Ablations Part II

Lil, wondering about your Dr.'s appt.?? Hugs, Teri :)

Hi y'all,

I had a very....ummm....interesting doctor appt.  I told my cardio what happened yesterday.  I also had some tachy today...got to 143.  That lasted a while and I told him that.  He listened to my heart and told me I was definatly having tachy again.  He put me back on the Verapamil and now I'm gonna take it morning and evening. 

He said I'm a difficult case.  (My pcp could have told him that.  )  For most ppl, a second ablation isn't even necessary and for those who need it, it usually works.  I asked him about my heart rate...at this point, I don't know what's bad or not.  I've had my pulse up to 230 so 140 is slow to me anymore.  He told me that is my pulse is above 120 and stays there, it will damage my heart.  If the drugs don't work, then I'd need another ablation.  He isn't sure that would work though.  He thinks if the drugs don't work, then my best option would be to ablate the node completely and put in a pacemaker.    That's not really what I wanted to hear.  I do hope the verapamil will work.  I don't want a pacemaker and I really don't want to damage my heart.  Arg!  Not the news I needed the day before my birthday. 

Jules, thank you so much for those words of encoragement.  I needed to hear that.  I do hope these are just temporary runs.  What happened this morning kinda worried me with how long it lasted.  I'm trying to stay optimistic about this.  I do hope this worked. 

 Lil

Lil, I'm glad your Dr. is staying on top of this! I'm so sorry this is continuing like this for you. :(

Jules, I was wondering, did you ever have your MRI? Did you find out why they wanted one done?

thedwp, how is your heart rate doing?-did you talk to your Dr. about the eating and the hr going up?

Keep us posted!

Best Wishes to all of you!! Teri :)

Teri - My MRI is tomorrow.  It is to screen for any other heart diseases such as ARVD.  10% of people that had or have RVOT-VT like I had, end up with ARVD in the future.  They are optimistic that I dont have it though....thankfully!  It is hereditary.

Lil - I had some scary worse than ever before runs of tach a week after my second ablation.  It went on for hours!!!  I ended up in Emergency and of course it stopped as soon as I got into the hospital.

Hope this all works out for you Lil!!

 

Jules,

 

Much good luck on your MRI!!  I'm sure hoping that it turns out negative for you!!

Big Hugs, Teri

Jules, I hope that all turns out well with the results of your MRI! I have never had an MRI, but my mother did, and she is claustrophobic. I can't recall if they sedated her at all or not. That has to be scary!

Lil, sorry I missed your birthday. Hope your day was a good one, and wishing you better health and lots of happiness in the year ahead! Hugs, Kathy

Hi there all

Jules, I hope the MRI went well.

Lil, I'm sorry you're having all these problems. It is hard, getting news you don't want. Is there still a chance that things will subside as a result of the ablation? How have you got on with Verapamil before?

I hope you enjoyed your birthday, despite all this!

Hi Teri

I'm jogging along, looking forward to December and the next ablation. We've had a bit of a heatwave here which made things a bit difficult with breathlessness and all that, but really I'm ok with the Flecainide, except in the mornings. Thanks so much for the info on mitral valve problems, I'll pass it on. Take care.

Yes, it's because I live in England! 'My' hospital is a world-reknowned

cardiac hospital, but they have been waiting to get new equipment. it should be up & running next month, but the doctor wants to get some more experience of it before he tries it on me!

Hi,

I'm new here and wish I had found this before. I've had Afib undiagnosed for 15 years and had an ablation 4 days ago. It took 7 1/2 hours and I went home the next day. The doc said things went fine but I'm still in/out of Afib every day since. Hopefully this is normal but I am profoundly disappointed so far. I didn't want this one and I won't do a 2nd. I'm scheduled for the monitor in a month.

After the ablation my ribs and neck muscles hurt. My heart hurt for a couple of days. My throat hurt for a couple of days from the intubation. I also had interesting side effects from the foley. I got a migraine on day 3. By the fourth day, I was pretty much where I was before the ablation. I had hoped to feel much better and without any heart flutter or pause. Perhaps it will go away in the month they talked about.

While I kept blaming my exhaustion on the Afib, I wasn't really convinced until reading many other posts talking about becoming tired easily. At least now I know I'm not just becoming lazy.

As I recall, my heart reaches about 280 bpm. The interesting thing is that it also stops beating for several seconds. When it stops it takes my breath away. Maybe it's just that it goes so fast that my pulse feels like it stopped.

I take 240 mg of inderal daily for migraines so I don't need lopressor. I was on flecainide, sotolol, and 2 others but none of them worked.

Anyway, that's my history and story. I just wanted to thank everyone for their posts and information they shared.