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Re: Heart Monitor - 9 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.by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Re: Kardia Mobile and Low Heart Rate - 9 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.by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Re: Osteoporosis / Calcium - 9 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 magneby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Re: Osteoporosis / Calcium - 9 months ago
Here is a review article on strontium and osteoporosis: .by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Re: Brazilian study reveals new pathways for preventing atrial fibrillation - 9 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.by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Re: Prolonged high heart rate - 9 months ago
Maybe 10 days after my first afib episode 20+ years ago, I had another episode & decided to take a walk around downtown with a heart rate monitor record. I was walking very fast and my heart rate was about 145 BPM. I was going across the street and then I needed to sprint to get out of the way of a car. This pushed my heart rate to 230 BPM. It dropped a bit when I slowed down on the sidewby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Re: Borderline ECG meaning - 9 months ago
Here is PamalaJean's redacted ECG.by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Re: Borderline ECG meaning - 9 months ago
I've sent a PM to you with my email address. If you want, send me the image and I'll fix it and post here in this thread for you.by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Re: Borderline ECG meaning - 9 months ago
QuotePamelaJean I don’t know how to remove my name. I did notice. If you have a physical copy, you could black out the information and take a photo and post that.by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Re: Potassium Citrate OR Gluconate? - 9 months ago
Either should be fine. I've taken citrate for many years.by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Re: Borderline ECG meaning - 9 months ago
My non-medical opinion is it looks fine. However, I'd take it down and take your name & DOB off. Edit - see my post here for the ECG.by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Re: Thoughts about preventing recurences of AF after ablations - 9 months ago
QuoteHugging Hi George N My premise for correlating unattenuated HRV with AF depends on being compulsive and record your EkGs for 30 sec every morning,noon, late afternoon ,and at bedtime. Depending on symptoms as an alert can be misleading as if one follows my routine, asymptomatic AF will be more likely detected. Doing that provides data to determine if AF correlates with unattenuated HRV, andby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Re: Sinus Rhythm with Wide QRS - 9 months ago
QuoteNepertutto But today my Kardia EKG says that I'm in sinus rhythm with wide QRS. I checked the web for info about wide QRS and I can't tell if this is serious or not. It could be artefact in the Kardia ECG data, I can get a wide QRS reading if I'm not careful in the recording procedure. Wetting the electrodes is very useful, saliva is good as there are electrolytes in it.by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Re: sleep apnea + Buteyko - 9 months ago
QuoteQwackertoo My brother-in-law is a huge fan of the mouth taping @ night. I've never really tried it as I've suffered from allergies, quite severe with nose congestion, thus mouth breathing @ night with dry mouth. I ordered some tape today and will give it a try in addition to the oral appliance. My breathing and O2 levels are greatly improved since this time last year when primarby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Re: Thoughts about preventing recurences of AF after ablations - 9 months ago
QuoteHugging I agree it’s application is only.for AF based on my personal experience and the supporting articles I cited. The photos I attached are consistent for me so I am curious if anyone with AF has observed the same pattern. For me it’s the canary for recurrence of asymptomatic and symptomatic AF. I'm sure there would be a marked difference for HRV in and out of afib, for anyone. Thby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Re: TachyBrady vs Bigeminy or Tri or Quad - 9 months ago
QuoteCarey What is Armour? A porcine thyroid med.by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Re: Overcoming Bias Treating Atrial Fibrillation with Oral Magnesium - 9 months ago
Here is another magnesium rhythm anecdote I got last night. We are spending time in a ski condo with friends. The wife is a Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) Syndrome ablatee in her 70's. Around 2010, which was post her ablation, I got her to start consuming a lot of supplemental magnesium, which has worked very well for her and she's become an advocate also. She's a volunteer ski patrby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Re: Beat to Beat Measurements on Apple Watch - 9 months ago
QuoteQwackertoo So would a SSFSSFSS, without posting screen shots or similar be what they call a Bigemeny or Tri or Quad? Bi is every other beat, tri is every third.beat and so on. So tri.by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Re: Colonoscopy Prep - 9 months ago
The citriate might have been bottles, it has been 5 years or so, hence I don't recall. I always make my own from powders, if possible.by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Re: Supplemental potassium when on keto like diet - 9 months ago
I would spread it out, if possible. By the way, there is about 39 mg potassium in 1 mEq potassiumby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Re: Colonoscopy Prep - 9 months ago
From years ago, GoLytely was suggested as a bowel prep that spares electrolytes. I used it ~15 years ago without issue, But more recently talked them in to letting me use a bunch of magnesium citrate. That worked as well.by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Re: Supplemental potassium when on keto like diet - 9 months ago
Quotetobherd My concern is whether the amount of potassium citrate is acceptable or not. Hugging is correct about kidney function. I don't know whether it is right for you, but I've consumed 2 tsp/day of potassium citrate for years. This is about 4 grams (4000 mg) of potassium. I dissolve it in a liter of water and consume over the day. This is my version of timed release. Assumby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Re: Beat to Beat Measurements on Apple Watch - 10 months ago
So I'm interpreting what you are saying S= Slow, F=Fast. The beat pattern looks like: SSFSSFSSFSSFSSF... for a minute? Likely is PAC's (palpitations is a generic name for a variety of ectopic beat patterns), could also be PVC's, but since you are an afibber, more likely PACs. Likely not afib. This is because there is regularity in what you describe. Afib is irregularly irreby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Re: Thoughts about preventing recurences of AF after ablations - 10 months ago
I heartily agree that a high unattenuated HRV can be indicative of afib. My only point is what is unattenuated or attenuated for you may not be the same for another person. Probably around 2007, when a number of us were recording R to R data for various rhythms, an optometrist from the UK, Mark Robinson, sent me a file of annotated R to R heart rate vs time (tachogram) charts. Visual inspecby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Re: Thoughts about preventing recurences of AF after ablations - 10 months ago
From your other thread. QuoteHugging Another part I didn’t discuss has to do with % Heart rate Variability ( HRV) which is time between successive heart beats recorded without my awareness on my iPhone. When the interval in msec is large like as high as 140 msec, I have AF. In contrast when the interval is short between heart beats it ranges around 14 msec and I don’t have AF. I can use the HRby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Re: Thoughts about preventing recurences of AF after ablations - 10 months ago
Having yet to read your book, I assume your ECG monitoring was to see if your persistent afib ended? My hypothesis has always been that my consumption of electrolytes would have a much higher efficacy keeping me in NSR rather than conversion. Hence my own approach, subsequent to my 2.5 month persistent episode 20 ish years ago (with some exceptions for experimentation) has been to take a loby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Re: Overcoming Bias Treating Atrial Fibrillation with Oral Magnesium - 10 months ago
QuoteJackie Yes, Erling's recipe is posted... it's called Waller Water. I'll look through my files on the topic...and post the results.... if not this evening, then, tomorrow. Sorry, I'm late checking posts today and now out of time. Jackie Burgess Here you go, Jackie! Erling's recipe is here. This is magnesium bicarbonate water. Erling also wrote this threadby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Re: new to AF forum. - 10 months ago
My story has been posted here many times. In brief, I got my first afib episode around the 1st week of July 2004 (age 49) a day or two after a training run on a 14,000' mountain. I later determined it was a delayed vagal trigger. I had a habit of taking my aural blood pressure periodically. I did that morning and my pulse sounded unusual. Threw on a Polar HR monitor and noticed my pulseby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Re: new to AF forum. - 10 months ago
QuoteTomR To download an ecg to personal storage, it looks like a subscription is now required. In Dec/2024 I was able to download many ecg's and email them to an EP but I tried downloading today and it did not work. Unless someone like me who doesn't have a subscription can say otherwise. Their website still indicates a non-subscriber should be able to do this, but may just not haveby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM