Editor’s Note: Robert was the original owner of this blog. He sold this site to me in 2013. He recently had an ablation to treat his atrial fibrillation and was kind enough to write a blog post about his experience. This is his story. I wish him well and I wish him many years of NSR! A Little Background I was diagnosed with afib in 2008. I was given a prescription (Cardizem CD), advised to take a baby aspirin, and […]
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Another Round of Heart Monitoring
About this time last year I was four months removed from my ablation and was one month past my 3-month blanking period. My father had died a few weeks prior and I was having rampant and annoying PVCs and PACs. Dr. Natale’s office sent me a heart rate monitor just to be sure it wasn’t afib rearing its ugly head again (which I knew wasn’t the case) and also to be sure it was just benign PVCs and PACs. It […]
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