On this day in 2018, I had my first cardioversion. My heart had been stuck at 150bpm for three days. I was hospitalised, diagnosed with Atrial Flutter and given a cardioversion. I often liken it to to when you ring the IT Help Desk with a computer issue and they ask, “Have you tried switching it off and on again?” 😂😂
Ten weeks later I went back into Atrial Flutter, then Atrial Fibrillation. For those who have followed my journey, you know it’s been a rough ride. Thankfully, my heart has been pretty good since my last ablation.
I’m glad I found this wonderful community in the early days of my AF experience.
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Pretty good thanks Irene but I did go for a MRI on my knee yesterday which I hurt in my fall in early Feb 🤪. Hopefully I don’t need surgery on that (I’ve had surgery on both knees previously). Life is an adventure 😂😂
Gosh yes you’ve been thru lots of awful times , I’m with you on those words kaz, same here, I thought my life was over when all this kicked off...so wrong eh....! ...how fortunate I was to find this happy bunch of fellows.Glad you are doing so well and I imagine enjoying all those lovely waterways in your doorstep.
I hope I can say the same in 3 years. 6 cardio versions, 4 ablations and an ICD all in this past year. The stress of Covid has made it even worse. Also have/had atrial flutter and tachycardia and am now on amiodarone, hopefully only for a while. 9 weeks since last ablation 🤞
I feel your pain- I’ve had AF, AFlutter and Tachycardia too -4 ablations plus an abandoned one when they found a blood clot and a lot of complications to both procedures and drugs 😂. I lasted about 8 weeks on Amiodarone (was also on Digoxin and Attenolol in a cocktail to try and keep my heart calm). It affected my liver, skin and lungs so I had to go off it.
The good news is there can be light at the end of the tunnel 😀 (and it’s not always a train).
Yes to complications - during the last ablation they ablated too close to the ICD atrial wire and wrecked it 😠 So now there are times when the upper and lower heart chambers are out of synch and I have to sit down and let the dreadful feeling pass. Ugh. I’m very glad to hear there’s hope. This has all been awful!!
Nice glad to hear good news. Did you ever find the cause of it? Do you have a programme you have to stick to to keep it controlled? Over only been working out what to do about it myself since year a of frustrtaiin with doctors and I've at least stopped mine for now with magnesium.... Yay! Did you have to Do a lot of lifestyle changes? I'm sure I will have to do more than just take magnesium ..but not starting yet...just gonna see how it goes.but its always nice to hear someone's had the same thing for years and worse than me and have sorted it in the end. It means hope and that's very reassuring.
My arrhythmias were triggered by my first ankle surgery. Doctors said there would have been an underlying predisposition though which we believe is linked to the severe preeclampsia I had in both pregnancies nearly 30 years ago (a generation or two earlier and I wouldn’t have survived childbirth). Research has shown that women who have preeclampsia are at much higher risks of stroke, blood pressure and heart problems later in life ... and this is later in life.
I had a fairly healthy lifestyle before but I cut out alcohol (I now have an occasional glass) and caffeine, focused on reducing stress, sleeping better, working less, meditating and keeping my exercise up. I also take magnesium and that definitely helps too.
Thanks very much. sleep and excersise I need to tackle next so. I really want to go to swim but won't be for a while and I'd say when they open the pools (if they ever do) there will be hoards of people for a while. I have seen preeclampsia on " call the midwife" and I didn't know they could cure it now...I used to check my ankles for swelling every day i when I had my pregnancies... Scary. I might download a sleep tracker to check I know last time I looked I was spending ten hours in bed exhuasted but only sleeping for five hours .... Thanks again for the tips.
I’m lucky being in Australia. I go to the pool 2 or 3 times a week.
I had a hypertensive crisis after my first daughter was born (she was delivered at 35 weeks after I’d been on bed rest in hospital for a couple of weeks). It was too dangerous to move me from the delivery suite until the next day and then for a few days I could only visit the nursery by wheelchair. Not quite the blissful joy you see in movies 😉
4 years and 9 months since my ablation. Back in afib today for the first time. I knew it was coming through. I’ve had a monitor on for 11 days now. Not happy about it.😕
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Back in the hospital after my AF ablation 5 days ago 😫
Ablation for atrial flutter vs fibrillation
Previous AF episode over two years ago.
Difference between Afib and atrial flutter
