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3 months after Pulsed field ablation--peak heart rate issues
Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: Mar 26 5:51pm | Replies (6)Comment receiving replies
Helpful, thanks!
I'm not on any rate affecting medication--was on flecainide briefly but nothing else. Am on Eliquis, but a low dose--will talk with my doctor tomorrow for the 3 months check up and suggest I drop it.
How long after you went off Eliquis did you start to see a response? And was it immediate and substantial or gradual?
One other point: My heart rate variability had dropped post the ablation by 1/3--from an average of 75 to 50. Over the past 10 days it has sprung back to normal range. My resting heart rate has been back to normal for a while but the HRV move was sudden over the course of a couple days.
Were you monitoring your HRV? Did you see any change? How did it correlate (or not) to the improvement of your peak HR?
thx
S.
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@shg I monitor my HRV daily. Mine is fairly steady and confined with a narrow range, 35-55 ms. My HR varies more from day-to-day, anywhere from 32-62. This in a heart with two recent RF ablations and that used to run 44 BPM at rest.
Personally, while I monitor my HRV, it is so reliable that I spend more time pondering my HR. I believe it responds to hydration, serum and myocyte electrolyte balance (both potassium and magnesium [most of us get enough calcium that we can safely forget about that one]), sleep duration and quality, system inflammation, blood glucose levels and control, and stress.