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Thanks for your info.
This is recent for yd. My husband’s Afibs were detected by his Apple Watch. Referred to EP who did ablation, then Cardioversion a couple of weeks later. Silly us thought you had procedure(s) and were fixed. Worried husband has not felt but is having irregular heartbeats again.
Now thanks to this forum, learning about monitoring devices. And that ICD/pacemaker may be in his future. Glad to hear that there are options and that technology has improved. See response from @jc76
I truly appreciate helpful feedback here.
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My husband’s cardiologist said sometimes you can experience a-fib in the 3 months or so after an ablation as the heart is healing. My husband went into a-fib 7 weeks after his last ablation and had cardioversion last Friday. He is back in normal rhythm now so hopefully it will last. As far as medications he was on one 200 mg amiodarone daily but now just for the 2 weeks after his ablation they increased the dose to 200 mg in the morning and 200 mg at night. Then he will go back to 200 mg in the morning only. He has been on amiodarone for many years and it is not a nice drug but fortunately no side effects so far. The advantage of a pacemaker, if/when we go that route, is that he could stop the amiodarone.