Saw the cardio yesterday. Dx of atrial flutter. .
so A-flutter is sort of like a variant of afib-it’s just a tiny bit more organized and somewhat easier to fix with ablation Rx
good of you to follow through and get the monitor which clearly showed the arrhythmia and you knew something was wrong when your HR just kept ‘pinging’ 140-which was likely atrial flutter with 2:1 block, like I saw in your strava files
I just wish you could get the cardioversion for short term Rx early then they can debate on meds and definitive long term Rx with ablation therapy (which is 90% long term effective); and cardioversion is like ~95% short term effective (closer to 99% in my practice)
because it’s like afib, you should re-read the afib thread and my last comments…
https://forum.slowtwitch.com/...athlete._P7696945-2/
as always, I wish the system was better, but it is what it is and you’ve got to be forceful to get what is needed sometimes—get your wife on it-
general cardiologists now do more clinical cardiology and do less procedures like TEE, cardioversions etc now-times change
I’d consider a second opinion for someone who could do a TEE/cardioversion as a combined procedure. We do them all the time here in CT, which I know is behind the times usually, but may not be the case IRL RHRN