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Afib with Rapid Ventricular Response
Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: May 21, 2019 | Replies (30)Comment receiving replies
GoodMorning @soliloquized am just now seeing your response (so sorry). The responses were going to my spam email and I was deleting the spam not knowing. Now that made me sad because I didnt get to read all the responses from my original post. My fast heartrate is due to Afib. They ablated back in Jun 2018 but it was unsuccessful. My heartrate jumps to 130 to 160 bpm so they have been upping my rythmol which is crazy it has my body feeling outright exhaused. I recently was told am having PAC in the upper chamber which is what may be causing my palpitations. Its a horrific feeling all off in my neck and only so at night. I think EP and cardiologist is thinking of ablating again but my body is so tired. They are trying to look into other options i was told by the nurse. Am not sure now what they are trying to ablate but I now will certainly ask. I am having these palpitations and night sweats often. Am so scared the heart will get tired and stop. Am just not sure what else to do or ask. Thank you so much for your response. Hope you are doing well...
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My mother lived into her 90s, much earlier, my wife and I were called to the hospital, they felt she would soon pass away (she didn't) and we noticed she was wearing a DNR Wristlet (Do Not Resuscitate). I asked her if she knew what it meant, she did.
Despite the Wristlet, later that night, they gave her a Pacemaker. She instantly turned around, she was a different person. She had a Pacemaker with a Defibrillator, and it fired once when it shouldn't have. Apparently her afib had influenced the bottom of the heart so much that the Defibrillator thought it was needed. To prevent this, they Ablated the AV Node, there was then no way for the Atrial Fibrillation to influence the Ventricles. At that point she was Pacemaker Dependent.
She lived for 5 or more years after that, healthy as can be expected (she had other issues), and she passed away from something unrelated to the heart and pacemaker.
It was my understanding that for Afib that doesn't respond to medication, and ablation, that pacemakers are used and the AV Node is ablated, that way the ventricles no longer respond to the rapid chaotic rates of the Atrium. Ask your doctor about your AV Node, is in intact or has it been ablated. Rarely, there's another way Atrial Signals make it to the Ventricles, I believe they're called Accessory Pathways, they'd have to be ablated too, but they're not common.