After 6 months

[Kmwh]

Last night was the first time since my ablation on April 1 that I have felt af. It lasted about 1/2 an hour and went away

I’ll call my cardiologist today as I am no longer on a blood thinner. I am only on a dose of metoprolol. Will see what his input is

Hopefully it is a one time occurrence.

I can’t say I would repeat the ablation again as it was my second, the first one being for svt and the second for af

[rosyG]

I would assess your stroke risk through the chadsvasc score and if you need anti coagulants then get a prescription form your Gp- should be quicker than cardio opinion!

You might just need small touch up of area where the scar has shrunk? BobD is best on this- I haven't had an ablation.....

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I see you had a cryoablation. Sometimes the expanding balloon does not make full contact with the tissue around the pulmonary veins and as RosyG says, they sometimes have to do a second RF ablation to treat the tissue which has been missed. This happened to me and from what we hear it is not uncommon because often the tissue around the veins is not smooth and regular in shape. If you are from the States, the procedure for having your stroke risk assessed maybe different from the U.K. but your CHADs score should be assessed as a matter of some urgency and if appropriate, re-starting your anticoagulant medication even quicker!!

[irene75359]

That must be so disappointing for you. I agree with the others, get back on anti-coagulants as a matter of urgency. The case for continuing after ablation is underlined. Wish you well.

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Before you are forced onto more meds, you might want to try this:

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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 sugar. Each person has a different sugar threshold - and it changes as you get older, so you need to count every gram of sugar you eat every day (including natural sugars in fruits, etc.). My tolerance level was 190 grams of sugar per day 8 years ago, 85 grams a year and a half ago, and 60 grams today, so AFIB episodes are more frequent and last longer. If you keep your intake of sugar below your threshold level your AFIB will not happen again (easier said than done of course). It's not the food - it's the sugar (or salt - see below) IN the food that's causing your problems. Try it and you will see - should only take you 1 or 2 months of trial-and-error to find your threshold level. And for the record - ALL sugars are treated the same (honey, refined, agave, natural sugars in fruits, etc.). I successfully triggered AFIB by eating a bunch of plums and peaches one day just to test it out. In addition, I have noticed that moderate exercise (7-mile bike ride or 5-mile hike in the park) often puts my Afib heart back in to normal rhythm a couple hours later. Don’t know why – perhaps you burn off the excess sugars in your blood/muscles or sweat out excess salt??

Also, in addition to sugar, if you are dehydrated - this will trigger AFIB as well. It seems (but I have no proof of this) that a little uptick of salt in your blood is being treated the same as an uptick of sugar - both cause AFIB episodes. (I’m not a doctor – it may be the sugar in your muscles/organs and not in your blood, don’t know). In any case you have to keep hydrated, and not eat too much salt. The root problem is that our bodies are not processing sugar/salt properly and no doctor knows why, but the AFIB seems to be a symptom of this and not the primary problem, but medicine is not advanced enough to know the core reason that causes AFIB at this time. You can have a healthy heart and still have Afib – something inside us is triggering it when we eat too much sugar or get (even a little) dehydrated. Find out the core reason for this and you will be a millionaire and make the cover of Time Magazine! Good luck! - Rick Hyer