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Hi Idarom, Wonderful news that you are now enjoying a prolonged period of remission .. may it continue for the duration! Its great too that you found a diet and the dedication to tracking down your own proactive health management process and indeed have objectively improved your health considerably it sounds. As George noted there are as many stories of N=1 as their are afibbers it seems aby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
CC66, I would have to see other markers but that reading of 3.6 pg/ml for Free T3 is a spot on optimal range for most people ( from3.5/ 3.6 to 4.1 depending on body size) and yet your borderline lowish Free T4 in combination with either an optimal or slightly elevated Free T3 is classic for what is called "Low T4 Syndrome" Low T4 Syndrome" is a classic finding in people whoseby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Mike NEVER EVER TAKE 5MG OF melatonin consistently! for a good period of time! And was that oral or sublingual form? Some people can handle that amount for a fairly long period if they have a severe melatonin deficiency and it is oral, form which is about 7 to 10 times less absorptive than subligual form, and they have poor digestion or assimilation too. But if you are taking 5mg of sublingual meby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Mike try a low dose BB like 2.5mg to 5mg max of bystolic or calcium channel blocker like verapamil if you could use some moderate BP control too, or Diltiazem of BP not an issue at all. Try this for the time being to see if that doesn't help speed up the reset of your lower HR... Doing this temporary ( 6 months to a year on the outside is usually enough) at low to modest dose rate controlby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
AnnaH, Start with our protocol of doing all the dietary and life style and cardiovascular risk factor reducing methods .. improved diet as noted here often, key nutrient repletion as in Magnesium/ potassium, taurine as you seem to be aware of already, moderate consistent exercise and dedicated weight loss if you are at all over weight, especually is more than 10 to 15 pounds overweight for youby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quickly before bed here .. Im buried with starting the new AFIB report at moment after Magda and I returned for more visits to Scottsdale for a couple days John M good to hear you got it done! It is not at all unusual to find asymptomatic Afibbers with wider spread fibrosis than they expected. Keep in mind the tendency for fibrosis to begin with, and how much fibrosis a person is likely to forby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
It's totally normal Montos ... It's a sign of solid lesion creation as well and a good indicator for longer term efficacy. Just roll wth it, add in modest consistent exercise too which can help speed up stunned pacing cell re-enervation. The mineral repletion may help some too, but manly it just takes time. With my very large 117minute index ablation it took me 2 years before graduaby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Ron short runs of garden variety ectopy are very often listed by Alivecor as with suspected AFIB or A flutter. Email me a PDF copy of the Alivecor strip that showed that. But chances are its likely nothing to worry about.. Will check it out and confirm though when you forward the EKG along to me. Take care, Shannonby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Montos, Very sorry to hear of your bout of pneumonia after your week long upper respiratory virus. However, I would be very surprised if you have PV stenosis from Dr Hocini, though I'm not as familiar with her specific ablation protocol she follows and just assume it is similar or the same as that which Professor's Haissaguerre and Jais follow. They do take a slightly closer apby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Will try to call you Sunday Anne. Sleep well, Shannonby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Glad you are are resting at home now Doreen, sounds like a pretty textbook case of straight forward paroxysmal AFIB and noted in our conversations leading up to your big day, I was pleased too that you had followed our basics guidelines pretty much to a 'T'. You wisely took steps to improve your health and nutrient depletion and once the AFIB began to reappear more frequently and starteby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
That was actually pretty good! ) Shannonby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Welcome to the Forum Anne! I'd be happy to discuss your questions too, if you wish, though I've not a lot of time to respond back and forth in writing at the moment. Check your PM (private message) where you will find a note and how you can send me your number and I can try to reach you in the next few days if that works for you via the phone. I find that way a bit faster and more efby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Good to hear Montos! Those short runs like that typically are just ectopic runs , do you have an Alivecor? It's not quite the same as a holter but I would certainly get one if I was you. You could then at least make several recordings a day for the period of time Dr Hocini would like to see and then at least give a decent indication of how stable your HR is. You can then email themby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Betty, I'm sure there will be more women in future LAA isolation trials now that this important first randomized control trials on LAA ISO will crack open the door to more research in this field. And the BELiEF trial authors ended the presentation at ESC calling for more trials and also more physiopathology studies to help better define the physiological reasons for the impressive succby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Perfectly well said Researcher, right on the mark! I am just back home from Kansas City and returned home last night and am reviewing both this article, and a follow up shorter one on the same topic that Dr. Mandrola put out yesterday that is even more in need of rebuttal in my view. I am writing a formal rebuttal to both right now and will post them here too in this thread likely tomorroby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Thanks again All, And Doreen, you will do just fine as you made the all important one key choice for a very reliable and skilled EP. You have followed our precepts to a T pretty much from what I can tell, in giving all the life style risk factor reducing and CV risk managing efforts a solid and dedicated effort to make the best of its impact on your underlying AFIB substrate as possible, as weby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Thanks Dennis ... Im still here in KC and flying out tonight but wont be home until Monday afternoon. It was a very nice and rewarding trip and, ironically, Dr Natale had also been selected as this years 'Physician Ambassador' as well on this fourth annual GAFA World AFIB Awareness Day celebration. Also, I took the liberty of correcting my misspelled last name above in your post, asby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Anti AFIB. There are a bunch of BHRT Docs that understand and use HC in cases like yours. I would avoid all Endos who are not yet enlightened in more progressive BHRT methods and cutting edge endocrinology. Not treating an HC of 8 when it is confirmed and combined with obvious signs and symptomsof cortisol deficiency as almost all such cases will clearly have plenty of both, is classic for theby Shannon - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Lynn, The good news is that there truly IS a tremendous amount of in-depth basic metabolic and biochemical science being done at large centers around the world focused on uncovering the many contributions towards different people getting AFIB at different times, circumstances, genetics, environmental and life style influences and from various triggers etc etc. This idea that no one out therby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Thanks Don, Taking a half hour break here from working on my little talk for Friday. Sorry to hear of the added scrutiny for the FAA issue.. those medical records can follow you a long time for sure,,, Luckily Ive been formally retired a good while... with my long roller coaster med history it would be a long shot for any grace being granted at all. To me its not that grey on going with theby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
The hang gliding and other such activities to me would make wanting to get off Blood thinners a slammed dunk Don! Up to you, but especially until the new antidote for NOACs is approved and in ERs and ambulances everywhere, I would be very loath to do any extra risky activity I sprained my left ankle badly last weekend when Magdalena and I were down in Scottsdale for two days of errands andby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Alas, blood serum magnesium is very unreliable for determining sufficient IC mag levels. I find at least a somewhat better broad indication of direction at least from RBC Mag, though it is not highly correlated with EXAtest IC mag .. it does nevertheless more often indicate the trend of IC mag being toward up or down better than Serum Mag which always showed perfect for me even when my EXATest waby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
All great points on B12 Jackie, but I think you meant 5,000mcg/day sublingual rather than 5,000mg. An easy typo I make all the time too. :-) Cheers! Shannonby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
researcher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Shannon, looking at the Circulation article > referenced above, the following are the LSPAF > stats and LAA firing prevalence. > > The total patient population for that study was > N=3966 > > Out of that total, LSPAF population was N=1145 > (100%) > Out of the LSPAF population,by Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
HI Researcher, In answer to the first post above here is my reply which I first added by mistake to your own post and have since moved it here after realizing I clicked in the wrong box :-). They use Carto 3D and ICE .. CT, MRI or 3D-TEE is used for LAA morphological classification when needed, such as before any ligation or exclusion device or procedure. .. or also just to type the morphoby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Great to hear Bill! And Doug, they just want to confirm no silent activity. Technically not every stroke comes from the LAA obviously, and its possible for a very small percentage of AFIB related embolic events to occur outside the LAA, but we are talking mid to low single digit percentage, and almost invariably those kind of far more rare potentially AFIB related embolic events are associatedby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
I have not at all heard that oral B12 is very effective Que... Sublingual methylcobalamin of hydroxycobalamin are the preferred forms and avoid cyanocobalamin. 2mg to 5mg sublingual each day will usually do the trick over time. I would view the oral recommendation with real skepticism until and unless there is more robust confirmation from a wider source of B12 experts. Shannonby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Jackie, Im moving this thread over to the General Health Forum now where it more rightly belongs for long term reference and will leave a pointer from the LAF forum. Ditto with the electro-pollution thread, which while very interesting too, is more in the General Health category ... Shannonby Shannon - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Hi Folks, Just a update here on a very important international multi-center fully randomized controlled trial (the most rigorous and typically useful kind of study) called the BELIEF Trial of 4 years running on Left Atrial Appendage Isolation that was presented on Monday at the huge European Society of Cardiology 2015 Congress in London. And this seminal trial showed a very powerful impact onby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM