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Can you tell me more about WPW. I have been diagnosed with MVP and WPW. They want to do Ablation(?) Is this necessary...
In Reply to: WPW posted by P Ransom on March 13, 1999 at 23:53:34:
Dear P.,
If you have looked at the information on the homepage of this 'site about MVP and the archives about cardiac dysrrhythmias, you know the answer to your question already. If you have not you need to do so.
THEN, if you still have questions, write again.
YOUR MVP CAN CAUSE YOU NO SYMPTOMS AND THE WPW IS AT LEAST RELATED TO A LOW (for you) INTRACELLULAR MAGNESIUM LEVEL.
Any symptoms attributed to the MVP have been described in depth in the "Mind as Healer, Mind as Slayer" book by Dr Pelletier discussed so many times on this BB.
Walt
In Reply to: WPW posted by P Ransom on March 13, 1999 at 23:53:34:
Wolfe-Parkinson-White syndrome is also caused by an extra bundle of muscle fibers in your heart. They assume the "pacing" mechanism normally initiated by your SinoAtrial Node or "SA node". Since this bundle is located closer to your AtrioVentricular Node or "AV node" than the SA node, the beats reach the next point of conduction faster than usual. Thus, a racing pulse, and a very scary feeling in the chest. I have it as well. Unless it is very bothersome or causing you difficulty, medication should control it. The ablation is a small wire with an electrode on the tip. They thread it into the heart via another large vessel, so it is minimally invasive. They simply burn or "ablate" the little bundle of fiber to keep it from causing the short circuit of your heart's wiring system.
That, is my two cents worth, as far as technical stuff goes. I also have WPW, but it only sort of comes and goes everynow and then. I have chosen not to treat it, because it does not cause me any problems and seems to stay away as long as I maintain an active, healthy lifestyle including aerobic exercise.
In Reply to: Re: WPW posted by Shannon on March 15, 1999 at 23:43:21:
Dear Shannon,
Thanks for your factual information.
LOTS of people have the extra bundle but most of them do not experience the WPW syndrome. Why is that?
The Human Genome Project is teaching us that here are MANY factors that cause any particular genomic condition to be expressed. We are not doomed to have something just because the genome is there.
In the case of WPW, we still do not know how to change the genome BUT we can change some of the additional factors that cause the "bundle" to be expressed as symptoms. One of the known additional factors is the intracellular magnesium level for THAT person.
I have seen many WPW patients who were totally without symptoms once their intracellular magnesium was raised. They still had their "bundles" but they had no symptoms.
Since raising the intracellular magnesium is totally safe why not give it a try?
It is true that a "healthy lifestyle" will raise the threshold for the expression of symptoms with WPW. Your aerobics surely will help!
Walt
In Reply to: Re: WPW (More than one way to skin a cat!) posted by Walt Stoll on March 16, 1999 at 14:43:16:
I did not know about the magnesium thing, so can you just take mag. supplements? I still experience palpitations once in a while. I would love to not ever have them..... I rememer thinking when they diagnosed me with this, that it is odd I never once had problems while I was in the military. You would think that being so active would cause MORE problems! What dosage on the mag. supps would be an effective dose? Thanks again, Dr. Stoll. I hope you don't mind me interjecting some technical info when I can. I know that most Dr.s (allopathic) don't really explain this stuff to their patients, even when they want and need to know, just for their own peace of mind.
In Reply to: Re: WPW (More than one way to skin a cat!) posted by Shannon on March 16, 1999 at 21:05:13:
Thanks, Shannon.
ALL technical information is MOST welcome.
I do not ever say that allopathy is worthless. It is good at what it is good at. MY problem is with the political/economic power the AMA has become doing all they can to "force the health-care camel through the eye of the allopathic needle". The health-care system of the future will combine ALL of the healing paradigms of the world on a level playing field. The 20th century will become known as the disease-care period of the history of healing.
Allopathy is great with acute problems and terrible with chronic problems. With your history I would say you fit in the latter group.
The magnesium information is repeated over & over in the archives. Go to the archives about atrial fibrillation (since that is where most of the dysrrhythmias are listed) and you will find out why oral magnesium--at first--will not llkely help much.
THEN, as your persistant palpitations disappear, I hope you will share your experiences with the BB. Testimonials seem to have a much greater impact than anything I can say.
Walt
In Reply to: Re: WPW (More than one way to skin a cat!) posted by Walt Stoll on March 17, 1999 at 10:39:32:
I agree with you whole heartedly, otherwise I would not be in the medical field at all! :o) I will read the archives and see what I can find. I don't have the palps often, just enough to make me aware that I DO have them sometimes. I really need to get on the SR bandwagon. I have noticed lately that I am a true victim of CHRONIC bracing, I mean, I have it BAD! I will read and start some kind of SR and then get back to all of you. Thanks again Dr. Stoll.
In Reply to: Re: WPW (More than one way to skin a cat!) posted by Walt Stoll on March 16, 1999 at 14:43:16:
My 14 yr.old son was diagnosed with WPW, as has been advised not to go to extremes! Basketball is aerobic and after a pick up game with friends suffered a heart attack. (14 yr. old aren't suppose to have heart attacks) Until that time he was totally un-symptomatic. WPW has also triggered hypertrophic cardiomyopathy as well as bradycardia. It is different for his rate to be low with WPW, but as with his father you never know which direction it will take. His father has coded 3 times within the past 2 years.
In Reply to: Re: WPW Heart Attack posted by Gail on April 02, 1999 at 08:40:16:
Hi, Gail.
Both your son AND your husband need to see someone close by who HAS the extra training needed to deal with those things that CAN be changed. The genetic anomaly that is WPW cannot be changed but the outside influences that effect the rhythm CAN. In the meantime you can reaad the archives about dysrrhythmias (see link below). ALL dysrrhthmias are influenced by the same factors. WPW just happens to be one that also has a genetic anomaly as PART of the provblem.
Call (800) 532-3688 for the docs closest to you. Be sure to take copies of ALL their medical records for the first visit.
The first thing I would check is their INTRACELLULAR magnesium levels. The second thing I would do is teach them to be students of Skilled Relaxation. If you want to know why THIS is critical have them both read "Mind as Healer, Mind as Slayer" by Dr Pelletier.
THEN, if either one has questions, write again.
WE ARE NOT PRISONERS OF OUR GENES!
Walt