Cardioversion failed

Hi Popeye, I have been reading about you too, hope you are keeping well. Seeing the doc this morning to see if I can 'get back into the saddle', would like another cardioversion as soon as poss if I can. I am already on the warfarin so hopefully it may be quicker than the last time. Keep well. Cheers

Hope you get a quick turn around good luck

Cheers, Popeye, Appreciate that, keep posting on the site, it's always lovely to hear from you and hope you stay well too. 

Hi, Thanks for replying, will take me a bit to reply to all as have had so many responses, obviously a lot of people in the same boat!! I am on 10mg of bis a day now!! 5mg in the morning and 5mg in the evening. When I started with AF last June the doc put me on the 10mg a day split between morning and night. I found this exhausting, not all the time but most. After cardioversion I stayed on 5mg bis in the morning. I was fine with this, no tiredess at all which makes me think that the tiredness was down to the combination of AF with beta blockers. I haven't really been outside walking since being in hospital. Last week in Scotland I was walking all day up to 7 miles some days, Yesterday I couldn't even walk to the polling station, popped in on way home from hospital!! I'm not sure what you mean about synchronized electrical cardioversion. It was just called a cardioversion where I was 'put to sleep' for about 5 mins and pads put on my front and back. Seeing doc today at half ten so hope to start the process again. Cheers, keep well. 

Hi, Thanks for sharing your experiences. The hospital doc and my GP who I saw yesterday are both writing to the cardiologist at Oldham who I saw initially and are recommending another cardioversion. Perhaps I had rose coloured glasses but I did think the CV would last, I felt great and there was no reason why the AF should click back, no stress, hadn't been on any alcohol for 4 days, (had a couple of drinks the week before as on holiday), no physical exertion at all. Just flipped back!! I don't seem to have the terrible 'knocking' in my chest like I had when I was first diagnosed, that was awful at night and never seemed to abate. It's early days yet but I hope it does not return. I wonder if anyone has had a really successful CV, one which has lated for a few years. I have asked this before but haven't had any replies, that would be quite heartening, pardon the pun!! Keep well, Cheers. 

Hi maggie i go in june to cardiologists new one.im going for ablation they could put copper pipes in my chest and a fishes heart i would try anything to rid myself of this evil af also want answers why i was discharged in november last year to start again in january and its not been one week i have not had a af episode 2 ecgs at doctors have caught it now ive had time to bone up on af and speaking with fellow sufferers i have questions i want peoper answers to not fobbing off with crap

Hi Popeye

I can hear how fed up and weary you are of this rotten complaint which is so life changing as regards all former activities and plans, but this is the hand we have been dealt and we just have to find our way through all the alternatives and arrive at the best solution individually.  Some procedures succeed, some succeed only for a time, and others fail almost immediately.  I don't think even cardiologists can predict the outcome.  For instance, you can see my history here, but my husband who was in permanent AFib for almost eight years, had a cardioversion which initially failed after about four months, then an ablation which failed after about the same period and then went back into sinus and has been okay for about ten months now.  He can take any amount of Bisoprolol without any ill effects, whereas I get wiped out on this drug. He has come to the decision not to try ablation again if the AFib returns (it probably will as this tends to be the nature of the complaint), and that is his choice - remember, no one can make you do anything you don't agree to.  I am coming to love my pacemaker, though it doesn't protect me from AFib, but only the symptoms.    It is easy to become despondent about the whole scenario, but chin up and keep hoping they find the right solution for you, they usually do, but not without a whole lot of mucking you about first....!

Hi Maggie, Thanks for that, I remember writing to you and Soobee when I first got the dreaded Af, just got a nice message from my family in Auckland, not far from where you are. I read about your ablation, yourself and a chap named Allen I think had them at the same time. I thought that the ablation kicked in right away, like the CV. Did you have a CV? Don't seem to remember that. Yes, you must try everything, it's a pig of a disease, and every one is slightly different too. Keep healthy and keep in touch. 

Thanks for this Josephine, it's an interesting way to look at it all  and what you say makes a lot of sense.  I'm very well now (on Flec+Bisop) but I know how depressing it could be at times and feel very sorry for Lankylass, Popeye, Derek and all the others here still suffering these awful symptoms. I do think your advice is good though... there's help out there if you can just find the right meds/treatment for you.... so hang in there folks!