Roadback1: In need of wise advice

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Alto,

 

Thank you for your feedback. I have the ablation scheduled for September 14th with a top electrophysiologist in my area who is very confident it will work for me. I am glad that it worked so well for you ! I will check the forums,too.

 

I have to stop all my beta blockers and anti arrhythmia drugs two days before the ablation so they can trigger the afib during the procedure. I am worried that I will have an afib episode again those two days.

The meds are controlling the rhythm right now, but, I have several times during the day that my heart tries to speed up,and isn't able to.

When I'm off the meds for two days, I am worried what will happen.

 

My anxiety is ramped up,and haven't been able to sleep without jolting awake. I caved and took a xanax last night just to sleep, and after a couple of hours, I was able to.

 

I have always had a fear of something going wrong with my heart since I was a child after my grandfather,who I loved dearly, died of a heart attack in front of me. I was 11. Within the next year, I started to get heart palpitations and developed a panic/ agoraphobia disorder.

 

I was going to go for counseling/ eft therapy this fall to deal with this.Lowering the zoloft this year has exposed all my " stuff" and the afib really triggered my biggest fears.

 

Oh, and thank you,too, Fresh for your response ????????

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I am still having a problem falling asleep. I get a jolt in my head and body just as I am starting to sleep.

This went on for hours last night. I took another xanax even though I didn't want to. But, I did sleep after.

 

My primary has prescribed xanax to get me through this time,and my psychiatrist wants me to increase the zoloft to 75 mgs. because of the anxiety from the hospitalization, diagnosis of afib, upcoming surgery and recent taper and updose of the dang zoloft.

 

I don't know what to do ! I feel like c**p ! ????

Any ideas would be appreciated !

 

Thank you,

RB