I just got out of the hospital having an 'ablation'. I haven't found much information on it. Best I can tell. There is electricity going around and around your heart. My heart was beating too fast, so they had to slow it down. So I go in the hospital, they 'burn' scars on my heart, send me home, now what? I smoke, they say quit smoking....okay, easy to say. I tried to just put them down. Can't do it, mind is not in the right place. What exactly am I at risk for? According to information I've seen, there are no 'real' answers in the long term of this procedure. What have I done? What did this dr do to me? And why the big rush? Help!
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There are several ways to slow down a heart that is beating too fast. Most involve drugs, ablation is the more permanent way.
The heart has it's own electrical system. Sometimes the nodes get a little too active and the ablation destroys some tissue to reduce the heart rate. If the doctors had left your heart at too rapid a rate, you'd more than likely have a heart attack. You don't say what the rate was but I'm guessing over 140 for an extended period, they tried to correct it with drugs, but it didn't convert.
Yes, stop smoking but for the same reasons you've always heard.
Talk to your cardiologist, please.
The heart has it's own electrical system. Sometimes the nodes get a little too active and the ablation destroys some tissue to reduce the heart rate. If the doctors had left your heart at too rapid a rate, you'd more than likely have a heart attack. You don't say what the rate was but I'm guessing over 140 for an extended period, they tried to correct it with drugs, but it didn't convert.
Yes, stop smoking but for the same reasons you've always heard.
Talk to your cardiologist, please.
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