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Premature Ventricular Contractions Could Lead to a More Serious Heart Condition - 6 weeks ago

# PVCs 101 Heart disease or scarring that interferes with the heart's normal electrical impulses can cause PVCs. Certain medications, alcohol, stress, exercise, caffeine or low blood oxygen, which is caused by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or pneumonia, can also trigger them. Lasix stopped my PVCs. It’s been day 3 in NSR. My o2 while breathing improved and I use oxyge

Re: Are EP’s routinely offering Watchman as an alternative to thinners? - 6 weeks ago

QuoteKenai My sister was a nurse and knew two males who had the Watchman procedure, developed complications and died. I was in the hospital earlier in January 2025 for Fludder and Afib and they gave me one tablet of Eloquest and I dumped a large amount of blood in my stool. I had not had that for years with my UC. After that they gave me no more and the bleeding went away. I have been taking Natt

Adherence with CPAP for patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing catheter ablation: A “real world” analysis. - 6 weeks ago

Re: Wide IVC - 6 weeks ago

QuoteMark I have no words except to say that you get back to the states soon Susan and that you and NBeemer will find successful treatments. Thank you. I’m trying to get my lungs to improve to fly back home. George I was experimenting by sleeping either in a recliner (head dropped and my o2 worsted, sleeping on a triangle huge pillow and propping two more pillows but I woke up too many times.

Re: Wide IVC - 6 weeks ago

Thanks for your post. The heart failure specialist did a Doppler of my heart and wrote wide IVC as an observation. I’m to schedule another echo to measure and compare it to my last 6 weeks ago. 6 weeks ago he told me I didn’t have heart failure. I’m shocked how cardiomyopathy can advance. However I was told they can’t measure much while I’m in PVCs. One of the side effects of Tenormin is diff

Re: Feasibility of repeated on-demand smartphone app-based approximation of time spent with atrial fibrillation and symptoms in patients after catheter ablation: Data from the ISOLATION study - 6 weeks ago

Still a high load of either way. It’s a small study.

Feasibility of repeated on-demand smartphone app-based approximation of time spent with atrial fibrillation and symptoms in patients after catheter ablation: Data from the ISOLATION study - 6 weeks ago

Results A total of 191 patients (median age 65, 65% male) were included. Patient adherence (-7%, p=0.04) slightly declined over 12 months. Forty-five (24%) patients had AF recurrence and 136 (71%) symptom recurrence. In patients with high AF load and density at 3 months, 73% and 88% remained in the respective high class; in patients with low AF load and density, 0% remained in the low clas

Wide IVC - 6 weeks ago

My lungs are full of fluid and my oxygen saturation is as low as 82 when I sleep without oxygen (2 liters) to 87 o2 when walking. I am told I have heart failure from my 43% pvc burden. Tenormin did stop my PVCs for 6 weeks until I had a real stressful day and they returned. Tenormin stopped them cold turkey after my first two ablations..The past month my PVCs caused heart failure. It doesn’t

Re: Are We Inflating the Success Rate of AF Ablation? - 7 weeks ago

Well there is zero chance you would schedule an ablation appointment with him. It’s still a comprehensive well written article. If there is such a thing as a 3 month blanking period, why would my EP tell me at my 1 month follow up ablation appointment that I’m no longer blanking but my ablation failed after a month? Wouldn’t he wait after all possibilities at the three month mark to make th

Re: Flutter? - 7 weeks ago

Did your PVCs resolve on their own? I had PVCs and it took 9 weeks of hoops to get my Tenormin which stopped my PVCs cold turkey. Then foolishly I took a pneumonia booster which returned my PVCs and I can’t get rid of them. sldabrowski-how long before your PVCs stop? Would a 4 digit drop in hemoglobin (nosebleed with Eliquis) cause PVCs not to convert? Can a ecv convert a pvc?

Re: Are We Inflating the Success Rate of AF Ablation? - 7 weeks ago

Great find! Thanks for sharing!

Re: Anyone Taking Diltiazem? - 7 weeks ago

I love this drug.

Re: Regular Flossing Tied to Reduced Ischemic Stroke Risk - International Stroke Conference (ISC) 2025. - 7 weeks ago

The dental society recommended for decades that if anyone had mitral valve prolapse they needed 2 grams of antibiotics at one time hours before the dental cleaning and 1 gram 6 hours afterwards. They stopped it about 10 years ago but I had to take antibiotics since 1987 until the dental society changed their mind.

Vaccine reply to a previous post - 7 weeks ago

Recently someone posted and asked if a vaccine can trigger an arrhythmia? The reply was no. Thank you for posting. I had posted my successful NSR after getting a 43% pvc burden by taking Tenormin imported from Germany.. It worked 6 weeks until I asked for a pneumonia vaccine. My PVCs are so much worst afterwards that I can’t breathe. My GP saw my legs and ankles swollen, low oxygen sat

This month’s Heart Rhythm Journal issue-worth reading - 7 weeks ago

There are too many excellent articles in this issue of heart rhythm journal to start a thread on each article. Pick and choose which articles interests you. I subscribed as a “student” for free. Inequities in atrial fibrillation trials: An analysis of participant race, ethnicity, and sex over time Roy H. Lan,Ishan Paranjpe,Mohammad Saeed,Marco V. Perez Published online: June 28, 2024 p

Re: Watchman schedule - 8 weeks ago

A watchman is a quick procedure. I was walking around in the recovery room and discharged 4 hours after the procedure. I had Natale perform it. He was super safe because I was born with a bent twisted vein and he spent 20 minutes trying to get the watchman to pass. Plus I have an abnormally with my LAA where the shoulder was wide and bent yet he got a perfect seal. I too got an emergency w

The radical treatments bringing people back from the brink of death - 8 weeks ago

Reperfusion technologies that can reanimate human brains are raising the possibility that death could be a reversible condition, even hours after a cardiac arrest By Helen Thomson 26 November 2024

Re: Osteoporosis / Calcium - 2 months ago

I have been on this forum since 2004. I also read here that calcium is bad for afib. I always look at labels and bought dairy free milk without enriched calcium. I too progressed to osteoporosis. My height was measured yesterday and I lost two inches. I’m losing bone. I am curious what other readers post.

Re: Update on my recent post about stopping Eliquis - with trepidation - 2 months ago

5mg is better for deep vein thrombosis. 2.5mg BID didn’t stop my DVT from growing to 2.5cm. As George mentioned, it doesn’t stop Dvt from growing.

Re: Update on my recent post about stopping Eliquis - with trepidation - 2 months ago

Quotetobherd Since Dr. Natale's office is comfortable saying I can go off of it, as is my cardiologist who surely knows all about strokes, I'm OK with it too. I'm can understand why your experience of being an EMT makes you more hesitant, Carey, but everything is a bit of a risk as we get older, in my opinion. You could have a hemorrhagic stroke from Eliquis too... If the feelin

Re: Borderline ECG meaning - 2 months ago

I just crop the top off under photo “edit” to remove my info. With my iPhone I only use my first name and leave blank my DOB. Kardia I print up, black out my personal info and rescan.

Re: Update on my recent post about stopping Eliquis - with trepidation - 2 months ago

“Both my cardiologist and PCP have been questioning why I was still taking a blood thinner when I have no Afib, and have a well seated Watchman (confirmed in the 2 TEE's) - and now I won't be.” Probably because your chads score is 1. If it was higher like 5, I speculate you might have had a different advice from his office.

Re: Stop Eliquis or not? - 2 months ago

I hope you are doing well Joyce!

Re: Stopped Eliquis - with some trepidation - 2 months ago

I deliberately got a watchman because of a nasty GI bleed and I needed a colonoscopy. Dr Natale allowed me 5 days off of Eliquis for the procedure and then to reduce my Eliquis to 2.5 BID for life. My situation is different than yours. I still get afib —unfortunately all my three afib ablations failed and I’m a chads 5 on watchman report—and a chads 6 (female?) on the Medicare report. Congrats

In-hospital safety of cryoballoon and radiofrequency ablation in patients with atrial fibrillation – German-wide analysis of more than 300 000 procedures - 2 months ago

You can get a color pdf file from one of the options. It’s too large to attach above so maybe this link works:

Re: Supplemental potassium when on keto like diet - 2 months ago

I’m happy for your afib success these past 11 years!

Re: Supplemental potassium when on keto like diet - 2 months ago

QuoteGeorgeN I would spread it out, if possible. By the way, there is about 39 mg potassium in 1 mEq potassium I need to;Rx) 20 mEq VID. Each capsule is 770mg potassium. I was once referred to a nutritionist who put me on a similar diet. Be careful with 10% carbs. I developed so many afib episodes that the ER doctor told me to increase my carbs. I counted onions, carrots as part of my carbs s

Feasibility and mid-term effectiveness of focal pulsed field ablation for ventricular arrhythmias (PVCs) - 2 months ago

Mentioned PVCs

Re: PVCs on EKG 11 years after ablation (AV Block type 1) - 2 months ago

I was going through the same as you except I had a 43% burden. The EP said no anesthesia because of the same reasons of suppressed PVCs. I wanted instead of general to try propofol. I was told they would try but odds are they would wake me up and the pain of an ablation is nothing. I was told in the waiting room listening to a patient telling me the opposite. I was admitted for 3 days trying S

Re: Sex Differences in Atrial Remodeling and Atrial Fibrillation Recurrence After Catheter Ablation - 2 months ago

Maybe that’s why years ago they added a point to a woman’s chads score. I went to a woman’s heart center where the director believed the link I shared.