Guest guest Posted April 17, 2004 Report Share Posted April 17, 2004 > Hi, > I am new to your group but not to AFib which I have had for about 4 years starting after a pneumonia attack. My condition was under control for 3 years but now in afib weekly and my cardio want me to see a EP doc to discuss Ablation which I am doing on Tuesday. Your site has been a wonderful help to me. I now have quite a list of questions to ask him like, how many have you done, success rate, options of other medicines, etc. My GP said I should try in once, which didn't reassure me much, sounds like they have to do it more than once a lot. Hi, Barb, Good luck. You may want to ask about dofetilide or somesuch as well as an ablation. I think it was mentioned just a bit previously that having a second touch up ablation is needed in maybe 50% or so of cases since they try to be very conservative the first time. I just recently revisited the afib foundation web site at www.affats.org and it is a mine of info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 17, 2004 Report Share Posted April 17, 2004 > Hi, > I am new to your group but not to AFib which I have had for about 4 years starting after a pneumonia attack. My condition was under control for 3 years but now in afib weekly and my cardio want me to see a EP doc to discuss Ablation which I am doing on Tuesday. Your site has been a wonderful help to me. I now have quite a list of questions to ask him like, how many have you done, success rate, options of other medicines, etc. My GP said I should try in once, which didn't reassure me much, sounds like they have to do it more than once a lot. Hi, Barb, Good luck. You may want to ask about dofetilide or somesuch as well as an ablation. I think it was mentioned just a bit previously that having a second touch up ablation is needed in maybe 50% or so of cases since they try to be very conservative the first time. I just recently revisited the afib foundation web site at www.affats.org and it is a mine of info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 17, 2004 Report Share Posted April 17, 2004 > Hi, > I am new to your group but not to AFib which I have had for about 4 years starting after a pneumonia attack. My condition was under control for 3 years but now in afib weekly and my cardio want me to see a EP doc to discuss Ablation which I am doing on Tuesday. Your site has been a wonderful help to me. I now have quite a list of questions to ask him like, how many have you done, success rate, options of other medicines, etc. My GP said I should try in once, which didn't reassure me much, sounds like they have to do it more than once a lot. Hi, Barb, Good luck. You may want to ask about dofetilide or somesuch as well as an ablation. I think it was mentioned just a bit previously that having a second touch up ablation is needed in maybe 50% or so of cases since they try to be very conservative the first time. I just recently revisited the afib foundation web site at www.affats.org and it is a mine of info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 17, 2004 Report Share Posted April 17, 2004 oops typo it is www.affacts.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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