Comments on: Emergency! http://www.livingwithatrialfibrillation.com/emergency Alternative approaches to managing atrial fibrillaton and arrhythmias Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:13:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=7300 By: David Eidell http://www.livingwithatrialfibrillation.com/emergency/comment-page-1#comment-141 David Eidell Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:48:44 +0000 http://www.livingwithatrialfibrillation.com/?p=10#comment-141 I am now fifteen hundred miles down in a rural part of Mexico and have A/F (resolved). I went through a week of meticulous heart inspections, and tests last December in a US medical center. No evidence of heart disease so they say. Homegrown methods of controlling the problem include hydration, and magnesium supplements. Knock on woof - last episode occurred last December while at the Medical Center. I was put on Diltiazem, Amiodarone, and metaprolol and cozaar. I also have both versions of sleep apnea and have been Rx'd with a Bi-Pap machine set on 14" and an oxygen concentrator which is set to 2.0 liters. Every so often I will get bouts of feeling ill even though my B/P machine declared my pulse to be free of irregularity. In the past while still in the USA and living near the med center the machine has been infallible in detecting Afib, irregular heartbeat, very fast pulse (to 180) and BP examples of 160 / 140. One bout of feeling ill had me going to a local medical clinic. My B/P was 165 / 95 a pulse of 95 but my machine did not indicate irreg heartbeat. The clinic administered a sublingual tablet of 10mg Isosorbide and within 5 minutes I was feeling much better. This is nuts, I thought so I discontinued the dangerous amiodarone and now monitor heart and pulse several times a day. Especially at night (like last night for example) I had a difficult time falling asleep, felt wound-up and cranky, so I took a B/P 165 / 95 --- I took an isorbide tab and within a half hour I felt good enough to go to sleep. What the hey is going on here? Did I stumble upon an effective treatment for my occasional bouts of extremely high BP? Why does a high BP make me feel so bad and wound-up? Can extremely high BP trigger A/Fib? If I continue to "treat" my occasional bouts of high BP will this reduce the chance that my heart will fall in A/Fib? If I don't get a satisfactory answer here, I suppose I should pack up and drive six-hundred miles to the nearest Mexican hospital with cardiology dept. Otherwise I am planning to remain in Mexico for several years. my email is mexbungalows@gmail.com Thank You For Any Help! I am now fifteen hundred miles down in a rural part of Mexico and have A/F (resolved). I went through a week of meticulous heart inspections, and tests last December in a US medical center. No evidence of heart disease so they say.

Homegrown methods of controlling the problem include hydration, and magnesium supplements. Knock on woof – last episode occurred last December while at the Medical Center. I was put on Diltiazem, Amiodarone, and metaprolol and cozaar.

I also have both versions of sleep apnea and have been Rx’d with a Bi-Pap machine set on 14″ and an oxygen concentrator which is set to 2.0 liters.

Every so often I will get bouts of feeling ill even though my B/P machine declared my pulse to be free of irregularity. In the past while still in the USA and living near the med center the machine has been infallible in detecting Afib, irregular heartbeat, very fast pulse (to 180) and BP examples of 160 / 140.

One bout of feeling ill had me going to a local medical clinic. My B/P was 165 / 95 a pulse of 95 but my machine did not indicate irreg heartbeat.

The clinic administered a sublingual tablet of 10mg Isosorbide and within 5 minutes I was feeling much better.

This is nuts, I thought so I discontinued the dangerous amiodarone and now monitor heart and pulse several times a day. Especially at night (like last night for example) I had a difficult time falling asleep, felt wound-up and cranky, so I took a B/P 165 / 95 — I took an isorbide tab and within a half hour I felt good enough to go to sleep.

What the hey is going on here? Did I stumble upon an effective treatment for my occasional bouts of extremely high BP? Why does a high BP make me feel so bad and wound-up?

Can extremely high BP trigger A/Fib? If I continue to “treat” my occasional bouts of high BP will this reduce the chance that my heart will fall in A/Fib?

If I don’t get a satisfactory answer here, I suppose I should pack up and drive six-hundred miles to the nearest Mexican hospital with cardiology dept. Otherwise I am planning to remain in Mexico for several years.

my email is

mexbungalows@gmail.com

Thank You For Any Help!

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