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After ablation, am I no longer a person with AFib?
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After my ablation in March of this year at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, they wanted me to enroll in a study where I discontinued Eliquis, but wore an Apple watch and carried an Iphone to inform me when/if I was in Afib to resume taking Eliquis.
I turned them down because I didn't want to wear/carry the extra devices. I also wasn't crazy about being a guinea pig with a potential bad outcome!
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I agree. I track my afib through my apple watch. I take an ecg every day. My afib usually lasts for one or two days and then returns to sinus for a week or two. Although I was low risk, I had a major stroke in early January. According to my apple watch I was in AFIB on DEC 31 for one day. My stroke was on Jan 2. I wasn't on Eliquis then, but I sure am now.
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I can understand your concerns. It's an interesting concept to treat an action when it's actually happened instead of continuously especially with the side effects of continuous anticoagulation and the risk of bleeds. But even wearing an Apple watch or Fitbit are not guaranteed methods of picking up every single episode a person may have.
Seems like the more we learn the more we have left to learn.