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Unreal Nancy, you have documented atrial flutter and they didn't mske more of an effort to cardiovert you and just tried a few drugs? Depends on if it's typical CTI right atrial flutter which it may well be if you haven't had an ablation? If you have had a prior ablation then odds are higher it may be an atypical left atrial flutter and those are notoriously unlikely to self coby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Dear Current and Former Afibbers, I wanted to officially announce that Im coming off the slightly over two month sabbatical I had to take from my website and newsletter duties in order to assist my wife, Magdalena, during our kidney cancer scare and her major surgery. As most of you well know, the results of her surgery were fabulous with a rare benign tumor being discovered after it was removby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
If you get very violent hard pounding episodes at times it can bruise the heart a bit against the rib cage and cause some pain in that way. I have had that back in the days of hard core drug-induced tachy brady from an otherwise well meaning but clueless cardiologist who had me taking extra doses of Toprol every half hour I was in AFIB until I converted ... that on top of Digoxin back in the oldby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
I do think a lot of symptomatic Ectopy is electrolyte related, including skewing of sodium, potassium, magnesium balance by poor dietary choices . That being said EVERYONE on the planet has some degree of on going ectopy... Most 'normal' hearts average around 500 at least per month, but most normal none Afibbers only very rarely notice them as a once in a blue moon 'kaThump'by Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Welcome CC66, Keep in mind that with Bradycardic high BP, you will very likely not be able to take beta blockers for BP control. The reason brady can cause a form of hypertension is from excessive stretching of the ventricles during the relaxed diastolic phase of the heart beat as a larger volume of blood rushes in and thus stretching the lower ventricles. But then the contraction or systolicby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Ron, AS noted in my PM to you, with long standing case like yours of 13 years, even with the present decent control of Flec, you are better off getting your ablation process taken care of .. assuming you have a highly experienced ablationist on tap, as I assume you do noting that you have traveled out of state to set this up. Just know too, that not a lot of EPs are familiar with how toby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
PS Ken and all, I strongly agree with Peggy and second her advice to ALWAYS collect all of your medical records, test results and all diagnostic imaging scans on CD as well as copies of the scan reports, or procedure reports such as Ablation reports, and keep them in your own medical file folder. No doctor worth his or her salt should even consider denying you access to your own records orby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Ken, The odds are high you may have both factors involved here in your very typical post ablation periodic runs of the flippies. Since you opted out on trying the usual three month AAR drug course during the blanking period, the already well established, but not always certain to happen, tendency to have runs of ectopy and/or episodic AFIB/Flutter during the first two months especially afteby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Good things come to those that can wait, or better yet when Mohammad hasn't come to the mountain yet, do as Johnny M did and travel to see Mohammad where ever he is. These things do take some time but it is moving along... I would arrange to see Dr DiBiase at Montefiore in your shoes Erich and then if and when Dr N is able to see you in NYC, which may be quite soon, you are already on theby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Many thanks Larry, Dennis, JohnB and Craigh, I appreciate the best wishes! Just finished the 3rd Annual International Symposium on Left Atrial Appendage conference here in Marina Del Rey along the LA coast near LAX airport. It was another really excellent conference. I really enjoy this conference best of all that I have attended so far in the AFIB world after having gone last year as wellby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Its around 10pm here in La Jolla at the Hilton Torrey Pines which is very busy hosting the PGA tour Farmers Insurance Open tournament which gets underway fully tomorrow. Apparently, it was a minor miracle of serendipity that I was able to get a room here as late as Jan 18th when the whole place has been sold out for a full year for this week! I lucked out by calling exactly as a cancellation hby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Travis, Life wont be very different at all on Eliquis other than knowing a few key things .. note below answers to your questions in BOLD tvanslooten Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'll be starting my Eliquis program next week in > preparation of my ablation in March. I've never > been on a blood thinner before so I'm freakingby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Ken. As noted in our conversation this evening after my successful TEE today, I recount here for other interested readers too, that throughout my long and winding AFIB road both vagal and various digestive triggers ... which invariably were presaged by bloating, burping, fullness etc, ... were a significant bane in my history. being in the early blanking period, will tend to exaggerate thoby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi tsco, I seriously doubt the a product you bought labeled as TRACCS chelated Mag Bisglycinate would have anything more than very small amounts of oxide in it, it that. That particular Life Extension version of magnesium Jackie discusses above was not labeled and advertised as chelated Magnesium, as I understand her report, and while it would have been much better to just clearly label itby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Ken, Aw we discussed this morning as I was driving to the airport in Phoenix to fly to La Jolla where I am typing this now at the Hilton next door to Scripps where my second follow-up TEE will take place tomorrow, this kind of activity is all pretty much par for the course for most people in first 6 weeks to two months after an ablation. Not infrequently the little runs will start only afteby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi TSCO, Sorry to hear of your on going troubles. are you sure these are only ectopy and no AFIB or flutter/tachycardia runs? I know you don't want to have to consider another touch up. But if this is effecting you so much, please do consider discussing it with Dr Natale. He may well be able to tie up a last loose end or two once and for all, such that you share the experience of us hereby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Anti-AFIB, DenverFox, Jackie, Elizabeth, 'Roid-Rage', while it can and does happen at times from overdoses for that person of mostly large supra-physiologic doses of synthetic anabolic or adrenal steroid hormone-like drugs, it simply does not happen with smaller physiologic doses of Hydrocortisone which I must emphasize once again for clarity and distinction is pure Bio-identical coby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Anti-Afib, Low dose prednisolone wont permanently impair adrenal function which will recover gradually even when stopping cold turkey ... although that is never advised and can be dangerous for those with little to no adrenal reserve at all ... You wont feel great when stopping a long term even modest dose suddenly, instead of tapering off as instructed, but it wont hurt you long term and willby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
PS Liz, PM me with your phone number and where you live (time zone) and we can talk about a few more details and points you should know for how to monitor and test your HC doses long term to insure you are staying in a safe but effective level of HC supported by DHEA and other anabolic hormones as needed. Shannonby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Liz, Prednisolone does not require any conversion as it is the direct usable form of the drug ... Hence it is preferred over Prednisone as not all people convert Prednisone into Prednisolone efficiently. The low dose you are in is equal to a normal physiologic dose of bio-indentical Cortisol called Hydrocortisone (HC) which is 100% true cortisol exactly the same biochemical your body makby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Gary, George has a good point, as long as the magnesium seems to be what is working no need to find out right now if it really is the key agent in your sudden reduction in activity, NO doubt it is playing a role and makes utterly good sense to use regardless. You can also get a good idea if it is mostly the magnesium too just by upping the dose some too when, and if, the AFIB returns at theby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi JohnB, Congrats on your prior efforts and successes at RFM (risk factor modification) which has been the core message of this website since its inception 15 years ago. Also on getting set up with Dr Natale to finish up your ablation process.. Both steps represent the step-wise patient directed decision making that we have so often found to be the winning formula. First aggressively and wby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
I can't imagine that 8% to 10% of MaG oxide in an otherwise 90% pure Chelated Mag Glycinate or Glycine/Lysine combo having much of a noticeable impact from the oxide content alone. At most, I suspect it might reduce absorption by some fraction of that 8% to 10% level total Mag Oxide content. I've never heard of an allergy to mag oxide, but I suppose that might be possible. Though hypby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Good to hear your one year Randy ... time flies doesn't it! Glad too to hear you digestive sluggishness cleared up as I felt certain it would before long. Regarding the periodic ectopy, its first important to understandsen that just about everyone, with AFIB or never having had an arrhythmia, have a good number of ectopic beats like PAC or PVC each month. 500 or so PVC is not at all uncoby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Great report Gill, Yet another example of being smart to go to the best and most experienced ablationist you can find. Heres to another 12 years of arrhythmia free living! Cheer! Shannonby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Good to hear you got confirmation tom Dr Brownstein, he's a very good physician and Its great he is you Primary care doc. Be well! Shannonby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
What is the baby aspirin for Liz? Do you have any history or indication of cardiovascular or arteriosclerotic process in your body that a cardio might have suggested adding a baby aspirin as a preventative for heart attacks? If the baby aspirin is solely intended as an AFIB-related stroke preventative without also having any history of CVD type heart disease, then its pretty much a waste of tiby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Thats easy enough to find out Gary, Just stop the magnesium too for a week or two and see if the AFIB comes roaring right back and if it does, then ramp up again to the former level giving it the requisite time you needed before once on the 'right' dose and form for you, and see if it all starts to go quiet again. I will say that t he nature of this beast can be very random seeminby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Charlotte, Thanx for sharing your very valuable 'learning' experience and I'm so glad you were able to discover this serious error before an embolic event happened. For anyone having had an LAA isolation, and they have not been cleared by a 6 month post ablation TEE confirming they have both sufficient LAA emptying velocity at or above 0.4meters/sec of blood flow out of tby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Friends Ken from Florida is resting comfortably in his room at St Davids after what was described as a textbook straight forward PVAI procedure by Dr Natale this morning. All went very well during the procedure and he only required the standard PVAI and posterior wall isolation that together comprise the cornerstone foundational ablation procedure for paroxysmal AFIB at St. Davids. Keby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM