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[Petaca]

hello to everyone from New Mexico, US. I am finding out more about heart issues here on this forum than from my EP and cardiologist combined! Thank you all.

I am 69 and had one of the first open heart surgeries done in Los Angeles at 9 years. ( for an ASD) There is still a small leak but mostly corrected.

I started developing multiple arrhythmias in my forties ( a fib, flutter, tachycardia) and I finally was able to a cardiologist at 59.

Since starting with my cardiologist l have tried many drugs unsuccessfully, because of extreme side effects. Than a successful ablation in 2013.

I caught Covid and my arrhythmias came back. Flecanide tried. Nope. Second ablation was done on 1/3/23. EP said difficult surgery and time will tell if it was successful.

I lasted 10 horrible days before giving up on the post ablation prescriptions of Metropolol and Eloquis. I quit everything 3 days ago and feel so very much better. I am ok with my decision…. But I’m scared……of stroke.

My questions:

Do any of you live with arrhythmias without drugs? What are your methods of navigation? Is anyone else here so hypersensitive to drugs that they can’t/won’t endure the side effects?

Thank you,

Peace

Kit

[john-boy-92]

Welcome from the UK. Can I suggest that you post in the Health Unlocked AF Association forum, where I think you may get some answers. Stay well, and hopefully I'll see you there.

John, in frosty England at almost a quarter to midnight

[Petaca in reply to john-boy-92]

John,

Thank you. I reposted in the AF forum and have gotten some responses.

I appreciate the help.

[john-boy-92 in reply to Petaca]

Hi again and welcome to this part of the HealthUnlocked community. There is always chatter here, and between us we've had a variety of medical experiences, not just AF. I would have been here earlier in the day, but I've been setting up my weather station on line.

[Petaca in reply to john-boy-92]

weather station ?

Nice!

[john-boy-92 in reply to Petaca]

We live on the edge of a narrow nature reserve that runs alongside an estuary, that feeds into a much bigger estuary, with water the colour of a flat white coffee. Sometimes it's a convergence zone where winds from Wales and the West Country meet. That in turn means a micro-climate. The weather station continuously uploads to the Weather Underground and Met Office WOW weather web sites. Today's job was configuring it to a third Web site accessed from another computer.

[Petaca]

are you a professional weather person?

You place sounds amazing.