Hello, I have a 27yo son who has had three lone episodes of Atrial Fibrillation. First episode was at age 19, then it reoccurred twice last year @ age 26. His cardiac electrophysiologist recommending pulmonary vein ablation. (he says that’s usually the source of Afib) Dr. Pawluk’s site has great article on Pemf use for A Fib and would first like to try this treatment instead. Does anyone have experience/ or further info on this? Looking for a treatment plan/protocol with one of Dr. Dennis’ ICES devices. Wondering which device would be best. And, also looking for a cardiologist (anywhere) who is open to PEMF treatment and could advise/follow him. Any insights would be appreciated, thank you!
Hi- I had 2 ablations last year. First one in January and 2nd one in July. First one was for A Flutter on one side of the heart. 2nd one and a more serious one was for A fib on the other side of the heart. My brother in law also had an ablation done at the same time. First of all I did not know what was happening. I was 73 at the time and waking up very dizzy in the morning and vomiting and feeling sick until noon and then all was aok. This started the day I had to catch a flight to Canada as my brother just passed suddenly. For 3 days in a row up there the same thing happened…waking very dizzy, vomiting and ok by noon. I was then ok for a week. Returning to San Diego I was ok for a couple days then the symptoms reappeared- very dizzy-vomiting-ok by noon. I went to emergency. Had BP of 170/100. Went for tests and couple months later the first ablation. I can tell you that, now after the op, I have not felt this good in years and I did not know that this heart condition was slowly creeping up on me. Anyway time you go into hospital to time to recovery room is about 4 hours of which I would say 1 hour is the actual time for the ablation. I was knocked out of course and felt very little afterwards. Heart was a little warm and sore. All last year and 7 months after the last ablation I was on 3 meds. A BP med, a heart relaxer med and a blood thinner. Strengths of meds after 5 months were cut in half. I have since quit all meds. I did feel the meds were necessary while the heart healed but am glad to quit them. My Dr does not know yet that I quit them but he will. Your son at 27 to have this is young but I hear afib is rampant in the country. He is lucky to have caught it. I have a PEMF device that I use for my sore back at times. My feeling is that Drs for ablations and pemf do not exactly know how the electrical trigger work for the heart. Ablation effectively cut the heart wires so-to-speak where the heart is told to beat where it should not be beating. It cauterizes small areas of the heart. I think PEMF tries to cure the triggering mechanism but they don’t exactly know how yet. It is a lot of trial and error and they need someone with afib to try it out on. I think that will take some time (years-centuries?) to perfect. Anyway I am very glad I did the ablation and recommend it. The BP med was for blood pressure, the heart relaxer relaxes the heart a little so you can sleep and probably only really need it for a week but you know Drs. The blood thinner is for clots which may have developed which is guess work. I felt normal after the op. Had 1 incident about a month after the last ablation due to working in the heat all day. Heart tried to afib off and on a little for a day but stopped and never returned. I can feel the heart beating normally now and been off meds for exactly 1 month and feel like a teenager again. I have talked with people who have had ablation and they recommend it. One was in her 30’s. My brother in law is 75 and he feels great now too. The thing about afib is many have it and don’t know it. Glad your son has caught it in time. By the way I am a vegetarian and eat fish once in a while but was a meat eater for the first 18 years of my life. I am told that chicken hearts are good for the heart. I will try some when I can find them. The Asians snap them up. Hope my experience helps a little. God Bless.