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An Update post SCAD and post AFib 17 July 2025

  28 May 2025 I’m now 25 days post-SCAD and five days post last Atrial Fibrillation episode.   Boy, do I feel rough.   Six days ago, I was able to walk nearly a mile at close to my old speed, ok I was tired later and I had some SCAD chest pains but there seemed to be light at the end of the tunnel (It was a train coming!!!).   The Cardiac Nurse at Papworth seemed to think I would recover a lot better than I ever did after an ablation and my ‘performance’ that seemed to prove that.   After all, according to my meticulous research (and having far too much time on my hands) I had evidence that post-Ablations my average time to be able to walk a mile was 29 days (7 – 48 days) and this was only SIX days and I did it without innumerable stops and at a fair clip!  However, since the AF episode I managed to walk a very slow 0.30 miles with a rest day in between.   I’m tired all the time, I feel sick and light-headed much of the day.   This in turn is ...
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And now what!!!

  25 May 2025 I’m not sure if I mentioned this before, but in late March I had a run of tachycardia while mopping the floor.   Just about five minutes, but I contacted the Papworth Arrhythmia nurses to see if I should still try to wean off of the Amiodarone drug (reminder – I had 18 months of only one arrhythmia issues while on Amiodarone from Feb 2023, but was persuaded against my will to have a fourth ablation in order to get off of it as it can be very toxic long term).  The nurses said to still come off of it so we could gauge if the Ablation #4 had worked.   You may recall I had about 10% confidence it would, but had allowed myself to be swayed by medical advice.   And so, on the 3 rd April I took my last Amiodarone.   Within five days I was having short runs of tachycardia – 1-2 minutes, these were happening zero to three times per day.   This continued and I began to believe perhaps it would stay like this as something that was a small pr...
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Something new!!! What's a SCAD?!?!? 1st May 2025

  You cannot be serious! A new issue!! 1 May 2025.   I had a massage client booked in – it is someone I had massaged before but years ago - in fact just before I was admitted to hospital with the start of this whole AFib roller-coaster in August of 2019.  He and his wife, also a client, had been very kind to me – in fact, she visited me in hospital to bring me an eye mask to help me sleep at night and he emailed me to advise me on how to deal with the hospital (who were being beyond useless – see previous posts!).  Anyway, literally minutes before this nice man turns up, I took a swig of hydration drink and was immediately seized with terrible heart burn.   I managed to get through the consultation and then a grabbed an anti-acid and began my massage.   He was asking me about all what had happened to me Afib-wise in the previous six years and I was struggling to speak in coherent sentences.   Literally less than five minutes into the massage I ...
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