Truly an unfortunate development if it comes to pass. I guess we are moving towards the model where the important thing is that everyone is covered in some sense, regardless of the level of coverage. I don't think it will be effective to provide comments. Too many competing therapies for cancer and other serious illness which are also under scrutiny and facing cutbacks. Not to mention lesby safib - AFIBBERS FORUM
I am sorry for the tough problems your dad is having. Your post raises some important questions. Many men over 60 have enlarged prostate and urinary issues. It seems this might impact cardiac ablation because these issues could be aggravated by difficulty urinating lying down, or urinating with an overfilled bladder, or urinating while and after recovering from anestasia, or with placing a caby safib - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Surely Medicare must stipulate something. For example, afib burden, symptomatic, etc.. So if your local EP writes an ablation referral to someone who takes the case, that is all that is required?by safib - AFIBBERS FORUM
The evidence for caffeine not affecting or even lowering afib incidence in otherwise normal registries of study subjects is substantial. However, the evidence for caffeine not triggering afib in patients with existing afib is much less clear. In recent studies significant numbers of existing afibbers reported caffeine was a trigger, less so than alcohol, but ahead of exercise and fatigue. Many caby safib - AFIBBERS FORUM
The sweet spot I was referring to was in balancing side-effects and relief of PVC's, nothing more. I am sorry for your level of medical care, as you describe it. However, the answer is not using some of the uninformed and even dangerous views expressed here as a substitute. Note that the site warns that "The AFIB Report, Forum and Database do not provide medical advice. Do not attempby safib - AFIBBERS FORUM
Please do not follow the advice from George with his megadosing "experiment of one (or a few)" uninformed nonsense about magnesium supplements. In your case it may be dangerous. You have had kidney cancer and now have one functioning kidney which may or not have issues. Please see a nephrologist before taking any magnesium supplements. Also, the standard treatment for excessive PVCby safib - AFIBBERS FORUM
I would call your cardiologist if you decided to put this off. You should take comfort in knowing that the risk of a bad outcome with covid infection and afib is far worse than with the vaccine and afib for which there is no known risk. This is according to current research and following the recommendation of the American Heart Association.by safib - AFIBBERS FORUM
Those instances even if validated are tiny in number. Also they arose in short proximity to the vaccine. So I have no idea what the point is that you are making, but it certainly doesn't refute anything I posted. By the way, Trump was vaccinated.by safib - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quoterocketritch However, the difference with ablation and afib we have years of solid documentation and experience. We are a few months in with the "Vaccine" and have a long way to go before anything is "settled". Your comparison between safety and efficacy for ablation versus the vaccine (if that is what you are suggesting) is ill-conceived. Ablation studies are not RCTby safib - AFIBBERS FORUM
To respond to the OP's question about AFIB burden and its predictive value, there is no standard protocol for whether you need to be anti coagulated based on it. Some posters here like to tout their low AFIB burden, but the literature does not support it as far as stroke risk. So they are giving a false impression, with no basis in inferential statistics. The special case of zero burden oveby safib - AFIBBERS FORUM
Where do you get 1 in 100? What if it is 1 in 10^6? Do you think that matters? I do. I am in no way suggesting that you don't have a right to post your view. The scorn and sarcasm which you posted in response to my alternative view suggests you want to quiet me. Well when I see this kind of thing posted I am going to respond unless Carey or Shannon say otherwiseby safib - AFIBBERS FORUM
Actually, it drew the ignore the statistics and intimate the vaccine is responsible crowd first and in greater numbersby safib - AFIBBERS FORUM
You can't associate large deviation type events without statistical methods. As for the student who had some kind of episode, this is an example of faulty inference. There is no reason to believe that it was due to anything but random chance, where the null hypothesis is perhaps even more likely due to supplied information (why has a student received 2 shots of vaccine already? comorbidby safib - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteCarey I would like to be fully informed about the parameters of the ablation to be performed, and the resulting statistics for lifelong OAC's barring a Watchman. This discussion should take into account medical as well as financial and personal preferences which may not be evident or compelling while the ablation procedure is actually taking place. I don't know how that wouldby safib - AFIBBERS FORUM
I did not know, nor is it obvious scanning the literature, that the protocol for coronary sinus isolation and LAA isolation were the same. What are the statistics for coronary sinus isolation versus LAA isolation in terms of the need to be on OAC's indefinitely? Are they also the same? What other variations have the same protocol and perhaps the same need for OAC's indefinitely? I wby safib - AFIBBERS FORUM
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QuotejohnnyS I would definitely eliminate vitamin D3 in supplement form and focus on magnesium instead. I’m sure you’re aware that taking large doses of vitamin D can induce severe depletion of Mg, hence your afib. Many on this forum complained of increase in ectopics after taking higher dosages (more than 1000ius) of vitamin D3. I would take Mg to bowel tolerance and keep it there for awhile. Asby safib - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteSteveCarr I had experience like you describe with Ca and VitD when I first started to sleuth this stuff out. And, of course, it can be mystifying and frustrating to try to guess the optimum Ca/VitD combo. But in your situation I would have tried something like this: after a fortnight on a fixed daily total intake of Ca (eg the 500 mg/day of Ca you mention), and assuming my VitD intake hby safib - AFIBBERS FORUM
On a different note, I successfully reduced my paroxysmal afib to < 0.1 % burden over the last two years, by maintaining a dairy-free diet along with reduction in exercise intensity and duration. The episodes that I had were short and lasted only a few minutes. In the past I have repeatedly found that dairy or fish oil supplementation at any level or D3 supplementation beyond the 1000 IU in aby safib - AFIBBERS FORUM
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It's hard to understand what this means the way they present it. How many of those with afib had hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, etc., in say the 70+ Italian population? There may be some independent risk there, but likely much less than 25%. Agree with staying home of course.by safib - AFIBBERS FORUM
The article in Cardiologytoday that you cite has to do with not unduly discontinuing ACEI's or ARB's for hypertension because of the lack of evidence. Indeed it says "there are no experimental or clinical data demonstrating beneficial or adverse outcomes among COVID-19 patients using ACE inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker medications” . I also didn't find any evidencby safib - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
I was listening to a WHO epidemiologist last night. It appears that of the detected cases the 80% mild illness and 20% requiring treatment isn't well understood. Apparently of the 80% mild illness, about 40% truly experience mild symptoms, while 40% have pneumonia, lung scarring, and other issues. Furthermore, the 20% requiring hospital treatment actually require ventilator assistance. Witby safib - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Yes, it may, no one knows for certain at this point, but it is probably wise to be concerned and take precautions. The median mortality age is 80+. However the current estimates of mortality rate 60-69 is 3.6% and 70-79 is 8%. These are not corrected for comorbidities, but overall represent the rate amongst infected cases. Many people in these age groups have comorbidities, and furthermore coby safib - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
It is not my definition of safety. And the risk is not that of precipitating a single episode of afib. Your few anecdotes don't reflect the risk (a statistical quantity), probably not to you and certainly not to anyone else. You pick and choose as it suits you rather than using a consistent scientific approach as to when to agree with experts like Natale or with profiteers like Gundry andby safib - AFIBBERS FORUM
The point I was trying to make above was that if one is going to quantify the number of people who adversely react to large doses of Mg, then it is useful to point out similar statistics about the number of people who actually achieve remission of AF by the same use of Mg. It is true that in other threads I have remarked that many of your practices involving hypothermia and hypoglycemia andby safib - AFIBBERS FORUM