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Hi Reet - I wish you well with your ablation. There are certain supplements that are needed nutritionally to keep the heart cells healthy and also help speed up healing. Vitamin C is one that helps with healing and helps prevent bruising. My story of the supplements I took may be helpful to you. As I reported, I healed quickly and well and was not bothered with PACs or PVCs at all after theby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Dennis - tea, in general, has less caffeine content than coffee - in case caffeine is a trigger for you. In many afibbers, it is not. You can get organic tea - decaffeinated. And you can drink organic herbal tea that has no risk of pesticides or caffeine. If you are close to a Vitamin Shoppe - they have a nice assortment of herbal teas and some decafeinated version... not all are organic soby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Yes - we have confirmation that the RBC magnesium blood draw which measures ionized magnesium is a comparable comparison....although Exatest would argue differently (of course). For the cost differential, it's close enough. If you are on Medicare, then, you can inquire as to how much would be covered in either case and perhaps learn that your out-of-pocket costs would be minor. You wonby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Rodney - I'm terribly sorry to read your post. Consider taking significant doses of Coenzyme Q10... cardiologist Dr. Stephen Sinatra talks about using 600 - 800 mg Co Q10 on heart failure patients and has success getting the ejection fraction raised. check this product here just to understand what you are looking for. Special blessings, Jackieby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Because taurine acts to monitor intracellular electrolytes levels, one of the main results is ushering sodium out in favor of leaving potassium stay in or allowing more to come in. That helps lower blood pressure and in turn, it may also lower HR as there is less resistance. Jackieby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Nice productive and relevant rant, Erling, with useful references. Thanks. Everyone needs to be reminded of how simplistic this is and yet it is commonly ignored - even today. Newbie readers would be well advised to follow every link you offer. Unless you read it yourself, the story really doesn't dawn on you how relevant magnesium is as a basis for proper cardiac function. But as youby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Jeff - even 100 mg may not be a large enough dose for you. If you are a large man, you may need 150 mg twice a day. One of our former afibbers was large and the EP told him 100 twice a day was not enough for his size. When he changed, the events improved. If you don't feel comfortable doing it on your own, then consult with your EP about increasing the dosage. Are you taking any supplemeby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Mike - when I used Flecainide (four years ) - 150 mg two times a day, it never did keep me completely event free. I had breakthrough arrhythmia regularly and increasingly until it was every day or every other day... with long duration close to 24 hours, sometimes even longer.... UNTIL I did the heroics in my story about Calming My Heart - adding more magnesium, potassium, taurine and the diaphby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
David - I would avoid any trials of any type where medications or injections are involved. There are alot of glitches that come to light after some trials are halted because of injury, side effects and death. This is just my personal view, but I would not volunteer to end up with more problems than I have already. Jackieby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Avoid gel caps by using the flavored liquid omega 3 fish oils that is packaged in glass bottles. You have to refrigerate it. Carlson's has a good, certified pure brand and is not all that expensive. If you travel, then capsules are the way to go, but I have been using the liquid just to avoid using gel caps wherever I can.by Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
You can look for and use vegetarian capsules that don't contain the gelatin and therefore not the free glutamate that is a product from the gelatin process.by Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Mark - It is a fact that coffee is the most tainted product when it comes to chemicals added to the growing plant and to the beans. Most likely it's the chemicals as many afibbers drinking organic coffee tolerate it nicely. Decaffe has to be organic as well because otherwise, more chemicals are added to decaffeination process.by Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Josiah - I just posted to George about magnesium receptor sites and what actually gets into the cell versus what floats around in the blood...under Epsom Salts...if you haven't read it - please do. Bioavailability of the patented version of Albion's chelated magnesium glycinate means it is available to be absorbed through the intestinal wall and into the blood stream without furtherby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Thanks Trent for this information. One thing we can be sure of, there is considerable controversy about dosing vitamin D the safety and effectiveness. As my functional medicine MD advises, follow the literature and direction of the leading researchers a list of a few of the names follows. Im certainly very interested because of my initial 25OHD low levels and a very slow climb to reach thby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
George - some individuals MAY have a difficult time absorbing especially if the lipid layer of cells where the magnesium receptors is damaged from bad fats. The damage can be reversed with Omega 3 fish oils and care not to eat the damaging fats...and absorption is then facilitated. It's not necessarily true that if you are low in IC magnesium, you'll have trouble absorbing it... theby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Philippe - Nice to hear from you but sorry under the circumstances. I can certainly see how stress would enter into your afib recurrence what with a weak area and the Bear Stearns issue etc. What are you doing, if anything to handle the increased cortisol that is undoubtedly being produced continually in light of all the stressors you've mentioned? Resolving that and shoring up neurotransby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Yes - probably. So then, adding transdermal would also do the same thing... extra magnesium not needed inside the cells or serum will be eliminated through renal and fecal excretion. You can tinker to see which is the least offender but repletion or saturation is just that. Once you reach that point, it then becomes a choice of which delivery system you want to use. WW is inexpensive and easby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Silverbone - Glad to see you are doing so well and ready to start ramping up your exercise program. Once again, everyone is different, but a general rule is to continue what you are already doing with supplemental electrolytes and if you aren't doing anything, then now would be a good time to start. Exercise physiologists recommend keeping electrolyte levels steady by using before and aftby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
I agree - along with all the other important electrolytes that become flushed out with heavy sweating. To me, it's the duh! factor all over again.by Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
As I've mentioned frequently, in the presence of low intracellular magnesium stores, adding potassium can make afib worse... it may depend on how much potassium is added... a small amount may not matter, but it's unknown what constitutes small or large doses in each individual. Potassium should not be used first as a remedy for afib and it's especially important to know both theby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Gordon - my Bp cuff never registered well when I was in afib, either. Almost always an Error report. My HR was extremely irregular and fast so my cuff was worthless other than to make me even more concerned than I was at the onset in the early afib journey years. Later, I learned and accepted that the HR was almost always very high at first but settled down in an hour or two. Jackieby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Many people have found success with transdermal absorption of Epsom Salts.... magnesium sulfate. You just have to use enough and soak long enough. One thing it definitely does is relax muscles so a nice warm soak before bed is therapeutic from many aspects. Once again, since we all respond differently, you have to try it to see what happens for you. It certainly is inexpensive. If you havenby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study offers more evidence that the rapid heartbeat seen in many hard-training athletes is typically a benign side effect of physical conditioning. Elite athletes usually have lower-than-normal heart rates when at rest, but when they are active, some develop rapid heart rhythms known as ventricular tachyarrhythmias. Studies suggest that up to 30 percent of high-by Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Joanna - I have some personal experience with panic attacks. The symptoms are racing heart rate, sweating and clammy feeling, dry mouth, and cotton head feeling of not being able to think properly and along with all this comes a sense of anxiety. I know of four people experiencing panic attacks with similar symptoms who were eventually diagnosed as having a hypoglycemic event. Mine was driby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Tim - I hope you are doing at least something that is anti-clotting... at the very least, aspirin. Inflammation drives blood viscosity so the aspirin tends to help along those lines, although I really don't like recommending aspirin. As Erling mentions, nattokinase would be my choice and after you wade through reading Conference Room 39 and 40 sessions, you can email me and I can discussby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Frank - 1. It's always wise to know that your kidneys are functioning normally before beginning supplemental electrolytes. If you haven't been tested, you should be. 2. At the same time, test for Red Blood Cell levels of magnesium and serum levels of potassium so you know your baseline. 3. Always ramp up slowly in dosing.... go for 4 - 5 days and if all is well, increase by anotby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Study results/titles like this always make me want to follow the money trail as to who funded the study.... Note this one as counter-balance for the damaging affect of alcohol on the heart. Jackie Heavy Drinking Destroys the Heart Volume: 48 (19/05/2008) heartzine.com A new research presented at a meeting of the American Society of Hypertension in New Orleans on Wednesday last week sby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Erling and George - Perhaps we can get Hans to comment on this as well..... but on the magnesium chloride issue, I found a statement in a book on potassium that could also relate to magnesium and the ligand chloride. I was going to post separately but since this is a magnesium discussion - here's the question: Do we have need for concern over taking in too much chloride? We have frequentlby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Speaking of genes flaws or variants... This was published last year about testing to predict risk of MI Published Online May 3, 2007 Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1142842 A Common Variant on Chromosome 9p21 Affects the Risk of Myocardial Infarction The global endemic of cardiovascular diseases calls for improved risk assessment and treatment. Here we describe an association between myocardby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM