Hello lovely people. In July 2023 i found myself needing to go the A and E as i was breathless and my GP sent me there for a chest xray but i ended up calling a ambulance and when they took my HR is was 200 beats a min i was taken straight in to the resuscitation area at the RSCH. I had no chest pains but they keep asking me if i did. Had the chest xray showed some fluid retention I spent 16 hours in And E being moved about in and out of corridors etc and i did get a place in the cardio unit the next evening i had ECG etc and was diagnosed with permanent AF and hypertension Given Bisprolol 2x 5mg Dagliflozin 10mg Edoxaban Furosemide 40mg Ramipril and i was sent home the next day. I went back for the echo cardiogram August.2023 .In October 2023 had out patient appointment at the Heart failure clinic.I saw the registrar not the consultant and was offered Cather ablation. I had to ask about the Echo result and was just told my heart failure was mild and the ejection fraction was preserved. I was never sent the report so i made a GPDR for my information and i was able to see and read my ECG and results/ notes etc during this appointment i had a 12 lead ECG and i was told my heart was 117 beats and i was given Digoxin 125mg As i am a carer to my son ( adult autistic person and my older brother who has Parkinson's I felt i had no choice but to turn down the referral to the electrophysiologist becuse i did this I feel they have lost interest in me. I had further appointment this time with the consultant who has said he is happy with my heart rate and i have been discharged back to my GP I take my medicine and i kinda just got used to symptoms. I am a highly sensitive person and i have lived with flight or flight sensation all my life. In my 40's i went into menopause and unknown to me i did have heart palpitations at that time. Many years on I had covid in January 2021 it took me almost a year to overcome this virus. I then went on and had the covid vaccinations the third one i had in Oct 22 left me with with heart palpitation for a week unknown to me i think it was AF I found it hard to get though my day feeling tired all the time .I did contact my GP a couple of times but just could not get an appointment during the covid period. My problem as a carer it that i just feel that the that the cardiologist has no understanding of my situation. There is no social care support and that i really have no one to care for me during any recovery period or care for my Autistic son or brother so i could undertake this medical procedure Just to add my Dad died of a heart attack when he was 52 having had very high blood pressure and some heart condition all his life and my mum died of Leukemia when she was 65 . I have an A and D medical blood pressure device which shows if you in AF, i take it daily and Average120/80 and my pulse rate shows anything from 46 to 114 i really have a haywire heart as readings seem to flip about all the time. I take magnesium from following advice on here and i feel calm most day with no chest pain or breathlessness. I Follow the DASH diet, i do not smoke or drink ( never have) The cardiologist did say that it would be another year before Pulse field would be available at the RSCH cardio unit.
Kind regards Pam
Its not who you are but who you know. 
Should one asymptomatic and isolated AF episode be medicated?
Angiogram-who is to blame?
Is there anyone else who doesn't know if their symptoms are a result of drugs or the condition?
Thankyou to all who supported and advised me after 24h tape showed a run of VT. It's good news...
