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There is a whole lot of truth to the saying that "you ARE what you EAT" (see Dr. J. Fuhrman's EAT TO LIVE and the documentary "FORKS OVER KNIVES"). Having said that and leaving it for wiser heads, I would just caution you on one thing if waiting for ablation... ensure that your cardiologist/EP watches your left atrium size REGULARLY and closely. The larger your left aby Murray L - AFIBBERS FORUM
Chuck, et. al. There are many wiser heads on the forum than myself to be sure, but from MY personal experience, the very first thing that Dr's. Verma and Khaykin stated to me, and in NO uncertain terms, was that a catheter ablation is different for each and every patient. Take a deep breath and re-read that statement as it is the base statement from which all further conversations with my Eby Murray L - AFIBBERS FORUM
I really need to get a Cardy meter to measure K. I could swear my Potassium was low last night. No cardiac symptoms but I note that if it drops off I get oodles of muscle cramps and spasms, typically my feet, my legs and my tummy. The spasms will wake me up and I have to walk around grunting for 20 minutes after having taken about 1500mg of Potassium Gluconate in Polar Seltzer water. Once theby Murray L - AFIBBERS FORUM
I am also supplementing with B vitamins; posted my list elsewhere a while back. It's the potassium and the sodium for me. Keep the Potassium up and the sodium down and I get along gangbusters. Get lazy with either and I am headed for trouble. The rest of the supplements just keep me level. If I shortchange myself with any of them I seem to feel it in one way or another.by Murray L - AFIBBERS FORUM
Robert: All will turn out well for you on Monday. It's my birthday. We started counting again in 2009, so I will be 4. And you will have a successful procedure and a quick and happy return to good health in short order. Rest assured that we will all be thinking of you and waiting anxiously to hear how you are doing.by Murray L - AFIBBERS FORUM
"You pick your poison"... so true. My dad was, as I said, on Warfarin. His fall was so severe that he was not only bleeding internally, but blood was coming out of his eye, nose, ear and he sure looked like he was not going to make it through the night. It was only by the Grace of the Almighty and the antidotes to Warfarin that he survived. What more can I say? Here I am, on Warby Murray L - AFIBBERS FORUM
Shannon: Just to say, thinking of you and wishing you a speedy recovery. Murray Lby Murray L - AFIBBERS FORUM
Just stay away from the Potassium suppositories folks. They taste awful. I am supplementing about 1500mg. Potassium in the AM and the same in the evening. No problems with bowel tolerance. I usually take it in the form of Low Sodium V8 or Potassium Gluconate dissolved in seltzer water (it fizzes and the bubbles go up my nose). Keeps the ticker calm. If I am skipping beats or whatever, Iby Murray L - AFIBBERS FORUM
I will not take anything asides from Warfarin until they have a solid, fast acting, reliable, non-toxic ANTIDOTE for it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My father was on Warfarin when he took a bad bad fall this year. Had he been on any of the "thinners" asides from Warfarin, for which there are fast-acting antidotes, he would have died. I repeat...... he would have died. It is as simplby Murray L - AFIBBERS FORUM
Interesting unintended experiment this morning! Yesterday, I got so involved in registering domains and setting up my new Real Estate practice that I forgot to take my evening dose of TIKOSYN and worked late into the night. This morning I awoke with the thickest case of balloon head that I have ever had, including a whopper headache (probably from going to bed at 4 a.m.). Anyway, took my rby Murray L - AFIBBERS FORUM
Now that I am one of the 'converted'; I cannot help but noticing all of the reports on the foods we are eating and killing ourselves with. Morbid obesity is at epidemic proportions (pardon the pun) and it is in our CHILDREN! They have never been so unfit in the history of the nations we live in, in NA. And the population as a whole is poisoning themselves to death with what is beingby Murray L - AFIBBERS FORUM
Thanks for posting. This has been a no-brainer for me for some time. The baby-boomers and Gen X ers are hitting the prime age for AFib about now. AFib is going to become a major issue in North America and I personally believe that we are doing it to ourselves with lifestyle and diet. We have our politicians and big business to thank ... today, OUR generation, will have already ingested more toby Murray L - AFIBBERS FORUM
Ginger is a known natural 'herbal' remedy for many ailments. Happy to hear that it is helping you out. I take mine pickled with raw fish. Murray Lby Murray L - AFIBBERS FORUM
I had one for almost thirty days to see if the TIKOSYN I am on was working. All they found was skipped beats when my Potassium went low. They called it a PACE EVENT MONITOR and it was set up to take a button push if I felt any heart palpatations. The box would also detect anomalies in ECG and record one minute before and one minute after so it was a loop recorder also. When it filled I would caby Murray L - AFIBBERS FORUM
I am taking 500 ucg. twice a day. It controls my aFib wonderfully. I wish I could figure out if the TIKOSYN was causing these 'side-effects'. My EP says he has MANY people on TIKOSYN successfully and a small percentage (I believe it was 7 percent) DO INDEED experience a variety of side effects with "balloon head" being the primary one in the mornings. Still looking for expby Murray L - AFIBBERS FORUM
Please please please... remember that you only have two kidneys that perform in unison. And you only have ONE liver. They are to be treated with kid gloves at all times. On TIKOSYN I have bloodwork monthly seeking any anomalies in levels associated with my kidneys or liver and am advised by THOSE specialist (I bet I have more specialists than YOU! I win.) to come RUNNING if anything is amiss.by Murray L - AFIBBERS FORUM
Good day everyone: MY EP does not want to see me for a year and has given me TWO YEARS of Tikosyn renewals, 60 days at a time. MY ISSUE is that I believe, in the absence of ANY evidence to the contrary, that it is my TIKOSYN that is causing some rather unseemly side effects, namely: * Early morning mild nausea (I am not pregnant thank you) * Early morning insomnia, coincident with a feeliby Murray L - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hang in there. I'm sure it will get better with time.by Murray L - AFIBBERS FORUM
Great news for those of us with enlarged left atriums. I am on TIKOSYN right now and it is taking care of things for me but I find minor side effects in the mornings are just tolerable. MY left atrium presently at 55mm and hopefully will shrink further. All the best to you!by Murray L - AFIBBERS FORUM
Which? Stopping aFib or making one's backside plumper? I am certain that I would have heard of this from my EP's if there were any credibility to the rumour. (re aFib I mean)by Murray L - AFIBBERS FORUM
I did not see the article but know that Botox injections in one's hindside makes things plumper and takes out the wrinkles. How can you go wrong?by Murray L - AFIBBERS FORUM
My only comment might be this: A potassium level in the 2.7 range is waaaay low. I know that if I do not keep my Potassium level up at or slightly above 4.5 my heart wants to do funky stuff.... in my case,I believe soon after starting TIKOSYN, it was aFib breakthrough, but was never able to pinpoint it. A few months later I was given a recording electrocardiogram device that I wore almost 24/by Murray L - AFIBBERS FORUM
Get that Potassium whatever way you can but just stay away from the Potassium Suppositories. THEY TASTE AWFUL!by Murray L - AFIBBERS FORUM
Your first step, IMHO, would be to find out what your serum Potassium level stands at right NOW to set a baseline on which to supplement. I try to maintain my Potassium in the range of 4.5 - 5.0 (towards 5.0). I find it difficult despite eating lots of Potassium AND supplementing up to 3g. of Potassium daily. But that's me. I would think you want to find out what your Potassium is rightby Murray L - AFIBBERS FORUM
Tikosyn seems to work well for me. Since Dec 2011. Only possible side effect is "balloon head" in the morning most mornings that takes a couple of hours to clear. Skipped beats when K is low. Asides from that NSR. Tikosyn, to be sure, is not for everyone. Murrayby Murray L - AFIBBERS FORUM
Paleo did not do much for me. I have now gone vegetarian in earnest. The only animal products we eat are fish 3-4 times a week and eggs once or twice a week. I eat nothing that walks. Although the methane production is a major issue, to be blunt, my blood sugars are near normal without insulin and without Gluconorm and using only 1 - 2 Metformins daily as required (down 50%); my Hypertension iby Murray L - AFIBBERS FORUM
Add to this the cost of travel and hotel and make a holiday of it. Be forewarned that accommodation in the UK is not cheap. We are fortunate to have family and friends and are even working on a UK Passport by birth (grandparents) and marriage. We are blessed in Ontario to have some of the very best in the world at Southlake in Newmarket; I am being looked after by Dr. A. Verma and Dr. Y. Khby Murray L - AFIBBERS FORUM
Either way, you want them addressed by your cardio/EP. I wore a monitor daily for a month (replaceable pads) and what I thought were PAC/PVC's turned out to be skipped beats, especially when Potassium was low. Problem is solved for me by maintaining my Potassium above 4.5 by drinking two large cups of low sodium V8 daily or otherwise taking in about 3g of Potassium supplementation. Be carby Murray L - AFIBBERS FORUM
The cardioversion report Hans refers to is IMPORTANT reading as is all of the cardioversion info on the board. There is a right way and a wrong way. My first ECV failed as the cardiologist did everything WRONG. Make sure you read this stuff. Also - I find that supplementing makes a big difference for me in terms of "a calm heart". I was in permanent aFib when I began supplementinby Murray L - AFIBBERS FORUM
Thanks Nancy. I have some of that Blubonnet Mg on hand now and am going to try upping my intake a wee bit although my heart seems pretty calm with the TIKOSYN and in NSR since Dec 2011. Checkup last Monday indicated that my Left Atrium has not shrunk any further from the 55mm ish range. Disappointment and caused by a quack cardiologist to boot. I'm in good hands NOW for sure. My ejecby Murray L - AFIBBERS FORUM