10 hour ablation

[Delrosario]

Hello , Just had my first ablation 3 days ago and am home resting. It was a10 hr. Procedure but dont remember what was told to me. Will see doctor next week. I feel like if a bus ran over me . I just feel horrible maybe because i had the tube in to long and anesthesia. Im 62 yrs old ive suffered afib for 7 yrs. Im to continue same meds till further notice. I have the migrain and that zigzag vision but only yesterday my headache is alot better. I know everyone is different but this is my experience. Im currently on flecanaid 100 mg twice a day. Xarelto and metropolol 25 mg a day.

[BobD Volunteer]

10 hours! Wow that really is a long time unless you are counting from when you went in to the lab and back in the ward. Four hours is probably the average with GA and that can knock you for six for quite a while. Pity the poor EP who had to contentrate for that long. I had my last in mid August and GA was 2 hours approx but total elapsed time before I got to ward was about eight hours for various reasons. I'm only just starting to feel anything like fully recovered, hampered no doubt by picking up a nasty cold virus over HRC and am of course "considerably older than yow."

Relax and let you body heal at its own speed. You know about the migraine so must have read our recovery advice sheet so rest, rest and more rest. It'll be worth it in the end.

[Delrosario in reply to BobD]

Yes, it was 10 hours he said it was alot of work. Everyone were saying they had never had a patient to take that long. Im still haveing episodes but they dont last to long. Im just so out of it still but yes just rest and relax. I did read the fact sheet but i guess i missed the vision problem which really scared me but its gone now only the headaches i still have.

[Hidden]

Just in case you haven’t seen it, click on the link below and read the factsheet on recovering from an ablation.....

heartrhythmalliance.org/res...

[wheelsup in reply to Hidden]

I have had dizziness, mild headache, tremors, vision aura like you mentioned just once buy very scary as well, tingling in hands and other symptoms since i woke up from my ablation in april.

I had some cervical neck issues prior to the surgery and i am convinced the position i was put in for GA may be the root cause. i had an eval for atlas (C1) position and found it was out if place. Atlas subluxation.

I am considering a chiropractic treatment (NUCCS) to resolve it.

I will read the recovery link But wonder the root cause of my (or our) symtoms.

Hope this helps.

[Strongheart143 in reply to wheelsup]

I can fully empathize. I was under for four hours in my second ablation and having to lie still strapped down for as long as I was in postop I developed a terrible terrible neck pain and I was crying out for hours and no one would help me and the nurses wouldn’t even come and touch me or prop me up with pillows they did nothing to help me until some stupid doctor came and told me he was going to give me 800 mg of ibuprofen. I looked at him and I said “you know that I cannot take ibuprofen with the blood thinners that I’m on, right? Why would you suggest I take ibuprofen? Did you not look at my chart? I’m the patient, I’m in a great deal of pain and I shouldn’t have to be telling you this.”So then he offered to give me some Tylenol with no responsibility for his error mind you… And like that did anything. It did nothing and I was in pain and agony for the whole night in postop and those nurses were witches and they never came to comfort me or massage my neck or give me a warm heating pad or anything no comfort no care and I was dumped out of there the next day in a wheelchair feeling half dead.

I received not one follow up phone call from a doctor or a nurse no follow up nurse visit or calls....NADA.

I am all alone here with no husband no children no one to care for me except a neighbor in the building brought me some groceries for the first three days I couldn’t eat all I could do was drink Coke and Ginger ale I was throwing up and just violently ill from the anesthesia. It was a nightmare.

When I went for my three month check up and I told the surgeon (who is supposedly the rockstar ablation surgeon of America) I told him about my nightmare experience in postop the lack of care and that not one person had called me to follow up to see how I was doing. And he looked at me blankly and said “oh… Really?”I told him about my nightmare experience and postop the lack of care and that not one person had called me to follow up to see how I was doing. And he looked at me blankly and said “Ohhh.. Really? “ No apology no explanation no responsibility no compassion.

no apology no explanation no responsibility no compassion.I’ve had a very very rough road and it’s still a rough road and my heart goes out to anyone here who is still suffering in anyway from medical neglect or trauma.

[Jjda]

10 hours is a long time to be under GA. My ablation took about 5 hours under GA, and my EP said there were a lot of things to do, but, the good news is I've been AFib free for over a year now. The GA will mess with you for quite some time, so give yourself time and don't stress (I know, easier said than done). Interesting that you have had the ocular migraine symptoms since the ablation. I had ocular migraines for at least 20 years, but have had none since my ablation.

[Delrosario in reply to Jjda]

Yes, just them telling me they took 10 hours scared me. I can say i can feel it in my body. Headaches are going away im just extremely tired and have this cough . I see my doctor on 24 of oct im really looking foward to hear what he did . Only haveing short episodes off and on but nothing like before. Im takeing it as easy as i can. I will come back with what the doctor tells me.

[Strongheart143]

I felt the same way after mine like they had practically killed me. I could barely lift my head for over a month and I still have not recovered it was a terrible trauma to my body and I’m Very depressed about it. I hope that you can recover your energy. I am also in my 60s and it was my second ablation. They gave me zero after care of the postop was a nightmare and I’m really quite angry and fed up with them. And he was supposedly the best in America.