I have a pacemaker but I take my pulse often with just a drugstore monitor. I always need to check my Oxy too.
I’m walking in your 🧦 socks! Since 2004 when my AFib was first discovered, I have had at least four cardioversions. Fortunately during all of them I have been asleep. Unfortunately none of them… read more
I am scheduled for an @ablation soon. I've had no arrhythmia since taking medications (@xarelto and sotalol). I was hospitalized twice last fall, one with cardiac inversion. I've had two cardiac inversions. One over 20 years ago and the one last fall. I've experienced palpitations for many years but the heart has always corrected itself except for the three times I was in hospital through emergency. In the last 3 years I have been plagued with an continuous low frequency drone caused by… read more
Probably won’t pass. Why give immunity to drug makers?
Ok I suffer from sleep apnea but there are time when I wake up and I feel like I'm being suffocated or like I'm breathing in deep breaths of air but I'm just not getting any and I get these horriable headaches when this happens it almost feels like a panic attack but can't get no oxygen I know it's not my asthma I've had asthma all my life this is different it scares me I can feel my heart beating g supper hard in my chest like I've ran a mile but will only be sitting on the couch it isn't… read more
My problems started the same way. Also waking up during the nightvwith excrutiating pain and palpitations. It didn't happen regularly, but seemed to come in waves. It took 8 years and many doctors… read more
Heart Cath, stress tests, etc. Three different providers in same office put me on three different prescriptions, had cardio-version, electric paddles and I monitor with a Kardia-Mobile daily. No A-Fib since. Also monitor BP, heart rate and Oxygen level daily and all good. The side affects of the drugs present symptoms I NEVER exhibited before the drugs. I have often skipped the drugs and feel better? New Cardiologist I've seen one time. What are my chances of getting them to DC these drugs? I… read more
Jim, I know folks believe doctors are always right. But sometimes not so much. Of course, I told the docs what wasn't working for me and what I was doing--and then I did what my body told me to do… read more
and which ones do u take????
Forever. Clopidogrel, generic for Plavix.
Try to get real information from the doctor-like beats per minute rather than “nuts”. Empower yourself with the information you need to be your best advocate.