Faith - I'd be interested to learn about what was removed to make the difference...where can I find info on that? Second.... why not just give the magnesium taurate a chance to work. It may take several weeks but some posters have noticed a difference right away..... if your heart rate slows down too much, you are going to have to make the decision to either reduce your metoprolol on yourby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi John - Beta blockers are bad for libido and all that stuff. I was first on Betapace for a year and a half and then was switched to regular Toprol and then to the Toprol XL.... they all reduce insulin sensitivity and allow weight gain because the body keeps pumping out insulin that it doesn't use and it gets shuttled off to be stored as fat...but all the while the body still needs insby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Glen - I've always felt the best way to determine an irregular heart beat was by pulse. Now, if there would be some stealth occurrence of afib that would be "microscopically" or so subclinicially undetectable, it would certainly be interesting to learn about it. Jackieby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
njb - I would think not. Stenosis being the technical term, narrowing is the obvious description to describe stenosis. Here's the official listing in the online medical dictionary: stenosis Narrowing or stricture of a duct or canal. Origin: Gr. Stenosis (18 Nov 1997) Jackieby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Jim - That's they way I read it. I don't get the V/Q scan either. Which ever one of us gets to see Natale first should ask him for clarification of that report....if we can remember to do it. Jackieby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Lynn - that's simply the best news I've read in a very long time. Congratulations... I know how hard you've worked on this. Excellent. We can't look back and wonder why it didn't "click" previously. The important thing is you now have results - truly amazing but predictable knowing what we know about glutamates. I hope others will take this as seriously asby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Carol - I know you asked Hans to explain, but I wanted to relate my experience with the postural triggering of afib. I was told by several doctors while I was searching for answers to this potential trigger that lying down lowered heartrate significantly to allow the transition form sympathetic tone...where we function during the day...to parasympathetic where we tend to go when we usually don&by Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
I don't think this study has been posted here on the BB and thought it would be of interest to those who've had ablations and those considering ablations. Jackie 1: Circulation. 2003 Dec 23; 108(25): 3102-7. Epub 2003 Nov 17. Tiitle: "Pulmonary vein stenosis after radiofrequency ablation of atrial fibrillation: functional characterization, evolution, and influence of the ablation stratby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Don - I exercise with a man who is in his 60's and who has persistent afib that he cannot feel. It was detected during a routine checkup. They questioned him, he had no idea that the heartbeat was irregular. They have done nothing but but him on coumadin and a beta blocker...and are leaving the heart go in afib. I question the prudence of this tactic. I've worn various event mby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Carol - caffeine is the culprit for both coffee and chocolate.... even organic coffee which doesn't have the extra burden of toxic pesticides and fungicides still raises cortisol levels. I've sent you by email, a copy of a post I did a while back on Cortisol and stress... to further clarify. Jackieby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Karen - How much does your husband exercise in a week? Would you consider his output to be considered "heavy" exercise? I've just been reading an interesting article on people who overdo exercise. One of the key factors in unstable heart tissue is oxidative stress especially in the area of the pulmonary veins.... this is why ablations now focus on that site. Prolonged anby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
John - I commend you for taking the positive steps you did. The the fact that you are having such adverse reactions to Toprol would send up a big flag to me that you and that drug are not compatible. Perhaps you are more vagal than adrenergic.... and since beta blockers are not recommended for vagal afibbers, this is one of the reactions. (This has no scientific basis - I'm not doctoby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Richard - Thanks - I'll check it out. Jackieby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Howie - I love prunes and other dried fruit - they are loaded with good nutrients, however, the impact it has on my blood glucose and insulin reaction is simply not good. For me they are considered a no-no. But, if I have the urge for something sweet... I will buy the organic version with no sulfites or preservatives. If you don't have a problem with fluctuating blood glucose or glucosby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Lynn - As I recall about Sadja - she found that emptying the capsules and taking supplements that way eliminated the glutamate found from the protein in the gelatin capsules. Jackieby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Faith - Welcome. I can relate to weight gain with the beta blocker. Beta blockers reduce insulin sensitivity. I became insulin resistant. I was able to reverse the condition once I was off beta blockers. As it turns out, I was vagal and after finding out via this forum, that BB are contraindicated for vagal af, I just weaned off it. I felt much better and began to slowly lose some of the wby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Carol - coffee raises cortisol levels...and for a very long time after consumption.... Cortisol is known as the stress hormone. While vital in body function, in high levels, cortisol is also damaging. Called the death hormone, cortisol is the common denominator in aging. For a long life, cortisol levels must be low. Mmost of us are trying to keep cortisol levels low. Truly, coffee is nby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Robin - If you haven't read Hans book, I urge you to do so. This is the best reference available and further, you can take it right with you to the doctor's office and look up anything you aren't understanding. I've shown it to my doctors who think it is excellent. Jackieby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hey Joe - You needn't worry about putting me "on guard"... I'm just sorry I can't give you a double-blind study to answer your question. Some of these natural healing things are just so commonly accepted, that I never give it a thought. We just ...know. I realize that's not what the scientific mind wants...and most of the time, neither do I. I want to see thby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
PC - Thanks for sharing that. My input pales by comparison to your contributions. Yet, since this isn't a contest, I believe we all are much richer because of the combined efforts of everyone on the forum and from Hans providing the medium for the exchange of idea. You have certainly helped me try to understand the biochemical connections which seem at times to be so elusive. I hope youby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Richard - how does one get lithium? If it's covered in the URL's you gave, I'll find it. I'm consulting with a person now who is bothered with seborrhea and this might be the answer for her. Thanks. Jackieby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Richard - Thanks for the news on Dr. Wright. He is truly one of the good guys and a pioneer in the alternative approach. He and Alan Gaby, MD were partners for a while initially.... in one of the first and best newsletters about natural healing practices. I still have copies of those newsletters. Alan Gaby, MD wrote the book Preventing and Reversing Osteoporosis which is a very important wby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Bless you Pam, for going through all that trauma and the aftermath, and still being to laugh about it. You can't keep a good woman down! Go Pam. Jackieby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Jim - You are "wondering" about the impulses appearing near the PVI ostia. My knowledge indicates the reason is explained by the fact of high oxygen concentration in that area. Note page 137 in Hans' book on Oxidative Stress. This fits the discussion Dr. Natale and I had relative to your pondering. It also answers why the treatment with Lipitor post-ablation...to reduce thby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Joe - Gee - The doctor said it.... I know it to be correct that potassium depletes sugar...... I also know that low potassium creates irregular heartbeats..and in fact can cause a heart attack....as in dehydration, loss of electrolytes due to diarrhea in severe flu cases...... I'm sure this is verifyable on any google search about the manifestations of potassium deficiency and and itby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Jerry - first - Right on with the instructions to Paste Rosedale on the Refrigerator!!!! Sorry about the labeling.... I must have the old version of a New and Improved label. I'm sure they are the same product, however. I take one capsule in the morning and one in the mid afternoon.... my blood pressure and heart rate always go very low in the evening and I didn't want to add toby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Jim - in all probability - your statement is correct - they are triggers set off by an underlying problem....or deficiency....or condition yet to be discovered. It is logical, also to consider that avoidance of known triggers - vary by individual - be avoided so that the heart doesn't get "used" to going into afib. I think that the problem with long-standing or escalating afibby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi all - thanks for joining in this discussion. I totally agree that Dr. Mercola has good advice concerning insulin resistance and I've included in another post the required reading of the seminar presentation by Dr. Rosedale. Having been insulin resistant, I'd like to comment that it is not just a simple matter of going on a Paleo diet or Dr. Mercola's diet, etc....but rather a very concentby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Carol - I know what you mean! I have often thought that any person treating afib should be required to be an afibber, themselves. They are so out of tune when it comes to how we feel. That's what makes this forum click. We all have a KNOWING about how we feel. No one else who is not a fibber can every really KNOW. We truly are an elite group! Jackieby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM
Joe - sure - I said midway down the post that my chiropractic physician said it. I'm sure he either read it to learned of it in one of the many seminars he attends nearly every weekend. It's all holistic stuff. The balance of the body to make the organs function efficiently. Basic, simplistic and accurate. It's well known and acknowledged that sugar is a killer and is defiby Jackie - AFIBBERS FORUM