5a. Replacing the pacemaker every 12 years when the battery runs out. 5b. Depending if you trust your life to a TSA employee’s advice- an extra wait at the airport if you decide on getting a pat down instead of going through the security machine which some may say it’s safe. I don’t think it’s worth any risk so I wait and get groped in public. Same with a magnetic wand. I ask them to change theiby susan.d - AFIBBERS FORUM
I had a 30 day holter once. Insurance paid.by susan.d - AFIBBERS FORUM
Have you ever been in Multaq? It lowers one hr as well as being arrhythmic.by susan.d - AFIBBERS FORUM
A suggestion. I realized sometimes my hr was due to anxiety (example in the movie “Tin Cup” a golfer called it the yips or the shanks-“your brain gets in the way “). It was my anticipation that my HR would go up, so it did. I started biofeedback. It helped.by susan.d - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteMeganMN They felt that the best chance of success for the ablation was without sedation because Atrial Tachycardia can be notoriously hard to induce, and I already had one failed attempt. They felt it was the best shot,.but I feel like they should have stopped when I experienced intense pain. That is what made it so difficult for me. Why didn’t they give you a pain narc during the procedby susan.d - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteRucan I have never heard of a reaction like that to metoprolol or any other beta blocker. My Doctor told me I am having one of the worst reactions he has seen to it. He says many people have bad reactions, mine is really bad. I also know some people can not be on beta blockers. If you look at the forum here, you can read some of the horrible side effects of coming off metoprolol and otby susan.d - AFIBBERS FORUM
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So sorry you had to endure this. You are not alone: A novel platform allowing for pulsed field and radiofrequency ablation: first commercial atrial fibrillation ablation procedures worldwide with and without general anesthesia Where I live, the EP at a big hospital does not use anesthesia during an ablation. I was waiting for an appointment for an PM checkup and a lady was so streby susan.d - AFIBBERS FORUM
Could there be some residual thyroid left from the poultry necks??by susan.d - AFIBBERS FORUM
I think my Metronics PM is not tweaked properly. I don’t know if it has the capacity settings of the Abbott algorithm. Luckily I found this today. I have tachycardia and PVCs. During last night I did not PVCs but instead I had two hours of 119-120hr tachy. My days I usually have a huge burden of PVCs. I can’t catch my breath. My next download is on the 15th and I get seen in the pacemakerby susan.d - AFIBBERS FORUM
You should get your EP’s permission on how many mg in a 24 hour you can take. I take it twice a day (120mg CD-time release) and up to one 60mg fast release not to exceed 300mg total in a 24 hour period. But I have a pacemaker and can handle it. You need to ask your EP what your max in a 24 hour period is.by susan.d - AFIBBERS FORUM
DO NOT, DO NOT drink this supposedly safe coffee substitute if you are prone to any amount of caffeine and highly sensitive to tachycardia or afib after consuming caffeine. The instructions stated two “heaping” teaspoons into a 8 cup of water. I added one half measured teaspoon- 1/4 the amount - to test the waters. I had two hours straight 119-120hr tachycardia according to my iWatch about 9-1by susan.d - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
My GP went to Harvard and got another degree in nutrition at ucla. I had borderline high thyroid test results and he put me on his neck broth. Boil up a pot of water and add poultry necks-either chicken or Turkey. Add a teaspoon of white vinegar and boil for a few hours. An instant pot will work. Refrigerate and when cold strain out the fat and add seasoning and veggies or whatever you addby susan.d - AFIBBERS FORUM
Where live, people drink a blend of ground date seeds as a coffee substitute. It’s 92% ground dates and a bit of coffee flavoring . They claim it has 0.007% caffeine. Read the benefits below . Date seed powder may have the potential to improve exercise performance in healthy and active subjects performing HIIT bouts. • The date seed is known as an excellent functional food due to its bby susan.d - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
It’s my lifeline. Everyone is different but it gives me some PVCs relief for a bit. It was my go to ER chemical conversion. They would push 15-20mg into my vein slowly during a 8 minute period. RN and I would look at the clock and at 8 minutes-give or take a bit, My hr would drop back to 60 and I would get a high five and go home. It was successful many times until it lost its efficiency. Techby susan.d - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotegloaming Personally, I would almost rather die than to live with what it was like for me with AF. But if someone comes along and says to me that they have an 80% chance of curing me, or putting me into a much better state, and only 1/1000 that they'll mess up, I would jump onto that passing wagon without even asking for a hand up from one of the passengers already aboard. Gloaming- dby susan.d - AFIBBERS FORUM
Recant- perhaps wean off slower. I remember Jackie had weaned off flecainide using a razor blade and she shaved off the pill very slightly until she was weaned off. I had a flecainide overdose so I went off cold turkey. Everyone is different but if you are getting withdrawal symptoms perhaps wean slower. I remember when I was getting an ablation, I was asked to split my evening BB dose (fullby susan.d - AFIBBERS FORUM
Abstract, click the link to see all the charts and graphs. The following is only a summary BACKGROUND AND AIMS Few recent large-scale studies have evaluated the risks and benefits of continuing oral anticoagulant (OAC) therapy after catheter ablation (CA) for atrial fibrillation (AF). This study evaluated the status of continuation of OAC therapy and the association between continuatioby susan.d - AFIBBERS FORUM
I was on atenolol, another BB, for 25 years from 1987 onwards. After my first afib, the three -day - new attending insisted I stop it cold turkey. Husband was a pharmacist at the time but she insisted. I was frequently fainting, they gave me a tilt table test and it was positive and I had withdrawn symptoms (ortho static hypertension) for 6 months until I said enough is enough and I resumed takinby susan.d - AFIBBERS FORUM
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Try requesting it from the author I actually have a subscription to heart rhythm journal (free-I said I’m a medical student-sort of true, I didn’t finish) so it allowed a download to the full article. Sign up.by susan.d - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteBobsBeat I don't have access to the full file, just the summary. I'm curious if these results are irrespective of someone who had AF at some point but remains in NSR (through whatever means such as lifestyle, meds, ablation, etc.) as well as someone who is in AF fairly regularly but has good rate control. Thanks Abstract Atrial fibrillation (AF) can be a cause and consequeby susan.d - AFIBBERS FORUM
Yeah..I’m one of the “people here”. I have a Humphrey Dumpty sort of heart. No matter how many ablations I’ll have (3), Dr Natale told me his goal for me was to ablate me enough times until I could be stable on an arrhythmia drug for life. I know that would not be ideal because I spent the entire month of 11-22 in the hospital mostly in the ICU with drips, pushes, drugs etc and nothing worked. Whby susan.d - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteCarey Almost nothing in medicine comes with a hard, single number. The human body and medical science are simply too complex for that to be possible, and remember how those numbers are derived in the first place. They all come from statistical samples of data, and never from a measurement of all the procedures performed by every doctor in the world. But for most people considering an ablby susan.d - AFIBBERS FORUM
“Conclusion AF is associated with higher rates of left atrial enlargement, LV systolic and diastolic dysfunction, and mitral regurgitation that typically manifest within 6–24 months of diagnosis. The natural history of cardiac remodeling in patients with AF may inform treatment decisions and facilitate patient-tailored care.“by susan.d - AFIBBERS FORUM
5-10% is still a big number. Even with an elite EP. If he does a hundred ablations a month, as an example, 5 to 10 are still not successful. Multiple that by his annual ablations he performs. Maybe the success rate could be 75- 80% (20-25 are not successful out of 100) for an index and future ablations can raise the percentage to the maximum 90-95% you gathered by your research of ablation suby susan.d - AFIBBERS FORUM
Daisy- I took some photos for you. The eliquis 5mg was the easiest. Line up the “5” in the center to the cutter and cut. I showed lining it up and the finished cut. I store the second pill in the cutter’s compartment. The round yellow pill was tricky because it happened to be a soft pill. I lined up and cut it in half. I then cut each half into quarters. I then got a quarter pill and slicedby susan.d - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteCarey I've never used either of these splitters but I have a splitter than uses a similar mechanism for centering the pill as the cheaper one here, and I threw that splitter away. It looks like it should center the pill but in practice it doesn't, especially not with non-round pills. You are right Carey. Silly to debate a splitter but with non centered tablets like eliquis it’s aby susan.d - AFIBBERS FORUM