Lunar Apprentice, I very much appreciate your replies and if you were a doctor I consulted, it is likely I would listen to you. That is the highest praise I can give. Yes, the emergency room was weird. The heart monitor they had on my son alarmed non-stop and it said AFIB and Tach right there on the screen, there was no missing it. They had that device with the paddles right next to him on the gurney, ready to shock him. The ER Resident was all set to shock him out of AFIB. But then the actual Cardiologist showed up and said, hang on, all of this just started, let's give it a little time and wait and see. My son had driven himself to the emergency room for what he described as a "fluttering" sensation that got gradually worse throughout the day. He pretty much lost it in the emergency room once he made it in, and they took him in immediately even though the place was jammed. The first thing they asked him when he got there was whether he was on any drugs. He wasn't, I know it for a fact and so did they because I am pretty sure they checked for it. He also drinks minimal coffee and quit drinking alcohol a couple of years ago. So someone living right...
Anyway, the cardiologist said they would not give him blood thinners unless the AFIB went on for some undefined amount of time -- 12 hours? 24? Only he knows. However, they also said they would definitely administer blood thinners if they shocked him, heavy duty ones, because a shock would likely knock any clots that had formed into a place they shouldn't be, like his brain.
I don't know what the risk is going forward, but he will have to continue to see a cardiologist to get access to the medicine they gave him, so he will see a doctor for the foreseeable future. Another relative, not quite so close as my son, took the J&J shot around the same timeframe as my son. He ended up in cardiac intensive care for 3 weeks very soon after the shot with micro blood clots in his lungs. They were talking lung transplant for a while. He is 23 years old. He is now on several expensive, heavy duty medications that they are telling him he will be on for life and his life expectancy is 5 years, according to some things I have read.
I was hoping that my son, who is more than 10 years older, had ducked the J&J injuries since, other than catching COVID multiple times after the shot, did not seem to have any issues. But now I think it was just a matter of time. Full of sorrow...
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Re: AFIB and Tachycardia -- update @ Lunar Apprentice
Date: 2023-06-11 07:55 pm (UTC)Anyway, the cardiologist said they would not give him blood thinners unless the AFIB went on for some undefined amount of time -- 12 hours? 24? Only he knows. However, they also said they would definitely administer blood thinners if they shocked him, heavy duty ones, because a shock would likely knock any clots that had formed into a place they shouldn't be, like his brain.
I don't know what the risk is going forward, but he will have to continue to see a cardiologist to get access to the medicine they gave him, so he will see a doctor for the foreseeable future.
Another relative, not quite so close as my son, took the J&J shot around the same timeframe as my son. He ended up in cardiac intensive care for 3 weeks very soon after the shot with micro blood clots in his lungs. They were talking lung transplant for a while. He is 23 years old. He is now on several expensive, heavy duty medications that they are telling him he will be on for life and his life expectancy is 5 years, according to some things I have read.
I was hoping that my son, who is more than 10 years older, had ducked the J&J injuries since, other than catching COVID multiple times after the shot, did not seem to have any issues. But now I think it was just a matter of time. Full of sorrow...