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Failed 1/18/24 ablation. Shocked 2/1. In AFIB again 3/18.
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First, thanks for your reply, your experience makes me feel very fortunate and good that my one ablation four years later seems to have “cured” my AF issue - for the time being!
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@bill0996. AFIB is very common and usually the biggest concern is strokes not death from it. I have it on and off but my issues is PVCs.
I have cardiomyopathy which they say was caused by a virus getting into heart and causing scar tissue way back in 2001. But I have a ICD/Pacemaker. What is your EF?
I have had one ablation on right ventricle that was success. I now have 3 areas in LV that are causing my PVCs which are a real pain in butt. But I am a very active exerciser and do Sprint Triathons. I wanted my EP to do another ablation on LV but chose to put me on medication and right now they are monitoring it's success to see if need to raise dosage so this will take some time. It actually has gotten worse.
I think the anxiety over AFIB is the feeling it causes. VFIB is much more dangerous and why having my ICD/Pacemaker is a great reduction in my worry over VFIB. I have been shocked over the almost 20 years with AICD/Pacemaker. As I wrote to another poster about having one it is like having your own EMS team waiting to bring you back to rympthm. I am told the ICD success rate back to rympthm is about 99%. Doesn't mean it will stop happening again.