Recovering post ablation

[Jajarunner]

I found this report online. The people replying were self selected so its perhaps overly pessimistic, but if you are like me and like to be gloomy and then pleasantly surprised when it's not as bad as you expect this is the place for you!

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...

[BobD Volunteer]

A very cursory glance suggests that our "Recovering from Ablation" fact sheet is even more needed than ever. The plain fact is that once doctors start to understand that ablation is not a quick fix and stop giving that impression to patients then patients will not have unrealistic expectations. Even at six and nine months many people are still improving as we have said before.

[Jajarunner in reply to BobD]

Same with cardioversion. After 5 weeks in permanent AF they told me I could run by the weekend (it was a Thursday!) when I could barely walk out of the hospital! Luckily I had been through it before (48 hours took a month to recover) and knew they were talking rubbish. It was about 2.5 months before I felt back to something like the old me.

[Hidden in reply to Jajarunner]

This shows how different we all are, after my first cardioversion I skipped out of the hospital.

I have felt fine after every one and returned to work the following day.

Ablation took me 3 months+ to recover though

[Jajarunner in reply to Hidden]

I'm soooooo jealous.

I've read of people with Afib who don't even know they've got it whereas I am drugged up to the eyeballs and can hardly walk. Even standing makes me tired!

Some of it could be the drugs, but each time I have the Afib it just cripples me. Then I have the 5-6 wait for cardioversion which then makes it slower to recover....

But I'm glad you've dared do much better, but I'm still jealous 😆😆😆

[Hidden in reply to Jajarunner]

I'm sorry, didn't mean to make you jealous.

When I was in AF life was horrible, and like you the drugs turned me in to a zombie.

Thankfully an ablation put that behind me 3 years ago, and managed to get off the bisoprolol over a year ago.

I know I have been very lucky and I had an amazing EP that saw the person not the patient if that makes sense.

I wish you well with your AF journey

[Jajarunner in reply to Hidden]

Oh, that's encouraging with the ablation though! I'd love to get off the betablockers once and for all after my ablation.

In the meantime I know I'm lucky enough to have a cardioversion booked for ten days time when many are cancelled, ( fingers crossed it won't be ).

Good wishes to you too.