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The purple patches will have nothing to do with AF. My old pal Bob the retired social worker with whom I watch telly football had been getting these patches for the last 15 years (he's 82 now). I keep asking him to let the doc check this out but he's a stubborn old bastard and won't. So....it...

If you think your prostate is playing up I do hope you have had it checked. Apologies if you are a veteran of the prostate thread and I have forgotten. :thumbsup:

Bisoprolol is a beta1 adrenoceptor antagonist ('beta blocker'). It has an array of well documented and understood side effects. These include fatigue. Essentially, the up-kick in your sympathetic nervous system (adrenaline and noradrenaline) every time you leap into action, from getting out of...

I'm sorry about the stroke. The fact that when AF stops a sudden normal string heartbeat in the atria can dislodge 'stasis thrombi' (clots in the atrial folds) was not well recognized. These days the medicos are hot on anticoagulation, before electrical cardioversion, and after. Likewise...

First, trust the cardiologist. They are really smart and know all the ins and outs. If I can put it simply, AF becomes symptomatic when the rhythm in the ventricles gets too fast or slow. I once met a bloke who had been in continuous AF for two years. He was fine. In AF only a few electrical...