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My Four Year Journey

Help please! This site has been so helpful and pretty much my constant companion since I was first put in the nightmare train called AFib! It turned out that...

Help please! This site has been so helpful and pretty much my constant companio...

Slidingdoors99

•4 months ago

41 Replies

travel insurance

Good Afternoon Just tried to renew our travel insurance was very surprised at the increase we both have AF, mine was diagnosed 5 years ago other half this...

Good Afternoon Just tried to renew our travel insurance was very surprised at ...

Maisiemay13

•4 months ago

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Independent article: Scientists reveal best time to take high blood pressure tablets

Today’s Independent has an article, with the same title as the header, which reports that scientists have shown conclusively that taking blood pressure...

Today’s Independent has an article, with the same title as the header, which re...

Samazeuilh2

•4 months ago

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Kardia showing low battery - 1 bar showing.

Haven't used my Kardia in a few weeks as had visitors but usually check everything after relaxing before lunch on a Saturday or Sunday. Decided to do BP...

Haven't used my Kardia in a few weeks as had visitors but usually check everyth...

Desanthony

•4 months ago

16 Replies

Atril Fibrilation

I don’t usually get any problems, couple of months I started mild Af ,now coming more often and wondering if blood thinners can be the problem or vitamin D...

I don’t usually get any problems, couple of months I started mild Af ,now comin...

Eater

•4 months ago

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KardiaMobile vs Fitbit watch

I use both for checking my heart rate and checking for Afib, and my cardio consultant endorsed the Kardio monitor. He was though rather sceptical about Fitbit...

I use both for checking my heart rate and checking for Afib, and my cardio consu...

Crimson2020

•4 months ago

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pneumonia after ablation?h

I hope someone can relate and help in my recovery. I spent my one week anniversary of my mostly straight forward ablation procedure yesterday in the local...

I hope someone can relate and help in my recovery. I spent my one week annivers...

37Polly

•4 months ago

32 Replies

Anticoagulant and bleeding - your experience?

My dad has AF and is 72. He has unexplained bleeding from Apixaban for many years. His Haemoglobin has been in the 95 to 113 range ever since he started...

My dad has AF and is 72. He has unexplained bleeding from Apixaban for many year...

priya_uk

•4 months ago

50 Replies

Survey?

I see such a variety of meds for afib. I wonder if people will disclose what they are taking, maybe in this format. I've given mine. I see such a variation in...

I see such a variety of meds for afib. I wonder if people will disclose what the...

Corazon17

•4 months ago

37 Replies

AF management

I’m quite new to AF and we have issues locally with delays for cardiology appointments so I had to go private. I just wondered how you all who have nhs...

I’m quite new to AF and we have issues locally with delays for cardiology appoin...

Joolivia

•4 months ago

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2nd ablation

I had a cardioversion in April in Spain and all was well for a few weeks. On arriving back home (Switzerland) things weren’t looking so great. My...

I had a cardioversion in April in Spain and all was well for a few weeks. On arr...

mavart

•4 months ago

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Update!

If you read my post the other day on be8ng rather surprised to be discharged from arrythmia clinic,and presumably from support from cardo nurses,here is the...

If you read my post the other day on be8ng rather surprised to be discharged fro...

wilsond

•4 months ago

34 Replies

Repatha - is anyone on it?

hi everyone, I have asked this in Cholesterol but no one has responded as yet. Has anyone taken or been offered Repatha? If so, how did you get on? I have...

hi everyone, I have asked this in Cholesterol but no one has responded as yet. ...

Rockcake

•4 months ago

11 Replies

AF medication and bradycardia

Hi, I have recently been diagnosed with Paroxysmal AF. Drug regime includes, Apixaban, Bisoprolol, and Liptor. I have been given Flecainide in case of need...

Hi, I have recently been diagnosed with Paroxysmal AF. Drug regime includes, Api...

SStu

•4 months ago

33 Replies

AF and digestive issues

Has anyone else noticed a correlation between AF and digestive issues? I have been diagnosed with Paroxysmal AF. I have begun to notice that when ever I have...

Has anyone else noticed a correlation between AF and digestive issues? I have b...

SStu

•4 months ago

22 Replies

Thanks to all

Just want to thank all of you who replied to my post re Apixaban clotting. It helped jog my memory on the history of my nosebleed clotting vs not clotting. I...

Just want to thank all of you who replied to my post re Apixaban clotting. It he...

AvocadoSmasher

•4 months ago

4 Replies

Holter monitor

Does PAF always disappear in the days when someone has a Holter monitor? After months of having almost daily, quite long episodes (though sometimes had a few...

Does PAF always disappear in the days when someone has a Holter monitor? After m...

Kinfusion

•4 months ago

29 Replies

Update: Participants wanted to help in a discussion on quality of life for people living with Atrial Fibrillation (AF)

Thank you to those who recently participated in a survey to help in a discussion on quality of life for people living with AF last month. We had an...

Thank you to those who recently participated in a survey to help in a discussion...

TracyAdmin

Partner•4 months ago

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breathless after cardio version

hi I had a afib attack 3 weeks ago and was admitted for cardio version. 2 days after I felt worse, heart rate was normal but experienced numbness on left...

hi I had a afib attack 3 weeks ago and was admitted for cardio version. 2 days ...

Allwood

•4 months ago

18 Replies

keep it alive

This is a useful site. Please continue with it. Kind regards from Canada.

LiliH

•4 months ago

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Less Gory post re hiatus hernia.

I am posting this less gory version(post still available )of my symptoms & lead up to Crisis.I have had an hiatus hernia since about 2010.Seemed to cope quite...

I am posting this less gory version(post still available )of my symptoms & lead ...

kkatz

•4 months ago

5 Replies

Colonoscopy

I know this is not Afib related but has anyone had a colonoscopy with conscious sedation. Was it painful. Also trying to sort out what to eat the days prior...

I know this is not Afib related but has anyone had a colonoscopy with conscious ...

Myflowers2

•4 months ago

40 Replies

WARNING CONTAINS GORY CONTENT.I know a lot of you have hiatus hernia.Please do not feel it is "Just a hernia"

I am aware a few of you have hiatal hernias and don't want to scare people.My case is rare!Some of you will have seen my previous posts re increasing GERD,pain...

I am aware a few of you have hiatal hernias and don't want to scare people.My ca...

kkatz

•4 months ago

12 Replies

Continued Cardioäblation Success

I'd hoped to climb 11,500 ft/3,500 m Mt San Gorgonio that's 11 miles/18 km away from the Camp I work at as a prepcook on the second anniversary of my...

I'd hoped to climb 11,500 ft/3,500 m Mt San Gorgonio that's 11 miles/18 km away ...

PrinzMongo

•4 months ago

8 Replies

coping with persistent atrial fibrillation

sorry if you think I am on again about the same thing but I am really struggling with being acutely symptomatic since becoming persistent since mid June I am...

sorry if you think I am on again about the same thing but I am really struggling...

wbekim

•4 months ago

27 Replies

Sometimes a Like is just enough

Sometimes there is a post or posts that you don’t want to be seen responding to publicly but a “Like” can be enough to draw attention or show approval to the...

Sometimes there is a post or posts that you don’t want to be seen responding to ...

Buzby62

•4 months ago

2 Replies

A reply to Jim...

Seems the post was deleted before I finished typing... I think your long message to admin was mostly ok (as a private message), but perhaps the last bit was a...

Seems the post was deleted before I finished typing... I think your long message...

PoorlyWifeHeart

•4 months ago

9 Replies

"The Guest"

With this little poem, I don't mean to disregard those who have more debilitating symptoms. It is my hope that you, too, will come to a point of being...

With this little poem, I don't mean to disregard those who have more debilit...

fibnum

•4 months ago

4 Replies

Apixaban clotting

Hi, I am 84, live in Australia and haven’t posted before. I have had Paroxysmal AF since beginning of 2019, five to thirteen episodes per year lasting on...

Hi, I am 84, live in Australia and haven’t posted before. I have had Paroxysmal ...

AvocadoSmasher

•4 months ago

10 Replies

Hives

I stopped taking Lansoprazole because I had stomach problems and they ceased. I continued taking Apixaban, but now have hives that are burning and stinging...

I stopped taking Lansoprazole because I had stomach problems and they ceased. I...

bluepuddy1

•4 months ago

10 Replies

Posts - Atrial Fibrillation Support | HealthUnlocked

Atrial Fibrillation Support

All posts for August 2024

My Four Year Journey

travel insurance

Independent article: Scientists reveal best time to take high blood pressure tablets

Kardia showing low battery - 1 bar showing.

Atril Fibrilation

KardiaMobile vs Fitbit watch

pneumonia after ablation?h

Anticoagulant and bleeding - your experience?

Survey?

AF management

2nd ablation

Update!

Repatha - is anyone on it?

AF medication and bradycardia

AF and digestive issues

Thanks to all

Holter monitor

Update: Participants wanted to help in a discussion on quality of life for people living with Atrial Fibrillation (AF)

breathless after cardio version

keep it alive

Less Gory post re hiatus hernia.

Colonoscopy

WARNING CONTAINS GORY CONTENT.I know a lot of you have hiatus hernia.Please do not feel it is "Just a hernia"

Continued Cardioäblation Success

coping with persistent atrial fibrillation

Sometimes a Like is just enough

A reply to Jim...

"The Guest"

Apixaban clotting

Hives

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