Pulse Field Ablation - has nayone undergone this?

mousiegirl · ‎03-09-2010

I am contemplating this due to A-fib. I have been on flecainide for fifteen years, but my heartbeat skips are much more frequent so am thinking about this.

JeanLouiseFinch · ‎10-03-2011

I have not had it personally. My sister and niece have A-fib. My niece had a successful ablation a couple of years ago. My sister's ablation was unsuccessful so she is always in A-fib. Each still take medicine.

Michelle4458 · ‎09-07-2024

have not had it personally but I work in the business as an engineering director. Make sure you have a reputable doctor who is aware of the various technologies available and can best pair your condition with the right option. Given that you have had it for 15 years it seems like you may have what we call "long standing persistent AF." You may want to see if your doctor is familiar with a hybrid procedure that combines a catheter ablation with a surgical ablation - different devices that come at the heart from both the inside and the outside. Data shows it is the most effective long term for that type of AF. Good luck! Can be life changing if done right.

jlkz · ‎12-02-2013

@JeanLouiseFinch

Six years ago DH and I met with the doctor who'd be doing DH's first ablation. I asked him about all the comments I had heard in recent years about " failed ablations." He explained that usually only a small area and its close surroundings have the electrical issues treated.

He then showed us all the many areas he'd be treating during the procedure. Those areas were spread all over his heart. The ablation procedure itself took 5 hours and was then followed by almost 3 hours to place a pacemaker-defibrillator device in his shoulder. The ablation results lasted for 5 years.

Last July he underwent ablation #2 and results show no Afib and no elevated heart beats....results transmitted via a Medtronic's device to a cardiology lab.

Ablations do work but they need to address all the electrical issues, not just in one area. It pays to ask this type question.

Hopefully your sister's case can be totally handled by meds.

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Churchill

Scooby Doo · ‎03-14-2010

I had an ablation 3 years ago due to afib. It was successful and I haven't had issues with afib, but I have to watch what I put in my body. I stay away from certain things that cause tachycardia, i.e., caffeine, B vitamins.

My doctor is a renoun specialist in this procedure. At my last appointment he told me that there is a new procedure that is even more effective and lasts longer. He said the procedure that I had lasts about 10 years. But I will do it again if needed. It's such a relief to not have to deal with afib, and that drug you have to take to prevent it is not doing your internal organs any good.

It was done as an outpatient procedure. I went home at 5pm. and felt normal. I highly recommend it.

tsavorite · ‎03-09-2010

@mousiegirl I just watched a video on this new procedure to treat Afib....Dr. John Day cardiologist. On youtube "Breakthroughs in preventing and curing AFIB (avoid stroke)" channel is Viva Longevity and the doctor talks all about this new option which is much more successful then the older procedures. He does this Pulse Field Ablation which was only recently approved in the US but being offered Europe for yrs with great success. HTH

shoekitty · ‎03-10-2010

Afib is the worst torture I had to endure for awhile. One day I was ok, next hour blood pressure 225/135 and heart rate was 160. I had these attacks here and there over a year or two but I'd go to hospital and then I was fine. This one day, they caught it. The medicine was awful and I had such awful reaction to Eliquis. The blood thinner. They just couldn't control palpatations. I had ablation, and thank God it worked. I went off blood thinners, although I shoukd be on them. Dr okayed it. Never in my life, it was so bad for a while I was traumatized as I was in hospital so many times. I can get the watch,an anytime. I have just had other issues, so put things off. For me I recommend ablation. My cousin had it twice, with no luck, and a couple of other cousins had ablation with great success.

one thing that was over looked is months after I kept having palpatations, all day. They said it was not harmful, but more than I shoukd have. But it wasn't afib. Long story short this one Dr ran a test I hadn't had before. Darned if I didn't have hyperparathyroid, I was lucky it was from vitamin D difficiency big time. Took the prescribed vitamin D blitz, and I haven't had palpatations in 2 years almost

“sometimes you have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on”….Bob Dylan

shoekitty · ‎03-10-2010

just to add, I went to an Electrocardiologist. He is a specialist in the field of afib, and heart issues related to arythmias. He was super well known and well known. But most of all he was so kind, and patient with me. As I was a nervous wreck by the time I saw him

“sometimes you have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on”….Bob Dylan

mousiegirl · ‎03-09-2010

@tsavorite wrote:
@mousiegirl I just watched a video on this new procedure to treat Afib....Dr. John Day cardiologist. On youtube "Breakthroughs in preventing and curing AFIB (avoid stroke)" channel is Viva Longevity and the doctor talks all about this new option which is much more successful then the older procedures. He does this Pulse Field Ablation which was only recently approved in the US but being offered Europe for yrs with great success. HTH

@tsavorite I read it will be the gold standard, glad I chose to go on a med fifteen years ago instead of the ablation offered then, and I didn't need it, now I can have this.

mousiegirl · ‎03-09-2010

@shoekitty wrote:
Afib is the worst torture I had to endure for awhile. One day I was ok, next hour blood pressure 225/135 and heart rate was 160. I had these attacks here and there over a year or two but I'd go to hospital and then I was fine. This one day, they caught it. The medicine was awful and I had such awful reaction to Eliquis. The blood thinner. They just couldn't control palpatations. I had ablation, and thank God it worked. I went off blood thinners, although I shoukd be on them. Dr okayed it. Never in my life, it was so bad for a while I was traumatized as I was in hospital so many times. I can get the watch,an anytime. I have just had other issues, so put things off. For me I recommend ablation. My cousin had it twice, with no luck, and a couple of other cousins had ablation with great success.
one thing that was over looked is months after I kept having palpatations, all day. They said it was not harmful, but more than I shoukd have. But it wasn't afib. Long story short this one Dr ran a test I hadn't had before. Darned if I didn't have hyperparathyroid, I was lucky it was from vitamin D difficiency big time. Took the prescribed vitamin D blitz, and I haven't had palpatations in 2 years almost

@shoekitty I agree that palpitations/skipped heartbeats are awful. I know it is said that neither are harmful, but they ruin one's daily life, in my opinion. Of course I am in no hurry, butI may have to. I take plenty of D3 normally.

I havn't had a racing heart since I was diagnosed and put on a med.