“Within the pages of Beat Your A-Fib, Dr. Steve Ryan, PhD, provides a comprehensive guide
for persons seeking to find a cure for their Atrial Fibrillation.”
Find a Cure for Your
Atrial Fibrillation!
If You’ve Been Told You Have Atrial Fibrillation, Ask Yourself:
- Has your “quality of life” suffered because of your Atrial Fibrillation?
- Are you scared or frightened?
- Are you looking for impartial information about your A-Fib-from someone not associated with a specific treatment, pharmaceutical company, HMO, or with your medical insurance provider?
- Do you need information written in plain language, not medical jargon?
- Do you want a cure and not just more medication?
If you answered “Yes” to any of these questions, then Beat Your A‑Fib: The Essential Guide To Finding Your Cure is meant for you!
Dr. Steve Ryan Found His Cure – You Can Too!
To spare others what he went through to find his cure, he wrote Beat Your A-Fib: The Essential Guide to Finding Your Cure.
“Never give up hope, and explore as widely as possible to find a way out.
…one needs to go beyond the doctors who advise patients to live with A Fib.”
A Practical Guide Written For You – The Patient
Dr. Ryan has distilled everything he has learned down to the essentials and presented it in an easy-to-read format (especially for those newly diagnosed with A-Fib). “Beat Your A-Fib: The Essential Guide To Finding Your Cure” is a practical guide written for you, the patient.
Beat Your A‑Fib: The Essential Guide To Finding Your Cure
- Is written from a patient’s point-of-view
- Translates medical terms and concepts into everyday language
- Is easy-to-read, in conversational language
- Offers an unbiased source of up-to-date information and best practices
- Is well-researched with bibliography of over 150 medical references
- 252 pages and over 91,000 words
- Empowers patients to seek their own best treatment options
- Encourages you to become your own healthcare advocate.
“I am amazed by the comprehensive medical information presented in such an easy-to-read way that allows readers to feel that they are listening to a medical expert and friend who has their best interests at heart. I am eager to recommend this book to others.”
Beat Your A-Fib Has the Answers You Need
When diagnosed with Atrial Fibrillation, you start looking for answers. And you want answers in plain language, not medical terminology. Beat Your A‑Fib: The Essential Guide To Finding Your Cure delivers! To begin, you’ll find answers to these commonly asked questions:
- How Did I Get A-Fib?
- Can I pass A-Fib on to my kids?
- Is Atrial Fibrillation a prelude to a heart attack?
- Should I cool my sex life?
- Are there “triggers” that bring on my A-Fib episodes?
- Is there anything I can do to get out of an A Fib episode?
- And much more…
Twelve Chapters Include Topics Such As:
When diagnosed with Atrial Fibrillation, you start looking for answers. And you want answers in plain language, not medical terminology. Beat Your A‑Fib: The Essential Guide To Finding Your Cure delivers! To begin, you’ll find answers to these commonly asked questions:
- The types of Atrial Fibrillation
- The risk of A-Fib stroke, and the role of blood thinners
- How A-Fib can progressively damage your heart, brain, and other organs
- The mechanics of a healthy heart versus your heart in A-Fib
- Types and purposes of diagnostic testing
- Mineral deficiencies common among A-Fib patients
- The three goals of A-Fib drug therapy
- Seven questions to ask before taking a prescription drug for A-Fib
- What to expect, and not expect, from drug therapy
- Non-drug procedures and surgical operations to treat or eliminate A‑Fib including PVI ablation, Maze and Mini-Maze surgeries
- How to choose the best A-Fib treatment(s) for you
- The roles of cardiologists, electrophysiologists, and cardiothoracic surgeons
- How to research, interview and select the right doctors for you
- Questions to ask during a consultation, and when to change physicians
- Why and how to obtain copies of your medical records
- And much more…
“Congratulations on a great book. It is well written, balanced and contains detailed
and yet simple descriptions of many aspects of A-Fib.”
Others Have Been Where You Are Now!
In their own words, sixteen fellow A‑Fib patients offer their stories to encourage you, to advise you, to bolster your resolve, and to offer you hope of a life free of A‑Fib including lessons learned the hard way through first‑hand experience.
Personal Patient Stories include:
These fellow A-Fib patients share the impact of atrial fibrillation on their families; they describe dealing with stress and depression, how they chose their doctors and treatments; they offer advice from their “lessons learned”―and hope that you too can find a future free of Atrial Fibrillation.
“I no longer live in the A-Fib shadow and no longer take the drugs. My life is back.
I no longer have to be content with less. All is now quiet. …life is good.”
Become Your Own Best Patient Advocate!
To find your A-Fib cure, you must educate yourself about Atrial Fibrillation. As they say, “knowledge is power.”
Beat Your A‑Fib: The Essential Guide To Finding Your Cure will help you empower yourself! You will be given the knowledge, the tools and the plan to find a life free of Atrial Fibrillation.
Glossary of Medical Terms
When talking about your Atrial Fibrillation, your doctor and medical caregivers will use many unfamiliar medical terms and phrases. That’s why “Beat Your A‑Fib: The Essential Guide To Finding Your Cure” includes an extensive Glossary of Medical Terms written in everyday language.
Recommended Resources & Website Links
The Recommended Resources & Website Links are carefully selected to compliment what you learn. These value-added online links take you beyond the margins of the book to continue your quest to find your A-Fib cure. Recommendations include links to:
- A-Fib online discussion groups,forums, and message boards
- Online software tools, A-Fib information services and websites
- Instructional audios and videos which help explain the normal heart and the heart in A-Fib
- Additional A-Fib reference books and reports
Bibliography and Endnotes: Over 150 Medical References
Beat Your A‑Fib: The Essential Guide To Finding Your Cure is solidly based on current medical “best practices,” as well as the latest scientific data, research studies and findings. Over 150 medical references are cited! For those wishing to read the original sources and research, the Bibliography and list of Endnotes provide the authors, titles and publication sources for all footnotes cited in this book. In most cases links to the material are also included.
“…my advice for someone with A-Fib is to thoroughly investigate all your options and learn as much as you can.”
Bonus Materials Included
Free Bonus 1: Questions You Should Ask About Mineral Deficiencies
Most patients with A‑Fib are deficient in magnesium and potassium and should monitor for an overload of calcium. To determine your mineral levels and appropriate actions, ask these questions of your doctor or healthcare professional.
Free Bonus 2: Question You Should Ask About Drug Therapies
For most patients with A‑Fib, your doctor’s first choice of treatment or “first-line response” is drug therapy. Before taking any prescription drug to treat your A‑Fib, you should educate yourself. For each drug, ask these questions of your doctor or healthcare professional.
Free Bonus 3: Patient’s Interview Questions for Electrophysiologists (EPS)
When searching for the right doctor, you will want to talk with several cardiac heart rhythm specialists (electrophysiologists) before making your choice. Ask these questions to solicit information needed to select the best doctor for you, your type of A‑Fib and your treatment goal.
Free Bonus 4: Patient’s Interview Questions for Surgeons
Have you been referred to a cardiac surgeon? Are you considering a surgical option to cure your A‑Fib? If so, you need to discuss some very specific issues. Ask these questions to solicit information needed to select the best doctor for you, your type of A‑Fib and your treatment goal.
Within minutes of your purchase, you can be reading Beat Your A‑Fib: The Essential Guide To Finding Your Cure. Just use the link you receive automatically via email. Click on the link to download the eBook file, then save it on your computer. Beat Your A‑Fib is a .PDF file, a document that can be viewed on any computer with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader (as well as smartphones, tablet PCs, and book readers that accept .PDF files). In addition, your ebook (or just select chapters or pages) can be printed from your printer for your personal use.
What Doctors and Patient’s Are Saying About
Beat Your A-Fib: The Essential Guide To Finding Your Cure
I wish I had your book in May 2006 when I was first diagnosed and totally unaware.
I am so thankful I found you at A-Fib.com in 2009 after three years in the dark.
I particularly enjoyed reading the Pesronal Stories portion of the book.
…masterful. You managed to combine an encyclopedic compilation of information with the simplicity of presentation that enhances the delivery of the information to the reader. This is not an easy thing to do, but you have been very very successful at it.
…very impressed! I think it’s great work, and very helpful for everybody with the damned A-Fib, whether fixed or still going on! Thank you Steve for your great input in this field!
…a superb book! A fulfillment of your resolve to share the knowledge gleaned from your own battle for a successful cure more than a decade ago when PVI was experimental.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION: Dr. Steven C. Hao, MD
PREFACE: Dr. Steve S. Ryan, PhD
- Is This Book For You?
- Why Should You Read This Book Anyway?
- My Journey to a Cure
- How to Use This Book
- Benefits of Reading a Book in .PDF format How to Use This Book
- To Print or Not to Print
CHAPTER 1: Overview of Atrial Fibrillation
CHAPTER 2:How Did I Get A-Fib?
CHAPTER 3: FAQs About Life with A Fib
CHAPTER 4: Diagnostic Testing for A-Fib
- Blood Tests
- Electrocardiography (ECG or EKG)
- Holter and Event Monitors
- Exercise Stress Test
- Tilt-Table Test
- Electrophysiology Study
- Imaging Technologies
CHAPTER 5: Mineral Deficiencies
- Testing for Deficiencies
- Magnesium
- Danger of Too Much Calcium
- Potassium
- Questions You Should Ask
CHAPTER 6: Medicines(Drug Therapies)
- Drug Therapy Strategies
- Blood Thinners
- Alternative to Blood Thinners
- Rate Control Medications
- Rhythm Control Medications (antiarrhythmics)
- Questions You Should Ask
CHAPTER 7: Procedures and Surgeries
- Cardioversion
- Pulmonary Vein Isolation (PVI)
- AV Node Ablation with Pacemaker
- Maze Surgeries
- Pacemakers and Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICD’s)
CHAPTER 8: FAQs About A-Fib Treatments
CHAPTER 8: FAQs About A-Fib Treatments
CHAPTER 9: “Which Is the Best A-Fib Treatment Plan For Me?”
CHAPTER 10: Finding the Doctor for You
CHAPTER 11: Personal Stories of Hope, Success and Lessons Learned
CHAPTER 12: Your Journey to a Cure
APPENDIX A: Glossary of Medical Terms
APPENDIX B: Recommended Resources & Website Links
- Discussion Groups, Forums, and Message Boards
- Information Services
- Informational Websites
- Instructional Audios and Videos
- Online Tools
- Reference Books and Reports
APPENDIX C: Finding my A-Fib Cure by Steve S. Ryan
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ENDNOTES
More of What Doctors And Patient’s Are Saying About
Beat Your A-Fib: The Essential Guide To Finding Your Cure
Incredible job on the book!
Very well done…a useful resource for patients.
I would have given my eye teeth to have had your book as my guide when I was first diagnosed with A-Fib…. It took me years to have the understanding of the A-Fib picture that some could gain with a careful reading of your work.
…an informative book I wish I’d had when I was suffering with the “fib”…would be comforting to those suffering with A-Fib, for no other reason, than to know there are so many others in the same boat with them.
It’s really interesting to read the ‘editorial comments’ you made at the end of the personal stories. I like the format you used to get the information across in a way that people would remember; i.e., ‘…Oh yeah, that one guy had…and this helped him… I should definitely check that out with my doctor…