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New Story: Prayer + CryoAblation = A-Fib Free

Published January 4, 2017

We first heard from AGL this past summer (My A-Fib Story: The Healing Power of Prayer, #88) Here he shares the rest of the story…up-to-date and expanded.

“In early 2011, I had my first heart episode. I thought I’d sleep it off, so I went home and took a nap. It didn’t go away. I eventually went to the ER where they said my heart rate was 235. They used adenosine which broke the episode, and my heart rate fell to 130s–140s. At this point they thought I had SVT [Supraventricular tachycardia], I couldn’t be sure if it was simply a fluke or not.

After a few more episodes within a year or two, I knew this wasn’t a one-time fluke. I went to see a cardiologist who gave me three choices of proceeding: 1) do nothing 2) take medicine or 3) have an ablation. He didn’t recommend I go with an ablation due to the risks involved.

I began taking 120mg of Cardizem, but that did not help―it simply slowed my heart rate and lowered my blood pressure. I was also taking 81mg of aspirin daily [for risk of stoke].

A-Fib Confounded by Sleep Disturbance

I wasn’t making progress in my A-Fib battle―and I was sleeping terribly. For three months I woke up every night at 2:30 a.m. Then, the rest of the night’s “sleep” was sketchy…Continue reading…

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New Story: Prayer + CryoAblation = A-Fib Free

A-Fib Confounded by Sleep Disturbance

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