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I live in Charlotte, NC and even though I work in a hospital my insurance is garbage. I pretty much have to go to a physician in my hospital system or pay out of pocket up to a maximum of 16k. I’ve already had follow up with cardiology and EP here and the EP has said he would take me for EP study and possible ablation. To be honest I’m a little hesitant. It’s only been like 3 months and the risks of the procedure, although rare, are not insignificant. With 4 kids under 5 I’d like to be around and useful to them for a while longer.
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I’d obviously prefer to have the ablation while it’s still paroxysmal but the confusing thing to me is was the afib just the episode in August? Are these other episodes afib or SVT or some other atrial tachycardia?
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So just so I'm understanding you, it sounds like you are advocating for an ablation sooner rather than later (i.e. ASAP). I'm happy to go ask those questions and my current EP (performing ablations for 12 years) has not been asked those questions yet so I will start there. He seems busy (it took me 7 weeks to get on his schedule for an appointment) which seems like that's a positive thing. But I will make sure I ask the questions.
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Thanks for the encouraging message. Does this mean you've lived with A fib for 19 years without an ablation and are still only having 3-4 episodes per year? If so that is amazing and definitely what I would be hoping for (although given my current circumstances it kind of sounds like a pipe dream). I am going to see a counselor for anxiety now to try to help me with some of that but so far that hasn't slowed down my episodes.
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