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Good morning 1969hippy,
I hope you are well?
Welcome to the forum, please feel free to ask any questions you may have, and take a look at the discussions and topics on the forum.
Katrina.
Welcome to the forum Hippy.
You'll find us a friendly group always willing to help you in any way we can through this great forum.
Jean
Hi there, glad to have you here.
morning and welcome
Thank you,
They wanted me to have a PM when my heart started going queer. That was about 15 years ago. I decided against it & just on anticoags now.
Wow great, but do you still have your afib and get many attacks?
All the best
Pat
What do you mean by attacks? I don't dizzy but sometimes experience racing heart at night usually associated with weird dreams, . they are scary. I deal with these by breathing exercises .
Well I call them attacks when I felt ill with the afib/tachycardia spells. Light headed as if going to faint, heart jerking and running so fast, weak legs want to sit down and hot it eased a bit after an ablation but all came back a few months afterwards admittedly not quite so bad but there all the same
Having said all that during the summer my heart started going into bradycardia and although I could still feel some thumps I was so faint and was taken into hospital 26th august. Then on 5th September it was decided not to send me to Harefield hospital for a left sided ablation (apparently the particular procedure was 6 hours long under GA and risky)
So it was decided to have a pacemaker. Goodness what an amazing difference. Within a couple of days I felt so much better and long may it last 🤞🤞🤞
I know a pacemaker is only to stop the heart from beating too low and doesn’t control the fast heart rate, but I haven’t felt anything snd it's a regular 60bpm. Just once in earlier days it must have argued with tachy but only went up to 72 and after a few seconds to a minute was back to normal
I’m sorry for the long post
Stay well
Pat x
Hi
Welcome to the forum.
You will get to know many of us with similar diagnosis.
cheri Joy. 75. (NZ)