Atrial Fibrillation surprise

Bob's weight-reduction program has converted some amount of adipose tissue to CO2. A (voluntary) exercise for readers is to calculate the conversion factor.

Maybe someone here remembers the Journal of Irreproducible Results paper that looked at obesity as carbon-sequestration? Same idea, but going in the other direction.

 

Interesting web page. I suppose your physicians are surprised by this degree of 'participation'. Don't understand though why there are unidentified pee events - you can't hit a clock button in the porcelain room?

 

Wow, ten years, All the best!

 

I hope they figure out something for you Bob!
Not to steal your thunder, but I had femoral artery vascular surgery on Friday, and they put me on plavix for 90 days to help prevent blood clots.
I’m already on a baby aspirin, and a ton of cholesterol medication.
Heart scan showed a dim future and surgery likely at some point.
Gotta love modern medicine though, a lot of us would be dead without it.

 

Hope you both have a speedy and successful resolution to your health challenges.

You both add a great deal to the Prius Chat community!

 

Wow missed this thread started over a decade ago. I wonder how many other fib'ers there are among us. The meds they put me on years ago work - so hopefully I won't have to do ablation. The 1st time - (22yrs old) was after an ultimately strenuous scuba dive & md's thought it was a bad gas mix. Heart reverted on its own while in ICU. Next 2 times over 4 decades - they had to use the zappers.
The doctors said the dangerous thing is if you don't go in within 24 hours that the blood often pools in your heart & may clot & go to your brain. then you get to suffer stroke symptoms the rest of your life presuming you live

 

i have pvc's, leads to afib eventually i think

 

I never considered that different symptoms were possible with different people. All 3 of my instances were defiantly noticeable. It brought on an intense feeling of exhaustion ... as tho being awake for 3 straight days ... and the heart beat was really faint.
Funny story about the 3rd time - maybe just 4 years ago (one year prior to retiring). I felt it come on & thought, "good thing i'm going in for a yearly physical after work". Wife calls me at work & says, "your breathing is heavy, what's wrong". I told her my stinking heart is out of whack again, so i'll let Dr. Huesby 1st thing at the physical in a couple hours.
LOL
Refusing her demand, you should have heard "she-who-must-be-obeyed" yell at me, "GO TO the EMERGENCY ROOM NOW !!!
Dr's office was in the same structure as the hospital, so when he tell me he's sending me to the ER, I said I'd just walk. Nope, he called out paramedics & it took longer (30 minutes) for these good folk to drive me there on a gurney, than if i'd just walked (less than 5 minutes).
I learned whether you're in stellar health (cycling 100 miles & one mile swims in the lap pool) or whether you're a poster child for horrible health ... it can still happen. Still ... it make a health nut think, "well that exercising & diet was a big waste"

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unfortunately, there's not much you can do on your own for bad genetics, but taking care of yourself has to be easier on a bad heart than letting yourself go.

 

i joke with my wife that i try & exercise so that if i out live her i'll get a couple years w/out getting yelled at

 

LOL, mrs b and i are the same age, but she'll outlive me by 15-20 years easy. genetics are everything.
i should have married a 40 year old when i was 20

 

i joked w/ my wife that I'll marry a 40-year-old. She was shocked and said I better not. I said ok ..... then how about two 20yr olds

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