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A good EP will block the signals for the AF, and if you can't really have a Watchman implanted, the next best thing is to take either a full dose or a half-dose of a DOAC with your experts' studied opinion in mind. The Watchman prevents nearly 90% of the risk of a stroke if you also have AF. So does a DOAC. So, to me, the choice would be simple: get the AF stopped ASAP so that your heart doesn't continue its remodeling and progression to worse problems associated with long-term AF. From there, you shrug and pop one or two DOACs each day until you can't.
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Thank you for your reply. I know it seems silly to those of you who moved right to treatment but fear has kept me from taking action. I have a long medical history and have had some complication or mishap with every procedure I’ve ever had and some really severe and rare adverse reactions to so many meds that I don’t feel any choice is safe for me. I’m afraid of the DOACs and have a rare hereditary neuropathy that makes my nerves damage easily so the ablation worries me too. It has felt like a damned if I do and damned if I don’t situation. But my last afib episode was 60 hours instead of the usual 30 so I feel that’s too much time for a large clot to form. It also just wipes me out. I’m afraid it’s time to have to take that treatment risk. I also held off on treatment because I thought the cancer would get me first but that battle has been going better than expected and I’m still here so…