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AF Fear and Progression
Hi All: This is a wonderful group and you have all been so helpful in the past. I have had paroxysmal a fib since 2018. I had one episode in 2014, and then nothing for 5 years. I had a pulmonary embolism and presented at the ER with severe...
read morelatest replydepotdoug, October 21, 2019 11:05pm EST
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Patient advisory panel
I will be attending a meeting in NYC in November as a member of a patient advisory panel. This event is sponsored by the Arrhythmia Alliance. My charge will be to try to represent the needs of a person with afib. I have my ideas, understand...
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New here, new to AF
Hello, I'm new to this group. By way of introduction, in January I was diagnosed with intermittent AFib with fast pulse (up to 160). I'd had fluttering and fast clusters for decades but it would always resolve on its own.
read morelatest replySpencer, October 17, 2019 6:07pm EST
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This stops A-Fib, or reduces it's severity.
After 9 years of trying different foods and logging EVERYTHING I ate, I found sugar (and to a lesser degree, salt – i.e. dehydration) was triggering my Afib. Doctors don't want to hear this - there is no money in telling patients to eat less...
read morelatest replyMellanieSAF, October 16, 2019 9:29pm EST
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Cardiac Ablation , Electrical Cardioversion, Mini-Maze
Hello I am confused with the 3 different procedures (Cardiac Ablation, Electrical Cardioversion, Mini-Maze) used to try to get rid of Paroxysmal A-fib. I have tried to understand the 3 but I don't quite get it. I think that a procedure called...
read morelatest replyTorilyn50, October 17, 2019 10:07am EST
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questioning my olfactory sanity
anyone out there with A-Fib ever smell cigarrette smoke before or during an A-Fib episode? this happens frequently and i would be in a non-smoking area. any feedback appreciated. thansks, dorothy
read morelatest replyMellanieSAF, October 12, 2019 12:16pm EST
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Wolf Mini Maze
Hello: I was diagnosed with A-Fib 3 years ago. I am on Flecinide, Diltiazem for high blood pressure and Xarelto. My A-fib has gotten noticeably worse since I changed meds from Metoprolol to the Diltiazem. I’m currently waiting...
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Svt episode without high heart rate
I’m on beta blockers but still every now and then or rather in cycles experiencing episodes. My heart feels like it is thumping, even though it is not going fast I still feel like it’s flopping around, even though my Kardia says I’m
read morelatest replyLou15, October 8, 2019 7:56pm EST
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Up in the Middle of the Night with Afib
To the member that post to see if anyone was awake, well yes. I awoke or spent entire nights up with that AFib feeling. I tried some scotch but that never seemed to help. I would walk quite a bit around the neighborhood and...
read morelatest replyLou15, October 8, 2019 2:51am EST
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Spencer's First Surgery (Repost - Two Year Anniversary)
To my AFib family, Today marks the second anniversary of my first heart surgery. Everyone on this board knows what I went through. I wanted to repost my report of my first surgery. I cleaned up the grammar to actually make it
read morelatest replyMellanieSAF, October 6, 2019 9:16am EST
