AF Article in Daily Mail today

[Patsy10]

For those who might be interested but are not Mail readers: dailymail.co.uk/health/arti...

[jennydog]

Thank you for posting this article. It's very interesting but the dementia references are scary!

[CDreamer in reply to jennydog]

The dementia is related to undiagnosed AF folk - not on anticoagulants. The risks are from micro clots reaching the brain - as I understand it. The risks of dementia are also often related to sleep deprivation, the links of which are only just beginning to be understood.

[Patsy10 in reply to CDreamer]

Thanks for the reply which calmed me a bit as I am on Apixaban.

[john-boy-92 in reply to CDreamer]

After my stroke, my excellent Neurologist said I should ease back into cardio exercise as the oxygenated blood to the brain may help. That is also being said to help stave off dementia. I use to enjoy yoga, particulalrly inverted poses but the Neurologist said that she had treated a patient who had a stroke in an inverted pose; legs up the wall pose is OK though.

[CDreamer in reply to john-boy-92]

When I was taking HBOT there were quite a few people who had quite severe strokes - the oxygen therapy has been shown to improve brain function after stroke. The trouble, as usual with NHS, that it tends to be last resort rather than 1st resort therapy.

This is quite an old article - Israel leads the world in this treat emend although it was developed for deep sea dives which my husband was involved with which is how I came to be aware of it. sciencedaily.com/releases/2...

My husband worked for the same company that Professor James who developed the therapy in the UK and set up the HBOT Trust

hyperbaricoxygentherapy.org...

In the UK it is available privately through MS Centres and is used for MS, neurological conditions, Lymes Disease and other neurological conditions. I took it for about a year and found it improved my SATS from average 92 to average 98, my brain fog cleared and my energies improved considerably.

[Patsy10 in reply to jennydog]

I totally agree. Very Scary indeed!!

[john-boy-92]

The sad thing about that article is that I suggested in a Patient Participation Group, that GPs could use an oximeter with a pleth display to check for arrhythmia during an appointment. I have AF and my oximeter clearly shows that I have permanent arrhythmia. The Practice replied that the BMJ recently had a article suggesting that it wasn't necessary to routinely check for AF. For the record I've had an AF related stroke.

[Patsy10 in reply to john-boy-92]

I hope you are fully recovered from the stroke and wish you well. Were you on any meds. when it happened?

[john-boy-92]

Thank you for that. The stroke left me partially sighted on the right hand side (homonymous hemianopia), my memory is just about restored, but my sense of smell for some things - rotting grass cuttings(!) and some flowers hasn't returned. I wasn't on an anticoagulant at the time as an EP said that I didn't need one; I was a cardio bunny with a resting heart rate around 45, but a flat out Spin class session would see 190 to 195, followed by an abbs class.