Doctors & patients are saying about 'A-Fib.com'...
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Dr. Douglas L. Packer, MD, FHRS, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
"Jill and I put you and your work in our prayers every night. What you do to help people through this [A-Fib] process is really incredible."
Jill and Steve Douglas, East Troy, WI
“I really appreciate all the information on your website as it allows me to be a better informed patient and to know what questions to ask my EP.
Faye Spencer, Boise, ID, April 2017
“I think your site has helped a lot of patients.”Dr. Hugh G. Calkins, MD Johns Hopkins,
Baltimore, MD
New A-Fib Story: She’s 21, Living in A-Fib with Meager Treatment
It’s heart breaking to read about a young person with such a debilitating case of A-Fib, and who lives in a region with so little treatment to offer her. I am researching ways to send Ashley to the US for treatment. If you have any suggestions, Email me. We thank Ashley for sharing her story:
“As child I always had a rapid beating heart. My parents were told that soda has that effect on children, and I was no longer to ingest it. Thinking it was the soda, it was further ignored.
I’m now 21 and living with atrial fibrillation. I live in the Caribbean. There is little expertise with such a rare condition. I have been diagnosed with tachycardia (fast rate) AND bradycardia (slow rate).
Currently I don’t have a specific adult cardiologist because my case is more complicated than what meets the eye. My parents can’t afford the procedure or more tests. PLUS in September, I had an appendectomy. Needless to say it was a risky but necessary move. According to my anesthesiologist, my heart rate had to be increased twice while on the operating table.” …Continue reading Ashley’s story…
