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Hi, My name is Ted and I have been sampling the forum occasionally and have commented a time or two. I am a patient at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville and live in Palm Coast FL and in Rhode Island for four months in the summer. I have had AFIB since a hip replacement surgery in 2015 and presently just take Xarelto and Propranolol to keep my heart rate down. I have been monitored a number of times. Most recently the test showed much more frequent episodes of AFIB along with some other rhythm irregularities. I am now considering an ablation, but learned I also now have Parkinson's, so I am just sort of letting it all sink in. I have always been very active and healthy, work out regularly, and play a lot of golf. I'm 75 and retired from a long business career.
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A-fib is more common as we get older, I’m almost 79. Sorry to hear of your diagnosis of Parkinson’s. The very same doctor was on the team who discovered the link to certain heart abnormalities like mine. That’s why it’s named WPW for Wolff, Parkinson, White Syndrome. As for the ablation, that’s the usual course of treatment but is nearly impossible in my case because if my birth defect. Hope things work out for you. @becky1024.
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Hi Ted, I'm Dana and now live in Arizona where due to VT had an Heart Transplant and am very familiar with Ablations, I am also a Rhode Islander where I graduated from High School so some find memories of the Bristol and Warren area plus a bit of time in Cranston and Warwick. So Glad you joined our group and if I can be of any assistance in the Ablation department let me know.
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