< ; Looks like 1% of folks could be adversely affected - genetic testing required to see if you’re one of them. The K channel gene variant involved typically manifests as LQTS anyway before adding any QT-prolonging drugs (or curcumin).by mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Just seen this so somewhat belatedly: God bless Erling. Wise man. And like Larry G sign me up for going out of this world quietly in my sleep at 90+ years of age too! Liking Adrian's comment about what Prof Hocini said about a glass of wine! I'm going to make myself up a batch of WW in remembrance. Best to all here, Mike Fby mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Well….. still rocking and rolling with this episode…. But some interesting developments. I am most privileged to have had Prof Pierre Jais in Bordeaux kindly review my ECGs (I’ve managed to get both alternating arrhythmias - the rough jagged classic 110BPM AF and a 115BPM AT it alternates with on 12 lead ECGs) and he concludes that I have highly likely got ‘atrial dissociation’ which is apparenby mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi all, Been keeping a low profile trying to get on with life unpreoccupied with AF. 6’ 4” 200lb healthy male 61 years old. PAF since 1999. Nocturnal/vagal. Average one episode a year between 2002 and 2017. PIP Flec used to convert 2006 to 2008. Daily Flec 100mg bid from 2008 to date. Including post ablation to try to help the ablation hold (not a true success on that basis for many/most hereby mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Happy (very!) to be corrected, but my understanding is that at present at least PFA is only used for index PVIs - not touch-ups.by mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Daisy, Did Natale expressly say that PFA is going to be available for touch-ups in the near future?? My present understanding is that it’s for index (first) procedures only. Cheers, Mikeby mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
CaliGuy (autocorrect wants me to call you Caligula!), I had an ablation in Bordeaux nearly 4 years ago (Aug 18) and have also has some AT issues afterwards - started Oct 20 - usually 140bpm and come on if exerting myself. Small dose of BB (propanalol) helps. Did last an hour or three at first but most recently (last one a few months ago) just last a few minutes before self-converting to NSR.by mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
George, Seems like you can't do good for doing bad!! From: "Theranostics 2019; 9(7):1923-1951. doi:10.7150/thno.30787 Review - Berberine in Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases: From Mechanisms to Therapeutics" "Moreover, BBR can stimulate cardiac contractility (positive inotropic activity) by increasing intracellular calcium levels in addition to loweringby mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
I'm going to be heading back to Bordeaux in the new year too Sam - again as soon as Covid-19 considerations permit - owing to post-PVI (Aug 2018 - i.e. a month or two after you) focal atrial tachy issues. I'm taking 2.5mg Eliquis BID already as an anticipatory precaution and will up that to 5mg BID as soon as I get a date. I too can't get a TEE of CT here in the UK - even privatelyby mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Thanks Gill. I've always accepted that this arrhythmia business is likely to be ongoing for me in the medium to long term and that I will need further attention from Prof Jais and his team a couple or so times again throughout the rest of my life. As soon as I learn anything from Bordeaux that might be of use to you in your own forward planning I'll be sure to PM you to keep you appriseby mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
All good to read/hear Montos Long may it continue.by mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi all, I posted a while ago about an arrhythmia episode I had in early October. I've since then had two more episodes: the first started at 150BPM regular, then 'settled' to where it oscillated between AT at a steady 75BPM whilst lying down and bigeminy at 50BPM whilst moving about. I got bored after a few hours, went for a brisk walk, got back up to the AT at 150 and then convby mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Gill, Sorry to hear about your husband's situation. Surely his ventricular response rate in AF hasn't been circa 180BPM since he was diagnosed in February has it?! I don't see how anyone could be asymptomatic with AF running a VRR of 180BPM! I had an episode in 2002 that was running at that speed (first time I was hospitalised - and given Digoxin..... not good at all - and Iby mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Never been a trigger for me unless in EXCESS. MSG on the other hand...... guaranteed.by mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Well that's it postponed - the folks at Bordeaux were totally understanding about the situation as one would expect,by mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Many thanks guys. I'm very much leaning towards postponing for the time being, waiting to see what happens and rescheduling as and if necessary. I did post at the time but should have reiterated/added in my first post that I have had 2 other multi-hour episodes of ectopics (no AF on ECG but bigeminy, trigeminy etc.)since my Aug 18 PVI i.e. in Sept 19 and June 20 prior to this latest atby mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Great news and good to hear Matt, but one glass of red has about the same alcohol content as one or two small beers, so for me maybe the other dietary changes have been more material in terms of turning your situation around? Did you used to eat a LOT of fast food?? (MSG???)by mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi all, 26 months out from my PVI, on 20th Oct I had a 13 hour episode of a focal atrial tachycardia - 105 BPM and regular as clockwork - not too unpleasant but not exactly fun either. It felt a bit like AF when it started (6-15am) for a minute or two but I couldn't be sure - it could just as easily have been a run of ectopics. It seemed to go back into lumpy ectopics for a minute or twoby mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Great post Simon. I had a so-far successful ablation at Bordeaux in 2018 but I chuckled when I read your sawing wood comment as when I was out in the woods looking for sticks this last Jan/Feb I noticed I could run into a run of palpitations (not AF as regular) when sawing (and I mean really vigorously) through a thick bow with small pruning saw - especially if bent right over. I wonder what iby mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
If all AF is ‘a form of heart disease’, then in my case that heart disease - whatever it is - was handed down to me by my mother (1 of 3 sisters all with history of AF). I think it’s a genetic quirk - as in poor electrolyte handling/channelopathy - that surfaces (in my family case) by mid-30s. Maybe the correct way in my case is that my genetics give me the predisposition to develop a particularby mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Good to read your progress shca67 and absolutely hydration is ESSENTIAL.by mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Good to hear/read your updates NLAMAF and as always rooting for you and wishing you all the best. Mike F.by mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Good luck NLAMA - look forward to your progress updates. Cheers, Mike Fby mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
What Joe saysby mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi all, My other half (62 years young) is due for a hip op (her father had 3 of 'em from mid-50s onwards until he croaked at 82 yo) and it showed up as the op pre-assessment that she has high BP as in circa 170/100 (again, just like her pa did after age 60). She's been started on 5mg Amlodipine once a day that drops BP to 130/85 or so but doesn't hold for 24 hours - I appreciateby mwcf - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
QuoteCarey Many people live with persistent AF and feel no symptoms at all. I know several people like that. If I were in persistent AF that was asymptomatic and could control the rate with drugs I didn't mind taking, I wouldn't do anything about it. I'd take my Eliquis and my diltiazem or beta blocker and go about my life. I wouldn't take antiarrhythmic drugs and sure as hellby mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM