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QuoteGeocappy I wake up from dream and feel my chest beating. Get up ad go bathroom. Go over and sit at table and wait a minute. Take BP. 145/85. HR 80. Skip the taking BP and pulse part. It's not meaningful. Of course your BP is higher if you've been awakened by a stressful dream. Maybe instead you should be asking yourself why you have so many stressful dreams.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteGeorgeN I actually took her question at face value as long duration, high rate afib (meaning high ventricular rate during afib) can lead to cardiomyopathy. Okay, simple miscommunication on one of our parts, probably mine.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
A little clarification of terms here.... The term is atrial myopathy, not atrial cardiomyopathy. The term cardiomyopathy means disease of the entire heart, aka structural heart disease. If you have afib, then you have atrial myopathy, which is the term adopted in recent years to describe the underlying disease that causes afib, atrial flutter, atrial tachycardia, and SVT. Unfortunately, atriaby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
I'm scheduled for the booster tomorrow, and so I fully expect the symptoms you described beginning on Thursday and lasting for about 12 hours, if prior experience is a guide. I interpret it simply as proof that my immune system hates COVID and attacks it immediately, which is a good thing. But from what I've heard, the Shingrix vaccine makes COVID boosters seem like nothing, which is whby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quit checking your BP in the middle of the night after a stressful dream and the problem will go away.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Couldn't you at least reduce your addiction to half marathons?by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteKwilk At least as expressed in the threads I've read on this forum, reduction in afib burden and what it takes to maintain that reduction is largely all that is talked about. I think you've been badly misled by the sample of posts you've read. The vast majority of posts like that are from people who haven't pursued ablation, or they're waiting for an ablation, orby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteBigBoy2020 Let us know what. you find out. Here in the middle of the night wearing my Zio monitor (tape already came off so now taped on with medical tape that isn’t perfect). Only I am at the almost 4 month mark but very similar story. Really hoping the monitor is getting this. And wishing my doctor used better monitors with extra sticky pads. I'm not sure what you mean by yourby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
I sympathize with your brothers. I've had 6 ablations, all of them by highly credentialed EPs at top medical centers. The first 5 were failures and the last was a resounding success. That was with Natale, as you might have guessed. Choosing is hard because what matters most isn't generally made public by EPs, and that's the number of ablations they've done and their overallby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteKwilk For the vast majority of patients, i presume the metric is simply the degree of reduction in afib burden. Whoa! That's a bad presumption and that's not the metric at all. Most paroxysmal afib patients are highly symptomatic. It's literally torture for them, so they would view simply reducing afib burden as a failed ablation, and that's exactly what it would be. Anby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteKwilk At the moment I'm trying to figure out the NSR remodeling that occurs after CA. Well, it's the same process that occurs during afib, just in reverse. Your heart wants to keep doing what it's been doing, which is where the saying "afib begets afib" comes from. Well, the reverse is true that NSR begets NSR. It's also pretty common for the left atrium to rby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Weakness is definitely a symptom, so you're not asymptomatic. If I could change that scoring system I would add one more item: the number of afib ablations the EP has done. Under 1000 would give you 1 point, under 500 would give you 3 points, and under 100 would give you 5 points. The only major technology in the making is pulsed field ablation (PFA). It's in clinical trials nowby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
I follow several sites on different subjects, and I've noticed over the years that people tend to post less on weekends no matter what site it is, including Friday nights. I'm not entirely sure why, especially in a forum with a high percentage of retired people, but I think the probable answer is simply that people tend to post when they're at work in front of a computer all day. Aby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
You just did. Sometimes we have a quiet day or two. Hopefully that means everyone's afib is behaving and all is well with the world.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotesusan.d Time and experience will tell if this a successful approach to VT. I wonder if a regular AF ablation carries the same or similar cardiogenic shock risks? They surely use a lot of saline to cool off the heart during the ablation burning. No. Doesn't happen. Ablating in the ventricles is always going to be higher risk than the atria.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Well, what you need to find out is if there's any sustained afib present. If it's only PACs, that's a completely different picture.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
I don't know what "1p0" means but I gather you were taking amio 1.5 months before and two months after the ablation. You stopped the amio two months after the ablation but now PACs (or something) have started up, and you're resuming the amio. Is that correct?by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
It's always appropriate to get a second, third, and even fourth opinions. Of course others have done that. Wish I'd done more of it way back when. But don't just seek out random opinions. Find the EPs with the most afib ablation experience that you can and seek their opinions. The fresh young doctor who's done zero ablations on his own so far will most likely strongly advise yby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
When I split this topic off from the original and moved it here, the last post didn't get moved for some reason. Here it is: QuoteKwilk duckduckgo.com/?q=clicking+quote+overwrites+reply Quote overwrites existing reply text #7 03-14-2022, 08:55 AM Permit me to address some of the comments above before closing this thread. One may reasonably expect and prefer a certain beby Carey - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
QuoteBigBoy2020 I’m starting to wonder if my first ablation was ever effective or if the three months of steady rate I got was just due to the pre and post-op Amiodorone? You were on amio right from the start following your ablation? If so, then I'm afraid you may be right. The blanking period is generally defined as 3 months, and if you're not in NSR without the aid of drugs at the eby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotebneedell My resting heart rate has also gone up from the 60s to the 80s is this something that another ablation might help? No. It's perfectly normal for your resting heart rate to be elevated following an ablation and it can take a surprisingly long time to return to its former baseline, sometimes upwards of a year. So you don't need to do anything about it. It's normal andby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Sorry you lost a long post. I know how aggravating that can be, but as George said, we have no way of fixing things like that. The software is maintained by volunteers at phorum.org and updates can be years apart (last update was 2020). If you really want to see things fixed, you'll need to visit the Phorum support site and lobby for it. In the meantime, just remember to quote first. And ifby Carey - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Oh, okay, I get it. Let us know how it goes and what they find.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
It sounds like your ablation succeeded in reducing symptoms but not eliminating them entirely. The fact that the flecainide works now isn't unheard of at all. It will suppress PACs, and it's possible that's all this is. It's also possible it's short bursts of afib, or a mix of both. Wearing a monitor sounds like exactly the thing to do, though I'm not sure why youby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Oh, BTW, forget bananas when it comes to potassium. I don't know how they got their reputation for being high in potassium. Sure, they have some, but it's not impressive. There's more potassium in two little kiwi fruits than a banana. Some of the highest potassium foods are: Kiwi fruit Dried fruits (raisins, apricots) Beans, lentils Potatoes, especially sweet potatoes Winterby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteOzRob So as long as it is paroxysmal can I assume you should try every trick there is try and control the Afib before considering an Ablation? No, I don't think so. And neither does the AHA, the Heart Rhythm Society, Medicare, and almost all private insurers in the US. Ablation was once considered a last resort therapy, with the guidelines saying ablation was only appropriate after mby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteOzRob Do I still have Paroxysmal Afib after 8 weeks of this? Yes. Persistent afib means it literally never stops at all for over a week. If it stops at all, even briefly, during a one week period it's paroxysmal.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuotePixie Which line/lead shows the wide QRS? They all do, but it's most apparent in II and III. Google some ECG images of normal rhythm and compare. See how wide the QRS complex is in Susan's compared to a normal beat? (Count the little boxes.) And see how the shape of the QRS is very rounded and smooth? That's what happens when you stretch a QRS out horizontally. It's aby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
That's not heart block but the QRS is very wide. My guess is you did accidentally double dose, so be careful with both the sotalol and the diltiazem. Don't take another dose of either one until you're well beyond the time it would normally be due.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
25 mg of metoprolol is a pretty low dose, so if that's dropping her heart rate into the 40s she's obviously very sensitive to it. I bet if you check her BP at those times you'll find it's very low, and that's probably what's making her nauseous. She might want to try cutting the pills in half and see how she does with that. PS- No worries about the CHADS-Vasc thiby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM