Originally Posted by cbhungry
By the way, with regards to carrying around vit k to reverse the coumadin in case of an emergency,it is not really that helpful. Oral replacement takes a few days to work and even injected vit k can take up to a day to work, so if you are bleeding out somewhere, the ER or doc will give fresh frozen plasma which reverses it instantaneously.
Thanks.
Unfortunately, I do go places where the ER doc may be a couple of hours away. I guess that is a risk of living.
I truly appreciate your input.
Searching the web, you come across all sort of weird responses when it comes to AFib - and any other medical topics, for that matter.
There is an entire group of AFib'ers who have had all their mercury amalgam fillings removed in order to reverse AFib!
There are others into herbal remedies, and a whole bunch of other stuff.
By the way, any comment on the usage of magnesium? Another group out there claims success with magnesium.
It is most difficult to even talk with the cardiologists and the internists - we received absolutely contradictory advice from two different internists in the hospital on two different days. First one said - "try the cardioversion." Second said "don't" - the AFFIRM study says you do better without CV."
What is a patient to do?
Cardiologist (whom we had to specially request, even though we were on the cardio ward) said to give it a try.