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Really need some advice and help!
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Purple Sparkle
New Member
Hi Susu and welcome 
I would suggest that you really need to speak to a medical advisor in relation to your question - lots of people with various pre-existing conditions have successful surgeries - but you need to get the advice and support that is right for you - good luck
Justine x
I would suggest that you really need to speak to a medical advisor in relation to your question - lots of people with various pre-existing conditions have successful surgeries - but you need to get the advice and support that is right for you - good luck
Justine x
top_kat
Well-Known Member
This has to be a question for a medical professional because no-one here would be able to say whether your own condition is something that would or wouldn't enable YOU to have surgery.
Welcome to the board tho, its a great resource while you're finding out and a hello from a bander
Welcome to the board tho, its a great resource while you're finding out and a hello from a bander
Dandelions
New Member
Hi there susu
Welcome to the forum. No idea about the medical condition but wanted to say hello
Welcome to the forum. No idea about the medical condition but wanted to say hello
Louie lou
Pre-Op
Hi years ago I prescribed beta blockers for my heart arrhythmia but then they decided that because I was also asthmatic I couldn't have the beta blockers.
I had a bypass 5 months ago and since the weight has come off my stupid heart beat has also calmed down. Still get bad patches but its defiantly less.
My dad had a pacemaker fitted 13 years ago because of the same condition but his one one if the really rare types. I'm hoping I'll now get away with out having one. He was never over weight but also didn't notice his until he was in his late 50 where as mine came on in my 30s. Being morbidly obese for 20 years wouldn't have helped.
Not felt the arrhythmia for a few days and sitting here writing this it playing up. It's like it's telling me. "I'm still here".
Anyway good luck, they'll do loads of tests and see if your type of arrhythmia is one that they can work around, as you know there's loads of different types of arrhythmia so chances are they can do something and hopefully a bypass will help with it too.
I had a bypass 5 months ago and since the weight has come off my stupid heart beat has also calmed down. Still get bad patches but its defiantly less.
My dad had a pacemaker fitted 13 years ago because of the same condition but his one one if the really rare types. I'm hoping I'll now get away with out having one. He was never over weight but also didn't notice his until he was in his late 50 where as mine came on in my 30s. Being morbidly obese for 20 years wouldn't have helped.
Not felt the arrhythmia for a few days and sitting here writing this it playing up. It's like it's telling me. "I'm still here".
Anyway good luck, they'll do loads of tests and see if your type of arrhythmia is one that they can work around, as you know there's loads of different types of arrhythmia so chances are they can do something and hopefully a bypass will help with it too.
Dilligaf
New Member
Don't give up hope: I developed viral dilated cardiomyopathy last year ... Was diagnosed just a week before I was due to see the bariatric surgeon for my initial consultation!
I was pretty sick at the time I was diagnosed, with an ejection fraction of 23 percent and struggling to breathe. Being told I had to live with heart failure and a permanently damaged heart was a shock, and even more of a shock when I got the news tht my heart condition had also made me diabetic and had screwed up the electrical output of my heart, causing a bundle branch blockage (one side of my heart beats out of synch with the other). The specialist told me I would need surgery to have an internal defibrillator implanted to keep my heart in rhythm but that they didn't think they would be able to stop the progression of the damage ... The best they were hoping for was to slow it down. At that stage I wasn't a good surgical candidate ... They reckoned my heart wouldn't have coped with an anaesthetic ... So I had to go on to medication and wait for things to stabilise enough to have the defibrillator implanted.
Eight months after the initial diagnosis I got the news that the medication was working far better than expected and the heart surgery was on hold because my heart function had improved so much. I still have heart failure and will probably be on medication for the rest of my life, but things were definitely looking better than they were in May last year! In fact, things were stable enough for me to take that first step in seeing the bariatric surgeon and 11 months after getting that scary diagnosis I had my surgery.
You really need to talk to a specialist, but even if you can't have the surgery now, you might be a candidate later.
Good luck.
I was pretty sick at the time I was diagnosed, with an ejection fraction of 23 percent and struggling to breathe. Being told I had to live with heart failure and a permanently damaged heart was a shock, and even more of a shock when I got the news tht my heart condition had also made me diabetic and had screwed up the electrical output of my heart, causing a bundle branch blockage (one side of my heart beats out of synch with the other). The specialist told me I would need surgery to have an internal defibrillator implanted to keep my heart in rhythm but that they didn't think they would be able to stop the progression of the damage ... The best they were hoping for was to slow it down. At that stage I wasn't a good surgical candidate ... They reckoned my heart wouldn't have coped with an anaesthetic ... So I had to go on to medication and wait for things to stabilise enough to have the defibrillator implanted.
Eight months after the initial diagnosis I got the news that the medication was working far better than expected and the heart surgery was on hold because my heart function had improved so much. I still have heart failure and will probably be on medication for the rest of my life, but things were definitely looking better than they were in May last year! In fact, things were stable enough for me to take that first step in seeing the bariatric surgeon and 11 months after getting that scary diagnosis I had my surgery.
You really need to talk to a specialist, but even if you can't have the surgery now, you might be a candidate later.
Good luck.
