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I think that illness was likely COVID and it left you with long COVID. The problems you've been experiencing are known to be associated with long COVID.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
A couple of bleeding stories from my EMS days.... Story 1 We were dispatched to a rural home for a "wood splitter injury." That's all the info we got, so en route we were debating what it was going to be. I figured since they didn't give many details, it was probably fairly trivial, but my partner was certain it was going to be an amputation. Partner got it right. Whenby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteDaisy And with Medicare and a Medicare supplement plan my out-of-pocket was zero. It's odd, but I hear so often how superior private insurance is to Medicare, but as someone who recently went off an employer-provided plan and onto Medicare, I couldn't disagree more. With my former employer's insurance I paid $750/month premium, had a $3000/year deductible, and had to have prby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteKen A stroke, I will do everything possible to avoid. Agreed. I'll take all the bruising the world can dish out over a single "small" stroke. And a major one? Well, if you survive your life as you know it is over.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteTodd Most people are deficient in Potassium to some degree. I don't believe that's at all true. If you have healthy kidneys, it's actually quite difficult to alter your potassium levels for more than a brief period of time. No matter what you do your body will regulate itself back to its natural set point very rapidly if you try to raise your potassium levels with supplementby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotecalvin According to that score it is a 2, I will talk about this with my EP Thanks. Please do. It's probably not a good idea for you to go off the anticoagulant. You say you hate being on it. What is it you hate so much? I'm asking out of genuine curiosity because I hear this from people all the time and I never hear reasons why they hate it so much. Most of the DOACs have fby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotecalvin Once I have my ablation this spring / summer if it is a success I will consider not taking the thinner again as I hate it. What's your CHADS-Vasc score?by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
There have been deaths and lawsuits associated with every drug you can name. There are huge law firms whose only line of business is recruiting people to join class action lawsuits against drug companies. Like, for example, the company you linked to. Lawsuits mean nothing, and class action suits do nothing except enrich lawyers. Nobody else gets more than pocket change from them. The data areby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteRobbiecriss Sorry for my ignorance but what does inboxing mean? It's an unusual way of saying she's sending you a PM (private message). Look up on the right side of the window right above the green bar. See the link to Private Messages? If that link is bold, it means you have a PM waiting for you to read.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
MBBS is an international medical degree awarded in some other countries. It's equivalent to an MD and someone with an MBBS can practice in the US after completing the same requirements a foreign MD would have to complete (usually passing the graduate medical exam and completing a residency). So he's as much an MD as anyone else in the building with an MD after their name.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
It's not that time critical. A few days won't matter. And no, it's not bad to have a procedure following the DST change. Remember, that happens on Saturday night so everyone gets a day and a half to adjust. I wouldn't be the least bit concerned about any of that. I echo Daisy's question. I wouldn't do the procedure if you're just getting an unnamed EP. It coby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
It's long been known that some people do experience symptoms even after an AV node ablation, but nowhere near the symptoms they'd be experiencing if the AV node was still functional. Susan seems to be one of the "lucky" ones. But resorting to amio seems to me a very harsh solution.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
It's true. Funding research is always a struggle because there are far more medical problems in the world than there is money.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
It shouldn't matter what your upper chambers are doing. The connection between them and your ventricles has been severed. So your ventricular rate (your pulse) remains normal during all this, right?by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotecalvin Like all medical systems they are profit driven, I'm not sure there is any incentive to find a cause because there is lots of money to be made prescribing meds and preforming procedures. That's my gut feeling I would hope I am wrong. I think you are wrong. The doctors and centers that make money off procedures aren't the ones who are going to find the cause. That'by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotesusan.d Ps. I was shocked when this head cardiologist suggested I start amio. Isn’t that the reason for an AV node ablation? You mean he recommended it now? What on earth for? What's he trying to accomplish?by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotesusan.d What side effects (I.e. racing hr) should I expect from dipyridamole and is it similar to adenosine? Actually I just googled the drug and nuclear scan and some get both drugs. Is dipyridamole a nuclear material? Yes, a rapid heart rate. That's the whole point of a stress test. No, it's unrelated to adenosine and totally unlike it. No, it is not a nuclear materialby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotetindellery Thank you for the info. An ablation has been suggested a few time by my cardiologist but he said it's 50% successful that people won't have to have it again, so I'm leary but keeping it as an option. This is why you seek advice from an electrophysiologist (EP), not a general cardiologist. Your cardiologist is wrong. The average EP will generally have a 70-75% succby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
I get it. Trust me, I do. I've been where you're at and I spent several years there. You'll find a way out of this, maybe even this year.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Yeah, those are compensatory pauses caused by the PACs. They're about 1.2 seconds long, so not dangerous, but I'm sure they don't feel good. But why do you think the beta blockers are causing them? Without the BBs you'd be in tachycardia, right? That doesn't feel good either and it's more harmful than short pauses, which aren't actually harmful.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Dealing with reflux is way out of my wheelhouse. You probably know more about it than I do, but I would assume that you don't want a drug in the same class as famotidine, which is a histamine-2 blocker. Maybe something like Prilosec, which is a PPI? Talk to the GI doc who prescribed the famotidine, and if it wasn't a GI doc, find one and do a consult.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteDini Based on the comment above are you saying that a PFA wouldn’t be successful because of my now persistent Afib, therefore would having the traditional RFA be a better option? If you're referring to my comment, then what I meant was PFA alone might not be successful because it provides only a PVI ablation and persistent afib usually involves more than just the pulmonary veins. Butby Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Well, there's another reason to try an alternative. There are lots of choices.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotesusan.d I just google translated my report. The test they want me to take is a stress cardiac mapping with dipyridamole. Is that chemical a form of adenosine? No, they're unrelated.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Since an MRI takes a while, I would expect they'll use dipyridamole or dobutamine since adenosine is so short acting. And yes, whatever they use is going to increase your heart rate. That's the whole point of a stress test.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
There is no interaction between flecainide and amoxicillin, but there is a moderate interaction between famotidine and flecainide. You might want to ask the doctor who prescribed the famotidine if there's another option. Incidentally, I answered your question based on the interactions checker at drugs.com. It's reliable and very useful.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Barb, I hope you don't mind but I edited your post to conceal your email address from spammer email harvesting bots. Anybody can read this forum without signing up, which means spammers run bots that scan it for email addresses to harvest. When they find one, it gets added to a list. That list will then be sold and distributed and your email address will never be removed from it. So it'by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Wow, great outcome and great story! Could be very helpful to our European followers. If you want to copy and paste this to a new topic so it appears on page 1 that would be fine with me. This is an old thread so it appears on page 5 or something like that, so most people won't see it.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM
Yes, he's okay. That happened years ago and he fully recovered.by Carey - AFIBBERS FORUM