EPISODE: Family dinner Sunday (lasagna, cheesy bread, salad, pumpkin bars), felt good, no anxiety, 2 hour chat with Stacy and Autumn before went to work at 9:00. Drank 2 full 40oz mugs while at work. Ate cheese stick and nuts and one unreal coconut bar. Got off work at 3am. Woke up fast for some reason from a deep sleep and immediately felt my heart before I even got out of bed. Kardia said possible afib and 200bpm. Started shaking and couldn’t stop. Took metoprolol but it wasn’t helping. BP 125/101. Asked Chat GPT what to do and it said because I was shaking and couldn’t calm down to go immediately to the ER. Dave was with me so he drove me down. Got admitted and hooked up to everything. IV fluids, potassium drink ( blood test showed low in potassium), IV metoprolol. Nothing was helping. They decided on cardioversion where I was sedated and got shocked. There were literally 8 people there for that, doctors, nurses, EMT’s. They actually had to do it twice and it still didn’t work. They said after the second, I said out loud “I felt that one” even though I was sedated and I don’t even remember. Crazy. So then they gave me 1 flacanide pill and an hour later, I was still in afib but they said I could go home since my heart rate was ranging 100-114 at that point which was a safer rate. Plus, they sent me home with flecanide and , metoporol and eliquis to take twice a day plus a referral to EP in Billings for ablation procedure. Stopped at Lovell Drug around 10:00 and by 10:30, I had finally converted when I got home and checked my kardia. Wow, what a deal!
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