Hello

[1969hippy]

Hope to get to know some of you.

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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.

[jeanjeannie50]

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

[1969hippy in reply to jeanjeannie50]

Thanks

[bassets]

Hi there, glad to have you here.

[Tapanac]

morning and welcome

[1969hippy in reply to Tapanac]

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.

[Tapanac in reply to 1969hippy]

Wow great, but do you still have your afib and get many attacks?

All the best

Pat

[1969hippy in reply to Tapanac]

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 .

[Tapanac in reply to 1969hippy]

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

[AustinElliot]

Good Morning, I'm sort of a 1967 Hippy, so nice to meet you

[1969hippy in reply to AustinElliot]

Cheers man.

[JOY2THEWORLD49]

Hi

Welcome to the forum.

You will get to know many of us with similar diagnosis.

cheri Joy. 75. (NZ)