QuoteCarey You sure about that? I thought the Eliquis reversal agent got sent back for further testing last year and hasn't been approved in the US yet. I recall reading an article about the reversal agent for Pradaxa and that it was effective against all the factor Xa anticoagulants. The veracity of the article I can’t speak to. My take on it is that these things are in their nacency anby wolfpack - AFIBBERS FORUM
Yes there are reversal agents for the new DOAC (direct oral anticoagulation) drugs like Eliquis and Xarelto, but they are VERY new and likely not in stock at every ER department nationwide, nor could you count on emergency physicians being trained on their proper use. Sadly I think we are still a few years away from that not being the case and in the meantime caution is still the word of the dayby wolfpack - AFIBBERS FORUM
Excessive alcohol use also confounds both medication and ablation. While many can continue to enjoy alcohol in the wake of successful treatment, abusing it will put you back at square one.by wolfpack - AFIBBERS FORUM
Very plausible. This mini ice age that North America is in right now will certainly trigger an adrenaline response as your core temperature gets clobbered by a deep breath of 0 degree (F) air! Stay warm!by wolfpack - AFIBBERS FORUM
Well, I think your cause and effect analysis is pretty spot on. Reduce the alcohol and see if symptoms abate. If you do drink, stay hydrated and replenish electrolytes such as magnesium and potassium. There are numerous threads on here discussing just how to do that in detail.by wolfpack - AFIBBERS FORUM
And they both have plentiful staff to field phone calls and questions. Go ahead and call.by wolfpack - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteCarey Neither. It's due to decades of modern farming practices, which have depleted soils of Mg. Fruits and vegetables grown in the 1930s contained significantly more Mg than they do now. A US Geologic Survey “heat map” of Mg concentration in North American soil. The Southeast ranks low.by wolfpack - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteElizabeth Great movie but Carrie Fisher was also on drugs, maybe mag. would have helped her and maybe not. Oh, yes. Started in her teens. As much as I loved the character, it was remarkable how she physically changed. She was 19 at the time of the original 1977 Star Wars film and by 1983's "Return of the Jedi" she looked more like a 40-year old! I don't mean to suggeby wolfpack - AFIBBERS FORUM
Magnesium is only a helper. I’ve had an ablation myself, and afterwards I was plagued by ectopics for nearly a year. It was only careful supplementation, specifically with the most bio-available forms of Mg that I finally got back to “normal”. It’s a careful combination of the two - medical and supplementation - that in my opinion leads to the best result. And, just having seen “The Last Jeby wolfpack - AFIBBERS FORUM
Over time I just learned to ignore the PACs. Even laugh at them. They're nothing, and they're not going to cause AF. Electrolyte supplementation has been the key for me to make PACs very rare occurrences. I managed to get a few more over the holidays (wonder how THAT happened ) but rapid rehydration and Mg boluses righted the ship in no time.by wolfpack - AFIBBERS FORUM
Anything’s possible, but I’d guess that dehydration and electrolyte depletion in the wake of alcohol overconsumption are far more likely culprits. Sleep apnea is more of a chronic thing, making your heart work harder than it should nightly as O2 sats drop. Over time that enlarges the heart and thus the left atrial diameter that we all know is critical in AF genesis.by wolfpack - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteCarey If you do pursue an ablation, find the absolute best EP you can. "Best" is measured mainly by the number of procedures they've done, and what you want to see is thousands, not hundreds, and certainly not dozens. Even if have to travel to find the best there is, it's worth the time and money to do so. Trust me on this. To expound further on that statement, you wantby wolfpack - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteGhost Ok, well, I will certainly ask the EP what she thinks is the way to go. Your argument is logical. One treatment was good enough for you? Easy recovery time? : So far, so good. Time will tell if I'm a "one-and-done" case or not. The hardest thing about recovery is reminding yourself that you need to recover. I actually hopped on a treadmill 8 days after the ablatby wolfpack - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteGhost Thanks, Wolf. Are you saying you believe I should consider ablation? MY GP suggested that but I thought it might be a bit premature to go down that route. Did you do it? I don't see the EP until after the holidays. I had the ablation about 6 months after AF started. In my opinion, ablation should be a first line treatment option in our cases. Objectively speaking, weby wolfpack - AFIBBERS FORUM
Same here. I was 41y old when mine started. At the time running 6-7 miles, 6 days/week with one "off" day. My BMI at the time was probably 20, BP normal, no tobacco, no diabetes. Normal echo, no heart defects or valve problems. More than likely it's just the increased vagal tone that slows your resting heart rate down so much that the normal pacemaker -the sino-atrial node - hasby wolfpack - AFIBBERS FORUM
Well here we are at the start of another winter season and I’m looking to somehow avoid the 10-20lb weight gain that’s destined to happen as physical activity is reduced by temperatures and daylight hours. Assuming (and it’s a guess) that insulin resistance has some role to play in all of this, what supplements are both effective and safe to experiment with? What should be looked out for or avby wolfpack - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
My episodes were nightly. I was ablated in 2015. If your username includes the year of your birth, then we are the same age. I also lost over 100 lbs of body weight in my late 30s and continued thereafter on my regimen of cardio exercise (running and biking) 6 days/week. My resting HR dropped into the 40s (vagal tone), and AF started at age 41. Electrolyte imbalance + hyper vagal tone = AF. Itby wolfpack - AFIBBERS FORUM
Textbook vagal AF. Mine was the same. In bed, left side, PACs then AF. I would push for an EP consult. It certainly doesn't sound from your description like anything needs to be done in a hurry, but in these cases a standard PVI ablation is almost always successful and curative.by wolfpack - AFIBBERS FORUM
I'm also an early adopter and thus "grandfathered" in for lifetime subscription for the Kardia app and original AliveCor device. I'm not certain, however, if that would extend to the KardiaBand. Since I'm not in AF any longer (nor plan to be ) I won't be purchasing the watch or the device. If anyone else does, please post your experiences here for the benefit of theby wolfpack - AFIBBERS FORUM
I doubt that the feeling is any different. My runs were so short (and unpredictable) that I never caught one on Kardia. They were very sudden onsets (no PACs before) of a rapid but regular heartbeat that was much stronger than normal and could be felt. They scared the you-know-what out of me but they never lasted probably more than 5 or 10 seconds.by wolfpack - AFIBBERS FORUM
For me, a PAC is just a "skipped beat". A PVC (which for me are VERY rare) feels like a small thermonuclear device was detonated in my chest. Kardia will tell you for sure. PAC is just an extra QRS complex stuck in between normal ones. A PVC will have a pronounced negative deflection and look really different from a normal QRS complex. No, they don't mean afib will return.by wolfpack - AFIBBERS FORUM
I had what I believed at the time to be SVT runs up to a year (maybe even more) after my ablation. They're gone now. I suspect it just may be some transient effects of the scar tissue still forming up in the left atrium. I wouldn't get too worried about it unless it increases, in which case call your cardiologist and get it monitored.by wolfpack - AFIBBERS FORUM
Good news, I think. I do wish, however, that at some point the subscription service isn't required. I realize companies have to recoup development costs, but it'd be nice to be able to purchase a product once without having to effectively "re-buy" it monthly or yearly. It's nice to see technology disrupting medicine. I hope it continues!by wolfpack - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteElizabeth Jackie: I'm with you, I have never gotten a Flu shot, I live out in the country, raise a lot of my food, try to keep healthy. My mother went through that flu epidemic of 1918, my uncles, aunt, grandparents and didn't get the flu. They lived on a farm so they were more isolated, I would think that people living in close proximity to one another like the cities were moby wolfpack - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
QuoteTom in Hawaii . I remember a doctor who told me, AF will not kill you just live with it. I've heard that before, too. Shocking as it is when you first hear it, it's almost a blessing in disguise. I wish all doctors would reveal their own limitations so clearly. Folks, if any of you ever hear these words they mean your physician is stuck in the Stone Age and it is time to moveby wolfpack - AFIBBERS FORUM
Just got my shot today. IMO, the statistics are clear. Flu is a killer.by wolfpack - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
12 years of LSPAF or even permanent AF can be successfully ablated by the right electrophysiologist; however, the decision to seek treatment is a personal one and driven by the desire to reduce or be free from symptoms of AF. No one other than the patient can make this decision.by wolfpack - AFIBBERS FORUM
Agree that amiodarone makes no sense, especially in the context of a follow up ablation. That drug does not clear renally. It builds up in all the body’s tissues and thus takes months to “flush out”. It would almost be contraindicated prior to an ablation because it would mask AF during the procedure, making it seem successful when in fact it might not be. Second opinion, for sure.by wolfpack - AFIBBERS FORUM
Nope. Don’t put anything in your body to measure something that can be measured from the outside. Get a Kardia or another monitor if you’re worried about it. If you’re running 5 miles a day I’d say the chances of you being in AF are the same as zero, but I’m not a doctor nor do I play one on the internet!by wolfpack - AFIBBERS FORUM