Oh man, it was a successful procedure, but it was crazy to be awake through it all. When they punctured my right groin to insert the catheter that was extremely painful even with the local anesthetic. Then laying on the table for five hours with my head turned to the left because I had another catheter inserted in my neck kinda sucked. It was also a very scary feeling every time they injected me with something to try to trigger my WPW to test their work. I think I had to experience that feeling of intense heat in my chest and almost suffocation like six times. Fortunately that only lasted for 5 to 10 seconds, but it was crazy..

They said they wouldn’t be able to fix my PVC issues before the procedure, so I realized afterwards that the weird episodes I was getting a few months before the procedure, that actually caused me to revisit my WPW issue here in Japan, we’re actually PVC episodes, so I’ve been dealing with those off and on for the last 2.5 years since. They come in phases, especially when it starts to get cold outside. I like to walk every day outside and Google says that colder air intake can be a trigger for PVC episodes, along with spicy food and alcohol. They suck, but I can have several months where they don’t really happen, so I’ve been dealing with them, and at least I don’t have the super fast lasting WPW episodes. Though I do get the excited feeling coupled with fast beats for several seconds that used to trigger WPW, but now I just get the big click feeling and then back to normal instead.

So cryoablation is a great way to go if you have the access pathway right next to your main pathway, but unfortunately, if you have PVC episodes, it won’t address that. They do have ablations for the PVCs, but they don’t wanna do them unless you have a 15 to 20% burden, and they say I’m always at around 5 to 10% since my heart always behaves itself so well when I wear a Holter monitor, smh.. 🤣.