Sure, I've sent you a private message with my email address where you can send it.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Gloaming is right. The risk of serious complications from isoproterenol is primarily limited to people with compromised cardiac circulation. All it does is raise your heart rate and make your heart more reactive. It doesn't constrict blood flow as many other stimulant drugs do. It's very commonly used in ablations without issue, especially by more experienced EPs. It's pretty muchby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Follow his advice? Is your local EP willing to use high doses of isoproterenol? I would get that question answered first. Are you willing to tie one on the night before the procedure?by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotegloaming I attempted to donate via PayPal, but the site won't let me donate to a US society/site. Do I have to use a credit card? Any tips, runarounds..? You're in Canada, right? If so, you shouldn't be having any problems. We know PayPal has issues with New Zealand, but not Canada.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
I'd love to have it work that way, but George is right. The forum software will have to be replaced for that to happen, and that's no small task. It's on the agenda and it will happen eventually, but it has to happen in a very careful, planned manner. The last time the forum software was upgraded by Hans, the site lost thousands of older posts. Don't want something like that hby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Well controlled is a HR under 100. Brief forays into higher rates are okay as long as they're not prolonged. 260-300? My, that's impressive... and dangerous.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
The problem with these studies showing AF leads to heart failure is that none I've seen control for antiarrhythmics, rate control, and ablation/Maze. I don't have the time to go look for them now, but there are studies showing that well-managed afib does not reduce life expectancy.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Thanks, Jake! I never even thought of looking at the RSS. For those interested, the post was made to a thread from 2017. It's about his success eliminating tyramine from his diet.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
I don't know if you noticed but I changed the settings to display 200 topics per page rather then the former 50 topics. So if you went back 6 pages you were going back 300 topics, but now 6 pages will be 1200 topics.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Today I see that the red "new posts" is lit up when I visit the forum. So I went to look for the new post, but sadly one of the glaring omissions from this forum software is the ability to click to see new posts. I should be able to click that red "new posts" link and be taken to the new posts but alas, I can't. I actually scrolled back through 5 years of topics and couldby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Are you only taking it once per day? The half-life of bisoprolol is 9-12 hours, so instead of upping the dosage why don't you try bid dosing instead?by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Burkhardt is good but Natale is better. I would readily wait a month or two longer for Natale.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteSearching9 1) Does moderately severe Aortic Valve now classify her as " valvular AFIB", and what is the difference in treating valvular versus non-valvular AFIB? 2) Since starting on the Tikosyn she has experienced several days-long freedom from afib, suggesting that the Tikosyn seems to be providing some benefit. Is there any other reasons to suspend the Tikosyn, for what mightby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
I'm amazed that a mg or less per day is working for you. Hurray that it is! But you must be incredibly sensitive to the effects of beta blockers.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteNoTrigger Carey - You mentioned success rates of 75 - 90% for elite EPs in the post above and I was wondering where you found these numbers. Mary This is a study published by Natale et al. in 2017. The list of authors reads like a Who's Who of the elite electrophysiology world. The study group was composed of people who had failed 2 or more previous ablations, so the study groupby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Wow, how unexpected. But good that you saw your PCP and got diagnosed. Now at least you know what it is and it will pass.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
That's always been my impression. I don't think recurrence in the first 30 days is meaningful, but after that I don't think it bodes well. By no means is it always the case, but I think it trends that way.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Get some bottles of flavored seltzer water and use that. My wife loves them (Polar brand). They're just carbonated water and flavoring so they won't affect the med.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
I can't imagine why you thought eliminating caffeine would improve fatigue. I would expect quite the opposite. Have you spoken to the EP about this fatigue? If you have and they didn't offer anything useful, go see your PCP and get checked out. Could be something completely unrelated to the ablation. Fatigue shouldn't last more than a few days after an ablation, and for some peoby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteDini Is it normal to feel so tired for so long after ablation? No, it's not. What meds are you on?by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Those inactive ingredients aren't meds. They're just inert stuff that binds the ingredients into a solid pill. You'll see them or other stuff like them in every pill made.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Mucinex should be okay. And if you've had a successful ablation, you really don't need to be concerned about raising your heart rate.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotekliving My doctor specializes in pain management. Florida still has a big problem with opioids, and most doctors here try to avoid prescribing them as a result, at least where I live currently. Not really complaining about it, but I would still like to have something that would help. Considering, at my last appointment we were at either ablating my sciatic nerve or looking at fusing the spinby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Find a pain management specialist and book an appointment with them. You'll find the attitude toward narcotics vastly different, and they may have other options they can offer that other docs don't.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
I've never experienced that from BBs and I can't recall ever hearing someone else say they did, but drugs affect everyone differently so it's possible. BBs reduce BP and if it's dropping it too low, brain fog could definitely be a side effect. Check your BP a few times when you're feeling the brain fog and when you're not.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Yeah, that's not success. My first thought was you've got quite a salad of -geminy going on there. Bigeminy, trigeminy, quadgeminy, and so on. But looking at it more carefully I think that's just plain old afib with 1.2 second pauses sprinkled in randomly. It's not any sort of -geminy at all.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
The word "poop" appears in the dictionary and it's not even labeled as obscene or vulgar. You've got to at least get an obscene or vulgar tag from Merriam-Webster to cross a line here. And I bet 90% of the folks here would agree with you.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
No, I wouldn't hesitate. Are you taking the diltiazem for rate control or hypertension? If it's for rate control then the interaction doesn't matter at all. If it's for hypertension, just watch your BP for a few days and if it goes up, talk to the doc who prescribed it about perhaps changing dosage.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
If you made people giggle, I seriously doubt it crossed any sort of line here. This is a forum, not a church. Please edit it again and put back what you said because I want to see it if people found it funny.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuotePixie I did a quick search on Medscape and saw there was an interaction with Eliquis. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated, Medscape isn't where I would look for interactions, or much of anything about drugs, actually. The interactions checker on drugs.com (which I do trust) found no interactions between Eliquis and melatonin. And I'm confident they're right for thby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM