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Heat and AFIB
I’m right in the middle of this “heat dome” so we have had a month of 100 + degree days.
I had an ablation earlier this year and my AFIB has not been an issue since. But with this heat I have been getting palpitations and rapid pulse. I think I may have gotten dehydrated a few times as I had all the symptoms plus weight swings of 2-3 lbs in one day. Anyone else have similar experiences? And any advice on how to handle this? Thanks
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Thanks @gloaming for the info about magnesium. I take it for leg cramps
which usually hit early in the mornings about 3 am. It seems our food chain
is being depleted with roundup and other poisons plus the intrusion of
meddling with the genetics.
I am presently hunting the best combination of magnesium for my wife as
she has palpitations of the heart.
Good luck to you and blessings.
I had mine last year. All I can say is when you are starting to feel faint ask them to stop. They put in a reversing agent. They couldn’t believe how far they could get my stress test to go and personally I would have said I had enough earlier than I did
Were u on a treadmill or was it induced with medication?
Intused with medication nuclear..... i have heard people have lost their lives with this, and didn' know until afterwards which is why i strongly suggest when you start to feel like you are "withering" don't let them take it too far because i thought i was going to pass out towards then end, all because they were seeing how far they could take it
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1 ReactionThe test, unless there's another I don't know about, is called the 'MIBI', and you will require a CT scan, then a treadmill with IV where they push the radio-opaque dye in at about the time they figure you're nearing your maximum exertion. From there, one more full minute, and then they stop the treadmill slowly so you don't fall. Yes, it's stressful, but try gasping for two minutes through a mask! That's what happened to my on my SECOND MIBI. It was 17 months ago during COVID. Most unpleasant, I assure you. But, I survived.
You wait about 45 minutes to an hour and then a second CT scan. I seem to recall having to eat and drink after the treadmill.
Yup, it's a whopper for radiation. About 500 chest X-ray equivalent. And I have had two in five years. Personally, I would rather they had just done the MRI and angiogram that they prescribed next in my path to an electrophysiologist's office. The MIBI ended with me in mild and short-lived supraventricular tachycardia, at which the attending physician suggested I try to limit my maximum heart rate during exercise to 120 BPM.
It's best not to fear these things. It's always a crapshoot, but consider the lethality of radiation therapy that my poor wife is likely to endure with her new diagnosis of breast cancer. Or anyone who needs that kind of targeted and harsh disruption of tissue inside their body. This is just imaging radiation, not 'ionizing' radiation, at least no nearly so damaging. If the MIBI was life-altering, we'd have found something much better at this point in medicine. So far, not much that I know of.
Good advice. Just had my 3rd Nuclear over past 8 years, a week ago. I’m not glowing. This last one showed abnormal areas in heart leading to successful Arteriorgram this morning. Found 40% blockage in D1 branch of LAD. 71 year old male and will treat with meds, diet and exercise. I’m more than excited to get to do this without stint or other surgeries.