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N_E_1 for Tennis

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6. Had it, live a happy life...

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Wed Dec 16, 2015, 05:35 PM

Dec 2015

Last edited Wed Dec 16, 2015, 06:39 PM - Edit history (1)

Caused a few heart attacks, really did not realize what they were. Worst episode before I got any treatment led to a couple mini-strokes.

Got treatment at my VA hospital. Had a five way heart bypass. On meds for afib. Almost four years no more complaints from the heart.

I walk almost five miles every day, no matter the weather. Live in the lower of Michigan.
Updated my diet. It was good before but I tweaked it a little in regards to sodium, fats and so forth. Meditation helped a lot. Stress relief.

I'm 64, good to go for another 20-30 or so.

Edit to add,
The meds I'm on are plavix, carvedilol, baby aspirin, lisinopril. Plus I will add I smoke a decent amount of pot. I grow my own. It is a vascular dilator, opens up the vascular system. This allows more blood to the needed parts of the body. This is a recommendation from my doctor. A VA doc no less. Under the table of course. Nod, nod, wink, wink. Relieves tons of stress also.

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Anyone here with Atrial fibrillation? [View all] left-of-center2012 Dec 2015 OP

I have atrial flutter. Keefer Dec 2015 #1

I have it sometimes. CaliforniaPeggy Dec 2015 #2

Had it for 44 years, that I know of. Scary as hell, not usually dangerous. Binkie The Clown Dec 2015 #3

You're in no hurry zipplewrath Dec 2015 #4

My spouse does. Lifelong Protester Dec 2015 #5

Had it, live a happy life... N_E_1 for Tennis Dec 2015 #6

"I smoke a decent amount of pot" left-of-center2012 Dec 2015 #9

I have it all the time 24/7 Rainngirl Dec 2015 #7

"you don't die of it" left-of-center2012 Dec 2015 #8

I guess it could, Rainngirl Dec 2015 #10

No, but a shower of them to the lungs will Warpy Dec 2015 #12

The best idea is to convert you to a normal rhythm, something that can be done chemically Warpy Dec 2015 #11

My sister had a recent occurrence of it, SheilaT Dec 2015 #13

"print-outs of the EKGs" left-of-center2012 Dec 2015 #14

Did your printouts show nothing but afib, no normal rhythm at all? SheilaT Dec 2015 #15

I don't know left-of-center2012 Dec 2015 #16

I can state with some confidence that it doesn't, SheilaT Dec 2015 #17

She checked me for edema left-of-center2012 Dec 2015 #18

Interesting. SheilaT Dec 2015 #19

Come to think of it ... left-of-center2012 Dec 2015 #20

Would you believe that afib saved my life? Stonepounder Jul 2018 #21

I see my cardiologist again in about 3 weeks left-of-center2012 Jul 2018 #22

You and I are way too much alike. Stonepounder Jul 2018 #23