I never have had a CTA scan before and I must say it was quite interesting. The energy in the room was super positive and energetic.lots of good conversation and continual information about what they were doing along each step of the way. There were 6 or 7 lab personnel there and all of a sudden it appeared I had assumed rock star status (this would not be the first time). Long story short we finally arrived at the nuclear medicine lab with several laughs along the way.ДЄter some blood testing they came and took me to the lab. Davids is a very large hospital and we were in for an unexpected long walk which was fine, The young man that was taking us was fairly new and as we approached hsi normal route we ran into a construction blockade. Once i was all checked in a I was escorted to the nuclear lab for the CTA. This would become a trend throughout my entire experience there. The reception area personnel were very friendly and accomodating. My CTA was scheduled for early morning so we caught a LYFT to the hospital and was early. I had been taking 75 mg of Metoprolol with the Ticosyn prior to my ablation for the same reasons when the Ticosyn was not sustaining NSR without any issues. One thing I think that may have contributed to this was that I had taken 75mg of Metoprolol the previous evening to try to keep my heart rate down as the 50mg I had taken in the morning was not enough. And has been as low as 52 bpm when I was more active. My normal resting heart rate now is 62 bpm. This is the first time I have ever experienced such a low hear rate. I converted back to NSR early evening and have remained there ever since. This continued for the entire morning until my heart decided to just go completely haywire for the remainder of the afternoon into the evening. I did run back out to the kitchen to grab the recorder to try and capture the event but what I was feeling and what was recorded were two different things. Though the rate was steady with no fluctuation at both rates. Now I was using a pulse oximeter to record these rates so the accuracy and interpretation of what was actually going on is up for debate. It stayed this way for a while then jumped back to around 70bpm. However, my heart rate was very low, 37 bpm.

I got out of bed to get a drink and came back to bed, At some point shortly after I converted back to what felt like sinus rhythm. I had woken up around 3am still out of rhythm. The other odd thing that happened was Monday morning very early. Meanwhile I took some recordings throughout the day with the HEARTRAK ( Kardia on its way). So I decided to wait until I had the opportunity to speak with my Afib nurse at TCA.

This was the day I planned to start weaning myself off of the Ticosyn because the nerve pain has been creeping back.

Sunday morning I awoke to find myself out of rhythm. I did some shopping with the family in the afternoon followed by church. The weekend started out the same as its been since my ablation, nice calm NSR.

Frog leap studios sultans of swing