Please could I have some advice on what to do next. I have had my four day monitor but now silence.
I am having episodes of AF for 20 out of 24 hours and the Flecainide doesn’t touch it. A day op has been cancelled until my heart is settled and I have left several messages for arrhythmia nurse.
I feel as if I am in an exhausted limbo, any advice on next step?
Can you phone your Cardiologist's secretary? Can your GP move things along? If you can't make contact with anyone then ring the Concerns ( Complaints) Dept at your Regional Hospital.
Remember " She who makes the most noise gets the most attention."
Please persevere as the current situation is unfair to you.
Maybe the arrhythmia nurse is away so your message has not been picked up, or the consultant is away so the computerised analysis of the recording has not been signed off.
Perhaps consider going to the hospital to locate the secretary and talk face to face. If you happened to have a brief “turn” and ask for a chair 🙂 that should get things moving.
I never went to A&e with af but I was battling to get anticoagulant and GP waiting for letter from EP and all fobbing me off. So I had a strategy -was going to a&e and say I had AF episode and upset. I think I got myself so p...ed off with them all that I actually had a really bad episode in the A&E dept - ecg machine struggling and finally registered 240bpm. I was taken in, given a bed for the night and monitored. I made a big fuss about anticoagulants so the doctor on duty sorted it out there and then.
So start making noise.
Have caved in, broken open the piggy bank and have an appointment with EP on 23/10. Was becoming concerned as Flecainide wasn’t working so had no rhythm drug.
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