My wife has an AFIB event every once and so often.
The meds don't seem to work to bring her out of it. We have been told to get into ER ASAP where she is "converted" back to her normal self by getting wacked by the paddles.
Thankfully she is very fit and this happens very rarely.
She has had a full diagnostic work up here and also at a very good hospital in the Boston area and it is still a mystery as to why this happens to her.

Nothing to fool around with. Get into your doc asap and if it happens again into ER.

Short answer - reduced my stress levels by changing jobs.

Long answer - I began having afib episodes about 12 years ago (at age 37). Afib was confirmed by EKG. My episodes were almost daily and lasted anywhere from 30 minutes to sometimes 6-8 hours. Had every check known to man done (cardiac stress tests with CT scans, echos, etc) and had no underlying cause or heart issue. Was prescribed Toprol (beta blocker) at a small dose.

I then jumped in with both feet and learned everything I could possibly learn about afib. I tried everything in the world to identify and eliminate "triggers" but couldn't really find anything. I stopped taking the Toprol when I began to see that my episodes seemed to be more "vagal" than "adrenergic".

I ended up changing jobs (for another reason) and found that I was way more stressed out at my previous employer than I realized. Since changing jobs I went from almost daily episodes to maybe 5 episodes in the last 5 years. The last one I had was about a year ago.

Every once in awhile I feel that "flutter" of my rhythym starting to mess up and usually I can take a couple of breaths (hard to explain) and it goes away. It's awesome.

Sorry for the rambling post...

What's the latest word?

My mother grandmother say the both have then occasionally, and if they cough, the afib in stops. Both were nurses, but have no explanation.

vagal nerve response.

a very strong cough, valsalva maneuver, head in ice water, can convert a-fib, among other non-medicinal activities.

Bill K, sounds like she needs a Holter monitor, for a while.


Sammy, you didn't up and die of a heart attack did you?

Sammy???

Going to be hard for him to answer that if he did!

Nah...we've got this new healthcare system now....Messiahcare :D

ps: Now if that doesn't get Sammy back posting, then I'm gonna wonder....

Hope it turned out well and everythings still tickin'.

Anyone have sammy's contact info? Could you check w/ him?

I hope he's been admitted and getting a full cardiac work up. That surely didn't sound like afib. Spent two days in icu this past July with afib and it was nothing like what Sammy described.

This is not a schedule appt with gp stuff, it's go to ER now stuff.

Well, he hasn't logged in since the 21st.
Hope this is just a social experiment and that he is just on holidays without access to the internet.

Could somebody local to Sammy check on him please?

This doesn't seem to be real promising. Writing about what could well have been life-threatening arrhythmia symptoms then dropping off the board...

Where does Sammy live? Does he have a wife/kids?

He should pay attention to the brain trust here and get himself to the ER or his doc ASAP...(ask me how I know)

Sammy lives in Anaheim/Orange. I sent a member what I think is his phone #. I'm in Colorado for the holidays.

like many..
I'm pretty sure the friend he mentioned was him..
hopefully he took our advice...
as it almost took a SWAT team response to get Targa moving..

Rika

I remember that.

Hopefully he is just busy with real life.

I'm fine, in Wickenburg Az. visiting parents.
Lots o'meds, lots o'tests. everything looked fine 'cept the enzime results ???.
More stuff nxt week.