Hi George, thanks for your reply. That's great information and so simple to do. When I do get back in the gym on the light weights I will certainly try both. The hard part will be keeping the brakes on after a lifetime of 'going for it'. Breathing through my nose only will certainly keep me in check. At the moment I am working on a large construction site so I am getting plentyby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi to all. Most of the regulars will be familiar with my AFIB career so I will just say that I was cleared of AF in 2010 by Bordeaux after 5 ablations, 4 in Bordeaux and first 1 in New Delhi. A couple of months ago I was training in the gym and noticed after about 30mins that there was suddenly no 'zip' so I called the session off and returned home where I checked my heart rate anby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Looks like it worked George. Barry G.by Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Many thanks George I will try tomorrow. Barry G.by Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi to all. I received an email today from a nice guy who used to post on this BB 10 years or so ago and having much the same problem i.e. ablations not 100% successful we shared a few stories offline. Any way D...…..dropped the email today out of the blue so rather than reinvent the wheel I thought might as well post my email reply to him on this Forum. It may be useful for newbies on how importby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
I think it is quite clear there is afib and there is AFIB so if you have afib and you don't do any heavy undue exercise then maybe living with it could well be possible especially if you take the necessary drugs. However I always consider the mechanical side of AF and if the heart is misfiring and contorting itself unnaturally then long term it could well do damage to mitral valves or whatevby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Carey thanks for your post, seems like your battle with arrhythmias has been at least as frustrating and demoralising as mine. How you coped with two years of Left Atrial Flutter is beyond me. I had 3 months of none stop LAFL and still worked on a construction site with plenty of climbing scaffolds and high rise staircases, a living nightmare. After that 3 months I finally had the much awaby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Carey, thanks for your post. I am guessing your first 3 ablations where for Atrial Fibrillation and also zapping possible Right Flutter 'on the way out' which seems to be the normal practice. That said, to be battling Flutter for 3 years make me guess you were getting Left Atrial Flutter which in my experience is a far more difficult arrhythmia to treat. Prof Jais admitted 'defby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Wolfpack, with regards to your answer No.5. Q. 5- could the ablation procedure be creating additional arrhythmia and problems? A. No. After my first AF ablation in Bordeaux (1st in India) I was back in AF within 3 days which then converted to Left Atrial Flutter within 48 hours. I then had an ablation for the LAFL before I returned home to Macau near Hong Kong. Before I got on the plaby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Dean, thanks for your post. Well that ensures I wasn't dreaming up the wandering stomach story though I must have read your post a few years after your original message as I only found out about the AF in 2006. With regards to ……."I think the Doc said that 3 or 5% of the population have valvulus of the stomach" coincidentally ties in with Carey's recent post where heby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Yes Pompon it seems we all have sad stories of things not going to plan with this mysterious affliction. After my 2nd ablation, 1st in Bordeaux, I went back into AF only an hour before I was to be discharged. I spent Saturday and Sunday in an hotel before returning Monday for another ablation. As it turned out the ablation was for Left Atrial Flutter as the AFIB had change to the Flutter. Proby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Pompon. I know exactly what you mean by cyclic phenomenon afib as that was more or less my case in the weeks just prior to my first ablation which was performed in India. My 'cycle' was around 24hrs of AFIB and then 12 hours of NSR bliss. The AFIB would stop like some one turning a light on and I came back to the world of the living in a matter of seconds, an unbelievable joy toby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
I am 100% with Carey on this and have believed right from the start that I am broken genetically, a term I used on this BB around 2006/2007 when I first showed up having AFIB during a treadmill stress test at Bumrungrad hospital in Bangkok. I was a fitness fanatic however the test was done only a few hours after a big night out in Bangkok. I was in Bangkok for a full medical during a long weekendby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Yes George, which was a relief for me as I start a new job on Monday coming and I wasn't looking forward to having to explain I would need time off work to attend hospital for blood tests every week for the next month. My interview with the company was primarily for the interviewer to see if I was fit enough at 69 years of age to do the job on the construction site. I'm not very good atby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Gill, many thanks for your post. I was meaning to post an update however been busy chasing around after a new job that I believe I will start on Monday coming, amongst other things. Yesterday I attended my local hospital here in Hong Kong to see a specialist with regards to my new onset of Atrial Flutter which struck a month ago. I have been in continual AFL since the onset but it has beby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi The Anti-Fib. I have along history on this forum regarding AFIB and Flutter/Left Atrial Flutter but won't go into that here. On 6th June just passed I went into Flutter whilst in the gym and have been in Flutter ever since but have an appointment with the local hospital cardio doctor this coming Tuesday 9th July. My Flutter gives me a total resting rate of exactly 80BPM (easily toleby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Gill, thanks for your post. Well so much for warfarin if you had been on it for a year and they still found a blood clot. I too had a few 1.8 warfarin readings so they started the whole 3 weeks procedure all over again making it over 3 months before I got the hospital to carry out the cardioversion. I say I got them to do the cardioversion because I finally got two weeks with INR betweenby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
There is obviously a very wide bandwidth of Atrial Fibrillation burden i.e. at one end there is afib and at the other end is AFIB. To explain that further there are afibbers reporting 3 or 4 episodes a year each lasting for say 15 minutes to max 1 hour duration. There are then great differences in the rates of beats per minute. In my own AFIB history my episodes would last up to 48 hours at heartby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Carey, Many thanks for your informative post, it will give me something to present to the local cardio Doc who I am hoping to see and convince that I require a cardioversion to get me out of Atrial Flutter sooner rather than later. Its almost two weeks since I attended the A&E with the new onset of AFL and still no call from the hospital for me to see a Cardio Doctor at the Hospital asby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
I have just been reading one of the posts regarding blood thinners and the pros and cons of Warfarin and New Oral Anticoagulants (NOACs). I am hoping to see the cardio doc at the local hospital in the next few days to discuss my recent re-acquaintance with none stop Atrial Flutter and I believe from experience that the only way to stop the AFL is via cardioversion i.e. the electrical shock treby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi wolfpack. I certainly agree that there is always a possibility of over dosing with iodine like anything else however I have been taking one drop a day for the last 4 or 5 years with absolutely no adverse reaction whatsoever. The one drop I take every day apparently provides a dose of 12mg iodine so well up on the Recommended Dietary Allowance, RDA, but well down on the relatively massive dosesby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi again Joe. Yes I also could consider my interest in health issues, especially alternative information, as an hobby. I make my own Lugols Iodine15% for instance - can only buy 2% in the US - and have been taking one drop a day for the last 4 or 5 years. I once read that iodine deficiency is a cause of Afib hence my getting deeply into the subject. Just remembered another thing about choleby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Gill, good to hear you are still doing well even though you have decided to hang up your scuba gear. No doubt you can still travel to those exotic places in the sun if you so wish. I fully understand an afibber ignoring advice not to go the ablation route especially a person with an adventuristic nature and if I am correct the procedure had been being carried in Bordeaux since 1997 so alreaby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi again Joe. By keeping my posts as short as possible I miss out many other points that may well be highly relevant. I must first clarify that the guy needing the heart bypass was 100% sure that the Vit C had made major inroads into clearing his arteries and his new found wellbeing and presumable his doctor believed as well to actually cancel an urgent case of an additional heart bypass operaby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Joe. I have never heard of CIMT but have just googled it and it seems a bit too intricate for me to follow up on in detail. I try to keep things very simple so with regards to blocked or calcified arteries this is my take from extensive readings on the subject around 2006 and 2007 when I became a disciple of the Linus Pauling Vitamin C / Lysine/ Proline protocol which was claimed to clear calcby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Carey, that must be the best reply I have ever had on this forum since 2006 ;-) Cheers, Barry G.by Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Carey, you definitely appear to be the man for these ECG printouts. I find your point about the QT interval interesting, would a normal QT mean there is no occurrence of heart disease. I ask because when I first started out on this Afib/AFL journey the doc said I had a heart calcification score of 105 (400 is very high) however that 105 was scattered around my heart so no big deal at allby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Mike, good to hear you are doing well apart from a few slight upsets with the PACs and Bidegimies etc. After ablation No5 I had two worrying times with these excessive arrhythmias in the first 6 to 8 months each lasting say about 10 days. I was sure AF would break out under the pressure but it didn't and over time I stopped being on full alert for signs of arrhythmias for the first time iby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi hwkmn05. Many years ago there was plenty of discussion on this forum regarding whether to go for ablation early or wait until the procedure and success rates improved. Once I was under no illusion of having Afib I decided to give myself 12 months trying to find whatever was triggering this curse and then go for ablation if things did not improve. I used to say at the time there is afib and tby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Shannon, what a very informative and uplifting post for all of us regarding the future of eliminating these arrhythmias. Your post has certainly filled the lack of information gap I have been had these last 10 years even though the benefits of the advances are still a few years down the line. Thanks again. Barry G.by Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM