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- Hello all: I wanted to share my good news with you all. I am going to start a new job on Sunday with a Cardiac Monitoring Center. I am very excited! The interviews were tough and intensive and there was a lot of rhythm interpretation tests to...
- Hi Everyone: I recently had an echo done. This is the first echo I have had done with my present cardiologist. I always get a copy of any testing I have completed for my own files. I liked this report because it had all the specific measurements...
- Hello everyone- I have great news (unrelated to Afib) but wanted to share my news with you all! I was recently offered a job at our local hospital as a patient care tech on the cardiac step down unit. I just received official word today that I have...
- Hello all: It is alarming how many new members we have had sign on recently. The number of people that are being newly diagnosed with Afib has been weighing on my mind. I have been thinking of all the advances and changes that have occurred in...
- I had a question I was curious about and wondered if maybe someone knows the answer. I had blood work completed a few weeks ago while I was taking Pradaxa and my INR result was 1.3 and my PT time was 14.1 sec. The doctor completed bloodwork prior...
- Hello everyone: I am writing to find out if anyone has ever switched from Pradaxa to Warfarin? I had a doctor's visit yesterday. I currently get my prescription of Pradaxa at Walgreens and have a Walgreens discount card. In spite of the discount...
- Hello all: I had an appointment with my doctor yesterday. He advised me he would like me to switch from my 325mg aspirin daily to Pradaxa. He is going to supply me with samples to start out with which I will need to pick up at another office...
- Hi everyone- This post really isnt AF related as much as it is that I just wanted to share some news with my Afib family :) I decided to change directions in my life and pursue a new career. In January, I will be attending our local college to...
- I saw my doctor today and based on my Holter monitor I wore on 10/2, he said I absolutely have to take something for rate control. I had tried Metoprolol, then Verapamil, however, had to discontinue them due to very low blood pressure and pulse. ...
- Hi Katy- If I remember correctly, your ablation was on 10/10. I am thinking of you and wondering how everything went. Please update us on your experience once you are feeling up to it. Take care, Carrie
- I was looking at my history of EKGs and I noticed that the EKGs that I had bedside before I went in for second ablation reported both the ventricular rate and the atrial rate. It was a normal bedside EKG, no EP study or anything like that. My...
- Just an update to my ongoing saga :) I just got back from the doctors. I hadnt been feeling very good or sleeping well over the last couple of weeks so I went to see my doctor. Long story short, I was in Afib in his office. Starting a 1/2 of...
- I am pleased to report that my doctor says I can continue with no daily medication. I have been off Flecainide for almost 8 weeks now. My 30 day monitor reports many episodes of Atrial Tachycardia. From what I learned, Atrial Tachycardia can be...
- I saw my cardiologist today in response to recent symptoms of mutiple missed heart beats and despite the prior reduction in my dose of Flecainide from 100 mg/ twice daily to 50 mg / twice daily in April, my EKG today still showed 2nd degree heart...
- My husband and I just got cards in the mail from a company called Healthcare Alliance / Rx relief. We did not contact this company. These cards came to us unsolicited. The letter accompanying these cards advised that these are prescription discount...