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COVID INJECTION AND AF

Has anyone had adverse reactions to the Covid injection, which has affected your AF badly, you hear so many negatives which makes you scared to have , I am...

Has anyone had adverse reactions to the Covid injection, which has affected you...

•3 years ago

Heart problems

heart problems everyone can get it no matter how they live. my mother was recently diagnosed with heart failure and heart fibrillation she had her lungs full...

heart problems everyone can get it no matter how they live. my mother was recent...

•3 years ago

Xarelto and nosebleeds

I changed from warfarin to xarelto in January and a couple of weeks ago I started random nosebleeds. Only a few, probably 4 too date, but 4 more than I have...

I changed from warfarin to xarelto in January and a couple of weeks ago I starte...

•3 years ago

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Surgery and A/Fib

Hi Everyone I am booked in for a Hernia key hole op (general anaesthetic) and will as advised have to come off my Apixaban before the Op. I have Paroxysmal...

Hi Everyone I am booked in for a Hernia key hole op (general anaesthetic) and wi...

•3 years ago

Living with Constant AFIB

Morning all I just wanted to thank you all for your kind words and suport. To say it’s been a rough week would be an understatement. However it’s so nice to be...

Morning all I just wanted to thank you all for your kind words and suport. To sa...

•3 years ago

Slozem (Diltiazem)

Started on 240mg Slozem 4 weeks ago. Symptoms of shortness of breath, but 02 sat levels 94- 97, really hard to breathe at time times with internal tremor....

Started on 240mg Slozem 4 weeks ago. Symptoms of shortness of breath, but 02 sat...

•3 years ago

AF and thyroid meds

For two days now my BP suddenly drop to normal and without AF symptoms, with only increase a bit my underactive thyroid's meds, by my GP. I'm feeling great!

For two days now my BP suddenly drop to normal and without AF symptoms, with onl...

•3 years ago

HAPPY EASTER to those that celebrate it.

Celebrate Easter or not, God bless all our friends on here whatever you celebrate.

Celebrate Easter or not, God bless all our friends on here whatever you celebra...

•3 years ago

Monitoring Your Biomarkers

I am still working my way through the new book The Afib Cure by US electrophysiologists Drs. John Day & Jared Bunch. And I have to say, the...

I am still working my way through the new book The Afib Cure by US electrophysio...

•3 years ago

Post ablation update

Hello everyone, I do hope you are all keeping well and managing to enjoy the nice weather while it lasts! I am now in week 14 following my second ablation,...

Hello everyone, I do hope you are all keeping well and managing to enjoy the nic...

•3 years ago

Alpha Lipoic Acid and anti-Coagulants

I am on Apixaban, Statins and blood pressure tablets. I suffer with thoracic back pain which when it flares is awful, a mixture of muscle and nerve pain. I...

I am on Apixaban, Statins and blood pressure tablets. I suffer with thoracic ba...

•3 years ago

Back home

Hi all well another 24 hours in hospital with my Afib it’s more or less permanent now but in the early hours of Thursday morning it spiked to 200. To say it...

Hi all well another 24 hours in hospital with my Afib it’s more or less permanen...

•3 years ago

Watchman

Anyone had the Watchman procedure? Your thoughts?

Anyone had the Watchman procedure? Your thoughts?

•3 years ago

Meds side effects

I was put on 3 heart meds about a month ago. Bisopropolol, Rosuvastatin and Plavix and a BP med and Telesmarttin( too lazy to get up and look at the...

I was put on 3 heart meds about a month ago. Bisopropolol, Rosuvastatin and Plav...

•3 years ago

ACHING JOINTS

Since I stopped the anticoagulants I began to exercise. I did it slowly walking for 15 minutes and so on until I started to do an hour and that is when I...

Since I stopped the anticoagulants I began to exercise. I did it slowly walking...

•3 years ago

Sneezing in AF

I have reasonably controlled AF with maybe 1 episode a month which usually terminates with PIP Flecainide and Metoprolol .With last nights episode I returned...

I have reasonably controlled AF with maybe 1 episode a month which usually termi...

•3 years ago

Bisoprolol

I have just started Bisoprolol 1.25mg (first day) l have been prescribed it for ectopics my question is does it also help high blood pressure. I’m due to have...

I have just started Bisoprolol 1.25mg (first day) l have been prescribed it for ...

•3 years ago

What To Eat When You Have AFIB

this is a good article from one of my Wellness newsletters, outlining the best and worst foods for people with AFIB....

this is a good article from one of my Wellness newsletters, outlining the best a...

•3 years ago

Rivaroxaban or Apixaban

The clinical pharmacist at my GP practice gave me a choice between Rivaroxaban or Apixaban. I chose Rivaroxaban simply because you only have to take it once a...

The clinical pharmacist at my GP practice gave me a choice between Rivaroxaban o...

•3 years ago

Reoccurrence after 7 years

Hi I ad an ablation in 2014 and was up until last week was afib free , then last week my heart seemed to judder and the afib kicked back in I was absolutely...

Hi I ad an ablation in 2014 and was up until last week was afib free , then la...

•3 years ago

AFib vs Aflutter

Can anyone describe how they feel with AFlutter vs AFIB? That is, of course, if you’re symptomatic. I wonder if what I’ve been feeling as AFIB is sometimes...

Can anyone describe how they feel with AFlutter vs AFIB? That is, of course, if...

•3 years ago

Ablation Date

UPDATE The hospital have now said to isolate after my Covid test, which will be 72 hours prior to ablation. They did add, to isolate longer if possible but...

UPDATE The hospital have now said to isolate after my Covid test, which will b...

•3 years ago

Bisoprolol

Hello again. BISOPROLO again! Last week my Husband was called by our Surgery to go for blood tests and a ECG he was called back again to go yesterday to repeat...

Hello again. BISOPROLO again! Last week my Husband was called by our Surgery to ...

•3 years ago

Magnesium v Bisoprolol and Apaxiban 5mg twice a day.

Hello all. I’m on Bisoprolol and Apaxiban. Anyone taking these drugs that has been supplementing with magnesium at home too? I’m interested in finding out if...

Hello all. I’m on Bisoprolol and Apaxiban. Anyone taking these drugs that has be...

•3 years ago

Thoughts please!

For the last few months I had been doing so well. Taking the tablets, brisk 30 minutes walk a day. Last few weeks out of breath even putting my socks on. AF...

For the last few months I had been doing so well. Taking the tablets, brisk 30 m...

•3 years ago

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