Recent content by Amy

@3mm Thank you for the recommendation. Yes. Not having a good, capable, trustworthy PCP, let alone cardiologist, is extremely stressful when I have scary mystery symptoms. I would much rather have one. But continuing the search for one becomes its own stress. When you have been...

@dornole I took NUUN tablets for the first time ever in case the cause was low electrolytes. I don’t have an issue with high heart rate, so Metoprolol would only bring down my heart rate, which makes the bigeminy and trigeminy skipped beats worse.

To be clear, I don’t drink caffeine. And I never take electrolytes,(or any kind of sports drinks,) except for a magnesium supplement once in a while, like once a week maybe; I thought maybe it helped very brief, occasional arrhythmia I got right after surgery, but after two or three years I...

(Why would I be on a low sodium diet? Don’t even have high blood pressure. ) I don’t have good doctors to rely on for advice or help here. I’ve tried about twenty of them and it’s a waste of time. All I can do is try to learn what to try by myself from books or online, and hope it goes away...

If you wait to take it at the dentist, you need to be sure to wait the FULL hour , and not be intimidated by them rushing you to begin the dental work, which of course they will do.

Woke up this morning to the room spinning, and nausea along with the dizziness. I’m tempted to think it could just be the eight NUUN electrolyte tablets I drank yesterday (the package says to only take three a day, but I thought since these are extenuating circumstances...) but I’m not sure...

Have you noticed any correlation between supplements you take and the arrhythmias? Like maybe remembering to take magnesium setting them off? I keep trying to figure out what causes this... so far I can only guess caffeine from eating a snack that was covered in chocolate (after not having...

Looking into this, it seems it might only be good for afib sufferers. People say it doesn’t register HRs below 50 bpm, and that it doesn’t catch bigeminy or trigeminy. Also - - Is it true with the 6-lead version you absolutely have to sign up for their monthly service? Is it true you can’t...

If I’m remembering right, from what I’ve read here on the forum, there have been more horror stories about getting BE from not taking it early enough (say, only taking it 45 minutes before dental work, instead of more than a full hour before) than issues from the antibiotics themselves...

Hi guys - So I’m 3.5 years postop, and the dang PVCs / PACs are back. (Posted here 6 months ago about them) It’s Day 16 of them. Six months ago I went to my PCP, the ER AND two different cardiologists. No one took me seriously. (They didn’t even tell me how to use their Holter monitor...

Leigh Reardon was the best cardiologist I’ve ever had. https://www.uclahealth.org/providers/leigh-reardon Knowledgeable, genuinely kind and friendly, goes above and beyond as far as thinking about what you’ll need to know or do in the future.... they don’t make ‘em like that anymore.

I had the same question. My surgeon said 2.0-3.0 (and a daily baby aspirin); half of the other cardiologists I’ve seen since said 2.5-3.5... so in my mind it’s like 2.4-3.0; & when doctors ask what my range is that’s what I say... They either accept it (usually) or demand to know why it’s so...

Well, I’ve been to the ER (waste of time since the sustained double and triple beats don’t show up above a HR of 55 - and I couldn’t get it to go lower in that environment). Had an echo done today; I’m not great at reading those, but what I did notice is: Ejection fraction Today: 54% (2D...

I haven’t watched the presentation referenced here, but by chance I happened upon this study (which may be referenced in the presentation) - https://openheart.bmj.com/content/4/1/e000588 This also may help you make up your mind, if you’re waiting to decide on AVR and are severe. As far as...

Sorry, just reread - 40-45 mg a week! Gotcha. Also that was an old post. Sorry. Still seems like a lot to me when people stop Warfarin completely for that long, even with Heparin. I think if I ever had a similar situation I’d try doing it like Chuck C, without bridging with heparin, &...