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Re: Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia - Today

I can’t type worth a darn with my double vision being on Tenormin. Thanks Carey. You figured it out.

Re: Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia - Yesterday

Can Milton help PVCs?

Re: Vaccine reply to a previous post - 2 days ago

Where I live everyone has degrees of coughing. They ignore it and the pharmacy doesn’t even sell Covid tests and they don’t test at the clinics. I don’t know how it is in the states if Covid is taken seriously or ignored as “just the flu”. You guys have your own problems. I heard there are limits on how many eggs one can buy from the bird flu.

Re: Just checking - 4 days ago

QuoteGeorgeN My PVCs, in remission, returned Friday Morning. Wonderful news!! Hope it continues! I must had typed it wrong. My NSR that was in remission ended Friday and I am back in PVCS with a vengeance. I am tweaking the Tenormin dosage to the maximum two EPs have permission I can be at and I don’t see any improvement YET.

Re: Just checking - 4 days ago

So sorry to hear this! I hope it’s a onetime setback My PVCs, in remission, returned Friday Morning.

Re: Scientists make alarming discovery about health impact of drinking bottled water — here's what you need to know - 9 days ago

I can say about my water filtration system’s plastic parts to take a ticket and wait in line. I have other issues (like labored breathing, heart failure and PVCs ) that I am dealing with. All this pollution can’t be good and I speculate can be a trigger along with vaccines and smog and a dozen other reasons why someone gets arrhythmias.

Scientists make alarming discovery about health impact of drinking bottled water — here's what you need to know - 9 days ago

Source: Yahoo News I use a six canister water osmosis water filter. The water tastes foul. It leaves a white powder film in my sink after it dries. Where is a good source of water? I used to buy glass bottles of water but found they are not readily available anymore.

Re: First cardioversion - 10 days ago

It’s quite easy and quick. They hold you for observation for 30 minutes afterwards and then you go home. I hold the record here of 54. Think how great you will feel in NSR afterwards. Good luck.

Re: Premature Ventricular Contractions Could Lead to a More Serious Heart Condition - 15 days ago

QuoteCarey Phlegm is definitely not a reason to decrease humidity. Quite the opposite. It's thick and sticky and needs humidity to thin out so your lungs can expel it. Green and orange phlegm is not normal. Both suggest a respiratory infection. My labs show I have an infection. IDK, I stopped the humidity and I instantly resumed NSR. I hate to jinx my NSR by adding humidity back.

Re: Premature Ventricular Contractions Could Lead to a More Serious Heart Condition - 16 days ago

I found a store that hides their distilled water in their warehouse. I bought 4 gallons. They don’t have a drop on the shelves but they are stockpiling. I lowered my humidity on my Cpap from 4 to 1. I save a tank a night. I use up a couple tablespoons a night instead. I removed the water tank off my oxygen humidifier tank. I save 1/2c a week. I’m on lasix and am dry as a bone. I wonder if

Re: Premature Ventricular Contractions Could Lead to a More Serious Heart Condition - 16 days ago

I suppose one can boil the tank water.

Re: did I really have afib and do I need to worry about it now? - 16 days ago

You wrote: My current diagnosis is that I have a long first degree AV block with P-R interval of 180 which should be less than 120, During my first ablation it was terminated suddenly because of an unanticipated P-R. What area of the heart while being ablated can cause this? Did your ablation cause your P-R issue?

Re: Premature Ventricular Contractions Could Lead to a More Serious Heart Condition - 16 days ago

My daughter in law suggested using the water accumulation from a clothes dryer tank drawer(for those of you who don’t vent the steam outside). It doesn’t work for a heat pump model. She thinks the water is distilled from the steam.

Premature Ventricular Contractions Could Lead to a More Serious Heart Condition - 17 days ago

# PVCs 101 Heart disease or scarring that interferes with the heart's normal electrical impulses can cause PVCs. Certain medications, alcohol, stress, exercise, caffeine or low blood oxygen, which is caused by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or pneumonia, can also trigger them. Lasix stopped my PVCs. It’s been day 3 in NSR. My o2 while breathing improved and I use oxyge

Re: Are EP’s routinely offering Watchman as an alternative to thinners? - 17 days ago

QuoteKenai My sister was a nurse and knew two males who had the Watchman procedure, developed complications and died. I was in the hospital earlier in January 2025 for Fludder and Afib and they gave me one tablet of Eloquest and I dumped a large amount of blood in my stool. I had not had that for years with my UC. After that they gave me no more and the bleeding went away. I have been taking Natt

Adherence with CPAP for patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing catheter ablation: A “real world” analysis. - 19 days ago

Re: Wide IVC - 19 days ago

QuoteMark I have no words except to say that you get back to the states soon Susan and that you and NBeemer will find successful treatments. Thank you. I’m trying to get my lungs to improve to fly back home. George I was experimenting by sleeping either in a recliner (head dropped and my o2 worsted, sleeping on a triangle huge pillow and propping two more pillows but I woke up too many times.

Re: Wide IVC - 20 days ago

Thanks for your post. The heart failure specialist did a Doppler of my heart and wrote wide IVC as an observation. I’m to schedule another echo to measure and compare it to my last 6 weeks ago. 6 weeks ago he told me I didn’t have heart failure. I’m shocked how cardiomyopathy can advance. However I was told they can’t measure much while I’m in PVCs. One of the side effects of Tenormin is diff

Re: Feasibility of repeated on-demand smartphone app-based approximation of time spent with atrial fibrillation and symptoms in patients after catheter ablation: Data from the ISOLATION study - 20 days ago

Still a high load of either way. It’s a small study.

Feasibility of repeated on-demand smartphone app-based approximation of time spent with atrial fibrillation and symptoms in patients after catheter ablation: Data from the ISOLATION study - 20 days ago

Results A total of 191 patients (median age 65, 65% male) were included. Patient adherence (-7%, p=0.04) slightly declined over 12 months. Forty-five (24%) patients had AF recurrence and 136 (71%) symptom recurrence. In patients with high AF load and density at 3 months, 73% and 88% remained in the respective high class; in patients with low AF load and density, 0% remained in the low clas

Wide IVC - 20 days ago

My lungs are full of fluid and my oxygen saturation is as low as 82 when I sleep without oxygen (2 liters) to 87 o2 when walking. I am told I have heart failure from my 43% pvc burden. Tenormin did stop my PVCs for 6 weeks until I had a real stressful day and they returned. Tenormin stopped them cold turkey after my first two ablations..The past month my PVCs caused heart failure. It doesn’t

Re: Are We Inflating the Success Rate of AF Ablation? - 23 days ago

Well there is zero chance you would schedule an ablation appointment with him. It’s still a comprehensive well written article. If there is such a thing as a 3 month blanking period, why would my EP tell me at my 1 month follow up ablation appointment that I’m no longer blanking but my ablation failed after a month? Wouldn’t he wait after all possibilities at the three month mark to make th

Re: Flutter? - 23 days ago

Did your PVCs resolve on their own? I had PVCs and it took 9 weeks of hoops to get my Tenormin which stopped my PVCs cold turkey. Then foolishly I took a pneumonia booster which returned my PVCs and I can’t get rid of them. sldabrowski-how long before your PVCs stop? Would a 4 digit drop in hemoglobin (nosebleed with Eliquis) cause PVCs not to convert? Can a ecv convert a pvc?

Re: Are We Inflating the Success Rate of AF Ablation? - 23 days ago

Great find! Thanks for sharing!

Re: Anyone Taking Diltiazem? - 24 days ago

I love this drug.

Re: Regular Flossing Tied to Reduced Ischemic Stroke Risk - International Stroke Conference (ISC) 2025. - 24 days ago

The dental society recommended for decades that if anyone had mitral valve prolapse they needed 2 grams of antibiotics at one time hours before the dental cleaning and 1 gram 6 hours afterwards. They stopped it about 10 years ago but I had to take antibiotics since 1987 until the dental society changed their mind.

Vaccine reply to a previous post - 26 days ago

Recently someone posted and asked if a vaccine can trigger an arrhythmia? The reply was no. Thank you for posting. I had posted my successful NSR after getting a 43% pvc burden by taking Tenormin imported from Germany.. It worked 6 weeks until I asked for a pneumonia vaccine. My PVCs are so much worst afterwards that I can’t breathe. My GP saw my legs and ankles swollen, low oxygen sat

This month’s Heart Rhythm Journal issue-worth reading - 27 days ago

There are too many excellent articles in this issue of heart rhythm journal to start a thread on each article. Pick and choose which articles interests you. I subscribed as a “student” for free. Inequities in atrial fibrillation trials: An analysis of participant race, ethnicity, and sex over time Roy H. Lan,Ishan Paranjpe,Mohammad Saeed,Marco V. Perez Published online: June 28, 2024 p

Re: Watchman schedule - 28 days ago

A watchman is a quick procedure. I was walking around in the recovery room and discharged 4 hours after the procedure. I had Natale perform it. He was super safe because I was born with a bent twisted vein and he spent 20 minutes trying to get the watchman to pass. Plus I have an abnormally with my LAA where the shoulder was wide and bent yet he got a perfect seal. I too got an emergency w

The radical treatments bringing people back from the brink of death - 4 weeks ago

Reperfusion technologies that can reanimate human brains are raising the possibility that death could be a reversible condition, even hours after a cardiac arrest By Helen Thomson 26 November 2024