Iatrogenia Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Magnesium is known as nature's calcium channel > blocker. Yes indeed, Iatrogenia, and its always a good place to start. Shannonby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Alivecor is a good system and the software seems pretty accurate and easy to use and email to your EP. They have service now for a nominal fee where you can send a strip in for analysis, if you are not sure what it is, to a Cardio or Cardio Tech too. The only caveat is that with the iPhone 5 case they have a tendency to crack around the two silver electrodes on the back, Ive had that happen toby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi researcher, Yes these new catheters sound promising, and I look forward to seeing them in wider use in the coming years. Still, it will be interesting to see if they really make much of a difference with long term results from the top tier guys using those catheters too, whose own innate touch and typical temp and duration of force used with say a modern Thermocool catheter, is what they pby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Thanks DnvrFox for the latest update! You've obviously got some great wind in your sails and with a solid ablation to boot! Great to hear from you from time to time. And Go Broncos! :-) Shannonby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
HI George, Of course that would be the preferred first step when seeing new patients is to run a full intra-celular Ion tests like the Exatest and they start to treat accordingly. The problem being, that most Docs still look at this issue only through the lens of Magnesium serum testing and thus many of their studies and anecdotal attempts to achieve results have seemed like a mixed bag dueby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Thanks Jackie, And Dr Murray's article is only one of many cogently written rebuttals to the obvious coordinated scam of the last month or two in particular all coinciding, conveniently enough, with the publication of Paul Offits 'anti-anything at all but drugs and surgery' Big Pharma propaganda book. I've read both his book and each of these three studies referenced aboby Shannon - GENERAL HEALTH FORUM
Hi Sammy, You are on the right track, just first confirm exactly what is going on with an EKG. You can always get an older model Iphone 4.5 with unused models costing very little and then add the AliveCor case/monitor that fits that model phone and use it exclusively for checking arrhythmia, but if you can catch this for sure on a standard twelve lead EKG too that is the good standard for confby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Barb, I will see Dr. N at Boston AFIB Symposium 2014 next week .. This year they have moved the big conference to Orlando. I guess January in Boston isn't the greatest time to visit bean-town for a big symposium... Anyway, I'll see where things stand then and will give you a ring Barb. Take care. Shannonby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
If its frequent like most all the time Sam, I'm thinking odds are less that its just a muscle twitch, though but could be. And the nature of any arrhythmia you may had had originally before an ablation of ten years ago could certainly manifest with a different sensation and rhythms for sure post ablation and particularly after so long a period of heart stability in which positive reverse remby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Natale typically uses around 40 watts to do the PVAI portion as well as other ticker areas of the atrial wall and lowers to 30watts along the thinner areas of the posterior wall near the esophagus just behind that thin posterior wall of the LA, as well as any work in or around the LAA. The basic equation for achieving consistent transmural lesions is combining the right ratio of wattage (powerby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Sam, First of all congrats on a great experience after a single ablation, where did you get it done? How frequent is this twitch and how long does it last? An EKG would tell you what it is but if its not persistent as it sounds like its not, then it could be hard to catch without an event monitor worn for a month or just buying an AliveCor.com IPhone or Android based case that acts as aby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
With the head MRI for the migraine study Randy, at least you get a free look inside the ole' noggin. Might be nice to know all the parts are in their right place and seem to be normal and if you still have issues with migraines, just perhaps they find some link, though you might not learn of what that might be until after the study is over. As long as you have full reassurance that ifby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Ironically Jackie, Coumadin for example and likely the NOAC class of drugs, don't have much direct bearing on reducing elevated true whole blood viscosity readings. You can have an ideal therapeutic INR of day 2.5 and still have an severely high whole blood viscosity reading using the new and only reliable Hemothix WBV machine that tests WBV in both the systolic and diastolic phases of cardiby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Very nice post above Rob50! It encompasses precisely the kind of balanced approach to steadily experimenting and learning to use any and all tools at our disposal, both holistic of of natural origin as well as aliphatic drugs and procedures when they too offer the best return with an acceptable risk/reward scenario. The combined approach you so clearly describe is just what so many of us olby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Thanks Jackie for the excellent summary of abstracts highlighting some of the mechanisms by which taurine can help not only the heart but brain and overall nervous system. Happy New Year! Shannonby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Thanks Larry and Happy New Year! All good insights from your experiment of one as you say. And while they may not all work with everyone to the same degree of efficacy as you have experienced, its not surprising at all that the steps you have found most helpful in your case are amount the most tried and true aid that can help for many of not most of us, to one degree or another in the life lonby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Typical NYT health related article filled with some generally accurate very basic info mixed in with some very misleading or outright wrong misconceptions. 'When every trace of AFIB has truly been eradicated the ONLY possible need for life long Anti-coagulation is if a TEE confirms that so much scarring from long term remodeling due to years of unaddressed AFIB might have slowed down theby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Enrique, For many of us though we were predominantly Vagal or Adrenergic, prior to successful completion of an ablation process by a skilled ablationist, are also prone to mixed bag of triggers that include both Vagal and Adrenergic overstimulation. Not that often does one remain exclusive one or the other for their entire AFIB life. Caffeine for very many is among the top two to three triggerby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Sounds good Chrisdodt! I hear you about the over enthusiastic exercise routine as well. Just when we thought that was good for us, we find out the hard way a bit more moderation even there is the best course, especially for those of us prone to AFIB/Flutter. Best wishes with Dr N in a few months now, it will be here and past before you know it! Im sure you will find the whole experience toby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Thanks for the update McHale. There is never any doubt who does the whole show when Dr N is the EP of record on a case. He told me long ago he insist on doing all of his patients entirely as his reputation and the patients expectations are on the line each time. And Iatrogenia, The extremely limited number of PV reconnections and tiny fraction of other non-PV original burns that Natale fby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Thanks again Onewaypockets, Sounds like you were likely in the Cath lab for a good three hours and 45 minutes to a little over 4 hours which sounds about right for all that Dr Natale did in your case. My index ablation with him in Austin back in August 2008 was 4 hours and 14 minutes with 117 minutes of burn time and you had a very similar 7294 seconds or 121 minutes of actual ablation orby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Chrisdodt, I fully understand what you are getting at and there is a lot of practical truth to it as well, in that the whole purpose of a highly skilled ablation is to chop up the area of the LA or RA that can support and sustain fibrillating energy into a fully blown AFIB/Flutter episode is minimized, regardless of what triggers we might assault our bodies with. However, the other side ofby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Enrique, As George and Hans indicated, its very common for Afibbers to have problems laying or sleeping on their left side. It is less common, but does happen that some have a similar issue with being triggered into AFIB lying on their right side, but by far its the left side that is most often a trigger. The conference room reference from Hans above has a long discussion of this issue. Sby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Onewaypockets, I'm curious as to what your report says about total fluoroscopy time, do you recall what that was? Thanks Shannonby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
You are welcome Jim, good idea to ask your EP for your report. Consider calling well ahead and requesting a copy from his front office staff so that its there and waiting for you when you get there. It is your property and its fully within your right to request and receive a copy for your own records. You never know when it might come in handy when seeing some other Doc even for a seemingly unby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Rosie, I've taken Bystolic in a low 2.5mg dose before just post ablation for a year to help keep the heart rate down. After my two ablations the distinction between vagal ( my original defining AFIB triggers were most all vagal) and adrenergic no longer have the same strong cause and effect associations, obviously, with no more AFIB activity, as they once did before my heart was ablateby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
b](Thanks to Onewaypockets for releasing his nearly full ablation report. below I'll try to highlight in bold some of the terms and abbreviations along with a few observations that might be useful for to him and others here.) Report Status: Finalized Anesthesiologist ROSE, BARRY M MD Electrophyslologist NATALE, ANDREA MD Procedure Type Ablation: EPS w/Ablation of A-Fib, EPS &aby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
mailman52 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Very informative Oneway! Thanks so much for > posting your ablation report. It makes me wish I > had gone to the trouble of getting mine. > Unfortunately, I wasn't aware of it's existence or > availability at the time. However, mine was just > a simple PVI ablation, so would not haveby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi McHale, Have you spoken to Dr. Danik again recently there at St Lukes about tracking down the rest of your report? Onewaypockets, to bring you up to speed, McHale's was a unique situation when he was able to literally sneak in and get an immediate ablation with Dr Natale the very same day as his first appointment in NYC last May with no waiting time at all really. This was the veryby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM
Thanks Oneway for the excellent report, A bit later this morning I will review help translate some of the more medical-lese terms and abbreviations for those here that may not be as familiar with that lingo and what they mean and what your very comprehensive ablation implies. Your ablation and mine with Dr Natale where very similar, being the kind of soup to nuts and whole kitchen sink thatby Shannon - AFIBBERS FORUM