Well, I am back in a-fib. HR currently is 171 and has been fluctuating between 150 and 170. We are headed directly to SLC where they will do an ablation of whatever wonky circuits they can find. That is scheduled for sometime Monday with an over night stay in the hospital. I will be in a-fib until that time, so they must think I can manage until then. I am to take action if I get anymore "symptomatic" which I take to mean start passing out, etc.
All was going swimmingly this morning. Jan and I were preparing a down-and-back run to N SLC for her to get her hair done. I stood up from the dining room table and was immediately dizzy. I reported the symptom by telephone. Thereafter I found that my HR was up and was not coming down so I called the Clinic Nurse who suggested in light of the rapid HR that I hie to the emergency room here in Logan for an ekg. Then I recalled that I was still wearing the 30-day holter monitor so after switching extensions a few times the e-phys people were able to tell me that I was in a-fib. Saved an ER trip here in Logan.
The e-phys people are going directly to the ablation since I have already had two cardio-versions, the shock treatments. And I am supposedly on a rhythm drug, the amiodarone. The occurrence this morning suggests that those were temporary fixes.
Pacemaker doesn't necessarily follow ablation, but it probably puts me a step closer thereto.
So, to be close to the hospital where the procedure will be done on Monday, we will leave shortly for SLC and squat there with Lisa until Monday. After that, we'll see.
PS: I took some torsemide this morning since I gained a pound overnight. Would this have made me more susceptible to a shift in rhythm?
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