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• Atrial Fibrillation (AFib)
  

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  Posted: 01/18/2017

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• Atrial Fibrillation (AFib)
  

  Successful ablation number 2

  Posted by: georgedoherty

  Last Reply: yogacat 12/21/2016

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  Diagnosed with AF in Jan 2014. Tried various drugs to try to keep AF under control and was continually taking pradaxa to thin my blood in case of strokes. By October 2015 I had enough and decided that catheter ablation had to be tried as drugs were not effective. Ablation no. 1 in November 2015 was not successful. Just the opposite!.. with daily episodes of AF lasting hours at a time. To say I was devastated would be an understatement. However I was aware that the healing process after surgery...