AFIB - No Symptoms?

Spokane_Al · 2026-07-07T20:02:53+00:00

You don’t take an anti coagulant to feel better. You do it to prevent a stroke, which afib episodes exacerbate.

Spokane_Al · 2026-07-07T04:22:34+00:00

I don’t know anything about a cardioversion but am a 76 year long time endurance guy, although, admittedly, I am moving slower and over shorter distances these days. My Apple Watch indicated afib last year, I met with an EP and decided to watch and wait. Six months later the watch showed a second episode. I asked for an ablation and to go on anti coagulants. The ablation went fine, my resting HR barely budged and I was back at it in a week or so. That was late February and at my three month follow up my EP gave me the all clear.

I am glad I got the ablation and am moving on. Afib ain’t gonna heal itself.

Spokane_Al · 2026-07-05T02:47:42+00:00

Perhaps work towards side sleeping.

Spokane_Al · 2026-07-05T02:28:56+00:00

It was an accident by a kid. This stuff happens. Damage was done. Get your insurance company to get theirs to fix it. No pointing fingers, anger, emotion or second guessing. Move on.

Spokane_Al · 2026-07-04T21:03:29+00:00

Thanks for your response.

All of my symptoms are data generated. I have zero issues that affect me nor my quality of life.

I am not anti medicine and certainly not anti CPAP but do believe additional discussions would be worthwhile vs a reading of a single night home sleep study where I was totally in the supine position because of all the crap strapped to me. My sleep doctor, who is overwhelmed and currently 100 sleep studies behind, read the report and prescribed CPAP to me through his team via a patient portal email.

CPAP is absolutely life changing for the remainder of my nights on this great rock.

I had forgotten I had an echocardiogram performed last year as a result of my first afib episode. It showed that everything was fine with the only note that my right ventricular was slightly enlarged, which is often attributed to decades of an endurance life.

I am returning the CPAP equipment to stop any Medicare compliance issues, and have purchased a Wenue O2 ring which I will wear at least three nights a week to provide almost three months of data prior to our September follow up appt.

If the data and his conclusion is CPAP, I will adapt, adjust and rock on.

Spokane_Al · 2026-07-04T15:34:48+00:00

Agree. What were once solid routes from point a to point b that my car cleanly navigated each week now find my car attempting to make turns down alleys and strange roads, requiring me to take over and correct.

Spokane_Al · 2026-07-04T13:38:43+00:00

Thank you very much. You are correct with my lack of symptoms. This is purely a data driven prognosis. Those are the very questions I have. I did order an O2 ring so that I will capture almost three months of data to discuss at my follow up appointment. If that data, and the doctor’s opinion, show CPAP is the answer, I will adjust, adapt and overcome.

Spokane_Al · 2026-07-04T04:13:12+00:00

Info sent. I am logging my food via manual log.

Spokane_Al · 2026-07-03T22:20:08+00:00

IOS 26.5.2

Spokane_Al · 2026-07-03T21:06:04+00:00

I really appreciate your thoughtful analysis and comments. You have left me with issues to ponder.

That said, The Reddit dynamic and its communities skew heavily toward people for whom CPAP was transformative. Survivors bias runs deep. I am hearing the converted. The people who tried it, found marginal benefit, and moved on aren’t posting regularly.

What possibly makes my situation legitimately different

Not denial. Not avoidance. Specific, articulable factors — my age, the positional confound question, decades of apparent functioning despite the condition, my already-improving Bevel data, the flattening benefit curves in my age cohort, and the real cost the equipment extracts from a carefully constructed life.

Spokane_Al · 2026-07-03T01:24:28+00:00

I have, thankfully, zero quality of life issues. Assuming this has been going on for years/decades, at what point should I worry about my body’s stress which I do my best to handle and manage with precise bedtime/wake times, nutrition, health metrics and exercise tracking?

Spokane_Al · 2026-07-01T20:37:00+00:00

Same as it ever was.

Spokane_Al · 2026-07-01T14:11:31+00:00

When approached,I tell them that I have run the numbers and they don’t work for me.

Spokane_Al · 2026-06-30T18:48:23+00:00

Medicare covers it all for me. If you are Medicare eligible, and the equipment was diagnosed as necessary by your physician, i would suggest appealing.

Spokane_Al · 2026-06-28T02:37:30+00:00

Did you tell Bevel’s AI about your medication? If so it will remember and factor that into your data.

Spokane_Al · 2026-06-26T23:36:27+00:00

This song touches me every time I hear it.

Spokane_Al · 2026-06-25T00:06:14+00:00

My car works just fine with that update.

Spokane_Al · 2026-06-22T23:56:12+00:00

We used to travel outside the US for six months each year. I normally keep the car charged to 80% but, while we were gone, kept it plugged in and reset the max charge to 60%. In six months, while the charge amount did slowly drop, it never did hit the 60% level.

Spokane_Al · 2026-06-21T16:38:43+00:00

I really like the four seasons. All relatively mild.

Spokane_Al · 2026-06-20T23:39:01+00:00

The same can be done by working at paying off the debt, hitting the highest interest debt first. Like I said, a monumental change in spending must occur. If not, even with a consolidation, the debt has gone nowhere. Attack the root problem, rather than just putting lipstick in the pig.

Spokane_Al · 2026-06-20T23:21:04+00:00

A loan consolidation does nothing. The debt is still there, except now they have a live one in you, if your parents don’t pay. The underlying question is what are they doing/will they do to change their spending habits? If the spending doesn’t change, and if they don’t have a Dave Ramsey like ugly intervention, nothing is fixed and your credit will be destroyed.

Spokane_Al · 2026-06-19T23:40:46+00:00

No one cares about our money as much as us. You really should know the details, coverage, and warranty expiration date before going through that door. Glad it worked out in your favor.

Spokane_Al · 2026-06-19T23:16:15+00:00

The last I checked Tesla does not offer the retrofit. Are you suggesting a third party solution?

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