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See my response to this question in the General Health forum.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
You don't need an ED with a heart rate of 88. I doubt they would be willing to cardiovert you anyway since AF at that rate isn't harmful. As for taking another dose, 100 of flecainide isn't a PIP dose. That's just a standard dose so it probably won't convert you. You probably need to increase the dose you use to 300, which is the standard PIP dose. And unfortunateby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
It's extremely unlikely the AF or the apixaban had anything to do with the floater or your liver problem. Amiodarone is toxic to the liver and can cause liver failure, but once it is stopped the liver usually eventually recovers. The only pain relief that's as powerful as NSAIDs but doesn't increase GI bleed risks is narcotics. Don't reject the idea out of hand. Yes, if youby Carey - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Yeah, if the rate of PVCs varies, you'd need to wear a monitor for a week or so to get a good idea of daily totals.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Great news! Hope you continue to feel better.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
The recording you posted is definitely not afib. You do not need aspirin. All that will do is cause an increased risk of GI bleeds, particularly if you're "old" (you keep saying you are but you don't say a number and everyone's definition of old is different). If you were going to take any type of anticoagulant, it should probably be low dose Eliquis or Xarelto. Muchby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
I agree with George: NSR with frequent PVCs. It looks like you're throwing about 24,000 PVCs per day, which is a lot. Cardiologists arbitrarily set 20,000 per day as the number that is "too many" and will treat it at that point. The trouble is, the treatment would likely be your old friend metoprolol. It's not that they're dangerous -- they're not -- it's thby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
It could be afib without tachycardia, but a doctor has seen the recordings and said it's not, so it's probably just ectopics (PVCs and/or PACs). A few short bursts of ectopics don't put you at risk of forming clots, so you probably don't need to take anything. A more meaningful measure would be knowing your CHADS-Vasc score. I don't think anyone can offer tips on reby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quoterattana Has anyone taken CBD (with very low THC) that helped change afib state? . I've never tried it, but I've heard from a number of people who have and I've not heard a single success story. I also know two people who have afib and use marijuana recreationally and they say it neither helps nor hurts.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
There's really not much to be done. Just relax, go about your business, and don't worry about it. There is, however, one thing I recommend.... If you are a man and you have chest hair or back hair, shave it now. If you're either gender, also shave the groin at the area where your leg joins your torso. Generally, do what's known among women as a bikini wax. And do this nby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Keeping that Xio Patch for a month is going to be an argument with your insurance company. Those things are expensive. Mine was billed at a little over $100 per day.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Wow, thanks for reporting in after so many years! What a great result.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteNotLyingAboutMyAfib Any other ideas? I'd say a psych eval is in order following her ER eval. She's exhibiting irrational, delusional behavior.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Susan, the LARIAT is gold plated, so the nitinol is never in contact with you. The current version of the AtriClip does not contain nickel. If you're just going to do shallow searches on these devices and refuse to consider anything that contains (or used to contain) nickel, then just plan on a life on anticoagulants. Aside from surgery to suture your LAA closed, there aren't any otherby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
This is 2021. The local hospital can have your records from Robles in a matter of minutes. In fact, these days it's likely it won't even take that long because they can access them directly through their EHR (electronic health record) system every hospital in the US has. The ER will most likely be able to pull up your Robles records instantly once they have consent, even if the two hospby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
If you can't prove you can tolerate the device then it would be insane to have it implanted. Surgical removal would be major surgery if it had been in long enough to become fully or partially endothelialized. The LARIAT or AtriClip would be more appropriate choices.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
A heart rate of 184 is a justifiable 911 call, particularly in the presence of chest pain, and of course they're faster, more reliable, and deliver directly to ERs. Arriving by ambulance also means you'll skip triage and be seen much faster because they'll already know you're coming, what's wrong. And assuming it's a paramedic-level service, the medics will get an ECby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Because anticoagulants aren't the only things that can affect coagulation. If your PT is out of whack, something is wrong and they need to find out what that something is because it's not the NOAC, but giving a NOAC to someone with a prolonged PT might make them more susceptible to bleeds. It's a cheap, easy test that they'd be foolish not to do on anyone taking any sort oby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
It might be elevated but it's not a reliable indicator. Most of the clotting measures just aren't meaningful with NOACs. Have a look at Table II in this paper.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Sorry.... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6302034/ Quote The WaveCrest 1.3 device consists of a self-expanding nitinol frame with 20 anchoring points, covered by an expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE; also known as Gore-Tex) fabric. It comes in three sizes (22, 27, and 32 mm), as shown in Figure 1. I think you're going to find nitinol in almost all implanted deviceby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotesusan.d Maybe the 100 joules were too low? Nah, doesn't matter. Whatever interrupts the arrhythmia is "enough." After all, that's all a cardioversion does -- it stops your heart momentarily, which gives your heart a chance to restart, hopefully in its normal rhythm. It really is a lot like rebooting a PC. In all but two of my cardioversions they used 100J and thatby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Tom, glad things went well for you. I edited your post to remove your email address. You should never post an email address on any forum that's open to the public. Spammers routinely "scrape" web sites like this looking for email addresses. When they're found, you go instantly on a list of email addresses that spammers buy and sell. That's a list you don't want toby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Wavecrest is the other one I was thinking of.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
There's at least one other device similar to the Watchman, but its name escapes me at the moment. I don't know of any advantage it has over the Watchman. I think the Lariat and AtriClip are the only external devices, but there's also just plain old sutures. Heart surgeons have been routinely closing off the LAA during surgery for other reasons by simply suturing it closed.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
I know a guy who was diagnosed with afib purely by chance in a routine physical. He runs marathons and had no idea he was in afib persistently and probably had been for years. So now he takes a beta blocker and anticoagulant and continues to run marathons. Would he feel better in NSR? Maybe, but since he wasn't even aware he was in afib, it doesn't seem like it can be much of an improveby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
There are a lot of really tragic stories out there in numbers none of us have seen in our lifetimes. The historical perspective is not going to be kind to us in the future.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotescribbler Carey, I know you had the Watchman fitted as part of a trial but did you ever consider the AtriClip which doesn't appear to have the endothelialization issue? Good question but I never really considered other devices because in 2017 that just wasn't a possibility. Medicare and insurance companies wouldn't pay for any type of LAA closure devices for someone like me.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotekatesshadow I have my first Pfizer scheduled for tomorrow (GA has opened it up to age 16 and over!). I'm a little nervous. Seems like all the conspiracies are popping up. Is there any reason to think the vaccine might cause Afib to start up? My cardiologist told me that having Afib itself doesn't make you a "high risk" Covid patient. Note to add - my sister passby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
I'm betting you run into technical roadblocks but I think it's cool you're going to try this.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
You might want to look into it again. I'm hearing from more and more people who've been approved by Medicare for Watchman devices who would have been rejected a couple of years ago.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM