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Anyone with occasional Afib NOT on a blood thinner?
Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: Jul 22 7:50am | Replies (97)Comment receiving replies
@lindy for the sake of new people who might be reading these posts, I want to make it really clear that although I pursue some "natural" approaches for my afib (see "The Afib Cure" book) I highly value the paramedics, doctors and medications who have rescued me from afib and heart rate in the 190's, 12 times in 10 years.
As we deal with health issues it is important to persist and find a doctor who best fits our goals, and to be discerning about medications but use them when needed. I stick with doctors who will discuss things with me, including when I don't want to take or do something! I am happy to have found an MD who prescribed diltiazem and Eliquis as "pill in a pocket" and hope to avoid the ambulance and ER next time.
Afib can be a serious condition, as can the strokes it may cause, and I think it is important to post something positive about cardiologists, electrophysiologists, paramedics, nurses and others who help us, as well as the medications that can sometimes save us.
You mentioned spending an hour and a half cutting down weeds and then walking up and down hills. Some of us cannot do those things. I think we need to be careful in recognizing health privilege that we may have. This is an afib forum: curious what you do for your afib. Quitting caffeine is not sufficient for most of us.
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Regarding "curious what you do for your afib.", I have given my story before, but I had afib episodes that were serious between age 14 to 21. I then read in a news column someone who had same symptoms as me, and the DOCTOR said some people are extremely sensitive to caffeine and that it was the CAUSE for them.
After testing back and forth, I gave up coffee and never had a serious episode after that UNTIL at age 75, now in Costa Rica and discovering the coffee here which is pure and not like in the US, I had no problem. BUT a few months ago, a store started carrying Haagen Daz COFFEE ice cream, and not thinking, I had been eating it, because I LOVE it. BUT in short time began feeling heart flutters sometimes, and then a major one with my heart pounding irregular. It scared me, and I went to bed, and got to THINKING and realized it was made in the US with coffee from the US. I immediately STOPPED eating it, and have no minor or major episodes.
Quitting TOTALLY caffeine IS sufficient for me. I tell on this blog my story in case it may be the same for others. If they have already ELIMINATED all caffeine and still have problems, then they need another solution. But after my experiences when I had them ALL NIGHT sometimes, and now have NONE. I will share in case it may help others. And the last time I had an episode, I had eaten only 1/4 CUP coffee ice cream and 3 tiny pieces of dark chocolate.
We all have different band wagons we get on. Yours is to post something positive about cardiologists etc etc. I have nothing positive to post, as from age 21 to now 75, the few times I went to a doc about something, they did not help. Only one that did was a Gonstead chiropractor which helped with several health problems. You can post your successes and I will post mine, and people can decide what is best for them.