it, maybe if you can get educated you will be able to feel more comfortable about this problem and be able to control your heart rate when it goes fast with things like relaxation, reducing stress, etc. Also most importantly, this is commonly talked about on here but very important, make sure you have eliminated things that cause high heart rates, like stress reduction, elminate all caffeine, exercise regularly (meaning nice relaxing walks), reduce alcohol. If you do a search on SVT you will come up with many many many website that can teach you about SVT and things to help it. Hope that helps, good luck