Update on my hybrid ablation

This is just one person’s experience, and I’m told I’m a ‘difficult case’, but in the absence of any surveys or reviews, what else do we have to go on?

I had a hybrid ablation in the UK in September last year. Mine was single stage, rather than the two stage version where the surgical ablation is followed up 3 months later by the EP. I also had an LAA occlusion

My pacemaker recorded 87% af in the year before the procedure. It’s recorded 2.3% since. Not af free, but pretty good compared with how I was!

The bad news is that I’m still on all the medsso some of this success will be due to them, particularly amiodarone which I’ve now been taking for far too long and want to give up. One option might be to switch to dronedarone.

I’m also one of the unlucky ones for whom an LAA occlusion doesn’t mean a life free of blood thinners, but I can live with that.

I may never be free of this pesky beast, but it won’t defeat me 😎😉😊

[bassets]

Good for you! I had a cryo ablation last August and my af is nothing like as bad as yet - hoping it stays away for a while! Keep on keeping on

[Hidden in reply to bassets]

Thanks. I hope you stay free of it too 🤞🤞🤞

[Ablation7]

Glad it seems to have done the trick! Hope you are able to get off the amiodarone soon!

[MummyLuv]

I wonder why your surgeon/EP is not weaning you off Amiodarone? Have they given you an explanation? It’s popular to stay on 3 months after hybrid/ surgical ablation but not this long so I can understand why you want to stop.