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Re: Afib alert in sleep everyday , no symptoms - 10 months ago

The results of your holter monitor should be interesting. For myself, I don't trust any comment from any ekg device. Good tracings are worth it and, in case of doubt, the afibbers community and, of course, my cardiologist or EP are who I'd ask.

by Pompon - AFIBBERS FORUM

Re: A trigger for AF episodes? - 11 months ago

Lots of good answers ! Yes, trying to identify triggers is always a waste of time ! I did waste repeatedly for years. Yes, alcohol is bad, but just one drink is usually harmless in my case. Yes, excess calcium is bad for me too. But it seems to induce mainly PVCs, which are awful. Yes, endurance exercise increases tiredness, and when I'm tired, I'm more likely having AFib at rest or

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Re: Biofeedback to relax while having a bad arrhythmia - 1 year ago

What's a 100% PVC burden ? Do you mean you have PVCs only ? No normal beats ? No more p waves ?

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Re: AFIB and Hockey or Sports in general - 1 year ago

QuoteDano Thank you for your input Pompon. What do you mean when you say "AFIB is mostly vagal"? Can you elaborate on that please? Vagal-type afibbers have essentially AFib at rest, not while exercising. It's possibly the reaction of the autonomic nervous system to endurance exercise, along with bradycardia at rest.

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Re: AFIB and Hockey or Sports in general - 1 year ago

Bisoprolol was very disabling for me. I don't think betablockers are very efficient to reduce AFib, their main purpose is to reduce the average heart rate, which can be high while in AFib. We're several here to report having been disabled by bb, even at the lowest dose. It seems to be often the case with "active" patients (athletes), whose AFib is mostly vagal.

by Pompon - AFIBBERS FORUM

Re: Impact of Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Fibrillation Therapies on Sports Performance in Athletes - 1 year ago

As it's very individual, the problem is to fond how much exercise is too much exercise. For some, it may require lots of training sessions and sustaining high HR levels, eventually leading to heart chambers enlargement. For others (my case), the threshold can be low, resulting in AFib despite a perfectly "normal" heart. Detraining in the first case seems more efficient than in t

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Re: Successful Ablation - 1 year ago

QuotePokey Is fatigue after ablation a common after affect? I’m 5 days post and I have NO energy. I just want to rest or sleep. Too tired to do anything. Pokey It took me about one month to recover from my first ablation, despite I felt really fine while leaving the hospital, except for a headache consecutive to the GA. The next five days I felt miserable, barely able to walk and left breathle

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Re: PACs are getting really annoying. - 1 year ago

Quotekliving I understand they are supposed to be "harmful" but they do drain the energy out of me. This has gradually gotten worse again over the past two weeks. My EP has suggested Tykosyn to be the next thing to try. Anyone have any experience with it and PACs? I'm not fond of trying it, but I guess it is the only way to chase this down. I don't know if you already took n

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Re: The Rising Tide of Atrial Fibrillation: Is Primary Care Ready? - 1 year ago

6 years since my last ablation, always AFib from time to time, AVG 60min length. Always self revert without any drug. I just wait and get back to nsr without worrying about it. Next day after my last ablation, as I was in NSR, I said to my EP it maybe was a good sign. His reply was : "with you, I make no prognosis".

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Re: Procedure- Right PVI Experience - 1 year ago

Thanks for the detailed story of your ablation, Megan. I wish you a quick recovery and a quiet heart for life. Some parts of your story remind me of my 4th ablation procedure, during which I was conscious. I had insisted to, because I have a hard time metabolizing the drugs used for general anaesthesia. Days of headache, mind confusion and episodes of blurred or "tunnel" vision are com

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Re: The Rising Tide of Atrial Fibrillation: Is Primary Care Ready? - 1 year ago

QuoteJAYHAWK I am a baby boomer. After my diagnosis for atrial fibrillation learned that there were potential "triggers" that caused the arrhyithmia. Often read on this site about the trigger that caused an issue with others. I spent a considerable amount of time trying to determine my cause by eliminating the potential trigger.....stopped caffiene, stopped alcohol, stopped spicy fo

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Re: Accuracy of Kardia Mobile?? Frustrated! - 1 year ago

Does not look like AFib, IMO. There are p waves, artifacts and maybe PACs ?

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Re: Accuracy of Kardia Mobile?? Frustrated! - 1 year ago

Whatever the average rate, AFib is really easy to feel. It's irregularly irregular. Unmistakable. An EKG recording is just to document the event in case I've to tell my doctor I've had AFib some time ago.

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Re: Can Exercise Worsen Arrhythmia? - 1 year ago

I'd say yes. I'm vagal, and endurance exercise increases the risks having ectopics and AFib at rest. The more I'm tired, the higher the risk.

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Re: Bigeminy Vs PCVs - 1 year ago

Bigeminy is just a way premature contractions may affect your heart rhythm. Bigeminy is not necessarily a PVCs pattern. PACs can happen in bigeminal pattern too.

by Pompon - AFIBBERS FORUM

Re: Does anyone have any experience using Sotalol? - 1 year ago

I've had to try some rhythm drugs, sotalol was one of them. It wasn't efficient preventing my paroxysmal AFib espisodes, and its betablocking properties were disabling. But it's me, and we're all different. Some patients are fine taking sotalol.

by Pompon - AFIBBERS FORUM

Re: Proportions between short and long runs of atrial ectopy - 1 year ago

Don't a run of PACs and an equal length of AFib look the same on an EKG recording?

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Re: Ectopy and Eating - 1 year ago

As Carey said, eating and drinking can affect heart rhythm and trigger ectopics or afib for many among us. I've noticed that moderate exercise after meal (a walk or quiet bicycling) often prevents this issue. Conversely, resting after meal is a really bad idea. No matter what I eat, unless it's a really small meal, being reasonably active while digesting helps a lot. It seems logical

by Pompon - AFIBBERS FORUM

Re: panic or arrythmia? - 1 year ago

I think there's another interesting way to use a single lead handheld ekg monitor, being it a kardia or wellue: it's a method placing the positive electrode (left thumb or left leg) closer to the heart. Instead of recording a lead1 (between hands) or lead2 (between right hand and left leg) tracing, one tries to get some sort of V3 or V4 tracing. One just needs to place the positive (le

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Re: 2 months post PFA ablation - 1 year ago

Quotemjamesone While some jump right back to pre-ablation activity levels, what you describe is not at all uncommon. It took me three plus months to get anywhere near my pre-ablation activity/exercise levels, including atypical heart rate changes like you describe. It could be the insult to the heart, deconditioning, anesthesia, age, change of meds, or some combination. We all react and heal

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Re: panic or arrythmia? - 1 year ago

QuoteRucan I have done this and my kardia mobile only ever shows tachycardia and nothing else. Of course. But did you show the recordings to your cardiologist?

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Re: panic or arrythmia? - 1 year ago

It's Murphy's Law. Use your kardia as much as you can while you're feeling wrong and show the recordings to your cardiologist. That's what I did, since nothing never happened while I was wearing a holter monitor.

by Pompon - AFIBBERS FORUM

Re: 1-3 min afib every day - 1 year ago

Quotegloaming That's actually pretty decent advice, George. For whatever reason, over time I have settled on just that practice. I drink a whole liter of tea between rising and about 1100 hrs each day, with some milk, and then have a coffee in the early afternoon. Apart from that, and some washing-down pill water, maybe some almond milk later in the evening, half a cup, I back off natural

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Re: Success Rates: Dr Atul Verma vs Dr Pierre Jais vs Dr Andrea Natale - 1 year ago

I'm sorry having to say this, but, IMO, there are no simple cases. One only know a case was simple after the patient has been successfully ablated. Don't believe you'll be fine with just a PVI. It could be true, and I hope so for you, but make sure your EP manages to track any other source of AFib and ablate it.

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Re: Blood thinner side effects - 1 year ago

Surprising side effects! Are you sure they were not caused by something else? I think it's uneasy finding the sure culprit when having unwanted effects. Some repeated experimentation is often required. Most common side effects are bleeding and stomach or intestinal issues. Xarelto and Savaysa gave me stomach discomfort and some rectal bleeding. I'm fine with Pradaxa. Never tried Eliqu

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Re: Do you function normally with paroxysmal A fib? - 2 years ago

I agree with previous posters. It's individual. Before my first ablation, I was disabled (very low BP) by the first hour of AFib, then my body was adapting and I went better but not fine. After ablations (I've had 4 - I'm a very difficult case), I've still AFib about once a week, for about 1hr, self-ending without any drug or action. I've tried lots of things, but to no

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Re: PVCs on EKG 11 years after ablation - 2 years ago

I'm sometimes dealing with PVCs, mostly in bi or tri germinal patterns. I confirm they have nothing common with what may happen in the atria. PACs, and particularly runs of PACs, can turn to AFib. In my case, most if not all my AFib episodes begin with them and end with them. PVCs never lead to AFib, but they're ugly. Some days, I may have lots of them and it can become painful. I&#

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Re: Is AF Necessarily Progressive? - 2 years ago

Quotegloaming The heart, especially, is a BIG user of CoQ10 in much the same way that one's brain uses up the lion's share of available glucose in circulation at any one time. If you are taking a statin, you should most assuredly be on 100mg/day of CoQ10. Thanks for your comment. No statin for me, but I'm with 100mg CoQ10/day.

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Re: Chocolate induced tachycardia - 2 years ago

The chocolate ice cream is full of carbohydrates and maybe some chemical additives. I'm tempted to believe they are worse food than good chocolate (the kind we eat here in Belgium).

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Re: Is AF Necessarily Progressive? - 2 years ago

Hi, Jackie, I'm now taking CoQ10, something I never tried before. Too soon to comment about the effect of this supplementation, but I'm curious to read more about that stuff.

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