Does anyone with AFIB NOT take blood thinners?

Back pain try cbd. I had back pain and leg pain cbd seems to control both although it is expensive the alternative ( pain ) is worse. One oz in the am and 1/2 oz in evening pain is bearable
Also found that triggers cause most of my arrhythmia episodes caffine and alcohol (any kind and minimal amounts
On xeralto daily for 9 yrs . Only bleeding episodes were from 2 Falls no external blood and over soon with only ugly looks

I wouldn't dare. I am too afraid of having a stroke. I know a guy who had a massive stroke. He was only in his early 60s. If his GF hadn't been home he would have died. I've been on Eliquis since March this year + Diltiazem to keep my heart from beating too fast.

I saw on TV (PBS) that Watchman prevents blood from going into that chamber of the heart where clots tend to form from the heart not beating regularly (because the blood does not get pumped through fast enough). I could be wrong, but that's what I gathered from the short clip. It was on the Sunday morning "Innovations in Medicine" show. You might be able to look it up online.

When I went to ER for 140 bpm Afib they gave me diltiazem intravenously and in 15 seconds it dropped my heart rate to 90-ish... So I know it works. ER sent me home with prescription for it also... Next week follow up with my heart Dr. : he immidiately dropped the diltiazem prescript saying something to the effect that it was great for the Er but should not be used as a prescription - for me; he implied for anyone. Hmmm...

Your experience is interesting. If your heart rate went into natural rhythm completely in 15 seconds, that's great. My experience watching the monitors during afib is that the heart rate goes up and down until it finally goes into "normal sinus rhythm" (I think is the term.) Yes I was also given intravenous Diltiazem in the 3 times I went to the hospital with afib. They also gave me prescription for Diltiazem, which I've been taking for 5 years. I'm 85 and it takes about 7-10 hours for my afib to calm, with a drip, or at home without. Perhaps it's different for younger people. Interesting how doctors vary - just as much as we patients do.
If you read about afib, you'll see that doctors might treat with anti-rate drugs like Diltiazem or anti-rhythm drugs like Tikosyn (Dofetilide) or both (my experience.) Or neither, like your experience. Hope that all is well with you now. I've just found that too many meetings or work can bring on afib for me, age 85.

I wrote a long reply to your wonderful post only to have it lost.

Let me summarize it with: I hope with all my non Afib heart that you no longer have too many work meetings!! You deserve RELAXATION at 85!!!!!

I am also considering the watchman implant and would like to comunnicate with someone who had gone through the procedure.. I am 81 years old with peripheral neuropathy in both legs.

Had the watchman implant , one year ago. Best thing I could have done. No longer need a blood thinner , other than a baby aspirin a day. Procedure done at mayo clinic in Rochester. Mn.

I do not and will not. Looking at the side effects, I do not wish to take it. Instead I take turmeric, garlic capsules catch, what’s your natural blood thinners.

I know my blood is thin enough because I bruise easily.

you should at least have a blood test done to find out what your INR number is.