Interviewee: …heart rate at a normal rhythm, and then the cardiologist adjusted it. That made me very tired, and then the cardiologist adjusted it.
Interviewer: How has your treatment changed since then, any changes?
Interviewee: Yes. They kept adjusting my medication. I would visit them annually and I would do pretty good, but I also have high blood pressure. When my blood pressure would elevate, then it seemed to affect my atrial fib. Then in January of 2020, I had a major fall in my garage, and that really messed up my atrial fib because of the [xx].
I had an odontoid fracture which is a fracture of the neck area. I was in the hospital and I had to wear an aspen collar for three months. Due to that stress, it really did mess up my atrial fib and so, they had to keep adjusting my medication. All throughout 2020, I more or less struggled with normal sinus rhythm.
Then in December of 2020, I fell again. I was feeling really great, so I was walking outside because I love to exercise. I fell and I did not re-fracture my neck, but I had a concussion the first time, and then I had a reconcussion the second time I fell so. Then I [xx] the atrial fib again, and then I had a hard time monitoring…I'm sorry for my phone.
Then I had a hard time monitoring the atrial fib, not monitoring it, but keeping it in rhythm. Then in March of 2021, my local doctor suggested I look into getting a Watchman…