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  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,968
    LargeAddick said:
    Recently diagnosed with atrial flutter. Left ventricle only working at 20% capacity. Heart rate approx 140 bpm. Started meds yesterday to hopefully bring it down. If not then Consultant said I'd have a cardioversion too. Didn't/don't have any symptoms, was picked up only because I decided it was time to buy a smartwatch. Consultant said the watch may have ultimately saved my life.
    Best of luck, Large. 20% is pretty low but the medical staff have always said to me that it's not the number, it's how you feel. Mine was somewhere in the 20s too, but they havent been concerned enough to bother monitoring it for a couple of years, they put me on Entresto and left it at that.  I'm not reallly restricted though a long walk up hill takes it out of me now.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,561
    edited March 14
    IdleHans said:
    LargeAddick said:
    Recently diagnosed with atrial flutter. Left ventricle only working at 20% capacity. Heart rate approx 140 bpm. Started meds yesterday to hopefully bring it down. If not then Consultant said I'd have a cardioversion too. Didn't/don't have any symptoms, was picked up only because I decided it was time to buy a smartwatch. Consultant said the watch may have ultimately saved my life.
    Best of luck, Large. 20% is pretty low but the medical staff have always said to me that it's not the number, it's how you feel. Mine was somewhere in the 20s too, but they havent been concerned enough to bother monitoring it for a couple of years, they put me on Entresto and left it at that.  I'm not reallly restricted though a long walk up hill takes it out of me now.

    Thanks. I was just happy that the echocardiogram came back showing no heart disease or blocking of the arteries. Atrial flutter/fibrilation seems a pretty common condition and in most cases easily treatable (as Stuart Pearce found out last week).
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,283
    hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
    Bournemouth Addick said:
    Apologies for the bump. I've mentioned this on the running thread before but last year I was diagnosed with AF and underwent a cardioversion in May. Which was initially successful in getting me back into rhythm, albeit I never felt 100% right afterwards tbh.

    They changed my meds but this didn't help and unfortunately the cardioversion hasn't held and I've been back in AF since before Christmas.

    Saw the consultant this week and, given how debilitating I'm finding it, he's recommended we go for an ablation now (waiting time is around 6 months which is a bugger, but at least something is happening). 

    Just after some feedback from any Lifers who've had it really. Anyone care to share their experience? Painful or not? Recovery time? Did it blummin' work, because I'm fed up having the energy levels I have and wheezing like an 90 year old asthmatic? 
    My wife had an ablation done to treat an irregular heartbeat caused by the condition wolff parkinson white syndrome - seemed to work okay and boosted her energy levels. Quick procedure and short recovery time.
    Good stuff Hoofy. I'd never heard of that before. 
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,283
    LargeAddick said:
    IdleHans said:
    LargeAddick said:
    Recently diagnosed with atrial flutter. Left ventricle only working at 20% capacity. Heart rate approx 140 bpm. Started meds yesterday to hopefully bring it down. If not then Consultant said I'd have a cardioversion too. Didn't/don't have any symptoms, was picked up only because I decided it was time to buy a smartwatch. Consultant said the watch may have ultimately saved my life.
    Best of luck, Large. 20% is pretty low but the medical staff have always said to me that it's not the number, it's how you feel. Mine was somewhere in the 20s too, but they havent been concerned enough to bother monitoring it for a couple of years, they put me on Entresto and left it at that.  I'm not reallly restricted though a long walk up hill takes it out of me now.

    Thanks. I was just happy that the echocardiogram came back showing no heart disease or blocking of the arteries. Atrial flutter/fibrilation seems a pretty common condition and in most cases easily treatable (as Stuart Pearce found out last week).
    Are you sure you never had any symptoms @LargeAddick? I'd never in a million years would have guessed I had a heart problem before I got the diagnosis. Mine only got picked up when I went to the doc's about a persistent ear infection and mentioned how tired, lightheaded and breathless I'd been and could it be related to the infection?

    The practice nurse said no, but stuck an ECG on me to check me out and there it was. It was her last appointment of the week, late on a Friday, but I'll be forever grateful she did that, even if I did make her late home. She's my wife's flipping hero, because left untreated who knows where it ends.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,039
    Had my yearly check up results come through yesterday and all came back with a clean bill of health.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,561
    Bournemouth Addick said:
    LargeAddick said:
    IdleHans said:
    LargeAddick said:
    Recently diagnosed with atrial flutter. Left ventricle only working at 20% capacity. Heart rate approx 140 bpm. Started meds yesterday to hopefully bring it down. If not then Consultant said I'd have a cardioversion too. Didn't/don't have any symptoms, was picked up only because I decided it was time to buy a smartwatch. Consultant said the watch may have ultimately saved my life.
    Best of luck, Large. 20% is pretty low but the medical staff have always said to me that it's not the number, it's how you feel. Mine was somewhere in the 20s too, but they havent been concerned enough to bother monitoring it for a couple of years, they put me on Entresto and left it at that.  I'm not reallly restricted though a long walk up hill takes it out of me now.

    Thanks. I was just happy that the echocardiogram came back showing no heart disease or blocking of the arteries. Atrial flutter/fibrilation seems a pretty common condition and in most cases easily treatable (as Stuart Pearce found out last week).
    Are you sure you never had any symptoms @LargeAddick? I'd never in a million years would have guessed I had a heart problem before I got the diagnosis. Mine only got picked up when I went to the doc's about a persistent ear infection and mentioned how tired, lightheaded and breathless I'd been and could it be related to the infection?

    The practice nurse said no, but stuck an ECG on me to check me out and there it was. It was her last appointment of the week, late on a Friday, but I'll be forever grateful she did that, even if I did make her late home. She's my wife's flipping hero, because left untreated who knows where it ends.

    Yes, no symptoms. Except I'm always tired, can drop off at the drop of the hat, Consultant thinks I may have sleep apnea which can be a cause, but other than that, none. No shortness of breath, tight chest, chest pains etc .

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