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Good to hear Murray, Told you it was no big deal :-) ... Now you are on the healing side and just let it happen and encourage its progress with all the tips you have learned here over the last few years. Take it easy. Shannonby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi John, Yes Dr Natale does excessive ectopic ablation on his existing patients when called for though it's not very commonly needed. Usually in the process of a touch up the Ectopy will calm down. Though on occasion, especially when someone has had multiple different nature AFIB ablations prior to coming for to ST Davids or CPMC some post touch up ectopy can't kick in for a while..by Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Ken, Thanks for the one year update... My take is that while there are no doubt areas to enhance and he fine tune, it's likely the frequent ectopy at this point may indicate, in your case Ken and in light of your on going investigations and efforts to quiet down the ectopy, a likely need for a touch up with Dr Natale at some point before too long to address a remaining focal PAC triggeby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Murray You will do fine.. Make sure dr Verma uses an irrigated ablation catheter which Im sure he will anyway. You do not have to lay all the way flat for six hours. You can prop up your bed some so your torso is angled up and just your legs are not bent or moved around much for 6 hrs. Best wishes! Shannonby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
One thing to make clear Apache, I heard a lengthy discussion on this very question by Professor Jose Jalife and Dr Stanley Nattel at the recent AF Symposium 2016 in Orlando last week about using nutrients such as magnesium and other ions as well as proteolytic enzymes etc and what confidence does the science support as agents actual documented as reversal agents of cardiac fibrosis in humans ...by Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Smackman, Great to hear from you! Glad thinks are working out with your back and the meds. Regarding the LINQ .. Ideally being able to track any possible events of actual arrhythmia for a full three years is very handy just to insure you are not having any intermittent silent short events. However, since you have had longer term asymptomatic persistent AFIB that is the main reason St Davby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
The key reality in my experience Apache is to live in and for the present. This 'explosion' I speak of has been going on for the last ten years in AFIB research. One thing that was obvious too there was how much at the forefront Natale's group has been all through this time... Two years ago only Dr Natale, Haissaguerre/Jais and Univ of Penn were really focused on Non-PV triggerby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Colin, It's very typical for blood sugar spikes to happen during an AFIB attack and can be part of the stress response cascade caused by the AFIB itself. Once the AFIB terminates or is cardioverted then serum glucose tends to drop rather quickly. The same is often true for BP spikes as well during the peak of a very symptomatic AFIB attack and it too tends to quickly normalize or at leastby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Good to hear Jim, Dr Pinski is a very experience EP indeed and you made a good choice. Glad to hear things are going well and keep us posted. Cheers! Shannonby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi All, I'm writing this from Orlando Florida having just completed the big annual international 'AF Symposium 2016' held here with a very big field of top EPs from around the world presenting all the latest insights from research and technology developments in this exploding field of understanding core AFIB associated contributors and possible causal relationships as well as thby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Best wishes Murray! Keep us posted as I know you will. That is quite a wait between the pre-op and ablation, but you have waited a very long time already a couple more weeks won't seem long at all. Shannonby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Barb, Which article are you referring to that you had read? It's not possible to define for sure what arrhythmia ( if any true arrhythmia at all) that you may have had after the fact without an EKG strip or heart monitoring record. Your description could easily be a cluster or short runs of PVCs (premacure ventricular contractions) possibly mixed with some PACs (premature atrial contraby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
It's not a huge setback Montos. And TSCO is right too that while the blanking period is strictly to limit acceptable apparence of arrhythmia, there is a longer period from 6 to 9 months or longer in some cases where further healing is taking place. But for people prone to ectopic runs from time to time, these largely benign annoyances can appear at any time. Certainly, chowing down onby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Montos, If it's only ectopy, it does not signify a 'setback'. As Anti-AFIB implied it could be due to a number of proximal causes other than a return of true atrial tachycardia-style arrhythmia like AFIB or atrial flutter. Do you have an Alivecor to capture what this looks like? A 12 lead EKG is the gold standard by far, but at least you can get a good idea of what's goiby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Your theory Erich is plausible that a vagal response could be contributing to such an involuntary wake-up stretch/yawn AFIB short run or jumpy heart scenario, but when you start finding more variety of such 'what if' scenarios that 'seem' to be associated with AFIB episodes more frequently and with general heart irregularity (ectopy mixed with short runs of AFIB or flutter) thby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Nancy, Being that you only have these nightmare-triggered AFIB episodes a couple times a year, it will be a bit difficult to use the following simple method to test out if a temporary drop in adrenal reserve (which is a common cause even when it happens very sporadically) is behind these nocturnal AFIB episodes. However, if these episode ever start happening more frequently and sequentiallyby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Nancy, it is very common that night terrors or night time AFIB triggers where you wake with a startle response are initially caused by too low nocturnal adrenal function in combination with inadequate cortisol stress-adapting hormone reserve, often due to intrinsic or acquired adrenal insufficency and not infrequently exacerbated by excess melatonin release (or too high a nocturnal dose of melatby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Tsco, Sorry to hear the beast returned even for a while. Let's talk in the next several days after you have a better sense of any recurrent episodes and duration, if you would like. If you wish I have some timing ideas that I think might be good to discuss. Don't feel hopeless at all though, though I fully understand how easy it is to feel that way at such times. You've had aby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
No Marsh, natural organic range or grass fed meats are not inherently carcinogenic. Where a meat carcinogen association arises is from high temperature cooking of meats as in heavily charred fats and blackens seared surface of the meat combined with well-done centers of the meat is not a good choice for preparing any meats. Such a cooking scenario is not the healthiest way to prepare meats at allby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Yes George, Lou and Alangford, Often sudden changes in temp with very cold water or ice hitting the esophagus which is just a couple mm away from the posterior wall of the left atrium ... Literally almost touching ... This triggering is a classic vagal response when ectopy or even full blown AFIB is still the tendency. Also, extended exposure over a large body area to cold can also triggerby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
I wish everyone of you friends, both new and old timers, a most peaceful holiday week and a rewarding AFIB free 2016! Each of you contribute so much in your own ways to making our website such a valuable resource and gathering place for folks bonded through our individual, and yet mutual, challenges with this lousy condition. We all appreciate the effort and interest shown in making this fby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi researcher and Jackie, Yes this retrospective population study out of Rotterdam simply adds more confirmation to this key issue of the ever stronger association between AFIB and Dementia/Alzheimer's as a key driver and inspiration for NOT just settling for 'living with the beast'. We have reported now multiple times over the last few years in the AFIB report on this now frontby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
My apologies for not being able to finish up addressing some of these issues above until now, but Ive just now finally got the time to address a few of the questions and comments on LAA ligation and the Atriclip and LARIAT from above. Several of these questions, though certainly good questions and logical sounding speculations, are simply not a concern at all on any level, and thus I hope not toby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi researcher,, Yes that is what I meant above ... that darker skinned people evolved to absorb less total Vitamin D from the sun due to their abundant exposure to sunlight in the equatorial regions over the last few million years of evolution, other wise they could get overdosed if they had such fair skin and too much exposure. The body is wise beyond our expectations. And fair skin peoplby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Bill, I won't be able to answer more fully for the next few days as we just returned from A week out of town and are busy catching up The next few days. However, I did want to let you know that a fully Lariat ligated LAA that either never had a late leak and whose LAA Ostium is fully sealed and endothelialized as the large majority of Lariat cases are... And those cases like mine,by Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Thanks researcher and Que, Certainly excess vitamin D, like with all pro-hormones and full hormones have a More of a bell shaped efficacy curve. Either too little or too much on either side of a broad optimal healthy range can cause real problems. And Dr Day is right that excessive D is not good and can contribute to pro-arrhythmia likely due to increased cellular calcium loading from excessivby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Sam Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Shannon, > > Can we assume that when you gave the amount of > Iodine in 2% Lugols you actually meant 12%? Thanks Sam, that was my mistake .. I had 5% Lugols (not 2%) and the 5% gives the stated levels of 2.5mg of Iodine and 3.75m g of Iodide for a total of 6.25mg per drop ... that 2% was just a late nightby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
You already know how happy I am with your great news too Jackie! You've been a real model and a such a wonderful guide and friend to so many of us here since the early days too of how this is all done over the long haul. Thank you sincerely for all that you do and are Jackie and being such a pal and a big help to me as well all these years!! You'd love all the goings on here in Vegasby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Que, Are you referring to Dr John Day at Intermountain?? I just heard a highly impressive two hour summary of all the latest studies from around the world underscoring the benefits of 'sufficient' Vitamin D3 levels. There was also much discussion of the concerted big Pharma effort to discredit Vitamin D or at least say the results are equivocal by selectively reporting on onlyby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hey Great news Nickmou!! I totally know the feeling of it being hard to believe after such a long slug fest of so many years to feel finally on the other side of the fence now :-)! As with Jackie and many others as well, it just goes to show what taking the long view and applying dedication and perseverance with a good dose of resilience and having the good fortune and wisdom to find and foby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM