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Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: Jul 6, 2023 | Replies (36)
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Hey there jenrev I'm glad that you have had a good response and good luck with your TT maze (I'll have to look that one up). I feel like I could be making a mistake by not going with this protocol and still might change my mind. I understand the EP's rationale for wanting to use it...
Sounds like you have pretty frequent afib attacks? I just walk around pretty much in a daze since I have persistent afib that for the most part, is livable. (I did have 2 hospitalizations this winter 3 weeks apart with acute congestive heart failure, which my cardiologist says was not caused by afib...prob covid related as I had it in Dec for the second time).
Wishing you well!
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I have about one episode of a-fib every week that lasts a couple of hours usually. Because of the rate-dampening effects of the amiodarone, my heart rate rarely goes above 115. When I am not having a-fib I'm coping with lots of erratic beats/ectopics - mostly premature atrial complexes. I gather that PACs and A-fib are good friends who like to hang out together - not my friends (!) The TT Maze procedure is basically an ablation that takes place on the outside surface of your heart rather than inside the chambers. More invasive and also more effective. This will happen in the fall. Cheers and patience to all of us coping with these arrhythmias - it takes a lot of mental stamina!