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Re: Stop Eliquis or not? - 5 months ago

QuoteKen I seem to bruise a bit more easily, but when cut or jabbed, pretty much normal coagulation. My experience is similar, except when I sliced my finger with a sharp knife fairly deeply cutting veggies. That did take a while to really stop bleeding - not to the point it was a problem, but certainly quite a few minutes to get it stopped.

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Re: Stop Eliquis or not? - 5 months ago

Quotesusan.d If I stop Eliquis for 5 days, can a DVT form and full strength Eliquis won’t be able to dissolve it? My understanding is that Eliquis and other anticoagulants don't dissolve clots, they help prevent clots from forming or getting larger. Body mechanisms, or other meds (thrombolytics.), dissolve clots.

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Re: Afib + Stroke risk - 5 months ago

QuoteTomR Dr Sanjay Gupta @ York Cardiology brings his argument (first 10 minutes) why afib is not a cause of stroke in this video. Over the years I've reviewed the studies that were used to develop the CHA₂DS₂-VASc scoring system and its predecessors. I've come to the same conclusions as Dr. Gupta. I've always worked very hard to keep my controllable factors in that system i

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Re: My successful dietary method has been simplified; and experiments show how an important aspect works - 5 months ago

Thanks Steve for posting this update! I urge others to study Steve's work!! I've followed Steve's work since he first posted here as SteveCarr rather than SteveCarr1 about 9 years ago. Steve has done an exceptional job of tracking the impact of his various interventions on his afib (and ectopic beat counts). Like Steve, I also used ectopic beat counts as a metric when figuri

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Re: new to AF forum. - 5 months ago

Quotegloaming Many rely on a Kardia Mobile if they don't want a smart watch or a ring or wires hanging off them. It's not much money, very handy, and very reliably accurate for most layman's purposes. You can download an ECG and sent it in digital form to an electrophysiologist or a cardiologist. However Kardia does require a phone & app.

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Re: Celery juice and coconut juice. - 5 months ago

Quotegloaming I have consumed a lot of celery, cucumber, and beets, and coconut water in the past several years. It didn't stop me from being low (apparently) on potassium when I went to the ER while fibrillating one time...they gave me two large tablets and told me I was low. Surprised me. But they obviously thought that my AF might have been exacerbated, if not caused, by low potassium.

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Re: Self Care Additions + Lifestyle Items - 5 months ago

QuoteQwackertoo I also take B12 and D3. Sometimes Zinc but it can make me feel a little nauseous, especially on empty stomach, so I need to be careful when I take those. Also, I sometimes, and have done so during an episode drank a Biolyte, commercial "IV in a Bottle" drink for hydration and electrolytes. Sometimes it has actually halted an episode IF I drink it early on, of course

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Re: Pacemaker Necessity? - 5 months ago

I understand his logic and most won't prescribe the flec without the BB for liability reasons.

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Re: Pacemaker Necessity? - 5 months ago

My low heart rate during sleep is commonly in the high 30's, low 40's. At 69, it is no longer in the low 40's at rest during the day (like @gloaming was was as well) like it was 30 years ago for me. I've had afib for 20+ years. Initially my afib resting heart rate was below 100 and no rate control was needed. Now it can be 110-150 but episodes are mostly less than 3 hours

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Re: EKG please read - 5 months ago

QuoteAL1983 How old are you carey and what heart condition do you have Do you exercise of any sort. I want to start light jogging 2 miles 5 days a week Is jogging healthy At 69, I exercise quite a bit- strength training, skiing, rock climbing, endurance & high intensity cardio and so on. I've had afib for 20+ years and had a 2.5 month episode in the first 4 months of sta

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Re: EKG please read - 5 months ago

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Re: Threshold Considerations for Treatment(s) for Afib? - 5 months ago

QuoteQwackertoo Ablation - paroxysmal, once every 2-3 months only @ night for 2 or so hours? Or worse? Pacemaker - with both Brady and Afib when does one consider this option? For some reason haven't had a low heart rate notification in over 3 months. Pacemakers (PM) are generally for someone who has long pauses between beats. I don't know what the threshold is set at on your mo

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Re: Afib alert in sleep everyday , no symptoms - 5 months ago

QuotekumartxLove to hear any comments/suggestions My doc friends tell me that patients of east asian descent, genetically (don't know if that includes you), are not as prone to have a lot of subcutaneous fat. Hence they can be "skinny fat.' Meaning they are of relatively low BMI, but can have a material amount of fat around their organs (called called visceral fat). They like

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Re: Good news - 5 months ago

Quotesusan.d I am very sensitive to drugs. I know I needed in the past Tambocor brand instead of Flecainide (GeorgeN buys his Tambocor from Canada if you are interested), and Atenolol didn’t work the past three months. I was holding out for Tenormin. I am in NSR now when taking Tenormin these past 9 days. :-) ! Very awesome Susan!!! I hope this continues. I know this has been a struggle!!

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Re: zio patch report interpretation 4 months after ablation - 5 months ago

QuoteCarey So they can't possibly mean the same thing even though they use the same language. I guess what they really meant is there were 76 abnormal ventricular beats. Same is true for "Total Number of Supraventricular Heart Beats" I've used a Welluse SpO2 ring for years. Their tech is good, but made and designed in China. There can be language issues. The "

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Re: Eliminating meds following ablation. - 5 months ago

Absent any other reason (hypertension?) I don't see the point of 25mg of Metoprolol if you are in NSR. I believe you may want to look into weaning off it if you do stop as I recall that is the advice for those who have been on beta blockers for a while. As to the Eliquis, may depend on your age and also your CHA₂DS₂-VASc score. Some here, after successful ablations have decided to stay o

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Re: Decided to have an Ablation - PFA - Questions - 5 months ago

Quotembd If it is important for the first ablation to check the whole atria, shouldn’t I seek out an EP with the very best mapping equipment. From my perspective it is important to seek out the very best EP. In my opinion, the very best EP will be using the equipment that works well for them.

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Re: Elemental magnesium - 5 months ago

This is Chat GPT 4o's answer with references below. I have NOT cross checked the math or the assumptions, but what the program has done is how I would figure it out. For forms not listed you could go into pubchem or other references and figure out the molecular weight of the compound and divide the molecular weight of magnesium by that to find the % magnesium by weight. In all the Chat

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Re: Timeframe for Results? - 5 months ago

"Timeframe for Results?" In my case, if I'm turning the correct "knob" or pulling the correct "lever," results are pretty rapid. That doesn't mean it hasn't taken me a long time to figure out the correct knob/lever to adjust. For example, I've mentioned calcium restriction. I learned this 12-13 years ago. I was eating a low carb diet a

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Re: Timeframe for Results? - 5 months ago

Gloaming is correct about me. My initial afib was over 20 years ago (I'm now 69). Within a month or so, I had figured out my path to afib was likely excessive endurance exercise. My afib also progressed to a 2 1/2 month episode, starting about 2 months in. The data were sparse for creating a plan, but when my EP suggested I stay out of rhythm as he did not like the rhythm meds or ablati

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Re: taking K2 safe when on Eliquis? - 5 months ago

Quotegloaming This should only be done when your consulting cardiologist or electrophysiologist agrees with your aims and risk assessment. The article suggests that each thrombolitic added also adds risk of uncontrolled bleeds. I don't get your point, since K2 and Eliquis have not been shown to interact and K2 does not have thrombolytic activity. My point is it would be a different an

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Re: taking K2 safe when on Eliquis? - 5 months ago

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Re: Enhanced detection of atrial fibrillation in single-lead electrocardiograms using a cloud-based artificial intelligence platform - 5 months ago

Reviewing their website, looks like they are looking solely at the medical market, not for lay people. Some Wellue ECG devices use AI & these are available for lay people. The AI may not be as good as Idoven's, but a number of members here have used their ECG products and seem pretty happy with them (I don't have experience). Here is the Wellue link and here is a search on posts

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Re: AFIB??? - 5 months ago

My guess, from your description, is a fair quantity of premature beats. Reading the paper susan linked here, I'm guessing the greatest cause of false positives are high levels of premature beats. I can usually differentiate these when I look at a beat to beat heart rate vs. time graph ("tachogram") as you can see an NSR baseline between the premature beats that doesn't

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Re: excersise - 5 months ago

Initially, I could actually convert episodes using exercise. That lasted about two months and stopped when I got an episode that would not convert and ended up lasting 2.5 months (and ultimately converted with a loading dose of flec). During that 2.5 months, I did everything in afib: hiking, rock climbing & etc. After that, I'd use flec PIP. As I did not take a med with flec for rate

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Re: A trigger for AF episodes? - 5 months ago

My experience goes two ways. When I consume excess calcium (for me), it "lowers the bar" for triggers and things that are not normally triggers for me can be. Additionally, I get afib with no identifiable trigger. When calcium intake is in my range, then excessive endurance exercise is a trigger. If I moderate that and exercise and consume sufficient magnesium and potassium (for me)

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Re: sleep apnea + Buteyko - 5 months ago

Here is the post I wrote on how mouth tape during sleep eliminated apnea heart rate patterns in me, as Tom mentions. {Please comment here, not on any of the old posts I link to as they won't be seen} Quite a few with mild to moderate sleep apnea can improve with sleep tape and or learning to breathe slower with a lower volume of air. Buteyko breathing is focussed on CO2 tolerance. Suff

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Re: PIP - 5 months ago

Quotealfrae13 Flec 100mg takes me to NSR within a few hours but afib comes back sometimes the next day. Hope that propofenone would have a more lasting effect If you read through Liz's posts, something similar happened to her with propafenone. Her episode frequency increased to several a week and the doc switched her to a relatively low dose of propafenone daily (likely in multiple doses

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Re: Do not play doctor - 5 months ago

Quotesusan.d I see the chief cardiomyopathy cardiologist in two days. I plan on asking him questions but his English is not fluent. Thanks for your list of questions. If you think of anymore, please let me know. . Don't know if you already do this, but suggest you have a grandkid translate your questions for you and either print it out or have the questions on your phone to show him. The

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Re: PIP - 5 months ago

Member Liz took propafenone for many years. She's in her 90's now and has been in permanent afib for a number of years. However she did use PIP propafenone successfully for a long time. Here is a search on her posts.

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