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Post by 1dave on Mar 18, 2023 16:35:27 GMT -5
Our HEARTS use ~ 7% of our total energy pumping blood to share oxygen and nutrients.
Our BRAINS use ~ 17-20% plotting the course of our lives.
Our LIVERS use ~ 27% detoxifying the stuff we ingest.
How important is diet?
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Post by 1dave on Mar 18, 2023 22:10:54 GMT -5
To understand how the WATCHMAN Implant works, it helps to know more about the connection between atrial fibrillation and stroke.
Atrial fibrillation, or AFib, affects your heart’s ability to pump blood normally. This can cause blood to pool in an area of the heart called the left atrial appendage, or LAA. There, blood cells can stick together and form a clot. When a blood clot escapes from the LAA and travels to another part of the body, it can cut off the blood supply to the brain, causing a stroke.1,2
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Post by Son Of Beach on Mar 19, 2023 9:04:19 GMT -5
To understand how the WATCHMAN Implant works, it helps to know more about the connection between atrial fibrillation and stroke.
Atrial fibrillation, or AFib, affects your heart’s ability to pump blood normally. This can cause blood to pool in an area of the heart called the left atrial appendage, or LAA. There, blood cells can stick together and form a clot. When a blood clot escapes from the LAA and travels to another part of the body, it can cut off the blood supply to the brain, causing a stroke.1,2
www.watchman.com/en-us/how-watchman-device-works.htmlIs that what you are thinking of getting Dave?
I have some more testing coming up this week, I have to wear a heart monitor for a couple days to see if there is an patterns outside my AFIB episodes. I also had some blood work done last week to see how things stand.
Feel like I'm too young for a pacemaker, yeesh.
There is also a possibility I may have Bradycardia (a slow resting heartbeat), which might help explain some of the other things...
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Post by 1dave on Mar 19, 2023 9:20:57 GMT -5
Yes. If I do it, no more warfarin. I will still have a-fib, but not the blood clots that cause strokes.
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Post by 1dave on Jun 8, 2023 7:02:27 GMT -5
Yesterday (June 7, 2023) we drove the 50 miles to St. George and met with Dr. Jared Crisafi that will be doing the procedure The Date is set for the 12th of July.
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Post by vegasjames on Jun 8, 2023 19:13:04 GMT -5
Yes. If I do it, no more warfarin. I will still have a-fib, but not the blood clots that cause strokes. What doctors do not tell patients is that Warfarin (coumadin) significantly increases the risk of strokes.
Warfarin was named after the Wisconsin Agricultural Research Foundation (WARF) who discovered Warfarin after cows eating hay that had been rained on were suddenly dying. The problem was found to be from the sweet clover that was mixed in the hay. Sweet clover contains coumarins, which are generally benign on their own. When the hay got rained on though, the sweet clover fermented forming the dicoumarin Coumadin.
Coumadin not only interferes with various processes of blood clotting, which is one of the reasons why it significantly increases the risk of hemorrhage. The second reason is that Coumadin thins out blood vessel walls, which makes then more prone to rupture. Same reason a person on Coumadin can lightly bump in to something and bruise. The weakening of the capillaries makes them highly prone to rupture, even with very light trauma, allowing them to leak forming the bruise. Weakening of major blood vessels elesewhere in the body increases the risk of fatal hemorrhaging that can occur anywhere in the body. If a weakened blood vessel in the brain can lead to rupture and hemorrhage that that can pool blood in the brain compressing the brain leading to stroke.
Therefore, while Warfarin (Coumadin) reduces the risk of thrombic stroke, it significantly increases the risk of hemorrhagic stroke.
As for the A-fib, you might want to look in to supplementing with magnesium malate, which reduces or prevents arrhythmias by increasing blood flow to the heart preventing ectopic pacemakers that cause the arrhythmias, and both the magnesium and the malic acid increase adenosine triphosphate (ATP). ATP is refereed to as the "gasoline" for cells as it is essential for cellular energy production as well as proper cell function. Since the heart is in a constant state of motion, it uses more ATP than any other part of the body.
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Post by vegasjames on Jun 9, 2023 9:18:59 GMT -5
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Post by 1dave on Jul 12, 2023 8:44:30 GMT -5
July 12 2023
This morning I'm going to St George to have the Watchman device installed. I should be done and back tomorrow.
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Post by 1dave on Jul 17, 2023 10:03:36 GMT -5
2023-7-17 It has now been 6 days after the implant.
When I woke up I felt fine, but was confined to lying on my back for 24 hours.
The next morning I was released from the hospital but my right groin (where they shoved the device in) was stiff. That made walking difficult. I am not to lift anything heavier than a quart of liquid.
Most of the past few days have been spent in bed or short wandering around the house.
In October I return to the hospital to see if my heart has grown around the device. If so. I'm good to go.
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Post by 1dave on Oct 24, 2023 12:52:00 GMT -5
Two weeks ago I went to st. George to have the Watchman Devise DMRI'd to see if the heart tissue had grown over it properly. Tests reveled that my kidney function was low, and, fearing the die could damage them, they hydrated me and sent me home. I was scheduled to return yesterday at 6.00AM for a different procedure. This time they put a tube down my throat and took pictures usingTEE (transesophageal echocardiogram) to view how the implant was doing.  Arrow pointing to watchman device, Red Triangle = tissue covering device. The DR. told me it was the best he had ever seen. |
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Post by rockjunquie on Oct 24, 2023 13:07:59 GMT -5
Two weeks ago I went to st. George to have the Watchman Devise DMRI'd to see if the heart tissue had grown over it properly. Tests reveled that my kidney function was low, and, fearing the die could damage them, they hydrated me and sent me home. I was scheduled to return yesterday at 6.00AM for a different procedure. This time they put a tube down my throat and took pictures usingTEE (transesophageal echocardiogram) to view how the implant was doing. Arrow pointing to watchman device, Red Triangle = tissue covering device. The DR. told me it was the best he had ever seen. Great news!!! You'll live forever!  |
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