We had to leave the dance last night due to his condition getting more frequent and lasting days instead of hours He has Atrial fibrillation and while the cardiologist said it’s not life threatening he was very unwell last night ( he has not seen the cardiologist for over a year ) And while he sees our GP every 6 months , he won’t go to the doctors unless he really has to …. https://baker.edu.au/health-hub/atr...47T4Dybis8pKeyO63L2atgbEFWEXYK4RoCtN0QAvD_BwE He's only developed this since having Covid injections He came over all clammy / hot and dizzy last night and while he said he didn’t want to leave at half time I insisted because he got kinda confused as well, and simply couldn’t remember the steps of a simple dance Oh dear ..I’ve bet able to post this with no issues ….
Sorry to hear about your hubby @Kate Ellery. A-fib can definitely be life threatening, mostly because it increases the likelihood of having a stroke. Our dear @Yvonne Smith has that problem in a very bad way.
Hoping that your doctors can take care of your DH’s a-fib before it gets worse, it is good that you both have the Apple Watches, so you can monitor his heart, @Kate Ellery . Sending hugs and prayers ! My heart failure is so much better now, with the pacemaker, @Don Alaska . The ablations helped for quite a while, but the a-fib just kept coming back and getting worse, I could barely drag around the house, let alone do anything. After they could not ablate anything more on my heart, they did the AV node ablation, so now the pacemaker controls my heart completely. Part of it is still in a-fib and always will be, but it can’t make the rest of my heart do it anymore. I do not understand how that works, but it does. I do not have as much energy, since the pacemaker has to react to everything and then change my heart rate appropriately, but it does it, and it is keeping me going, so I am glad to have the pacemaker.
We would have never known about the AF when he first had an attack if it wasn’t for our Apple watches @Yvonne Smith our are getting a bit outdated but still working OK think they version 6
OPPs got that darn pop up again …when I tried to answer Yvonne Thanks to everyone it scared me how he was looking cause he’s fairly fit but he was lethargic / clammy like he was heading for a Heart attack
Has he looked into ablation? My brother-in-law has a-fib and wasn't doing well, but he had ablation last month and is doing better than he has in years.
He has leaned to know the symptoms @John Brunner he get a blinding headache and is very dizzy . So he takes a ECG on his watch and it shows AF and records the results on the phone Last night it was like he’d lost his memory in the middle of a dance and when I asked him if he was OK ( he was staggering ) He said why are you asking me that ? ….well he most certainly wasn't doing the dance steps of a very simple dance . I’m wondering if he had a mild stroke … I said I’m sitting down …and he didn’t seem to understand why I’d want to sit down ….he's been OK today but very tired
The a-fib can cause a stroke because when the blood just puddles around due to the heart not beating right, then it can cause clots. Ablation really helped me a lot for a long time, and it also helped Lon Tanner (you remember Lon?) with his afib. At the very least , something to keep his blood from clotting would be good. There are quite a few foods that can help thin the blood if he does not want to take meds for that. Even though only one part of my heart is in afib, they still have me on a small dose of Eliquis to prevent a blood clot.
Pay close attention to what your hubby was doing, as well as eating and drinking in the hours prior to his episodes @Kate Ellery. Sometimes, not always, you can find a trigger for the A-fib and if you eliminate that, it can improve.
Coffee, tea, chocolate, anything with caffeine, trans fats, oils, excessive fat, i.e. more than 5-10% of calories from fat in the diet, highly processed foods, salt, additives, toxic pharma drugs, medications, clot shots etc.