My heart doctor wants to operate now.

CPA-Kim said:
I wish you success. Focus on how much better you will feel.

I've had an EP study and the doctors attempted to ablate the nerve path that was causing my supraventricular tachycardia. It is similar to A-fib but not the same. They couldn't do the ablation because of where the path was located. It is not an operation. They thread a needle through the femoral artery into your heart and zap the pathway. I had to be flat on my back for 6 hours after the procedure but it was because of the incision in my leg. After that I went home and had a meal.

I hope your procedure goes smoothly. This procedure has been performed many times and is not something new. Don't let other people scare you. Just focus on the potential good.
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Thank you, Kim. What the doctor wants to do with me is very similar to what you had done, but they will be doing two operations. The first one is actually in the heart, and they go in through my chest and into the heart from there. They stop the inside electrical impulses from there.
Then they take me to another operating room, and a second doctor does the other procedure, where they come up through the artery (or maybe it is the vein) in my groin, and when they get to the heart, they do the same kind of procedure on the outside of the heart.
Then, they keep me in the hospital for two days, just to make sure that everything is healing up right.
The doctor said that I might notice a big difference right away.
Huntsville has one of the very best hospitals, so it is a good place for me to have it done. They work with Vanderbilt in Nashville, so they are right on the front line with all of the best procedures.
 

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