With getting older and needing more doctor visits...

Just wondering if any of y'all have any comments on ' heart PVC's and treatment ( ablation, etc... )

I'm finding it's really important to get multiple opinions and do a lot of research before surgery or other treatments.

So far, In 2016 I had rectal cancer... After researching I found a surgeon that was able to shave it out instead of removing my anus, rectum, using part of a thigh muscle to fill the void, and wearing a bag. I talked with about 7 different surgeons, they all said the drastic procedure was necessary due to it being the 'standard of care'.

Last year transverse colon cancer.... was able to avoid surgery by having follow-up colonoscopies, 2nd and 3rd showed no detectable cancer. My good surgeon wanted to remove 24" of my ascending and transverse colon. I lucked out by having a 2nd colonoscopy, at my request, to better pinpoint the tumor location so only 5" would be removed by a different surgeon.

Also last year, nodular melanoma ' fast growing plus goes deep and up '. My error was not insisting on surgery as soon as possible instead of going along with surgeon's schedulers. I was very lucky and lymph nodes were clear. Not taking immunotherapy due to side effects, duration, and very high cost. Rolling the dice it hasn't spread based on lymph nodes biopsies. Lesson learned, go outside of your normal doctor to get much quicker surgery. Less chance it will spread.

To me, medicines are poisons and surgery is a controlled injury. You have to know what the complications might be and how good the doctors are.

Currently with my PVC's I'm refusing medication due to major side effects. Hoping the PVC's will slowly get worse so during the ablation procedure the doctor can locate the tissue that is causing the problem.

My medical care is limited to whatever happens to be handy at the time. Sometimes I am so far away from civilization I have no choice but to fall back on my Boy Scout first aid for even serious injuries.

As far as internal medicine I usually get to the point where they are talking about hours or days before I am going to drop dead.

Then I have a period of recovery and get back to work.

I realize my health care planning is not the best, but it will work fine until it doesn't.

You're quite right one needs to research but what about those of us who don't know enough to separate the wheat from the chaff ? .

I hope your big c. remains in remission .

Pops was a big time Oncologist and the one thing I learned is : if you want to live, CUT IT OFF no matter what part it is .

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Visited with a different cardiologist about my fairly frequent PVC's ( upper & lower heart chambers squeeze/beat at the same time, instead of alternating ). This results in the blood flow reduced considerably... can also actually reverse blood flow for that beat.

I had noticed the PVC occurrence was significantly reduced the past couple of months. I mentioned the only change I had made was to eat at least one fairly green banana at least once a day ( for lower gut bacteria health ). Doctor told me that it might be simply the magnesium in the banana and suggested to add additional sources from other foods.

Looking for a Smart Watch that could keep track of ' blood flow pulses ' but haven't found one yet.

Thanx for this and all the other comments, I'm old and worry .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

I survived non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma myself, approximately December ‘20 to June ‘21 was the span of my chemotherapy. I also improved my diet pretty seriously, cut out ice cream 99%, way down on sugar, increased green veggies, smaller meals, better digestive combinations. Have been in complete remission since summer ‘21.


Have you encountered Dr. Mark Hyman? He’s been a great help to me. He’s an actual medical doctor who was drawn more and more to nutritional issues. His latest book is entitled “Young Forever.” Of course we won’t be, the goal is to be fit and strong for as long as possible. These days with more and more discoveries about the practices that causes real problems, the goal is to be somewhat strong, extended years, up to a short and quick dying, relatively painless. As opposed to gradually getting weaker and weaker and having a long painful death. Not to mention at a relatively young age. Two of my best friends died in their 60s, one was 64, the other 67. I’m 72.

This video gets into a lot of his main points:

https://youtu.be/pVa6T1j8x_0?si=SUx3VW-mRBaCyAY8

One really big item he started me on was the ongoing research and discoveries about “resistance starch.“ It’s a type of starch that resists easy digestion in the stomach and small intestine and makes it to the colon where the good bacteria (smiles, balloons, dancing), ferment it and produce numerous products that aid in health and longevity. Particularly health of the colon.

Researchers are more and more persuaded that hunter gathers got a lot more of this type of fare than modern people. It’s a type of prebiotic - provides food for our probiotic flora.

One thing I’m certain of, it provides for excellent bowel movements. I hate constipation worse than, well, many other things.

Here’s a good primer on resistant starch:

https://tinyurl.com/y274btcw

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