u/Reddy2Jam

My wife has had PVCs since March, 9% burden. Had an ablation at the end of may. Unfortunately they couldn't get the spot they needed to because it was too close to the main artery and the doctor said we could try again at a different time but they would need another cardiac doctor in the room in case the artery slams shut because of the heat.... so he got as close as he could. Says he has performed over 3,300 procedures.

People talk about their pvcs on here and they talk about how bad they are, and they get a dozen an hour and it's so terrible. 12 in an hour?, that would be AMAZING!! She'll go for days and won't have any (confirmed with an ECG apple watch) and some days, like today, they are every other beat, for hours (sometimes 6 hours), and she feels like she is going to die because her heart literally hurts so bad. She will cry in pain for hours. She's cut out all caffeine, never a nicotine user, exercises moderately (which doesn't seem to trigger anything), and eats good (in shape). We have no idea what the triggers are, but that seems pretty normal with PVC.

She's tried all sorts of meds. The doctor says they are just for symptom control and won't actually fix the PVC. They all make her groggy, and moody, and the quality of life on all of the meds suck. The only one she hasn't tried is Flecainide, but the side effects seem so bad (which include accidentally overdose/death) and still carries risk of mood issues which makes every day unbearable. Her body is very temperamental to meds regarding mood due to hashimotos, so we try our best avoid meds with those side effects because the outcome is usually not better than the problem we're trying to solve.

I don't know what I'm looking for here but if anyone has any tips/tricks, that would be great. Not sure if we'll every try the "risky" ablation since the risk is artery closure (essentially a heart attack) and I'm not sure either of us are ready to risk death over this. She does use ice packs on her chest when she's having a real bad episode that seems to help a tad.

I have an older cf-54 toughbook that was repurposed and has windows 11 on it, clean install. Unfortunately, panasonic only supports up to windows 10. I could try and put it back to 10, but I'd screw something up. Because of this, my screen brightness is always at 100%. It's like staring at the sun. Will a third party app like Monitorian allow it to work, or because the drivers are likely messed up, will it still not work? For more info, when I click the monitor adjustment keys, the slider moves, but the brightness never changes. It's either at 100% or if I slide it all the way down, it turns the LED off so I can barely see the screen. So it's all or nothing, which is horrible...... ideas? (the toughbook group didn't have any ideas)....

Obvioulsy there are videos'a'plenty online of people using video recording glasses. Some videos are quite long, yet the specs for these specs (see what I did there?) say something like 3 minutes record time, then you have to start recording again. The 10 or 15 minute videos appear seamless. Is this all done in post editing, or is there a hack or a certain glasses that can just record normally without the 3 minute restrictions?

Does anyone know where to find a driver to help with this? I only have full brightness or backlight off. There is no longer an in-between. I'm guessing a driver is missing with the W11 Pro install.