I have it.
I have it and I am sick of having it.
Approximately 2.2 million Americans also have it.
Compared to a lot of diseases and physical issues it's not a bad thing. It's not cancer.
But, it is annoying and can cause strokes.
A brief description of A-Fib is it's an abnormal heart rhythm.
I guess my main beef with A-Fib is doctors. I started having these problems years ago. I went to doctors several times complaining of strange symptoms.
I was told I had this or that and was given drugs to fight this or that. Only problem is, after a while, you realize these guys don't know much about what they are doing and they are guessing.
I don't like to be the subject of guesswork, but that is often what you are when you enter a doctor's office.
My dad went to doctors for three years complaining of headaches. Then, one day, he had a brain tumor and died a month later.
Well, what had he been telling doctors for three years? Could there have been a reason for a man to have headaches for so long?
After years of complaining that I didn't feel right, I finally had had enough and went to a minor emergency clinic near my house when the physical outbreak was actually taking place.
Of course, the doctor had no clue what was wrong and said I should go to the real hospital immediately. I was hesitant, but they insisted and even called an ambulance to haul me over.
Low and behold, it was the ambulance driver that instantly knew that I had Atrial Fibrillation. Doctors may have never figured that out on their own.
The biggest step is often figuring out what exactly is going on in your body.
Well, not so fast.
Heart specialist prescribed drugs to control the A-Fib.
But, the problem is, the drugs don't work and A-Fib continues to creep up from time to time.
Too often to suit me. 15% of stroke victims have A-Fib and I don't want to be in that 15%.
I don't intend to be in that 15%.
At this point, I am reasonably convinced that doctors don't care because they make more money if people are sick.
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2 comments:
Dude, I think I may have this too. A while ago, when I was in high school to be exact, I had weird symptoms similar to yours. The "specialist" I went to see was convinced I just had a heart murmur and was surprised that I was even noticing the symptoms (I guess most people with a murmur don't actually feel it). But years later and I still have those same symptoms - slight shortness of breath accompanied by brief irregularities in my heart beat, and sometimes slight pain/discomfort. These quacks should be held accountable, but what can us common folk do about the problem? Unfortunately not much. We just have to keep seeing different Docs until one can figure it out, if we were to be so lucky.
Clay, now you can say that you have an uncle with the same symptoms and a diagnosis! Would be good to check it out!
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