Would you do everything possible to avoid ablation?
Do you not believe it would be the quickest and most long lasting solution to treating your A-Flutter?
By reducing it quite a bit what do you mean?
I didn't realize you could reduce A-Flutter?
So you reduced it but didn't get rid of it? What are your symptoms now (be specific as in numbers) compared to when you were first diagnosed with A-Flutter.
does that mean you are still in A-Flutter just not as bad?
Well Brian since you said you can be an azz I'll reply somewhat in kind. You need to learn to count LOL. That is more than two questions.
First I am not advertising a book. I could care less if you buy it, read it or have an ablation, as long as people are happy with their choices. Like most people here I am sharing what I am doing and learning as I go through life with an artificial heart valve and all the related symptoms and conditions. What I like about Dr Rogers (Yes she is a medical doctor) is that she references all of her statements with research from journals that are the standards for all medicine and this is not quack research. Some of the stuff comes from the Mayo Clinic, Harvard etc.
Now to your questions. No and let me make that an emphatic NO for you. I do not believe that correcting the underlying conditions that have led to my A-flutter will be the quickest. An ablation would probably take care of this cardiac symptom in short order, I do concede that to anyone who has or chooses ablation.
Yes I do believe it will be the longest lasting. Correcting the underlying conditions (once discovered) will lead to a healthy heart. Since ablation only deals with the condition or symptom at the time. How many people have had ablation for one condition then a year or two later have another ablation for another arrhythmia. My goal is to have a healthy heart not to simply continue my life with fewer and fewer parts that God gave me in the first place.
By reducing it quite a bit what I mean is that I do not feel the effects nearly as often. So for facts (these are based on personal experience and not documented in any journals or supported by statistics). Prior to taking Mg supplements (I've added cod-liver oil to that regimen too) I was in A-flutter most of the time. Every day almost every hour I felt that "frog" in my throat or upper chest like a stuck hiccup. My pulse felt like it was rolling like waves rather than a normal thump thump. Most importantly when I walked my dogs I was perfectly content with the pace of my 16 year old lab. Waiting for her was my comfortable pace since any quicker left me out of breath. More than a few times this past year, my wife would be waiting on me because I was the one that needed to catch my breath. After a week of Mg. when I checked my pulse the waves were replaced with the thump about half of the time (my estimate). The frog in my throat upper chest is so infrequent now that I only notice it about once or twice every two or three days and it lasts just a few hours as opposed to lasting for days at a time and that feeling being the norm. Lastly I now take my dogs home after their walk and take a walk at my normal quicker pace several times a week. Two months ago I had given up the idea (at the time) of a brisk two mile walk. Now its my norm again. I do not stop in two miles to catch my breath either.
I know that I am still in A flutter for two reasons 1) I can feel it occassionally 2) I have had an EKG in the past month along with an echo (three months earlier) to confirm this. The echo 3 monts ago also revealed bigemine (sp?). While I believe I am on the right path I will not abandon diagnostics that reveal what is going on. I also am not abandoning medication until I get all the causes taken care of. I am taking the prescriptions that were recommended until the A flutter is gone. As far as the not as often I think I already answered that.
I did not realize that one could reduce or eliminate A-flutter, A-fib etc without ablation, transplant etc either until I started down this path.
So Brian that is my story. I hope my "facts" were acceptable but if not so be it. Thanks for the opportunity to explain myself. I choose a different path than most. Not just medically but other areas of life too. Most just say Oh that's just the way Herb is, so I mean it when I say thanks for the challenge. Here's my challenge to you. Buy Sherry Rogers book "Is your Cardiologist Killing You" or "The High Blood Pressure Hoax" and read thoroughly. Check her references too. If after you have read them and believe that this is witchcraft, new age mumbo jumbo or snake oil then contact me. I'll buy them back from you plus pay you an additional $10 including all your S&H. Send me a PM and I'll give you my mailing address for you to send the books and to repeat myself, I will pay you the full price paid (up to full retail) plus your S&H (including to me) and an additional $10 for putting up this azz. You can order these books on Amazon or at
www.prestigepublishing.com
Best of luck with your health
have fun
Herb
