Thank you for replying, Shannon, and i thank you and Travis for the hard work you have done. This version of the site is now workable even for an old computer-illiterate like me. Do i understand from the above that there will still be some more changes to get used to, sometime in the near future? Change is the only constant thing, as whatever sage that was has said. I still have trouble with thatby peggyM - AFIBBERS FORUM
ok, its grand. How come i have not been able to go to the site for what seemed like several weeks? Error message every time until this morning. Glad to have it back but curious what was the matter. PeggyMby peggyM - AFIBBERS FORUM
Or maybe a tinfoil hat? PeggyMby peggyM - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hello tsco, look up alcohol in whatever reference you prefer, You will find alcohol described as "cardiotoxic". That is a medical term for "heart" ."toxic". Alcohol has a specific attraction to heart tissue and it poisons this tissue in particular. Best to lay off it. PeggyMby peggyM - AFIBBERS FORUM
Linda E, thank you for your post. i too am in maine, very glad to have your recommendation, may need those doctors one of these days. All the best to you, please keep us posted on what i hope will be peaceful progress. PeggyMby peggyM - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hello Neil, glad to see a post from you. Had not seen one for so long i was beginning to wonder. I am still here too, though much diminished by some pneumonia that just does not seem to go away. Well, it will or i will, it seems to me. Lots of change in my household right now too, rather distressing in its own right. All will settle in time. Please keep in better touch henceforth, ok? PeggyMby peggyM - AFIBBERS FORUM
Please keep it simple enough so an old computer ignoramus like myself can still use it. PeggyMby peggyM - AFIBBERS FORUM
Jackie, thank you for this information. I will find this stuff and try it. Have had great luck with your suggestions so far, hope this one works as well. Have had some trouble getting to sleep, time to change up on the medication again i think. Try something different. PeggyMby peggyM - AFIBBERS FORUM
Shannon, as you already know, i am afraid you will modernize this forum beyond my ability to use it. So as to allay that fear, would you/could you give me/us an example of a site that has been modernized the way you want this one to be, so i can go there and see whether it functions in a manner i can use? PeggyMby peggyM - AFIBBERS FORUM
Jake, will this help? Never heard of this product before your post. PeggyMby peggyM - AFIBBERS FORUM
Shannon, will he accept patient accounts of experiences as anything but "anecdotes"? PeggyMby peggyM - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hello Denver, as an old technophobe i dread the new version lest it be so modern that i cannot operate it. Even with the present version, i could not manage the sign in process and Hans kindly called me on the telephone and walked me thru it. PeggyMby peggyM - AFIBBERS FORUM
Jackie, got your message. So this is another Erling, not our old friend. Moerk, please pardon me for mistaking you for our own Erling. I guess perhaps it is not unusual for scandinavians to have this name. Like Hans, another name held by many people. Oh well, another misconception killed by fact. PeggyMby peggyM - AFIBBERS FORUM
Jackie, are you in a timewarp or has Erling resumed posting under the name Moerk? PeggyMby peggyM - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hello researcher, that site requires a username and password. i don't have one. PeggyMby peggyM - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hello alang, i have been using this stuff for years. The first thing to do is to keep a food diary with some free nutrient calculator like this one: www.fitday.com Once you can guess how much potassium is provided by the foods you normally eat, add up how much that is each day on average, and subtract that figure from 4700 mg. If you have been counting up each day for a couple weeks or soby peggyM - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hello Ron, glad you are generally doing well. " But lately it seems I'm having more ectopic runs of pacs. Hence, the question is what is your experience with increased pvs/pacs this far out from ablation? Is this the beginning of an inevitable touch up?" Ron, more likely it is the beginning of your older body telling you in the only way it can that it needs better fuel to conby peggyM - AFIBBERS FORUM
Ummmmmm........if 270=one half tspn, then one whole tspn=540 mg. just like before, right?Ooops, before this they said one rounded tspn= 540 mg. NOW i see, i think. PeggyMby peggyM - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hello Lynn. If Dr Suhar thinks you might be having afib at night and not know it, is he willing to monitor you at night and see whether that is true? That would put that argument to rest, whichever way it turned out. Best of everything to you, and please let us know what you find out. PeggyMby peggyM - AFIBBERS FORUM
Mellanie, please will you enlighten us about the genetics of afib in caucasians ? I don't think this knowledge has arrived here as yet. I would love to have all that explained. PeggyMby peggyM - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hello Murray, i was worried too and was glad Gill asked. Good to know you are ok. Continue that way, please. PeggyMby peggyM - AFIBBERS FORUM
Barb, do it like researcher suggested, a dry run now while you are on solid land and can get to a doctor if you need one. Tell us what happens, please? PeggyMby peggyM - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hello George. So far no diuretics have been prescribed to me, tho they probably will be. There was some argument among these "doctors" concerning just what was wrong with me. My guess is that the one who thought it might be CHF lost the argument. Whoever won, somebody apparently thought i was just taking too high a dose of all my prescribed medications so he/she cut them all in half toby peggyM - AFIBBERS FORUM
Poking around the internet while sleepless at about two AM, found this very interesting article title: Research warns of risks of low potassium in heart failure patients with chronic kidney disease. I do not so far have any kidney disease, but when i spent a few days in the local excuse for a hospital a month or so ago, i found the words congestive heart disease on some papers i got a look at wby peggyM - AFIBBERS FORUM
Yay Murray, many happy returns of this great day. PeggyMby peggyM - AFIBBERS FORUM
And to you too George. Happy Unbirthday to you as well. PeggyMby peggyM - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hello Jackie. I have had some computer disasters and some ill health. I am not dead yet, tho. Still reading all posts here, still able to respond sometimes. All the best to all of you. PeggyMby peggyM - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hello Colindo et al. While all the foregoing is true, there is one very important thing going on with sugar intake and the subsequent insulin surge that deserves mention here, and that is that the manufacture of insulin uses up potassium. I do not know how much or how come, or exactly how long it takes after sugar intake, but it happens. Lots of sugar uses up lots of potassium in making insuliby peggyM - AFIBBERS FORUM
Made me laugh, a VERY good thing in these fraught times. Everything gets old. Me, my house, the various appliances, the plumbing and electric, the caulking that holds windowpanes in place, the zillion small vital things that HAVE to be done now or suffer their lack for 6 months of winter. That's a lot of heat paid for and wasted heating the great state of Maine, which will not warm up in thby peggyM - AFIBBERS FORUM
> > > "It took me about ten years before the panic and > overwhelming feeling that I was doomed with a > heart attack to stop. I will say my panic stopped > eventually but the feelings of doom never did" That was just how it feels to me even now. I ran out of mg glycinate one day last week and my new computer died the same day so i could not reorder til i goby peggyM - AFIBBERS FORUM