Get some bottles of flavored seltzer water and use that. My wife loves them (Polar brand). They're just carbonated water and flavoring so they won't affect the med.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
I can't imagine why you thought eliminating caffeine would improve fatigue. I would expect quite the opposite. Have you spoken to the EP about this fatigue? If you have and they didn't offer anything useful, go see your PCP and get checked out. Could be something completely unrelated to the ablation. Fatigue shouldn't last more than a few days after an ablation, and for some peoby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteDini Is it normal to feel so tired for so long after ablation? No, it's not. What meds are you on?by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Those inactive ingredients aren't meds. They're just inert stuff that binds the ingredients into a solid pill. You'll see them or other stuff like them in every pill made.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Mucinex should be okay. And if you've had a successful ablation, you really don't need to be concerned about raising your heart rate.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotekliving My doctor specializes in pain management. Florida still has a big problem with opioids, and most doctors here try to avoid prescribing them as a result, at least where I live currently. Not really complaining about it, but I would still like to have something that would help. Considering, at my last appointment we were at either ablating my sciatic nerve or looking at fusing the spinby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Find a pain management specialist and book an appointment with them. You'll find the attitude toward narcotics vastly different, and they may have other options they can offer that other docs don't.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
I've never experienced that from BBs and I can't recall ever hearing someone else say they did, but drugs affect everyone differently so it's possible. BBs reduce BP and if it's dropping it too low, brain fog could definitely be a side effect. Check your BP a few times when you're feeling the brain fog and when you're not.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Yeah, that's not success. My first thought was you've got quite a salad of -geminy going on there. Bigeminy, trigeminy, quadgeminy, and so on. But looking at it more carefully I think that's just plain old afib with 1.2 second pauses sprinkled in randomly. It's not any sort of -geminy at all.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
The word "poop" appears in the dictionary and it's not even labeled as obscene or vulgar. You've got to at least get an obscene or vulgar tag from Merriam-Webster to cross a line here. And I bet 90% of the folks here would agree with you.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
No, I wouldn't hesitate. Are you taking the diltiazem for rate control or hypertension? If it's for rate control then the interaction doesn't matter at all. If it's for hypertension, just watch your BP for a few days and if it goes up, talk to the doc who prescribed it about perhaps changing dosage.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
If you made people giggle, I seriously doubt it crossed any sort of line here. This is a forum, not a church. Please edit it again and put back what you said because I want to see it if people found it funny.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuotePixie I did a quick search on Medscape and saw there was an interaction with Eliquis. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated, Medscape isn't where I would look for interactions, or much of anything about drugs, actually. The interactions checker on drugs.com (which I do trust) found no interactions between Eliquis and melatonin. And I'm confident they're right for thby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
I have a friend who nearly died due to gum disease. She developed endocarditis, which comes with a 25% mortality rate. She spent two weeks in the hospital with 5 days of that in ICU. When I was 22, a dentist just happened to see a circular shadow under my wisdom teeth on x-ray. That shadow was a cyst that had developed. He said that cyst put me at big risk for endocarditis, which is why the oby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Good EP you've got there. Go see Natale but keep him involved.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Yeah, if sotalol was going to help it should have done so by now, and I'd say it looks pretty suspicious as a prime suspect in your asthma. For sure talk to your EP tomorrow, but if I were you I'd probably stop it immediately. It seems to be doing more harm than good.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
There are contraindications. Asthma + beta blockers is often a bad idea because the BBs can exacerbate the asthma. Have you actually started the sotalol? When did you start it?by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteGeorgeN Curious, when you get the report, if they used the PFA tool for all of it? Doubt it since they did more than a PVI. But glad it all turned out well, Fuzzy!by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Interesting stuff. I've never heard an EP say they avoid BBs in vagal patients, but both Hans' paper and the NIH paper strongly suggest that perhaps they should.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteMeganMN The pharmacy cannot compound it. Did you just ask your local pharmacy or did you find a compounding pharmacy and ask them? Only compounding pharmacies can do that.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
By all means, get up and move. Walk all you want. Do more than that if you feel up to it. People get annoyed and want to argue with me when I tell them this, but I once did a 50-mile bike ride in challenging terrain 3 days after an ablation, and I did it with the EP's full blessing. The heart can handle a lot more exercise without harm after an ablation than people want to believe. Thereby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Megan, you're not making mountains out of molehills and nobody's going to tell you that's benign. No matter what your heart rate is if you say you feel dizzy I believe you and that's never a benign symptom. Dizziness leads to falls and falls have life-altering effects. You just need to be careful and stay safe until you can get this dealt with.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
I'm guessing $2500 is your deductible. So your insurance company made it clear to St. David's that you were responsible for that much, so that's why they asked for up front payment. That's standard practice. I'm on Medicare now so I never pay a dime for anything other than my premiums, but when I was on employer insurance up until 2020, I always got billed up front for thby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Why would you be nervous? By the time you get food it's over and done with.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteMeganMN It s commonly after every beat. Then your heart rate must be around 30-35 bpm, which could definitely cause dizziness.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
I hope your consult with Natale yields a way forward for you. I'm sure it probably will because that's what he does.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
A 2-second pause shouldn't cause dizziness unless it's after every beat.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
The numbers you quoted are pretty much in line with my experience. One insurance company paid for 5 of my ablations without uttering a peep. What can they say? If the procedure is deemed medically necessary and their policy covers it, they can't refuse just because it's a repeat. The Affordable Care Act put an end to crap like that.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteMeganMN This is the part that I struggle with, though, as my daily burden of PACs averages 25% and at night can be 30-70%. Really, it's that high? Anything above 20% is in the "needs treatment" range. I really hope you can get this addressed.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM