My treatment pathway once I had been diagnosed with Atrial Fibrillation

David, once everyone had figured out and you'd figured out that, yes, atrial fibrillation was probably causing your problem or your symptoms, what was the treatment pathway then? The critical thing initially was to go on an anticoagulant and the consultant in A&E looked at me and he said, you haven't got the patience for warfarin, so he put me on a Pixaban and I also went on another drug, a calcium channel blocker, I think it is, but I did find that one really restricted my exercise tolerance even more, so I switched to a beta blocker and a bivalent, but that was the first route, and then I was lined up for cardioversion, where you basically switch your heart off and switch it on, it like ringing up the help desk with your computer and they say have you tried switching it on and off? Well they tried switching it on and off. You had that a couple of times then? The first one I had was about five months after the first diagnosis and that lasted nine months, which I subsequently was told was really good, which made me wonder why it was worth doing. The second one I had lasted 20 hours, and then I was lined up for ablation. And ablation's been successful for you? Initially, no, but my heart has now settled down, and as from May, we're now beginning in July, from the middle of May, my heart rate is lower. I've been in sinus rhythm, and I'm now on a very low dose of beta-glucan, so exercise tolerance is more or less back to where it was before I first started having symptoms. Do you feel better? Yes, I feel a whole lot better. Any mild edema has gone. My son says that I'm more alert, but I can't believe that's true.