Hi Ken. I have just dropped by to see how things are progressing in the AFib world as being an 'éx-afibber' I am fully aware that this hideous affliction can return at any time. Obviously I would like to read on the BB that major strides are being made in conquering AF by whatever means which I guess will be via ablation. I have had 5 ablations and have been AF free since my lastby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Andrea. I will check out the websites later and reply if relevant, I'm at work now. Barry G.by Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Gill, good to see you are still posting. I have read the artical in the Guardian and much as I expected most people are totally unaware of the requirement of iodine. Surely BIG PHARM know all about it yet nothing seems to be being done especially in the case of pregnant women. All, Taking into consideration the good advice from both Jackie and Shannon regarding people not rushing to jby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Jackie /Shannon. Thanks for your information regarding over dozing on iodine but as you may know I have been in the Afib battle since being diagnosed in July 2006 so I have quite a few tee-shirts of been there done that but it is important that your points are picked up by any newcomer to the Afib world who may think there is a quick way out of this journey. As a regular poster here used toby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Just dropping in to buy some Vitamin C from iHerb via this BB as I always do and good to see posters here that were helping people and myself when I went thru 4 years of struggling with this hideous affliction known as Afib. Hello Jackie, George N. Gill etc. I always check a few posts to see how things are shaping up in the Afib world with regards to better success rates 5 years after I managedby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Ron, just dropped by to get some things from the vitamin shop and saw your post. I've had 5 ablations, 1 in New Delhi and 4 in Bordeaux so I probably know a few things about AF or at least I did, not got the best memory. In two of those ablations exactly the same thing happened to me if I remember correctly i.e. as soon as I booked the ablation the AF stopped. The first time this haby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Jackie, thanks for your post and also I am a bit shocked that you have had to have another ablation, hope all is going well. I knew without doubt that either you or George N would have posted about iodine previously so I was looking forward to your input. I am interested in the iodine angle with regards to Afib which I came across by chance and will be looking into it much closer by checkinby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi RonB and GeorgeN. Not wishing to high-jack Elemc’s post I will reply with this new post and as always I will throw in other stuff as well that others may find of interest. RonB. I hear what you say about test don’t guess which is a sensible way to go about these things however I am just into this iodine thing and not too worried about any re-action from taking three drops of this Sea Kelp whby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Elemc, I was told by Dr Jais after my first ablation at Bordeaux in 2007 that I was possibly one of the three most difficult cases he had ever come across and he had done 4000 so I understand your concerns. I had a further two visits to Bordeaux to rid me of Afib / Left atrial Flutter completely and I have been Afib/Flutter free since early 2010. I must note here that I was probably Afib frby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Diane, I have been dropping in on the BB since around August 2006 and since then I have had 5 ablations for Atrial Fibrilliation and Left Atrial Flutter. I am constantly amazed by afibbers forever asking questions about ablations that never came into my mind, they can't have had the same condition as me. I was an AFIBBER and all I wanted was out from this hideous affliction whatever thby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Yes Erling, I'm fully aware of a certain Mr Rumsfled and aspartame. Barry G.by Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Tom, I would guess that LVH is Left Ventrical Hyperthrophy a toughening/thickening of the Left Ventrical wall. One of my mates was found to have quite serious Left Ventrical Hyperthrophy at a comprehensive medical check up so following a chat with me he started taking Vitamin C, Lysine and Proline religeously every day and at the next check up 6 months later - at a different but still top nby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
afhound99 Between June 2007 and April 2010 I had 5 ablations for AF and Left Atrial Flutter, a total of 17.5 hours of 'burning time' so my heart probably looks like a baked potato now. I have been arrythmia free since the last ablation apart from a few worrying moments a few months after that last ablation i.e. a few rounds of Bigeminy, Trigminy and Quadegimy. Somewhere at the sby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Gary, without realising why you will certainly have raised your bodies pH by cutting out the soft drinks etc. Raising the bodies pH ensures the body moves from an acidic enviroment towards an alkaline enviroment which will expell natural forming C02 in the tissues/blood more efficiently which is necessary for good health. Why would anyone put C02 in a drink??? A snippet below, ACIDOSIby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
When I was around 21 years of age one of my footballing mates went to the docs because he had been feeling rough for a while. The little old Irish doc asked what the lad drank and he said Bacardi (rum) and Coke, the 'in' drink at the time. The doc said, well cut out the coke!! We all thought the doc was mad but now over 40 years later and I having been reading up on alkalizing thby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Liz, regarding your observation......... 'I have always thought that some people just have worse cases of AF, just like some cancers are more virulent and some cancers more benign, and so, more difficult to control' I have been reading the BB since August 2006 and long since came to the conclusion that there is afib and there is AFIB. afibbers will weigh up the possible dangby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi again Heather. Sodium Bicarbonate is not Sodium Chloride (Table/Cooking Salt) and from what I have read it is the Chloride that induces the higher blood pressure. In my own experiences with Baking Soda there has been no increase in blood pressure at all and if I had anything at all wrong with me I would have no hesitation to up the dosage to three times a day. My guess is that the Bostonby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Heather, a few weeks ago I posted the results of my 10 day experiment with Baking Soda (Sodium Bicarbonate) to raise my bodies pH. Prior to that experiment I had done an earlier 14 day precautionary experiment to see how I would re-act to the Baking Soda by taking one teaspoon of Baking Soda just before bedtime. The one teaspoon gave me no negative issues at all so I proceeded to experimby Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Thanks for the tip Jackie I will pass that on as and when appropiate. I gave up the golf as a bad job, can't teach an old dog new tricks ;-) Barry G.by Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
Steve, I would get a second opinion with regard to the no wine protocol of Dr Jais, this is serious business ;-) I asked Dr Haissaguerre if it was OK to have a few beers after the ablation and his answer went something like 'life without a glass of wine would not be worth living' Not being a wine drinker I had a few beers instead, I was back in Afib/Flutter anyway ;-( Barry G.by Barry G. - AFIBBERS FORUM
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
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
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