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Volunteers Needed for Cardiovascular Study
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED for CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH STUDY Hello, my name is Thomas V. Parinello, and I am a doctoral candidate in the clinical psychology program at Fielding Graduate University. I am conducting my dissertation research on cardiovascular...
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Newly Diagnosed AFib with Treatment Questions.
Hello All, Great site! Just read a lot of info that I find very helpful. I have always had the "storm in my chest" feeling as long as I can rememner (I am 61) but never came out to be AFib until today....bittersweet I guess. My Cadio mentioned...
read morelatest replyNightsky, June 7, 2019 10:14am EST
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extremely low HR since starting Sotalol
My husband was recently diagnosed with paroxysmal Afib ( March 2019) He is scheduled for ablation July 15. Husband's normal resting HR is 50-60 --highest with Afib episode was 168. His symptoms were some chest pressure, heart flip-flopping...
read morelatest replyMellanieSAF, June 2, 2019 11:53am EST
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episodes of paroxysmal AFib getting longer
My husband has been diagnosed with paroxysmal Afib last month. He has a normal low HR of 50-60 - he has slightly elevated BP ( 126/69 average) he is taking Lisinopril 20 mg 1 x day. The highest his HR has been during an episode is 168.
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Trying to figure it out
Approximately 2 weeks ago, I woke up with tightness in my chest and a ~158 HR. I went to the ER and was diagnosed with Afib. It took 18 hours to come out of Afib naturally. HR climbed as high as 189 and came back down, hovering...
read morelatest replyThumper2, April 23, 2019 8:50am EST
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New to AFib, scared.
Last Wednesday I woke up and was sitting in bed. I felt my heart beating oddly and after that my chest felt uncomfortable, I told my sister how I was feeling and at that point my heart started beating really fast. I thought I was having a heart attack...
read morelatest replyericristina, June 4, 2019 10:55pm EST
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Just diagnosed--can't wrap my head around it
I am having a hard time too. I went to bed last Friday, 3/8, and couldn't go to sleep because my heart was pounding so hard it felt like it was a drum beating on my mattress. I have never had that happen before. I had had flutters for
read morelatest replyTexyMexy, March 19, 2019 6:30pm EST
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In and out of Afib with long pauses
Hello! I am new to the cardiac/AFib world. I was recently diagnosed with my heart going in and out of AFib while having long pauses and bradycardia. My cardiologist said he is unable to treat the AFib with medication due to
read morelatest replyGene157, March 13, 2019 1:15pm EST
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Thank You to Everyone in the AFIB Community!
I just wanted to say how helpful these forums have been to me. I had a stroke in early October 2018. After being hospitalized and wearing a halter heart monitor for thirty days, my cardiologist put me on elliquis, a statin, and Multaq.
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Newly Diagnosed with AFib
Hi, Today I was diagnosed with Afib. Something I never dreamed I would ever have. I think I had been having episodes for about two years off and on but not severe. I would attribute them to having a virus or something else. I would...
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