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Quotewolfpack Knowledge is power, folks. You'll get way more here than you ever will in a 15-minute office visit with an EP (or cardiologist, or any doctor for that matter). Well said!by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteKleinkp Private message issues. Sent message box shows no messages sent, is that normal? Sent a few PM with no response. Probably no issue, just not interesting enough for a response When you reply, I "think" you need to check the box "Keep A Copy In My Sent Items" for it to show up there. Georgeby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteJoe Isn't another critical factor to see if a P wave is before every QRS (assuming no ablations happened)? When I sample with my Kardia, I hold one lead with my right hand and put the other on my lower left side - lower abdomen, hip or knee as this has a presentation with a more pronounced P wave. I find a tachogram (heart rate vs. time graph) which is what I get from the r to r rby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Anne, In my case, it was very quick (weeks at most). Also if I go off my mag, I get afib within a day or two after not having afib for months or years. Also in my case, quantity of mag makes a difference. I take a very large quantity of magnesium per day (3g). I tested RBC mag in my serum. It was around 7.9. The top end of optimal is 6.5. I decided to back off my intake to drop the seby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteIDbill Also with Kardia I cant see how it's inherently low Res. (2 lead) ECG can truely identify Afib. I it just presumed from heart beat irregularity? I'm not sure what the Kardia algorithm is, but I can say it does work for me. One hallmark of afib is a highly variable R to R distance on an ECG. This stands out easily on an r to r recording heart rate monitor. When I firsby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
wolfpack, I concur with Carey. Great job!by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
In 2004, I was looking into creating a hardware/software (pattern recognition) setup that would predict afib. My plan was to have enough lead time to take an adrenergic agonist like Sildenafil (Viagra) or Tadalafil (Cialis) to ward off my vagally triggered afib. I studied many ECG's (my own and in the data) to work on this problem (I was slightly movtivated to solve the problem and put aby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotekatesshadow Is there a place on here for "success stories"? Some of you have been through a lot of trial and error and have encouraging stories to tell. I've had afib for 14 1/2 years. Peggy Merrill, who still occasionally posts, put together a lis of success stories around 11 years ago < When I joined this forum in August, 2004, There were many posters trying all sortby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
As Jim mentions, taurine may be an issue. I've taken 4g of taurine in powder form for years. Otherwise I'd put my money more on electrolytes. With your gobs of Mg++, are you yet to bowel tolerance? I'm also a fan of potassium citrate (in powder form as pill have a 99 mg/pill limit). You can get bags of food grade potassium (assume your kidneys are OK). 1 tsp of the powdeby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotekatesshadow 18/6? So - only eating between say, 8AM - 2PM? Yep, or some variation of the timing. Circadian rhythm is huge in many areas of health. Satchin Panda at the Salk Institute has done a lot of work in this area. Here is a presentation he made: < He also has a book and has done many interviews. As to white coat, do you take your own BP? I've had white coatby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotekatesshadow Do those of you who have been diagnosed for years think about your Afib very often? Because, right now it is ALWAYS in the back of my mind.....so depressing. I've had afib for 14 1/2 years. The remission protocol I use is one I created and was approved by an EP during a 2.5 month persistent episode which started about 2 months after my initial paroxysmal episode. Wby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Here is a stroke risk calculator from UCLA. You can change different variables (including BP, diabetes, CVD & afib) and see how it impacts your risk < BTW on Carey's 5%/year - looks a little steep on some of the cases I ran. In one comparison, the 10 year risk went from 1.1% to 4.3% a very material increase, but not 5%/year.by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotekatesshadow When I asked the cardiologist about magnesium at my 1st (and only) visit, she said it wouldn't make much difference. But I see from my research (googling ) that most people do notice a difference. What I have is Heart Calm. One serving is 300mg Magnesium, 99mg Potassium, 1000mg Taurine, and 30 mg Coenzyme Q10. Instructions are 3 per day. I have not started it yet. I asby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuotePompon Persistent afib must be awful. I think it varies significantly between persons. At that time, my resting afib heart rate was in the 80's (now more like 100-130, but doesn't last very long). I've always been asymptomatic in afib. I did have lower heart output, so when I tried to exercise, I was limited compared to what I could do in NSR. Now I don't try to exby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuotePompon Of course, you're right, we're all different. But do those people have enlarged atria because of afib or the opposite? Or does their afib enlarge already enlarged atria? And what's "less afib"? I don't know how it works in this case, but having 250*2h afib in three years is likely different for the heart than having, say, 5*100h afib during the same tiby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteSunny82 Hey George....When you take the Flec., are you able to quit taking it after your heart is in sinus rhythm, or do you have to stay on it? I've taken that stuff and have all kinds of bad side effects so I can't take it on an ongoing basis. I had a electrocardioversion in November and am now in sinus rhythm but doctor is saying it can't last if I don't take medicatby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
I concur about going to the best EP. If it were me, I might get a script for on-demand flecainide to use at home. If you had a couple of episodes a year, terminated in short order with flecainide, your afib burden would be very low. I've used flecainide in this way (for infrequent episodes) for over 14 years, never having had an ablation. Georgeby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteElizabeth Smackman: You said your dad died of a stroke while taking an older blood thinner, was that Coumadin? I have read of cases where people have died of a stroke while on a blood thinner and are usually older. No anti-coagulation med reduces your stroke risk to zero. For Coumadin/warfarin, I've read that the risk reduction is about 50%. For the newer anti-coagulation meds,by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
I've not had an ablation. I've had afib for over 14 years. Here is a brief history < "Do you contact your MD after each episode?.....even when they resolve on their own? " Beyond my first episode, where I went to the ER because I did not know what was happening, I've never called my doc or gone to the ER for an episode. After my first 2.5 month episode, Iby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
What Pompon said. Though it does depend on what your body is used to. I've run mine as low as 90/50 without any symptoms (even 80/40). Also not on any meds.by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
I've always just asked for dental anesthesia without epinephrine. They have complied, and I've not had an issue. Georgeby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteAnneC Anne, see this post from Shannon: < Sorry, George, could you please post that link to Shannon's message again? The existing link is taking me to Amazon. Cheers, Anne Sorry! Fixed.by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Anne, see this post from Shannon: <by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Jackie, Great job, thanks! Here is a podcast with Dr. Doug Wallace. He is the guy that figured out that mitochondrial DNA are only inherited from the mother - the egg destroys the male mitochondrial DNA. That might be enough to earn him a Nobel Prize someday. Why? Well it turns out that the most energy is produced when all the mito DNA are the same. The more divergence, the less eneby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteLorraine Carey -- is there a reason for suggesting Natale over Bourdeaux? < Bourdeau will be cheaper. Some of our posters here from the UK & Ireland can be more specific. and from a Shannon post from 2016 "Once you decide on an ablation, the best place for AFIB Ablation in Canada is, as GeorgeN noted above, at Southlake Regional Health Center in Newmarket Ontario ... whichby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
A post in Jim's linked thread: < talks about a Chinese supplier. < I looked at this product < which does talk about dosing.by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteLouise I am 69; is that too old? I am, other than afib, in excellent shape/health and very active. Louise Certainly not. One issue, as you appear to have been in afib for some time, is keeping you in NSR after a cardioversion. Georgeby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteBobby I don’t know if anyone has a tried a technique to self convert afib by ‘bearing down’. Bearing down is a vagal maneuver. Vagal maneuvers will slow the heart rate. For afib conversion, vagal maneuvers can work for those with an adrenergic trigger, but are unlikely to work for those with a vagal trigger. Here is a list of other vagal maneuvers, but avoid trying carotid massage <by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
On the text size, this is likely a "feature" of the Phorum software that is the platform here. To my knowledge, we don't really have a tech guy handling things like this. It possibly could be changed in the software settings, not by us the users.by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM