Afib kept interfering with Paul Silver’s life. He is a symphony musician in Pittsburgh, PA who often had to travel. He had episodes on flights–scary! He received a catheter ablation (called a PVI in the article) and it was a great success. Today, Paul feels like a completely different person. “I haven’t had any episodes of atrial fibrillation since I had my PVI. The odds are very high that I won’t have a recurrence of arrhythmias. That has given me […]
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Another Atrial Fibrillation Episode after a Four Week Reprieve
Wow…I went almost went an entire month without an episode! It just goes to show you how unpredictable atrial fibrillation is. I was having an episode consistently every week or two and out of the blue I go almost a month in between episodes. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not complaining. It’s been a wonderful break. This one started the same as most of my episodes – at night while lying in bed. It was 1:25 a.m. I was reading […]
READ MOREI Have Atrial Fibrillation – Big F*cking Deal
Hearing about the death of ESPN’s, Stuart Scott, this Sunday morning at the young age of 49 puts my “battle” with atrial fibrillation into perspective. I like to bitch and whine a lot about my afib but when I think about Stuart Scott’s battles over the years with cancer I’m embarrassed. Sure afib sucks and it isn’t fair, but here’s a man who battled cancer not once, not twice, but three times! I don’t know the details of those battles […]
READ MOREYoga for the Management of Atrial Fibrillation?
We’ve talked about the benefits of yoga before, but I wanted to take a moment to share a newer article promoting its benefits. One reason yoga is so beneficial is it’s less intense, less boring, and less painful than many forms of exercise, which makes it easier to stick to. But it’s also been tested extensively for its benefits to heart health. A group of researchers set out to study whether yoga can modify traditional cardiac risk factors. They did […]
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