Its Taken A While
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2018 5:20 pm
well over 10 years ago I came down with Atrial Fibrillation (AF or AFib) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrial_fibrillation and Atrial flutter (AFL) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrial_flutter .. 
.. I was told that it was caused by having sleep apnea and catching the flu .... during that time I've experienced a number of anticipated and unanticipated ups and downs, actually more than I care to remember .. 
.. that includes multiple hospitalizations, a number of changes in medications which would work for a while .... in addition, one trip to the hospital where they used Electrical cardioversion to shock my heart back in rhythm .... that lasted about a week .... in late December 2016 I spent a few days at Duke University Medical Center following a little over 6 hours of what they called a radio frequency ablation. http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Condit...p#.WNrf7sm1vIU .... earlier today, during a regular appoint with my Cardiologist, we got some really good news .. 
.. I've been on them so long that I find it a bit hard to believe that, unless something negative should develop, I'm off all cardiac meds .. 
.. that includes all blood thinning and blood pressure meds .... I go back in a little over a month for some regular testing and to make sure that things are going as anticipated without the meds .... talk about a relief .. 
.. I was told that it was caused by having sleep apnea and catching the flu .... during that time I've experienced a number of anticipated and unanticipated ups and downs, actually more than I care to remember .. .. that includes multiple hospitalizations, a number of changes in medications which would work for a while .... in addition, one trip to the hospital where they used Electrical cardioversion to shock my heart back in rhythm .... that lasted about a week .... in late December 2016 I spent a few days at Duke University Medical Center following a little over 6 hours of what they called a radio frequency ablation. http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Condit...p#.WNrf7sm1vIU .... earlier today, during a regular appoint with my Cardiologist, we got some really good news .. .. I've been on them so long that I find it a bit hard to believe that, unless something negative should develop, I'm off all cardiac meds .. .. that includes all blood thinning and blood pressure meds .... I go back in a little over a month for some regular testing and to make sure that things are going as anticipated without the meds .... talk about a relief ..