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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...

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 ...