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I understand from Mayo Clinic that hsCRP is also re vascular heart diseases! “ Higher risk of heart disease: hs-CRP level equal to or greater than 2.0 mg/L. Remember that your hs-CRP level is only one risk factor for coronary artery disease. ” YES! and I am asking this time for most experienced...

Vitdoc, thanks responding. I thought I answered you earlier, but I must have lost it! I totally agree about diagnosis…“unspecified Atrial flutter” is what I get from “the clinical notes” on-line, but not from doctors’ lips! Maybe they know thecause but not wanting to share! I’m not sure what...

My liver enzymes were tested twice…normal results though the liver looked a bit enlarged in the scan while I was on 400 mg Amiodarone.

Thank, Critter. I hope I understood your response well. When I asked my cardiologist about a pace maker, he said “we don’t need to go that route”!!! Why? No response!

As long as it’s decaf 😀

Mercetired, thank you for sharing your experience. I’ll ask my cardio about those medicines.

When same exact thing happened in 2019, I checked myself into emergency @ 11 pm. Stayed four nights in hospital and left with diagnosis of “unspecified flutter”!! This time, I kept asking, the response… "an infection can cause this", but where is the infection? No response! But the “After...

Thanks for responding. My LV is ok; and like yours, it recovered after my surgery in 2008. It’s my Left Atrium (LA) that is severely enlarged which was revealed after an echocardiogram. I have St. Jude’s aortic and mitral valves. An maybe I should investigate the reason for LA enlargement...

Thanks again, Pellicle. was yours CRP or hsCRP? Mine is hsCRP! My doctor normally comments two days after I automatically receive the test results. Maybe he still thinks it’s age!! Mayo Clinic: C-reactive protein test - Mayo Clinic Quote: CRP is measured in milligrams per liter (mg/L). Results...

I suspected it, but I did not have the symptoms! Always used masks all The time. I only went for knee physical therapy just before Christmas and my pulse started reacting end of December. I went twice to walk-in clinics, both doctors thought of COVID. But didn’t confirm it. So, Who knows!

I was told ablation is recommended for patients who, in addition to high pulse, have fibrillation, high blood pressure, feel extremely tired, and severely out of breath. And Secondly, ablation might be tricky in my situation! My left atrium is severely enlarged and my heart size is at its...

Since January my heart rate has been fluctuating! Early January it was 125-130 with no other symptoms. I was prescribed 400 mg Amiodarone. It went down to the 80s mid March. But due to its side effects, cardio asked me to drop Amiodarone from 400mg to 200 mg. After ten days, my pulse went up...

Check your oxygen level more often. You can buy a finger oximeter from any pharmacy, or preferably O2 ring oxygen monitor that monitors your oxygen all day and transfers results to iPhone. I bought mine from Wellue O2Ring Smart Ring Pulse Oximeter. Overnight Tracking.. I have shortness of breath...

Wishing you many happy and healthy return and bump fre!

I would not go against drs’ recommendations when you’re only 1 week post surgery!

My surgeon asked to keep my INR between 2.5-3.5 and up to 4. But that could be in my situation, heart, etc.

Sorry about your brother too.🥲

Thank you very much for the detailed explanation and the article.🙂 My cardio is worried about “corneal and lung changes” maybe because I lost two sisters to cancer and a brother to lung cancer!