I posted on here a while ago about my recent diagnosis of AF and my fears on returning to 'normal' life. Since then I have returned to work on slightly reduced duties but as a high school teacher 4 weeks before exams, slightly reduced is a bit of a joke.
A recent 24 ECG has revealed that I am apparently back in NSR (or I was for the 24 hours of the exam) and as my AF is asymptomatic, I have difficulty in knowing if this has changed. My consultant has said that I have something called wenckebach which apparently is a conduction issue between the AV node and the Sinus node, which gives you 'missed' heartbeats. l also suffer from a low heart rate at rest. I am now to be taken off Amiodarone (thank goodness) and given a different anti-arrhythmic in the next week or so.
I was wondering if anyone had any idea what might be suggested, any questions I should ask and whether I should continue to be anti-coagulated?
Thanks for all your fantastic replies last time, they were much appreciated.
Rachel
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I had my ablation 8/2014. My heart has fibrosis due to radiotherapy on my shoulder. If the ablation is not satisfactory in the long term then I will have to have pace and ablate and a pacemaker.
Before the ablation I was on 2x 100 flecainide daily and 10 bisoprolol. My AF was erratic. I could go months without episodes then have several in a week. I did not feel my heart for 6 weeks after the ablation but now get occasional mild episodes which can be stopped after an hour or so with 100 flecainide. 50 does not work. I take 2.5 bisoprolol to help reduce my heart rate. I feel that I am in control right now. Pre-ablation I just had to wait for the fibrillation to stop and my quality of life was poor.
Hi Jennydog can I ask - were you on the medication and still having such a poor quality of life? So the meds weren't helping? Sorry to be nosey! Glad things seem to have settled.
I am sorry to be so late responding. Our internet service is lousy. It keeps cutting off.
None of the medication tried pre-ablation prevented some, if not all of the episodes. I loathed being so unreliable that I couldn't make arrangements as I never knew how well I would be. The episodes were so severe that I had to lie down. Now I can still function even if I feel rotten. I know that I might deteriorate but, for now, I can cope.
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