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Re: Transitory aFib - 3 years ago

I have medicare and Blue Cross as my supplement plan, I cannot switch to another cheaper plan when I tell them I have AF, they don't accept AF patients. Blue Cross keeps me as I have been with Blue X for a great number of years, way before I got AF. Blue X was offered where I worked and when I retired, my husband and I kept Blue X as it was a lot cheaper years ago, but I am stuck with the

by Elizabeth - AFIBBERS FORUM

Re: Using Natale and local EP- how does that work? - 3 years ago

Betty there are some EPs that won't take a person if you have another EP. I had an EP at Novi, affilated with U of M hospital. I called a couple of EPs in my area and they wouldn't even give me an appt. because I had another EP, that was one of the first things they asked. Don't think it is about ego, they said that the protocol that they might give is different from my EPs pro

by Elizabeth - AFIBBERS FORUM

Re: Philly Politician Suffers AFib driven Stroke - 3 years ago

Why would people vote for a person that has the problems this man has, I feel bad for him but he may not have the energy that is required for the job.

by Elizabeth - AFIBBERS FORUM

Re: Using a fitbit to track Afib burden - 3 years ago

[Workout ? What's that? Extra heavy knitting We are both in our late 70s} That is no excuse, maybe you are being funny? I have a very big lawn that I cut and roto till a large garden, also have fruit trees and berries, I am 88.

by Elizabeth - AFIBBERS FORUM

Re: back problems - 3 years ago

Sam: I don't fine any one that used the Maitland Technique near me---I live in Michigan, sounds like a good technique. Thanks for your post. Liz

by Elizabeth - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM

Re: back problems - 3 years ago

Thanks George: Lot to read, I am going to get the book. The Chiropractor I am going to doesn't seem to be helping very much. Dr. Brownstein told me to take a supplement that he has devised, called Limbex, I am taking that now but it will probably take a little time. Did you ever go to a Chiropractor?

by Elizabeth - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM

back problems - 3 years ago

My lower back and knee on my left side of my body has been hurting the last couple of months, I went to a Chiropractor a few days ago. He did some adjustments, he told me that he recommends that I do his Non Surgical Spinal Decompression. It is expensive but if it helps I would do it, my question is has anybody here had this treatment and did it help? Liz

by Elizabeth - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM

Re: Flacainide - 3 years ago

Oh, ok, thanks George. I wonder how far off my BP readings are, when I take it with my home monitor machine..

by Elizabeth - AFIBBERS FORUM

Re: Flacainide - 3 years ago

(Nothing to support this, but while in afib, with the lack of regular strong heart beats, it would seem that blood pressure would drop with the reduced blood flow while in afib. You can be lightheaded while in afib due to the reduced flow of blood and O2 to the brain and body.) All I can say is this is not true in my case. My BP is not low, it is always high in the doctors office and at home

by Elizabeth - AFIBBERS FORUM

Re: Is Iodine Deficiency a risk factor for cardiovascular disease without thyroid dysfunction? - 3 years ago

Jackie: You have posted some great coverage on Dr. Brownsteins writings. Are you able to read the new posts on these boards? Liz

by Elizabeth - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM

Re: MADROLA : raises alarm over LAA closure devices (carey!) - 3 years ago

Putting a foreign object into our bodies can sometimes cause problems. I have a pacemaker put in about 20 years ago and on my last 2 echos it shows that I have severe tricuspid regurgatation, this has been caused by one of the pacemaker leads that was placed in the Ventricular. There was a person on this site that had the Watchman placed and it did leak which caused a stroke. The stroke was mi

by Elizabeth - AFIBBERS FORUM

Re: Structural and Functional Benefits of Restoring Sinus Rhythm in Patients With AF - 3 years ago

George: in the first of the sites that Susan posted the URLs for they are saying that after having an ablation there were symptoms of brain infarcts, did the ablation caused them? In your posting the site is saying that AF causes brain infarcts, so what is right? I know a few people that have had permanent AF for many years and they are normal.

by Elizabeth - AFIBBERS FORUM

Re: Structural and Functional Benefits of Restoring Sinus Rhythm in Patients With AF - 3 years ago

What does this mean: taken from Susans first site? A cautionary word is that AF patients may experience symptomatic as well as silent ischemic brain infarcts during AF ablation which may occur spontaneously; events such as these may contribute to cognitive decline.1, 2 Apparently, silent cerebral infarcts in stroke-free AF patients may not be silent after all. Eliminating them must be the next

by Elizabeth - AFIBBERS FORUM

Re: Can electrolyte supplements cure A-Fib? - 3 years ago

Potassium is used in lethal injections. Before you take potassium supplements you should get your levels checked, my levels are always close to the high side of the range, now maybe, my kidneys aren't as good as they should be, but it is a good idea to know what your levels are. I take magnesium but only a teaspoon of mag. pwd. in a cup of water, once a day, that is about all I can toler

by Elizabeth - AFIBBERS FORUM

Re: Can electrolyte supplements cure A-Fib? - 3 years ago

Potassium is the only electrolyte that is dangerous if you take too much of it.

by Elizabeth - AFIBBERS FORUM

Re: Boston Scientific called me : Watchman ID Card - 3 years ago

Six months ago i had dental cleaning plus a little work done on a chipped tooth, I didn't get any antibiotics for the work. In a week I am to get dental cleaning again (every 6 months) and nothing is said about an antibiotic, I am in permanent AF. After the previous cleaning i had no problems.

by Elizabeth - AFIBBERS FORUM

Re: Update - Importance and Benefits of Taurine - 3 years ago

I don't take taurine vit. i believe i get most of it from my food. i am not into taking supplements as I once was, i eat beef, shrimp and other seafood. A lot of people rely on supplements more than eating good food, they think if they are taking supplements they don't have to be eating everything that they should. I remember trying taurine some years ago and i got Aura migraines f

by Elizabeth - AFIBBERS FORUM

Re: Pacs and afib - 4 years ago

i have read posts such as yours whereby after an ablation, people seem to get more Pacs. There are burns to the heart and probably it will take time to heal, then your pacs could subside.

by Elizabeth - AFIBBERS FORUM

Re: Which Vitamin D is the best? - 4 years ago

Jackie; There is another topic on this by P.C./Susan P.C.s respond to Susan was this: PC, MD [ PM ] Re: Ca:Mg: Implications beyond AF If on an anti platelet type blood thinner, no problem. If on a vitamin K antagonist (VKA), as was Susan, K2 blocks the VKA and vice versa.

by Elizabeth - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM

Re: Dr Gupta/York Cardiology re AF/Dementia - 4 years ago

Anneh and Joe: Thanks for that about Hawthorne berries, my Holistic doc. did recommend it to me but I read that it might increase bleeding if on a blood thinner. i take Xerato so i am going to try Hawthorne berries.

by Elizabeth - AFIBBERS FORUM

Re: Public service - 4 years ago

Masks made in China.

by Elizabeth - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM

Re: Dr Gupta/York Cardiology re AF/Dementia - 4 years ago

Hi; I have had AF for about 22 years, i had a few episodes a year then it went into every few months and then a couple times a month until about a year and a half ago i went into permanent AF. Since i have been in permanent AF i take a blood thinner, i didnt take one during the times when i got AF ocassionaly, i guess i was very lucky with not taking a blood thinner during my AF career. I to

by Elizabeth - AFIBBERS FORUM

Re: First afib episode - perfect health? - 4 years ago

David L. says {You don't say how they "found nothing wrong" with your heart. Even if you had an echocardiogram and nuclear stress test on this first presentation with A-fib, finding "nothing wrong" doesn't mean that there is in fact nothing wrong. These tests, if available, have their limits)) When I first got AF there wasnt anything wrong with my heart, I got Gr

by Elizabeth - AFIBBERS FORUM

Re: Covid and increased arrhythmia - 4 years ago

Carey why do you pick on doctors that have something that has helped people and they have, there are many drugs that the medical profession doles out that have harmed many people yet they are still being used.

by Elizabeth - AFIBBERS FORUM

Re: WSJ. The New Trend in Healthcare: Do-It-Yourself; With doctors under strain in the pandemic, patients are taking more of their healthcare into their own hands - 4 years ago

Well if that is the case then my health ins. should be cut in half as it is costly.

by Elizabeth - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM

Re: Data on patients going into afib post-Watchman procedure. - 4 years ago

Susan: There is nickel and Titanium in the makeup of the Watchman. Check out Georges post and click on site which is underlined.

by Elizabeth - AFIBBERS FORUM

Re: Data on patients going into afib post-Watchman procedure. - 4 years ago

So because of the Watchman he no longer is on a blood thinner? I would think because he was in persistent AF that he probably was on a blood thinner.. A little over a year ago I had asked my EP about a Watchman and he said i wasn't eligible for one, i was in persistent AB at the time and didn't want to be taking a blood thinner forever. I took the quiz on that site you gave and i

by Elizabeth - AFIBBERS FORUM

Re: Data on patients going into afib post-Watchman procedure. - 4 years ago

George: What would be the purpose of your friend getting a Watchman, I assume he is on a blood thinner and would still be on a blood thinner. I am surprised that his ins. would pay for the Watchman.

by Elizabeth - AFIBBERS FORUM

Re: Re-ablate LAA after watchman ? - 4 years ago

Flutter does happen quite often after an ablation for AF.

by Elizabeth - AFIBBERS FORUM

Re: Re-ablate LAA after watchman ? - 4 years ago

I have never had flutter, I had paraoxymal for 20 years, no flutter, afib and always converted on my own. I am in permanent AF now but no flutter. I have read that after an ablation flutter rears its head, i have never had an ablation so is that why i never had flutter?

by Elizabeth - AFIBBERS FORUM