15 month after my first ablation

[rv29]

Hello,

I have been diagnosed with Afib in April 2020, and had an ablation on June 2020. It took me 9 months to fully recover - in NSR all the time but I had periods of dizziness and high hearth rate. I was a recreational trail runner before all started, running 50 miles per week, stopped running before the ablation, back running 10 months after ablation( my EP cleared me after 3 month to run slowly but I had to wait another 6 month to have my dizziness pass. In the last month I up the miles to around 20 miles per week. Last week I start getting spikes in the hearth rate again (I can fill them and they make me dizzy) as I was before (I have a Apple Watch and it shows the pulse in 120-190 BPM but just for couple of seconds and it gets back to my normal 70 BPM). The EKG done with my Apple Watch shows again that I am in NSR (I sent some to my EP and he confirmed it). I am not sure what is going on, my EP told me to monitor my condition and report back if it gets worst. Did anybody experience same kind of issues? Does it mean that the ablation failed or I have developed some other condition / type of arrhythmia?

Thanks

[Hidden]

If you have difficulty climbing the stairs, than your arrhythmia is most likely SVT. Nothing special, people with arrhythmia often change between different types of arrhythmia, but gladly stick to their beloved AF, lol.

Some day, you will realize that running is among worst activities for humans. I will not develop a theory here, but if I was you, I would stop running until the end of the month 9 post ablation. Even worse, I would stop running completely - you will have to accept that you will never be the "old one", but if you are sensible and make some adjustments in your life-style, you will be able to have long and relatively normal life.

[rv29 in reply to Hidden]

Thanks you for your reply and advice. I do not have issues climbing stairs and I did restart running 10 month after a ablation. I run to keep sane (it was a way for me to decompress) but you are right I may have to give up running,

[BobD Volunteer in reply to rv29]

AF is all abut life style choices and changes I'm afraid. Over exercise is a well known cause of AF and it beats me why doctors (who know that ablation is not a cure but merely supresses symptoms) are not more proactive in warning away from such activities. Exercise is good, over exercise not so much.

[rv29 in reply to BobD]

Yeah, you are right. My EP cleared me actually after the first 4 weeks… I did not do it because I was not feeling well (walking slowly was raising my pulse over 100 bpm). He mentioned that I should not look at the pulse and just go for the feel….