![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
Thanks for posting Yuxi!. Aoife5, in your situation, I'd ask the EP to cut your dose to Yuxi's 12.5/day. I'm guessing if the EP goes for that, you'd feel dramatically better.by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Gill, Per Carey's response, is your friend a US citizen or resident with US health insurance? If so, his response would not apply. Here is Natale's contact info. One of our members who has had a recent Natale ablation may be able to give you more specific contact info. Best, Georgeby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteAoife5 I had a cryo ablation six weeks ago, I did go back into Afib twice, I now am on 50mg Flecainide, twice daily, 50mg Metoprolol twice daily and 5mg Eliquis twice daily and have been in sinus, my current heart rate is low 60's. In Jackie's post from some years ago, she was prescribed 25 mg of Toprol XL (Metoprolol) prior to taking 100 mg of flec on-demand to convert an episodby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
My excellent afib control was worse associated with C19 vaxxes. After a bit, I started taking 50 mg of flecainide once per day for two months (starting at the end of Oct 2021), then dropped it to 25 mg/day. I tried dropping to zero flec in June '22 and Oct '22, both times getting afib in 4 or so days. So would revert to 25 mg/day. I'd had several boosters and hypothesized that if Iby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteJAYHAWK Other than the question from last week.....do not remember seeing the subject being discussed. Would welcome any thoughts or opinions. Hi Steve, We have two PEMF devices, one that I got to help sleep and has coils you put under the mattress. Didn't help sleep, but also had no association with causing afib (I'm not ablated, but have excellent control). The other devicby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotetobherd what's the purpose of monitoring it like that if he's on Eliquis? Since he's on Eliquis, what I can think of is he in afib for long periods of time with a high (>100 BPM) rate rate. Since he doesn't sense the afib, he might not know. I would think he could get that information from a watch that records heart rate. If he's seeing high rate duringby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
I tried CBD for sleep a number of years ago. It did nothing one way or the other for sleep or afib for me.by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
The actual paper is behind a paywall, here is the abstract. The odds ratios comparing women to men are very material. 3.00 for dementia and 3.43 for mild cognitive impairment. There is a thought that women may not get as good of treatment in men. The people who end up at our site are usually very proactive about their care. This is one of the studies relating an increased risk for thoseby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Here are some Kardia images - jpgs made from a PDF. NSR this morning- right hand thumb to left V4. Good p wave: This is the tachogram of the above, provided by Kardia. It is an unusual presentation. The heart rate y axis is on the right side. Increasing going down. The scaling is unusual as it is based on the RR time in seconds, a linear scale on the left side, increasing going up.by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotecornerbax I don't know what I was thinking. I just used my right hand and right thumb on one contact and placed the other contact in the V4 location as shown on the diagram. I've attached a screenshot of the ecg. Any better idea now of what the ecg shows? Still hard to tell. I think I'm seeing a P wave on some of the beats in the first line. & yes, your device workby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotecornerbax Is NSR with bigeminal PACs any relation to AFIB/AFLUTTER? No QuoteIs it better or worse that I would have NSR with bigeminal PACs, VS. AFIB or AFLUTTER? Better! It is NSR!! Note your heart rate. If you are in NSR then lots of things are better. Quote@George, thank you. I can pay for a subscription but I don't want to get obsessive with ECG's. I was just curby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
I think I'm seeing "p" waves on the second ECG (the small waveform just before the QRS waveform). If you hold your Kardia with your right thumb on the contact, then place the left contact either around your left knee (or somewhere on your left leg) or to the left of and a bit below your navel on your belly. This will give you a Lead II presentation which gives a better representaby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteCarey I've never heard of low blood sugar triggering afib. Has that happened to you? A search on the topic indicates it is mostly associated with insulin dependent diabetes, with a severe hypoglycemia. I could hypothesize that an adrenergic counter regulatory response to a hypoglycemia could be an adrenergic trigger for an afibber sensitive to them.by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotecornerbax What is interesting is that my heart rate is usually around 100 and between 115 at rest, but for some reason today it's lower on average. I just did an ECG with Kardia and it shows 67 BPM but it shows as "UNCLASSIFIED" which i'm guessing is because Kardia will only detect certain rhythm's. I don't have the 6L, just the standard Kardia. Do you hby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteLaniB Does anyone know if fasting for maybe 24 hours or 3 days for a person with BMI of 20 or 21 would be likely to cause blood sugar to go low enough to trigger Afib? I'd really like to fast for a day, just to give the digestive system a rest, but afraid of triggering an episode. Everything is individual. I'd go and test blood sugar and perhaps ketones along the way. If itby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotehds Is there anyone on the forum who already had PFA? Any experiences? There is a search of our site of the PFA topic in my post here.by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteCarey Delayed enhancement MRI. I actually had one done at Yale in 2014. Basically, it's able to identify fibrosis in the atria, which is a hallmark of atrial myopathy/afib. Curious what yours showed, since the purpose of the study was to show the association with more fibrosis and afib recurrence (and you are doing well)?by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteMarco Someone complained about palpitation with K2 (mk7) on a low calcium diet years ago, and I have been keeping an open eye about this subject. FWIW, I take a product with 25 mg K2 MK-4 and 500 mcg K2 MK-7. I keep my calcium intake <500 mg/day. I have taken 10,000 IU's D3/day for long periods and run my 25OHD north of 100 ng/dL (per my doc's suggestion). I currently tryby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteMarco thank you G, I will look into this. I'm currently looking into into Dr Carolyn Dean and her work with Magnesium, she is supposed to be the expert on it out there. According to her work, not to be deficient in Mg, someone would need to to be at least at the top range of Mg rbc test. With mine came back at 4.9 (deficient according to her) and yours slightly above range, you seem toby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteMarcoIs there any particular Mg supplement is recommended in the forum? I think, like many things, it is individual. For me, any mag form works in sufficient quantity. Magnesium for me is and has been a key part of my remission strategy. Here are some non-standard ideas. A number of years ago, the late Erling Waller (passed a few years ago at age ~91) and member Jackie developed aby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuotePavanPharter PLEASE NOTE: This is not an actual response to Marco's post but I am using this as an example of what a bot/AI post might look like. When you see a post like this (but not this one) please report to Carry. Curious, as a Mod in another group, it would seem that going to the effort of having a bot post there would be some kind of commercial or nefarious motivation???by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Here is an anecdote from one of the people I encouraged to see Dr. N. My friend and his wife flew in from Denver. When they arrived at TCAI in Austin, a docent asked them where they were from. When they answered Denver, the docent said, "You must be here to see that Italian doctor, people come from all over the world to see him!"by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
This app is much better. On some of the images, you may have to click on them to get the full vs the truncated image. I did about 20 minutes on the SkiErg, 15 minutes at my Zone 2/MAF heart rate or less (112 BPM at age 68) standing on the flat side of a Bosu ball behind the machine. See here for example video. Then did 5 minutes in Zone 3. The app recorded 32 pages, this is page one:by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteCarey Resting heart rate should be somewhere between 50 and 80 depending on your level of fitness, with athletes falling near the bottom of the range (very highly trained athletes can go down in the 40s). However the low end of this range is not something to strive for while in afib 100% of the time and on rate control meds. You could discuss whether a different rhythm med might work forby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteSamIAm GeorgeN, regarding "ECG EKG Viewer for Polar H10", there app page shows a rhythm strip pic (below). But this can't be exported as pdf? I see the issue. I have a different app, "ECG EKG Recorder for Polar H10" The one you link may work.by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotecornerbax What is the general consensus on what a resting heart rate with afib while on medication should be? Is anyone on this forum in the 50s-70s with their resting heart rate on medication? I mentioned in another post even with 120mg sotalol twice a day and 240mg of Diltiazem once a day my resting heart rate is low 100s to mid 115s or so on average. That is just sitting with no exertby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteJakeS Regarding the Apple Watch. I may be wrong but I believe HRV and RR interval measure are the same? If I am wrong hope someone can clarify. While heart rate focuses on the average beats per minute, heart rate variability (HRV) measures the specific changes in time (or variability) between successive heart beats. The time between beats is measured in milliseconds (ms) and is called anby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
The longer you are in persistent afib, the more difficult getting a successful ablation can be. With your situation and at age 48, I'd consider an ablation, as you've got hopefully a lot of life ahead and no telling how long the meds you are on will keep your heart rate in range. That being said, given you've been in persistent afib, a doc like Dr. Natale would be my choice, ifby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteMarco HI George, does the vagal afib present itself with lower heart rate compared to the adrenergic? Once you are in afib, my understanding is afib is afib and how you got there doesn't seem to impact things like rate. Afib rate is modulated by the atrioventricular (AV) node which passes (or blocks) signals from the atria to the ventricles. The random passing or blocking of signalby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteYuxi I didn't know this test exists, what's your daily intake? Good question, I eat fish & shellfish daily. Many times for multiple meals. I also consume a plasmalogen precursor supplement, which likely should be included. As my genetics are prone to cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), which is a condition leading to brain bleeds, I vacillate (as high omega 3 makes bloodby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM