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Introduction: To address the consequences of living with supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) and to improve the quality of treatment, by opening to person-centred care, there is a need to highlight patient experiences of treatment with catheter ablation.  SVT is an unpredictable occurrence of tachycardia with a complex impact to the persons daily life (Nordblom, Broström & Fridlund, 2017; Withers et al., 2015; Wood, Wiener & Kayser-Jones, 2007). Catheter ablation involves a physical intervention, with the intention to localize abnormal activity, which leads to the determination of a diagnosis and decide further treatment during the same procedure (Brugada et al., 2020). Therefore, the aim was to describe the phenomenon of catheter ablation, as it is experienced by patients being treated awake. Methods: A descriptive design was applied based on a reflective lifeworld research (Dahlberg, Dahlberg & Nyström, 2008) founded on phenomenological epistemology. Interviews were conducted between December 2021 and Mars 2022 with seven women and five men, three to twelve months after they underwent catheter ablation. Results: Patients undergoing catheter ablation while awake during treatment, which includes experiences of relying on others expertise, being actively passive, and striving to be cured. It entails experiences of having a foreign object moving in one’s body and heart and can be endured through strategies of mainly shifted one’s mental focus. Discussion: The main findings are characterized by reliance on expertise and being actively passive in striving to be cured. It also pinpoints vulnerable situations in which the patient perspective is lacking through the experience of being or feeling unprepared, mainly expressed as need of support before the planned elective ablation, but also during and after treatment. The effort of undergoing a catheter ablation is worthwhile as the confirmation of a physical curable condition that opens a future with possibilities instead of the obstacle in daily life that tachycardia entails. For the patients, an informative and caring conversation was needed that would have provided the support they lacked before and during the ablation. Keywords: catheter ablation, lived experience, patient perspective, phenomenology, reflective lifeworld research, supraventricular tachycardia