Worried about my husband

[Jellyfish19]

Hello everyone, this is my first time posting here.

My husband was diagnosed with AF 5 years ago when he was 45. He was on beta blockers for a while, which he hated as they lowered his heart rate too much. Eventually he came off all meds and had Flecanide as PIP. We had a period of almost 3 years with no AF. Life was good. Then about a year ago it started happening again. It’s now happening every few weeks. Always at night.

His cardiologist has always stuck with medication and has not recommended an ablation. But I don’t know if that’s right. He has discussed taking Flec preventively. But are there any long term effects from doing this?

I’m scared about the future. We have two teenaged kids and a full life. I don’t know what the next steps should be. He feels light headed when in AF so it’s not as if he can just get on with it, it’s really disruptive. It’s happened on holiday twice and it was so scary, especially for the kids, having to go to A&E in a different country etc.

I just feel really down about it. I hate the idea that we just have to live with this hanging over us all the time.

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If the doctors do not recommend any further action just now then there may be value in getting something that will monitor and record his heart rate ? AWatch/ Kardia so that you can gather the evidence to take to the doctor. That is how my AF started and getting light headed is something that you need to know the cause of, having something that records what the heart rate is when that happens will be invaluable. Recording what he was doing before it came on and I would even look at the food that he ate before those eventss It is good that he has you looking out for him, keep it up.