thinkerbell
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Dec 27, 2000
A few months ago, I came on and asked if anyone had had a colon resection and got several good, positive replies. It definitely helped to ease my mind. So, at the beginning of December, my husband had his colon resection for diverticulitis and did really well. Went back to the doctor for his check up a couple of weeks after on a Friday and he was very happy with how he was doing. By Sunday, he was having a lot of discomfort in his chest. By Wednesday, December 22nd, he was in so much pain that he finally let me take him to the hospital. After a CT scan, they found a large blood clot in his liver. Crazy! Dr. said it was very rare to get one in your liver and very rare to get one from this surgery so they did all kinds of blood tests to check to see if he had a genetic predisposition to getting blood clots. Went to vascular surgeon, who is watching his blood clot, and all of those tests are clear. Still don’t know why it happened. He is on blood thinner and will have another CT in April to make sure it is dissipating. He has never had one before this and has had a couple of surgeries. Anyway, while in the hospital for a week for his blood clot/blood thinner stuff, a nurse noticed him having PVC’s in his heart…basically misfiring. So…he had an echocardiogram done and wore a heart monitor for a month to check that out. Echo showed weakened heart ejection fractions. Heart monitor showed lots of PVC’s. They put him on metoprolol at the hospital (for him, this drug was of the devil) for the time being because it is supposed to be a great drug for PVC’s and weak heart. Saw cardiologist and she said to continue the devil drug even though he couldn’t sleep, was always extremely tired, had brain fog, moody, etc. He was miserable. Yesterday, we went to see his electrophysiologist. He told us that he thinks the weakness in heart is coming from the PVC’s and he can either do a cardiac ablation or put him on a different medication. He made it sound like the procedure wasn’t a huge deal and it will totally solve his heart problem so we decided to go that route. It is scheduled for the end of this month. He also took him off of the devil drug, thank the good Lord!! I really missed my husband and was so afraid that this drug was his life forever. In the mean time, he is also having a nuclear stress test done to rule out anything else.
So, has anyone had a cardiac ablation and how did it go? How did you feel afterwards? How long were you out of work? Any complications? Dr said it is done all of the time on people on blood thinners so he doesn’t have to go off of it to have it done. That was also a relief. Please share.
So, has anyone had a cardiac ablation and how did it go? How did you feel afterwards? How long were you out of work? Any complications? Dr said it is done all of the time on people on blood thinners so he doesn’t have to go off of it to have it done. That was also a relief. Please share.