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Flowmaster Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The current website is so cool it's almost retro! For sure there is that, too, Flowmaster ... though the tradeoffs from the Multi-headed Hydra it has become to manage, with so many layers and labyrinths that have evolved slowly and organically through the years to the point now where we just can not easilyby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
A Special Surprise! While attending the Heart Rhythm Society Scientific Sessions 2016 last week, I was very pleasantly surprised by a revelation I heard from two women in charge of the public relations group out of Washington DC that handles all PR work for HRS and who handled all Press and Media liaison at this large conference attended by somewhere between 10,500 and 12,000 EPs, Cardiologistby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Welcome Kaytee, Try the 90mcg regular dose of Vitamin K2-MK7 and monitor your INR carefully each week for the first few months either by weekly INR tests at the lab or, better yet, with a well calibrated Home INR monitor that you know how to use properly. I suspect you will find that even at 90mcg per day of K2-MK7 your INR will not move up or down more than about +/- 0.2 INR compared toby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
The Contact Force (CF) catheters have a learning curve too and are a bit stiffer and more prone to cause tissue injury if care is not taken to avoid too much CF combine with too much time on tissue and/or too much power. At HRS Doug Packer and Andrea Natale both emphasized not to use more that 10-20 grams of CF with 10 to 15 grams being typically optimal CF paired with a range of 30 to 45 wattby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Vincent, I agree with Jackie that certainly adding in daily CoQ10 since you are on a statin is important, and I also support making a dedicated effort with adding in the electrolyte protocol found in The Strategy as well, whether or not you chose to get out of your increasingly becoming persistent AFIB. Jackie noted that she had a longer recovery from fatigue after her last two ablatioby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Wow Jackie, that's a huge load of sodium for one dish at PF Changs. I haven't eaten there in many years and will scratch it off my list going forward. Shannonby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Rylar, Sounds good and am very happy you found someone near you that you liked and obviously sounds more experienced and skilled than the doc who did your first go around with not such a pleasant outcome and some questionable decisions. Keep us posted and wishing you all the best for a quiet heart from now on!! Don't be a stranger here and remember to pay attention to life-style risk fby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
150 burns would be a heck of a lot Bill. I did not have anywhere near that many even with my soup to nuts very extensive persistent AFIB ablation with Dr Natale in 2008. There must have been a miscount or not hearing it correctly to get a figure around 150 burns. Otherwise, if true this could be a clue as to your longer than average recovery process. After reading your ablation report nothing jumby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Peggy, While researcher is right that you can access the Medscape article on the OASIS - Randomized Controlled Trial presented at HRS 2016 Conference last week in San Francisco, I imagine quite a few others here might also find it easier just to read a summary of the OASIS trial that Dr Natale's group conducted and that he reported on the results of last Friday at HRS. As such, I expaby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Thanks Researcher, I was just getting ready to write my own review of this major OASIS Randomized Control Trial presentation, as I was there too at the Heart Rhythm Society Scientific Sessions 2016 Conference all last week in San Francisco, and as a member of the media I attended the lifting of the press embargo on the Oasis trial as well as several other interesting late-breaking clinical trby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
If you wake early due to a too low drop in nocturnal cortisol levels ( which should be at a daily nadir during the night hours of sleep in a healthy adrenal response) but if the drop is too severe in cortisol building blocks necessary for producing cortisol on demand, which can happen if the person has an excess production of melatonin at the same time or takes an exogenous dose of supplemental mby Shannon - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
I've been taking NT Factor and its prior version for almost 10 years. Its a very good product and the theory behind the combined nutrients in NT Factor make sense for having a potential neurological benefit that has kept me taking it ever since. But I am not taking it based on any claims of' confirmed sure 'cures', just to be clear on this point. And I have not seen any clby Shannon - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Hi Vincent, While rate control only with OAC is certainly an option, and one many cardiologists, and a good many clinical EPs, typically opt for recommending for older folks and some even when in your 50s much less 86, but it is not at all the only option. If you are in otherwise reasonably good physical condition an expert ablation process is not at all contraindicated and, in fact, is ofby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Moerk Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Jackie, Mattie, > > Well, we all need reminders - just ask me! Right > now it seems vitally important to remind your > readers of your extremely important alkalinity > study 4 years ago: Alkalinity, Healing, pH and > Voltage - The Inside Story > Moerk, I've asked you quite a fewby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Will review with you over the phone Anti-AFIB in next couple of days .. Not much time right now to type here at the moment. I'm just back from a week at the large HRS conference in San Fran attended but up to 12,000 EPs and some Cardiologist in a very Indepth conference I'll be sharing details soon in the next two AFIB Reports. Will catch up and try to answer your questions shortly.by Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Thanks for the Atenolol suggestion for Smackman Mattiemoosa, I'm glad that beta blocker works for you in that manner as a reliable way to short circuit an episode of AFIB before it takes a good foothold ... and as it does for a fair number of afibbers. It may, or may not, help Smackman as he is on a good dose of beta blocker (Metatoprolol) already and is borderline bradycardic as it is, so hby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Gary Hull has been at the forefront of uncovering some of the worse practices amoung Big Pharma and their strong influence on medical education and FDA policy... There are signs of a shift starting to happen with increased awareness mint physicians in many specialties, but there is a lot of inertia and the huge financial influence to maintain status quo will likely still take a many years to turnby Shannon - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Good decision Smackman just see how it goes and if you trigger again you can start up on Multaq and see if you convert while Austin sets the date for the touch up they will for sure give you a date for. If the date is two months out, then they might want you to stay on Multaq up until 5 days prior to the ablation to help you hold the NSR from the ECV during the waiting period. No worries this wilby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Great to hear Rick and Gary! And this kind if report is more the norm when choosing a highly experienced ablationist. And sometimes even with a moderately experienced but well trained EP doing a more straight forward paroxysmal ablation the out come can Be outstanding as well. You simply stack the odds in your favor by going for the most experience operator and center supporting staff thaby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
A new study being reported on here at Heart Rhythm Society Scientific Sessions 2016 in San Francisco which I'm attending this week starting today, and which highlights the relationship between elevated fasting glucose and AFIB. I will be summarizing those study findings in an up-coming AFIB report. One good thing I like about an hour or so before bed is to take a tablespoon of organic eby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
First of all, what is your insurance company doing dictating what AAR drug you should be taking! Its one thing if they push a generic of the same drug the doc ordered but ENTIRELY inappropriate and ludicrous to tell you that you must switch to Amiodarone from Multaq ... why because it's cheaper!? Have your doc write them a strong letter demanding they give you Multaq, if that is the consenby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
IV Magnesium is the sure fire fastest way to boost IC mag levels, and topical Magnesium can work well too and is the next fastest next to IV mag in Myers Cocktails doing one Myers cocktail a week for the first 4 to 6 weeks and then switch to a Myers cocktail with thge 3 grams of Mag sulfate every two weeks for another month and then retest with EXATEST or jsut go by your bowel tolerance though thby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Keep in mind too Vincent that after failing a couple drug cocktail regimes as the AFIB continues to progress, so are you more rapidly approaching the time where none of them will adequately keep at bay AFIB and the difficulty of any ablation process tends to increase the longer one progresses along that path alone. Have you tried the Strategy protocol too along with the drugs?? I would certainby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
I'll start with that last question first which answers all the rest. YES, the results of achieving durable NSR are more than worth the possibility of having to deal with anti-coagulation which, if you do need full LAA isolation because that is the prime remaining source driving your arrhythmia ( which is the only reason you would get full LAA isolation in the first place) then you actuallyby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
No worries Smack, sometimes they like to wait for the second breakthrough before fixing a date for the follow up, unless it's a long lasting and symptomatically agressive first breakthrough past the blanking period. I've noticed they are doing this more the past year to six months as it also cuts down on the second guessers who will not infrequently cancel a fixed ablation close to tby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Barb, As I suggested above it is fine to increase back to 5mg of Eliquis for now, but take to Dr Natale too about the situation and get his input. Long term you may not need to stay on 5 mg and from your last few TEE scans collectively it was clear your risk of any LAA thromboembolism is not high at all, hence Dr Natale's comfort in letting you drop to 2.5mg. Didn't one of theby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Check with Dr Natale's office, sounds like the docs in NY are more or less fishing with an educated guess and based on little more than that at this time. Of course, it's easy enough for the Cardio to say increase the OAC which is the easy option, but would be better for you to see if you can investigate further and thus move beyond a hunch as to what that wedge-shaped image on the CT tby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
As we discussed on the phone a short while ago Smackman, while its possible you may have slipped back into NSR for the time being, I doubt it with the three drugs and doses of each you are taking now, It's very likely that combination of the 37.5mg of extended release Metoprolol plus the 125mg of time released Cardizem calcium channel blocker is what has lowered your flutter rate to belowby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Captcadhew, Welcome to our forum and I want to be clear that it was your EP who did this ablation that said he had never heard of a mildly to moderately elevated HR post ablation?? If so that would be a stunning admission on his part. It is an absolute established fact that post ablation temporary HR increase Is very common, it often is the hallmark of a more solid ablation done compared to aby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Like we discussed on the phone Smackman, your cardio's assumption that your flutter is a right sided simple CT flutter is very unlikely. Only if it self-converted quickly would that have been in the cards. But the large majority of the time a post ablation flutter as I noted is a left-sided atypical flutter that more rarely will convert on its own and the vast majority of the time requires Eby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM