One thing that always mystified me was that as soon as an afib episode/attack stopped I was brand new, it was almost like switching on a light. The reason this mystified me was that my Afib seemed to follow very much Hans afib story right down to getting an Afib rash at about the same time of the episode. If I remember correctly Hans was tired out for the next two or three days after the said epiby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Erling, Due to my selective reading of the posts on the BB I may well have missed out on the statement below in previous messages ... 'Magnesium dependent 'fibrinolytic / proteolytic enzymes will remove the fibrosis given time.' Early in my AF journey I read somewhere that Magnesium removes the calcium build up on Aortic Valves and I have passed this info on to quite aby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
E.B. After ablation No4 for Afib Dr Ms Hocini at Bordeaux stated without question that Afib is caused by fibrosis full stop. I also was a runner of probably 35 years so this would tie in with Dr Sirak's view on the subject. Ablation No 5 in Bordeuax was for Left Atrial Flutter a very probable consequence of all the damage - fibrosis????- caused by the ablation to free me of AF. Iby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Yes to both Erling. Really would like to believe this guy if only for the folks that need help and stuck with not being able to pay for expensive and probably unsuccessful medical assisstance. I think I read somewhere that the Dr has been 'struck off' which wouldn't suprise me if he was about to bring down the whole cancer financial empire. What amazes me is that the goodby Barry G. - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Francesca, given your recent post in the General Section and finding out you are Italian I ask the question in the subject line because the guy may have been on Italian tv at some time, or in the news at least. I guess this post will be 'lost' to most by being transfered to the General section also but hopefully more folks will get the chance to see it here first. I have looked intoby Barry G. - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Hi Erling. Just to knock the ball back over the net again. I would certainly not question that sodium/ potassium levels must be balanced however I tend to believe the kidneys balance the two out in normal healthy people who eat sensibly i.e. no junk food etc. Intake of too much of either one is not recommended and the main ingredient of the fatal concoction used on death row is potassium noby Barry G. - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Hi Liz, thanks for the heads up on the runners, why didn't I think of that when I was a runner and whose running was the major AF trigger for me ;-) "Akalizing and keeping the mass of lymph free of stagnant toxins must help reduce workload/stress on the body and could possibly lower a persons AF burden and that is without going into the possible fact that acidic lymph will be lowby Barry G. - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Hi Liz, I concur with your statement on going too far in either direction. I only use sea salt from the seas off New Zealand and then only on egg sandwiches or chips ( French Fries to none Brits). I have normal blood pressure of around 130 over 76 when sat at the computer but I estimate that if I sat down for 5 minutes in peace and quiet it would be around 122/70 going off experience. I donby Barry G. - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Hi Erling - and all - great post yet again. Has I have said a few times lately we have to look outside the box for the AF answer and the impression I get from both yours and Jackies posts is that we possibly have been trapped inside a box all along with, on the face of it, a plastic copy of real Waller Water. I presume the following is the paragraph you make mention to in you post above...by Barry G. - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Yes Tom, get rid of sodium and you get rid of AF. ;-) Without sodium we die. Barry G.by Barry G. - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Chuck, In May 2007 I asked Dr Jais in Bordeaux how the 'new' robotic ablation Steriotaxi?? equipment was doing as I had read that Bordeaux had purchased one via the Steriotaxi website. He kinda side stepped how the new equipment was doing and instead stated that it would be at least five years before robotic machines would render pure human skill obsolete. I got the impression the Stby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi again Jan, I definitely go along with the posts about Digoxin as that was the first drug I was put on. I was living and working in the very small, sleepy ex- Portuguese colony of Macau in China when AF first came on the scene and the local doc put me on Digoxin so I took pill No1 one that night before bed no problem. I took pill No 2 around 10am the next day just before I took the family iby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi again Jan, I definitely go along with the posts about Digoxin as that was the first drug I was put on. I was living and working in the very small, sleepy ex- Portuguese colony of Macau in China when AF first came on the scene and the local doc put me on Digoxin so I took pill No1 one that night before bed no problem. I took pill No 2 around 10am the next day just before I took the family iby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Jan, it appears to me virtually nothing is working for you so why continue with what you are doing, could things get worse??? From being diagnosed with AF in July 2006 I went into a rapid 10 month downward spiral to having AF episodes lasting between 24 and 48 hours with, if lucky, a break of up to 24 hours before the cycle started again so I well know where you are at, plus some. I trieby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Howie, interesting post which no doubt is tongue in cheek but it still raises a few important issues I would like to point out to all i.e. 1) Milkshaking would appear to be used to give an horse an unfair advantage by alkalizing the animal and thus increasing its performance and resistance to fatigue during the race. 2) Alkalizing appears to raise the animals blood pH and thus pushesby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Erling, I will look into the colloidal silver, sounds interesting. I live in what could possibly be described as the flu capital of the world i.e.Hong Kong. Hong Kong Flu epidemic early 60s, SARS (bird flu) 2003ish, Swine Flu a few years ago and I think I read that the Spanish Flu of 1919 which killed millions around the world all originated in Hong Kong or the surrounding areas just overby Barry G. - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Hans, Up to 30 years ago I read an artical that said the only western pharmiceutical 'medicine' that actually cured things were the anti-biotics for bacterial infections and it appears absolutly nothing as changed in all those years. That statement has always stuck with me as it was so suprising but apparently true. We have to admire Big Pharm's advertising stratagies that caby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
You can eat as much fruit or veg as you like, you will not raise you pH in 4 or five days days like I did by taking baking soda. I have proved my point now you prove yours with facts and figures. Those incisor teeth - each side of your mouth - are not for breaking open the skins of blackberries :-) Think about it!!!! Barry G.by Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Gill, I would probably not have taken the gamble at 28% success rate as well. At the time of my 'musing' the success rate is 78+% ;-) Yes, Proffessuer Haissaguerre, Dr Jais and Dr Hocini are all very charming people rather than startched white clothed doctors. Barry G.by Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Gill you are absolutly correct with regard to the comment by Dr Hocini. You were also correct in my view to have the ablation when things were definitely not what they are today i.e. you got your life back with a gamble, I would certainly have done the same. It was only today that whilst musing about AF that it came to me that the time to have an ablation is when you realise you should haveby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Jackie, I believe in virtually all that you post on the BB so no issues there and also I well believe there may be merit in Dr Tennant simply because you mentioned him. I also fully understand that one of our posters thought the mans messages smacked of quackery, my own brother who comes out of hospital today a week after his bowel cancer operation considers alkalizing the body as mumbo jumboby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Erling. You always come up with the goods. I checked out your suggestion and found this one at the top of the page. Unless I am missing something and I know nothing about science it would appear the artical of yours that I used in the beginning of this post is now out of suspicion mode. Effects of bicarbonate on remineralization of enamel. Feagin FF, Thiradilok S, Aponte-Merced L, Brby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Jackie, the artical in my last post was one suggested by Erling who I consider an excellent source of information though obviously he cannot be expected to check out every detail in his recommenced reading. The site was The Magnesium Web Site - Magnesium Library - so I guess a suppliment /alternative medicine website. Assuming you are totally correct regarding tooth enamel then it would seem tby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Just read one of Erlings posts from the recent subject line 'Waller Water' by Alex and after opening the suggested link i.e. www.mgwater.com I found the following below. One or two good points in there which I will point out for easy reference first i.e. 1) A study has underlined that a dose of 6.17 g of sodium bicarbonate rapidly leaves the stomach with the liquid phase of the meal.by Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Debbie, point taken about sodium, easy target, please confirm the actual sodium content of sodium in one teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate i.e. is it 33% by volume?????? ie. misicule by what people in Northern England pour on their fish and chips and have done for maybe 100 years. My grand parents in Northern England lived into their 90s without AF and loved fish & chips loaded with salt anby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi to all. I will purposely keep this as short as possible which is very difficult for me as I do tend to slide off into details and it is hard not to elaborate on the fantastic researching and analizing of this subject by Erling and Jackie via their posts. There's quite a few others things I would add but will see how this post pans out first. The recent re-visit - by the BB - and fby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Nancy, My guess is that da dit pause is bigeminy, da dit da dit pause is trigeminy, da dit da dit da dit pause is quadgiminy all forms of arrythmia ;-). I been there got the tee-shirt and found my way of ridding myself of it was to eat very little and chew the food properly this brought very quick results. The main problem I found was these 'gimies are much like AF in that they encourageby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Hans. Further to your observation that Vernon took Casodex I looked up his website and found this story which I have read before. Its all clear as mud to me but if you are interested it may make more sense to you. Its quite long but relitively easy reading as it comes from a none medical person. To a layman like me he does seem to explain away any major involvement that the drugs he wby Barry G. - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Liz, best of luck to your brother. Trying everything all at once may not be the correct thing to do however I would probably do the same if I was him. It must be noted that Vernon Vito Johnstons aim was to get his pH to above 8 for 5 continuous days. I am currently undergoing my own tests to see if taking baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) is safe to take, I have no known illness. I find thaby Barry G. - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Hans, Vernon does acknowledge that he was on that drug plus another, I think, that lower the PSA, however he offsets that by saying you cannot stay on the drugs for very long, after which I presume the PSA rises again. I think he actually states that fact and that he was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer and that the drugs will not cure him anyway. The doctors considered it not worth tryby Barry G. - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM