My atrial fibrillation continues. Despite taking medicine daily, nothing seems to affect it. I have a CPAP machine that was supposed to help; it does help me sleep but it doesn’t affect my heart in any meaningful manner.
On Tuesday I saw my heart doctor again. He is a family friend of my in-laws so he is highly recommended. He is now floating the idea of Pulmonary Vein Ablation. This sounds rather invasive as it involves blasting away muscles in the heart. This feels like a bad idea, but I’m not a doctor. The doctor says the recovery rate is 70%.
The thing is that a different friend of the family had it done to himself recently. It worked initially but the fibrillation came back a few weeks later. Now this person is older and was unhealthy in the past so that may have some bearing. My doctor is recommending the exact same specialist though. (And from the descriptions he was very old and made the patients wait a long time for their appointments.)
My heart doctor did listen to my heart and, while it was irregular, the beats were very strong. And let’s be honest, when I was having heart trouble previously, it was when I had stopped running. So it sounds very important that I keep running. Always.