6 weeks post 2nd ablation

[Nanabrodie]

Hi everyone, this second ablation seems to have taken a lot more out of me than the first. I still get tired very easily and walking up hill makes me quite breathless . This morning I had an enormous pain start in upper back and went right through to my chest it made me feel quite light headed and nauseas and it lasted about a minute or two it was quite scary. Has anyone experienced this at this stage in their recovery?

[jeanjeannie50]

I experienced a pain like you describe about 5 days after my (think it was) second ablation. Of course I was half convinced it was a heart attack. Next day I rang my GP and he said' "Just put it down as an experience and let me know if it happens again". Well fortunately it never did happen again.

Yours is after a lot longer period and I always think any severe chest pain, especially if it makes you feel nauseas should be checked out. You could always just ring the NHS111 number and ask their advice.

Jean

[Nanabrodie in reply to jeanjeannie50]

Thank you jean if it happens again I'll certainly ring 111 .

[millie-becca-187]

Hi Nanabrodie, I'm 4month post 2nd ablation and the first few months I was getting all sorts of different chest pains, some I might say very painful. But now all seems well and just get the odd twinge and hearts behaving well and looking forward to a future AF free!

Hope you do too.

[Nanabrodie in reply to millie-becca-187]

Thank you that’s very reassuring . Fingers crossed for an AF free future!

[Maggimunro]

Hi there, exactly the same thing happened to me three days post ablation. I was taken back into hospital A and E and thirteen hours later, after various tests and scans, they discovered that when I had fallen on the ice 5 years ago, I had in fact broken my spine (scary) and was left with a cyst pushing up into Thoracic vertebrae 5.

Basically, the old injury was aggravated during the ablation, by lying on the very hard plinth for five hours, and I had back pain radiating through to the front of my chest for a couple of weeks post ablation.

For my last ablation, they wrapped me in a 'bear hug' which is basically a sort of very fine air bag filled with warm air. This was to stop the hypothermia I also suffered duriing my second ablation but it had the great added benefit of cushioning my back through out the proceedure. Brilliant result: no hypothermia and no post op back pain.

So my advice is, talk to your anaesthetist pre op and see if they adjust things to avoid any post op problems.