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I kind wondered if I rushed into ablation
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Another thought on the feeling of doom... While it's commonly thought that an anxiety triggers AFib... I got the feeling that for me the AFib triggered anxiety
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Thanks Wolfpack!
We are leaving for Disneyworld on Sunday. When I asked the cardiologist, she said "No problem" that I should be able to ride anything.
But......she added it might bring on an episode of afib.
Yikes.
Which, I didn't even ask what I was supposed to do if it did???
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Follow your cardiologist's advice, and also find and start a relationship with an electrophysiologist. Watch your alcohol intake, consider the supplements of magnesium and taurine and be sure you get plenty of potassium in your diet. Stay hydrated. And no matter what, get tested for sleep apnea, whether you think you have it or not. There is a direct relationship between obstructive sleep apnea and afib. And an occasional benzodiazepine for the anxiety is very helpful.
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Benzodiazepines are a BEAST. Getting off the Fentanyl Patch for chronic pain was a small adventure compared to Benzodiazepines.
Be Careful.
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Someone above suggested taking a beta blocker if I happen to go into Afib at Disney.
I am taking one every day for BP.
I assuming that helps prevent an episode?
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Someone above suggested taking a beta blocker if I happen to go into Afib at Disney.
I am taking one every day for BP.
I assuming that helps prevent an episode?
It does not.
A beta blocker is a rate control medication. It slows your heart down. AF is very chaotic, but in a broad sense the atria are probably trying to go at something like 300 beats per minute when fibrillating. Fortunately the heart has an “electrical junction box” in between the atria and the ventricles called the AV node. It doesn’t conduct every single errant pulse from the upper chambers (atria) to the lower chambers (ventricles). If the ventricles tried to beat 300 times per minute you’d fall over and die. In AF, the AV node is going to conduct about 2:1 on average. So your ventricular rate will average something like 150. This is uncomfortable but not life threatening. Over time, however, this inappropriate rate will lead to a thickening of the heart muscle and heart failure. So you take a beta blocker to reduce the rate. Anything under 100 and your risk of heart failure pretty much goes to zero. That’s the rationale behind rate control. Of course, when you’re not in AF then the beta will make your normal resting pulse even lower which may make you feel tired or less able to engage in daily activities.
Another class of drugs, called anti-arrhythmics (AARs), try to keep the heart in normal rhythm. In other words, prevent an episode. Rate control is almost always used in conjunction with AARs. AARs are a bit more complicated and require you and your cardiologist or electrophysiologist (EP) to get to know each other well enough to make the proper choices. Common first line AARs are Propafenone and flecainide. They are the most benign of the bunch. Up from those are drugs like Tikosyn. Those generally require a hospital stay to start. Atop the list is the nuclear option called amiodarone. That one, in my opinion, is to be avoided at all costs. It has very nasty side effects, some of them fatal. If you ever run across a practitioner who wants to go straight to amiodarone, I suggest you go straight out the door.
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I have a friend who takes flecainide because she said her heart has many many extra beats. She insists that my AF and her issue are not related. But, if she did not take it, would she not run the risk of AFib? (I have no idea.....like I've said, this is all new to me.)
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