For anyone who may have missed it earlier:

Bengals HC Marvin Lewis tells us RT Jake Fisher placed on NFI with irregular heartbeat/rhythm. He'll have a prodedure this week to try to correct problem. Scary stuff.

— Ross Tucker (@RossTuckerNFL) November 9, 2017

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/nfl/bengals/2017/11/08/cincinnati-bengals-right-tackle-jake-fishers-season-ends-due-illness/846206001/

I've heard of guys having irregular heartbeats in sports...but it's hard to say if he'll ever play again.

Hope the best for Fisher's health. But from an on-field perspective, this puts even more emphasis on finding another 1-2 OTs in the offseason via draft and/or FA since you don't know if Fisher will be able to play again and to what extent if he does.

In May of 2016, I spent 2 weeks in the hospital with a staph infection in my blood. Specifically staph aureus endocarditis. It came on as flu-like symptoms and I spent the first couple days in bed thinking nothing if it. It's just the flu, why bother with doctors? I woke up in the hospital 2 days after passing out in my apartment (thank god my gf broke in and found me in time). Turns out the infection was destroying my mitral heart valve. I spent 6 additional weeks at home with a PICC line receiving antibiotics. To this day, I have "mitral valve regurgitation", damage to the valve causing a backflow of blood. It sounds serious and it certainly can be. This gives me an irregular heartbeat. I asked the cardiologist, hypothetically, if I was a professional athlete would I have to retire? He said he would highly recommend anybody with a heart issue like this retire and focus on staying healthy. 

For the most part, I can live a normal life. I still exercise 5 days a week and have no dietary restrictions (yet), but every now and then I'll randomly lose my breath and experience a few seconds of horror. Headaches are a common issue with me and some days I'm so tired it feels like a chore to walk to the bathroom. 

Hopefully whatever Jake has isn't nearly as scary but I sincerely hope he and the team don't take this lightly. Football should not be a concern of his if the procedure doesn't fix the issue 100%.

Best wishes, Jake. Get well soon and be thankful this was discovered before things got too serious. 

They say he should be able to return to the football field 100% after the correction (next season of course) Wonder how long this has been effecting him and how much of a negative impact on his play it has had?

I agree we need more and new tackles for next season reguardless. Keep fisher as a backup/heavy or OG

We all need to be checked for irregular heartbeats after this season...

(11-09-2017, 04:55 PM)jj22 Wrote: We all need to be checked for irregular heartbeats after this season...

More like high blood pressure. 

If it is straightforward arrhythmia, with no other underlying health issues, then the most common "procedures" to help the problem are an ablation which uses chemicals to destroy the malfunctioning heart tissue or the implantation of a pacemaker. Usually, they try the ablation first. Neither procedure is likely common in a professional football player so I'm assuming the cardiologists are going to err on the side of caution before releasing him to play again.

(11-09-2017, 04:55 PM)jj22 Wrote: We all need to be checked for irregular heartbeats after this season...

(11-09-2017, 05:00 PM)PhilHos Wrote: More like high blood pressure. 

Bengals football the anti-Viagra!  :andy:

Hope all is well for Jake, seen the organization re-signed Winston... so there is that. 

Hope things turn out well for him. 

(11-09-2017, 04:55 PM)jj22 Wrote: We all need to be checked for irregular heartbeats after this season...

I bet anyone could get a prescription for xanex  by just saying I'm a bengals fan...

And here I thought all it was was a case of turnstile-itis.

(11-09-2017, 07:08 PM)Beaker Wrote: And here I thought all it was was a case of turnstile-itis.

As a physician I'd say its likely he has SVT. (Supraventicular tachycardia) It's fairly common. I'm assuming his is not controlled alone with medicines and so he will be having an ablation. This would not be a reason to keep him from seeing the field in the future, though his terrible line play would.

Hope everything turns out well for him.

(11-09-2017, 04:15 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: I've heard of guys having irregular heartbeats in sports...but it's hard to say if he'll ever play again.

Years ago, a kid names Steve Larkin seemed like an elite athlete entering high school. Turns out he had irregular Heartbeat and the School could not let him play ANY sports due to high liability...and the kid was a potential standout in ANY Sport.
His oldest brother, Mike was a starting LB for Notre Dame as a Soph, was doing great as a Junior.until a knee injury.  Byron was
So talented ALL the Major Universites in the area ( Notre Dame,Ohio St,Michigan, Penn St offered scholarships in WHATEVER Sport he chose to play. While He'd been a first team all America DB, He chose Basketball  (his brother's knee injury ruled out a football future).Byron is still Xavier U's Career scoring leader (David West is #2) Steve had yet another Brother... also a star at any sport...Barry Larkin. Barry played baseball at U Michigan.  Coach Schemblecher regularly asked him to play football (Barry had been All State on a State Champ team). Barry is now in Baseball's Hall Of Fame.

So......Steve has these special genes... Can't play HS Sports. U Texas gives him a baseball scholarship anyhow.  He  does not have a Heart Attack. He IS later drafted by MLB.  Steve hit real well in the minors till AAA.

So......espite worrisome "Heart Issues"  this is a guy who played NO HS Sports yet got a scholarship to a TOP school for college ball.

I'll say it IS a concern but....it remains to be seen if it improves.

(11-09-2017, 08:29 PM)redwood Wrote: Years ago, a kid names Steve Larkin seemed like an elite athlete entering high school. Turns out he had irregular Heartbeat and the School could not let him play ANY sports due to high liability...and the kid was a potential standout in ANY Sport.
His oldest brother, Mike was a starting LB for Notre Dame as a Soph, was doing great as a Junior.until a knee injury.  Byron was
So talented ALL the Major Universites in the area ( Notre Dame,Ohio St,Michigan, Penn St offered scholarships in WHATEVER Sport he chose to play. While He'd been a first team all America DB, He chose Basketball  (his brother's knee injury ruled out a football future).Byron is still Xavier U's Career scoring leader (David West is #2) Steve had yet another Brother... also a star at any sport...Barry Larkin. Barry played baseball at U Michigan.  Coach Schemblecher regularly asked him to play football (Barry had been All State on a State Champ team). Barry is now in Baseball's Hall Of Fame.

So......Steve has these special genes... Can't play HS Sports. U Texas gives him a baseball scholarship anyhow.  He  does not have a Heart Attack. He IS later drafted by MLB.  Steve hit real well in the minors till AAA.

So......espite worrisome "Heart Issues"  this is a guy who played NO HS Sports yet got a scholarship to a TOP school for college ball.

I'll say it IS a concern but....it remains to be seen if it improves.

It is uncommon for division 1 coaches to go and recruit at high school sports events other than football or the elite players in basketball. Heck sports like soccer are in session at the same time high school is playing. Baseball same thing as colleges play in the spring in Ohio or same time as high schools.

Even though they think it's likely he'll be able to play it again, its times like these that really put things in to perspective. Could've been a lot worse. Glad he's okay.

(11-09-2017, 07:40 PM)thompson19osu Wrote: As a physician I'd say its likely he has SVT. (Supraventicular tachycardia) It's fairly common. I'm assuming his is not controlled alone with medicines and so he will be having an ablation. This would not be a reason to keep him from seeing the field in the future, though his terrible line play would.

I'm done hacking on his line play until he gets back healthy. If he still sucks, then he sucks. If he was sucking because his heart was beating wrong, can't hold that against him.

Hope all goes well with Fish. Cannot judge his play after knowing this.

We are going to need atleast one OT in FA and one early in the Draft to go along with a top Center and Guard if we are
serious about getting this thing turned around here. Let Marv and PA go and beef the offensive trenches up.