Endless PACs
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I'm I'm a 65 year old very healthy male. Had a cryoballoon ablation in November, which eliminated my AFib but now I have endless PACs/bigeminy. I have a kardia mobile device which works great, but it does sometimes mistake PACs for AFib. I'm in the same boat as everyone else on this forum and it does comfort me to know I'm not the only one suffering. My EP is aware of this and assures me that it is not harmful but it is so annoying and alarming as you all know. I have good days and very bad days where I'm in and out of bigeminy all day. I'm working through it as are the rest of you I'm sure. I've attached a Kardia printout which says afib but it is actually not! Any suggestions to deal with this would be helpful thanks.
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gina34156 joe82641
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I think the Kardia device can't distinguish always between different arrhythmias. Are you taking an Antiarrhythmic drug? I had PAC‘s after my ablation but I had to stop taking the flecainide because it made my heart rate too low. My doctor then prescribed a different medication which I took for three months it was called Multaq. After three months I tapered off of the Multaq and found that I no longer had the PACs and afib is pretty much gone except for very rare flareups which are triggered by either msg (there are lots of names for it and you would be surprised how often I'm affected) caffeine, stress, not enough sleep, wine, even ice cold water. The flareups last about 15 minutes. Also it took a year for my heart to really settle down to where I hardly notice it anymore. At least not constantly which it what it sounds like you are going through.
joe82641 gina34156
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I'm on low dose flecainide. 50mg. My follow up is tomorrow we'll see what the EP says