HBK, I’m the other forum member you refer to. We’re you on Flec before your ablation? I was for 11 years: maybe that’s why Prof Jais told me to continue it for 3 months. Maybe the norm is 30 days for folks who weren’t on it pre-ablation. I stayed on Eliquis for 60 days too. Presumably this recent ablation was your first and was pretty much just a pulmonary vein isolation rather than aby mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Three months Flec after ablation is the norm. Including at Bordeaux, and I speak from experience after having had an ablation the almost a year ago by Prof Jais. My recovery period was a walk in the park except for 20 hours of some horrible PACs and bigeminy (converted by itself) 3 weeks after ablation that I brought on really straining trying to undo/replace an old seized up tap in the back of aby mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteCarey Carey, I certainly take and respect your point of view as per your quote and I too have known of a few folks who've lived to be 90 having had permanent AF for 30+ years, but do you 100% stick with your viewpoint as quoted even in the face of the points Shannon makes above re dementia? I do, with some reservations. The data quoted by Shannon is certainly interesting, but itby mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteCarey People with rate controlled afib and anticoagulation live just as long as anyone else, including people who treat their afib. It might seem like it should do harm, but it's well established that it doesn't. Carey, I certainly take and respect your point of view as per your quote and I too have known of a few folks who've lived to be 90 having had permanent AF for 30+ yby mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Shannon, Thanks for the further input. When I asked Prof Jais whether or not one could have PFA after a RFA I was thinking mainly conceptually (I’d only had my ablation the previous day) but also for any later possible - albeit (hopefully) unlikely - reconnection of the PVs as it’s clear that - for now at least - PV isolation is ‘all’ PFA can do. Cheers, Mikeby mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
What Gill says - hi Peggy!by mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
A bit more on Farapulse PFA: “FARAPULSE Receives FDA Breakthrough Designation for its Endocardial Pulsed Field Ablation System”by mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Cheers Shannon. From the link you provided (and that I read very carefully this time): “PFA’s qualitative safety edge also has meaningful implications for the durability of electrical PV isolation—arguably the most meaningful endpoint in AF ablation procedures—given that the primary mechanism of recurrence following ablation is electrical PV reconnection. Because multiple PFA lesions couldby mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Thanks Shannon and hoping the hands respond well soon. And yes that article was/is indeed very difficult to get to grips with and I still haven't! But that said, I do now increasingly appreciate that safety - and particularly in the hands of less experienced operators - is the main advance intrinsic to PFA. I'd very much still like to interpret the article whereby the first PFA proceby mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteCarey Why did they use RFA for the second procedures? Because they have RF catheters that can do single burns with accuracy to close a small gap, but the PF catheters can't do that (yet). The paper isn't written well. It's rather confusing and leaves out some important details, but the take away is that once they settled on using the biphasic 3 waveform they achieved 1by mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Thanks Carey and rocketritch for your input. I'm still a bitt confused and in some ways underwhelmed. And as someone who will more than likely require a touch-up procedure at some point, I really want to buy into this PFA stuff! From the full text: "With successive waveform refinement, durability at 3 months improved from 18% to 100% of patients with all PVs isolated."by mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Looks broadly promising - particularly from a safety profile viewpoint - overall, but not sure about this bit (from the full article): “Secondary endpoints Of 62 patients scheduled for remapping, 52 (84%) actually presented for this invasive PV reassessment at a median of 84 days following the index procedure. With successive refinements to the waveforms, the proportion of patients (and PVs) wiby mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
My HR after PVI last August was only up 5-10bpm and settled back to pre-ablation after 6 months or so. Now at bedtime it’s 48 and in the morning about 54.by mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
What Carey and Barry G say. My mother had AF from age 35 to when she died at 80 from non-AF-related causes (she didn't go permanent until age 70 - no meds or ablation) and both her younger sisters have atrial arrhythmia issues although not AF (at least diagnosed/verified). Its in the genes. Although that said one can accelerate the predisposition with unhealthy living.by mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Great info in this thread George. I dropped all carbs other than veg and berries/watermelon 3 months back. Now 200 lbs rather than 236 I was in Jan. (was 264 in 2008). Target is 180 and I WILL get there AND stay there. I note your comment about industrial seed oils. I favour organic CP rape seed oil for its omega 3 to 6 ratio and high temp (CPEV olive oil for everything else - never cooked)by mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Could the way forward be vagal-stimulating for adrenergically-mediated AF and vagal-blocking for vagal-mediated AF? Am I correct in assuming this research is the former rather the latter?by mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
My pleasure Pompon - hope you're doing OK. Cheers, Mike F.by mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Barry, sorry to hear you're having AFlutter issues at present. A couple of points in response to the above post/s by Shannon. As a recent (Aug 18) Bordeaux Jais ablatee, I can contribute as follows. Re Shannon's paragraph: "A number of very promising new catheters are on the scene now too and these are mostly based around the new HPSD ablation protocol that is quicklyby mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
I saw one particular EP here in the UK 18 months ago and when I mentioned Natale he said, and I quote “hah; that cowboy!’ I was not impressed to say the least.by mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Many thanks for that Gill - I like the look of that magic potion of yours! I'll get to it. (I already take glucosamine and Omega 3.)by mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Gill, Sounds like a good brew! I’m in!! How much (in Mg) and what brand/s of taurine, d-ribose and K gluconate powders do you use and where do you buy them please? Cheers, Mike Fby mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
I've always understood that WW is the most bio-available form of Mg that one can take. Is this not the case? I appreciate it's a bit of a hassle to make and to cart around through the day compared to caps.by mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Like the guy is kinda trying to say, maybe he is having short episodes of fast (300bpm) AFlutter with 5:1 conduction thus giving a palpable radial pulse (ventricular) of 60 BPM? Is that so far-fetched? Or am I missing something.... probably! (A bit of a LoL at the FYI to Carey )by mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi George, Yes I did hope you'd answer! And many thanks for so doing. I'll make the MoM as you suggest then adding 0.75 x 45ml = 34ml of it to each of the 20 x 750ml bottles of soda water I just bought today! Presumably - based on the old WW info - this will get me a WW with 1160mg elemental Mg per 750ml bottle. I'll then have 1 bottle each 2 days to start with (diluted 1 to 3 wby mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Great outcome Teddy. Good to hear. Long may it last!by mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Advice appreciated thank you. I have the powder from a while ago but have forgotten the required ratio of mag hydroxide powder )grams) to soda water (litre). Cheers, Mikeby mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Great advice from wolfpack above. After my ablation at Bordeaux I was kept on Eliquis for 3 months post-procedure. Where did you have your ablation in France kibe? Did you pay privately?by mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
Fantastic Mg and Ca Max! If I had levels anything like that I'd be over the moon! (In 2010 mine were 31.9 Mg and 7.0 Ca.... My AF predisposition is genetic - my mother had PAF from her mid-30s and I first got it aged 38 - and I'm convinced Mg and Ca IC handling abnormalities are the reason. The problem is that even the most ferocious supplementation can't make much impact if the prby mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM
SteveCarr: "I hugely believe that it is Ca dysregulation that is the main player." So do I - at least where I'm concerned. Question is - is 300mg/day enough for overall health in all other respects??by mwcf - AFIBBERS FORUM