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Re: flecanide - how to start - 2 months ago

QuoteDaisy I started Flecainide at home but was required to go into my cardiologist’s office for a 12 lead ECG a day or two later. Same here. Back when I started (20+ years ago), there were a number of members here reporting having start flec under observation, but not necessarily as a hospital inpatient.

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Re: PVCs how many is too many - 2 months ago

QuoteMikeN I went thru insane PACs when I got the Norovirus in January. I self diagnosed as PACs after getting a Kardia. I tried Taurine and it really helped. I took 2g Taurine and 2g L'Arginine a day and felt better within a half hour; placebo effect? "Elimination of cardiac arrhythmias using oral taurine with l-arginine with case histories" One of my friends had excellent

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Re: Co-Worker Ablation Death - 2 months ago

That is awful about your coworker. Around 15 years ago, Moderator Shannon's sister, Bonnie, had (I believe) a tamponade during an ablation for long standing persistent afib, in Houston, TX. This outcome caused Bonnie to be bedridden for the rest of her life (9 years). It was during a time that Shannon was living out ot the US, so he didn't know she was having the procedure till afte

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Re: Potassium deficiency - 2 months ago

QuoteTomR I like the method GeorgeN uses with dosing K in his hydration water. But I think I need to wait until I see no more improvements from the Waller water before either stopping it or creating a new water with potassium in it. My strong suggestion would be to not stop the Waller water. It is also possible to increase the Mg++ concentration in WW by changing the ratio of the undiluted WW

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Re: Different issues post ablation - 2 months ago

Quotembrinksoccer i guess one of the difficulties we all face is trying to weigh up all of the things that affect our immediate future versus doing things that our 10 year futures selves will thank us for. I can relate. I'd figured out within a month of my first episode (by finding published studies) that chronic endurance exercise was my path to afib (training for and competing in a race

by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM

Re: Different issues post ablation - 2 months ago

You might check out this thread. In my case I learned to limit my exertion for longer duration activities to only what I could do nasal breathing. Turns out, when you over breathe, you deplete CO2. Because of the Bohr Effect (which loosens the bond between hemoglobin and oxygen), you can actually create hypoxia at a cellular level. This can be a much longer discussion, but I'll limit i

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Re: How to reverse persistent AFib? - 2 months ago

Quotearleenkilo My EP told me that another ablation would more than likely be unsuccessful. He claims that people who have persistent afib will just not stay in NSR. Maybe it's time for a second opinion? Certainly yes. Read Carey's post here. Pay attention to the EP who fixed Carey - he is one I would recommend for a persistent afibber's ablation. QuotearleenkiloI would be c

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Re: Persistent A fib advice - 2 months ago

Looks like you double posted. I responded to your first post.

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Re: How to reverse persistent AFib? - 2 months ago

Quotearleenkilo Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated. An MD with afib posted here a while back about using magnesium to convert his persistent afib & stay in NSR. He wrote a book about the experience. I'm not suggesting this would work for everyone, but the approach meets my criteria of low long term downside with good potential upside. My only caveat would be anyone s

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Re: University of New Mexico researchers studying the health risks posed by gadolinium, a toxic rare earth metal used in MRI scans - 2 months ago

In prior study on the topic, Dr. Wagner was one of the few people doing research on the topic. Looks like oxalic acid/oxalates may be a reason some people have issues.

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Re: Just checking - 2 months ago

I'm glad the new user registrations remain consistent I guess nobody is being bothered by their afib & that is good.

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Re: Just checking - 2 months ago

Wonder if you've implemented taking the redirect URL's offline & this impacted SEO (search engine optimization) for the site?

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Re: I'm back, lol - 3 months ago

Quote I had first afib episode in August 2017, and got 10 episodes total til September 2018, then for some reason, it all stopped for a good 4 years until I took the 2nd dose of the god damn COVID vaccine. Then the episode just got more frequent, from once a few months, everyday, and now I'm having random episodes multiple times a day. I have lost track of it. I also had an association b

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Re: Just checking - 3 months ago

Quotesusan.d My PVCs, in remission, returned Friday Morning. Wonderful news!! Hope it continues!

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Re: Just checking - 3 months ago

Seemed curious to me as well.

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Re: Potassium deficiency - 3 months ago

A low serum potassium level (2.8 mEq/L, from memory) at the ER (my one and only one for afib) visit flagged low potassium as a possible actor. Two months later (9/2004), I had an intracellular ExaTest that indicated magnesium was off range low. Even back then, member Jackie (now 89 and doing well as I recently chatted with her) was posting about getting your magnesium optimized prior to working

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Re: Potassium deficiency - 3 months ago

Some of the links on the saliva testing are broken. Here is a conversion chart for saliva to serum potassium, courtesy of archive.org:

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Re: Atrial Flutter Ablation - 3 months ago

Quotecornerbax The only thing I'm perplexed on is now your LAA was 'closed' via an ablation? Can you Explain how this was done? I guess I mess to read A LOT more than I already do on this site... Lol. I'm also confused to how you would need a watchman if your laa is already closed. I had a robotic procedure for my mitral valve which also included suturing/closing the L

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Re: Potassium deficiency - 3 months ago

I agree with gloaming. Several things to note, Serum potassium can vary over the day quite a bit. Also, consuming a bolus or large amount of a potassium supplement will signal the kidneys to quickly excrete it. In my case, I put 2 tsp of food grade potassium citrate powder in a liter of water and consume over the day, my DIY version of "timed release." Anybody supplementing with el

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Re: Premature Ventricular Contractions Could Lead to a More Serious Heart Condition - 3 months ago

Quotesusan.d I was successful with Tenormin for 6 weeks until there was a shortage of distilled water so I stopped using my cpap.. I have a distiller at home that does ~ 1 gallon at a time. Would one of these be available where you are? Mine takes about 3.5 hours to make the 1 gallon.

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Re: Wide IVC - 3 months ago

"When I sleep I am in NSR. The second I wake up and listen to fighter jets or hear about bus bombings (4 in one day) stabbings (7) , etc, my PVCs return." I don't know if this has any applicability, but I've found I sleep best partially sitting up in a recliner. I wear ear muff hearing defenders and an eye mask. This has helped my sleep. I also look a little news as I fi

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Re: Feasibility of repeated on-demand smartphone app-based approximation of time spent with atrial fibrillation and symptoms in patients after catheter ablation: Data from the ISOLATION study - 3 months ago

Here is the full paper: More details: QuotePatients were instructed to record a 60-s PPG recording through their smartphone’s built-in camera three times daily and when experiencing symptoms. Further, after completing a recording, patients had to specify if they encountered any of the following symptoms: no symptoms, palpitations, chest pain, dyspnoea, confusion, light-headedness, fatigu

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Re: Marijuana smoker with IST inappropriate sinus tachycardia - 3 months ago

Here are searches on our history Cannabis Marijuana

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Re: Any runners with a heart condition - 3 months ago

I've had afib for 20+ years. From my perspective, endurance exercise is a double edged sword. If you haven't been exercising, then getting up off the couch can be beneficial for afib. However, if you do endurance exercise chronically in high volumes with intensity, it can lead to afib and was my path to afib. This is a thread on this topic. In my case, I had my first afib episod

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Re: Vaccine reply to a previous post - 4 months ago

I had a very strong association of C 19 vaxes and a large increase in afib episodes. In my case, the longer in time I went from a vax, the impact reduced. A friend with connections at a large EP center said the center reports this association as well, for some patients. I've sworn off those vaxes & take few others.

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Re: Heart Monitor - 4 months ago

Steve, I've had a single lead Kardia since 2014. I have broken a few while staying in accommodations with tile floors & mine break when they hit those floors. You can get new ones off eBay for under $40 US.

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Re: Kardia Mobile and Low Heart Rate - 4 months ago

{edit - Carey posted while I was composing this} I've used a Kardia since 2014 and I can have resting HR less than 50, but average afib rates are never that low and usually much higher. I assume you don't have a subscription, which will plot out a heart rate vs time graph for the reading. You can do this yourself, as afib beat to beat heart rates are normally highly variably variable.

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Re: Osteoporosis / Calcium - 4 months ago

QuoteHugging The issue with calcium is it interferes in the absorption of magnesium where both are absorbed in the small intestine . Avoiding ingestion of Mg and calcium simultaneously makes sense. It may seem reasonable to separate the two by taking Mg in the morning and calcium at night I personally discovered calcium was an issue for my afib in 2012. I was consuming 10x the RDA of magne

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Re: Osteoporosis / Calcium - 4 months ago

Here is a review article on strontium and osteoporosis: .

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Re: Brazilian study reveals new pathways for preventing atrial fibrillation - 4 months ago

QuoteHugging That sums my hypothesis to explain why I believe Mg replenishment can if done properly can restart SR, all described in my protocol that has reversed mycAFvto SR. I would suggest that linking your prior post (and I selected what I thought most complete) where you go into more detail would be good for people to be able to refer to without you having to repeat all the detail.

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