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Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: Mar 19 9:58am | Replies (44)

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My husband is scheduled the second week of March for a PFA and I want to thank you for sharing your personal experience and research. He has a highly recommended electrophysiologist and I’ve done a lot of research myself. Knowledge is power and real life experiences from others is helping us formulate questions for his doctor and his team. Please keep posting for the group.

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@mmm123 Thank-you, and I will try to contribute what I can. This site is good for updated information which I don't always find or stumble across. People who keep up better than I chime in and correct me, thankfully, and I try to incorporate what they say, after verifying it, in subsequent replies to people. I don't always get it right.

I sincerely hope your husband has a good outcome. Remember, those first few days and couple of weeks might not be smooth sailing, and he may find that he has no energy, or that it was all anticlimactic after the fact. He'll need rest, time to reflect, and not a little sympathy, especially if he doesn't feel well in the first days and weeks. For the vast majority, they feel good almost immediately, sometimes even getting into the car that afternoon or evening to return to a home or a hotel room if you had to travel. He'll need a gentle hand on his arm telling him to back off the exuberance just a wee bit for a couple of days. 😀 What a problem to have!

@mmm123 good luck to your husband. I’m now 1 month post PFA. I have to admit for me the recovery has been tough, but I think it is a combination of the heart healing and the meds I’m still on. They reduced my Diltaizem to 120mg and the Flecainide to 100mg, I’m also on Eliquis. My post op isn’t until 4/17 when I’m hoping they take me off the meds. I may try to go in at 8 weeks instead of 12 weeks because of the med side effects . I also have to wear a heart monitor for 2 weeks before my follow up and am perplexed by that because the meds are keeping my HR regulated. Thanks everyone for sharing their experiences.