![]() No headache - although I do feel a it disorientated for a while after it. Yes I definitely get this exactly as you describe. I don't know whether red wine, cheese, etc would have made my AFib worse because I'd cut them out already. I can say that, for me, there is no connection with AFib. Maybe there is something in that de-oxygenated blood which goes to the brain and can cause an occasional migraine. Having an opening between the two top chambers of the heart, the atria, means that de-oxygenated blood can go through and mix with the blood that goes through the body. I think it is caused by the slit being opened up to push the catheter through and it takes a bit of time for it to come together again. Your experience of previously having migraine and also soon after the ablation is similar to mine. There seems to be a connection between this and migraine. It's more of a slit than a hole and it comes together when a baby is born and the blood starts circulating to the lungs. The cardiac doctor was very nice to me and afterwards I wondered if he knew more than he said.Īfter my ablation one of the doctors told me they didn't have to cut through the septum as I had a hole in the heart. Not much fun! Because no-one had mentioned this before I even ended up in A&E after five days. A lot of people get flashes of light etc after an ablation but I had eleven days with an attack of migraine every single day. Well it isn't exactly caused by ablation but ablation can make it worse. Please excuse the way this is written as I am not very good at expressing myself in words. Two things, one it seems doctors are wrong about this anomaly being nothing to do with heart/AF conditions and two that it is caused by ablation as we have both experienced this without ablation. I was looking for some info about the after effects of ablation and I found a pdf file that is referenced here quite a lot where it talks about the "migraine aura" being a symptom/after effect of ablation (Recovering From Ablation Of Atrial Fibrillation). So jump forward to 24th June this year two days after my ablation, I get the sparkly lights thing twice in two days (unheard of) and then once more two days later. I asked if this could be related to my heart condition and the doctor actually laughed and gave me "that" look, you know, the one that says they think your nutz. I went to the doctor with this years ago, he sent me to see a neurologist and they gave me a scan and found nothing and put it down to a knock on the right side of my head when I was a kid. At first I thought this was in my vision until I put my hand over my eye and it stayed, same if i cover both eyes, painless but worrying none the less. Reminds me of a kaleidoscope when I was a kid and it's always in a crescent shape as it grows. Sorry I digress, these as you call them "migraine auras" I have had them maybe eight to ten times over the years, always starts in my right peripheral vision as a tiny glistening speck and slowly grows bigger and bigger until it just disappears. I have had proximal AF on and off for around 16 years, used to get it around once a year then a gap of six years with nothing and in the past seven months I've been living an AF nightmare, I'm just about to post on that in a thread of my own if i can figure iut how. My cardiologist, who is also a friend (how lucky am I) says that Flecainide can cause headaches and visual disturbances and I do get little tiny flashes or movements at the edge of my vision.views as always gratefully received ![]() He is seeing me a week Monday but just wondered if anyone had similar experiences. Even had one about three weeks ago before going over to have a barbecue at, yes my neurologist who is a friend. There is no reason why the number have increased, this week had one Sunday and one Thursday. So I am now double jumpy is my heart going out of sinus rhythm and am I going to get zigzag lines across my vision. Since my fibrillation started a year ago and taking Flecainide daily (originally 200 mg per day now 100 mg per day) number of aura episodes has gone up significantly, two or three from August 2019 until the end of the year, this year five or six in the last two months. Passes within forty minutes max and had an MRI back in 2014. So for the last ten years or so, since the age of 54 I have started getting occasional (ie once or twice a year) migraine auras. ![]()
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