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Don't worry Tsco, blips during blanking are perfectly normal and you are not having any arrhythmia. let it all settle down as you get into month two which is a ways off still. Keep your diet good too, limit any junk food and try to eat as good as you can while all the healing is taking place, in particular, but also continue full time as much as you can. That does help. The AAR drugs aby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
tmac52, Hang in there, this will all get sorted out with insurance and Watchman as well as with the next generation of these devices. It is part of being the rapid advances in this field that is sometimes takes a bit longer for all the pieces to fall into place. Nearly everyone at huge EP Heart Rhythm Society conference in May expressed total confidence this was all jsut a matter of normal vetby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Outstanding news JohnB! Always good to hear, and we are seeing more cases like yours, though odds are still a bit over 50% needing to address the OAC issue after LAA isolation. Still either way its wonderful to have durable NSR in ones life, even if the OAC/ Occlusion device issue has to addressed too. Cheers! Shannonby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Welcome Robert, Sorry to see you had to seek us out in the first place, but very glad you found the right place so early in your adventure with AFIB. And good advice Ginny51! The first step is to breath easy and understand this is a big picture long haul issue that is not at all likely to kill you, certainly not directly and over some period of time all the sage advice you will find here incluby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
You are welcome Sam, And yes, Magnesium repletion is a significant benefit in so many ways beyond just helping to quiet the heart, in a significant majority of Afibbers. But it's important too to understand the generally broad 'U-shaped' curve defining optimal ranges where either end of the curve with either too little or too much of a good thing can have negative consequences,by Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi All, Do to frequent questions on dosage of magnesium recommended for afibbers, while most of us can easily tolerate, and benefit from up to 600 to 700 mg a day, and some much larger doses, and not insignificant number that still need some increase in their IC magnesium levels, can not tolerate more than 200 to 250 mg without creating a long term magnesium-induced magnesium and many other nuby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
SaM, I Would definitely go easy on the oral magnesium with normal systolic BP below 100 as you show, and with lowish dystolic BP too. So often that scenario also entire dysfunctional adrenal hormone performance, be that low cortisol low aldosterone or both. At least during periods of low BP... Feeling faint when standing up too quickly not infrequently is another hallmark of under responsive cby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Welcome back ajr1960!! But sorry its for a return of the beast, however what a great result you have had from your Natale ablations, one for AFIB in 2000 and another for PVC 15/16 years ago! Those were in the early dark ages of overall ablation technology and understanding. It is certainly worth scheduling a consult with Dr Natale if this continues at all or has been going on with increaseby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
phill Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi there, > > For 12 months a decade ago I noted everything as > far as diet, drink, exercise, stress and any other > suspected trigger. And the conclusion of my > experiment: > > 1. An A4 page of known triggers (some more of a > trigger than others). > 2. The hours for onset of Afibby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Great to hear Ron, That the migraines have largely abated now. I would not worry at all about any possible complication, even if they continued it is unlikely to have been anything too significant beyond the migraines themselves which are a big enough pain as it is, but the advise to seek out a possible MRI was only as a precaution to make sure all was okay in the event you continued to haveby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Anti-AFIB So sorry to hear that you had to put your beloved cat down after that poor treatment at the vet you told me about when we talked not long ago. That's a real shame. Take care, Shannonby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Rob, can you tell me, was this procedure was done in the UK? And did they use an interrupted anticoagulation protocol where they might have had you on Eliquis, Xeralto or Coumadin for a few weeks at least and then had you stop all OAC drugs for anywhere from 5 days for warfarin to two days for NOAC drugs and then used low molecular weight heparin in the two to three day interim period between stby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
HI ROB, There has been some issues reported not commonly, but it does happen with mostly transient migraine aura symptoms post AF ablation .. or any left sided procedure after a transeptal puncture. Like your cardio noted with his somewhat loose description of 'dirty blood', it may be from atrial septal hole from the picture that has not sealed over yet. Or perhaps was made a bit tooby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
With the TBI ( traumatic brain injury) Jim, that could also, almost by definition, bring on a significant shift in production and function of a number of key endogenous hormones. I know that endogenous Growth Hormone and IGF-1 levels are often hammered by TBI, and some consequences and effects of TBI can, in many cases, definitely be mitigated to a significant degree when said hormones are restoby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
HI Wolfpack, Your saying: "I wish Dr. John the best, but I'm at the point where I think his blog isn't helping the AF community (patients or practitioners).", certainly underscores my take on the impact of his blog. I have no doubt at all that he means well, and like so many well-meaning people he has some very good points and insights too. Some of which that are veryby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Jim All this still early, but beginning to steadily increase in frequency and intensity, I highly recommend you dedicate yourself to the Strategy protocol found on our site in the yellow/orange rectangular link at the top right of this forum's main page titled 'AFIB RESOURCES'. as one of the many excellent resource articles in this section that largely deals with electrolyteby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Sounds Great John! I'm sitting in my local EPs office in Scottsdale as I type this, and am here to get my every 6 month pacemaker check and read out and to shoot the breeze a bit with my EP while waiting to hear that my wife. Magdalena is finished with her own RF ablation on her lower back. We drove to two hour drive south from the mountains of Sedona, mostly for her RF ablation of hby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Yeah pharmaGABA works like a champ, especially along with 200mg of L-Theanine as Jackie noted above. By the way, Jackie has penned a nice review in our latest issue of the newsletter on L-Theanine that is almost ready to publish, hopefully around July 4th,or take a day or two. I like to chew two of the PharmaGABA flavored wafers and take one 200mg L-Theanine tablet or capsule about half an houby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Smackman, The reason for the TEE at 6 months is that is how long it takes for the average patient after an LAA isolation ablation for the mechanical function of the LAA to recover t what ever degree it is likely too. Keep in mind that anyone whose initial 6 month TEE is borderline low on the three main parameters that are measured to determine if the person can safely stop OAC drugs ... Or nby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Yes thanks George, I am referring strickly to using Potassium Gluconate powder as originally offered by NOW Brand supplements to get a specific dose of elemental Potassium listed in terms 540mg of (Elemental) Potassium from one teaspoon of potassium gluconate powder. This current and all future versions of Now Brands Potassium Gluconate powder, I understand, has now been switched back to theby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Thanks for the info on Banner Health in Phoenix. sounds like their ablation marketing department in taking some liberties in trying to promote their center as for folks with all types of AFIB. If they try that with Cryo for non-paroxysmal cases, it will only result in big increase in multiple repeat ablation business there. Hopefully, those patients will learn of our website or other good resourcby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Smackman, it just means you had atrial Tachycardia .. i.e.CS/LAA-based atrial flutter in your case ... that brought you back for the follow up ablation and you are now 'post redo ablative left atrial procedure'. That means you have now completed your follow-up procedure that in your case did not require any re-ablation of any areas along the PV antrum, posterior wall or SVC done in yourby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Good to hear Afhound99, McHale is doing just fine and getting ready to take a trip back to his parents country of origin Greece, to visit one of the Greek isles that his family has property on and his aunt I believe lives there. I was there in Austin the first 6 days of March to attend the bi-annual Ep-Live 2016 conference for intensive training of EPs on how to do advanced cutting edge ablby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Yeah Afhound 99 (and good to hear from you!) ... Dr Mandrola is at it again , He brought up this crazy idea in an ongoing EP-oriented twitter conversation that a good number of top level EPs contribute too, including Drs. Natale, Amin Al Ahmad and Luigi DiBiase from St Davids most of us on this forum are familiar with, and EP Lab Director and elite level ablationist Dr Fermin Garcia and Dr. Paby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Do NOT try to take 4,700mg/day of 'supplemental' potassium Smackman. Try to get most of your daily dose from food, drinks like organic coconut water and, and then if needed which it may well be if you have any runs of PACs/PVCs, then take up to a total of 1,500mg a day of potassium from the potassium gluconate powder form which you will get by taking three teaspoons doses of the NOW Brby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Mike If you wish, send me an email copy of your ECG chart ... and if you have an Alivecor iPhone or Android ECG monitoring system that is ideal for capturing spot ECGs to send quickly to anyone. And include your email address and cell numbers well as your time zone and I'll get back to you as soon as I finish wrapping up this issue of AFIB Report which should be in the coming few days.by Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
You are welcome Doreen, And keep in the mind too these FIRE and ICE stats are referring to centers that specialist in CRYO especially Karl Hines Kucks center in Germany who largely conducted this study and it is very relevant when viewing the broad base of more typical RF ablationist too ... not elite level RF ablationist. Still when looking at larger patterns that a person who just gets asby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
MacKay, Did you ever get your sleep apnea under control? If your Sleep apnea is severe and is not well controlled it can make for a longer more challenging road to get solid NSR for sure. Shannonby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
researcher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Shannon, along the same thoughts, Sam Asirvatham > of Mayo published recently a review of sub clincal > strokes during AF ablation and long procedure time > and sheath changes are big contributing factors. > I think the article is in the latest "innovations > in CRM". As you said the bby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
You are welcome Mike, Dr Natale allows you to record, and as with any doctor, it's good form and courtesy to at least ask first and simply tell them it is strictly for your own memory refresh and is not to plaster on the Internet in such forums . Enjoy your meeting in SF on Friday Mike. Shannonby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM