Hello everyone,
I'm glad I found this forum and I would like to share our sad story with a hope to get some advice.
My husband was a healthy guy who always did different kind of sports. 2 years ago while we played tennis he had a black out and almost passed out. They diagnosed him with non obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. They also found on stress test that he turned into Afib after exercise. It turned back to NSR very soon so they sent us home with bunch of information to digest. On holter monitor he did not have AFib.
He stopped exercising except of light walk and had no symptoms so we lived our lifes and forgot about the diagnosis.
In September 2016 he had a stressful time at work and got into Afib that would never convert. First, we did not realize until he started having spells of dizziness again. He also developed bleeding which we did not know where it was coming from. We went back to cardiologist who prescribed warfarin. The GI doctor was concerned about bleeding and scheduled the colonoscopy which never happened because my husband had a stroke. And he is young, fit, no alcohol, good diet, no history of strokes in the family.
Right now he is almost 5 months post stroke, he still has a-fib and it's once every 10 days and lasts 2-3 days, always converts on its on.
His doctor does not support the supplements.
We are ready for the ablation and were also thinking about Watchman device.
The lesson we learned is even if his CHADS score was 0, he still had a stroke.
Prior to the stroke back in September, he had Afib for 3.5 weeks, it converted to NSR on Sunday and he had a stroke on Monday night.
Maybe our story will help someone to make a right decision sooner...