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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
@lindy9 I know the forum can be confusing but I have answered previously. I do not have any caffeine. I know my triggers and they are various. With afib I have a rapid ventricular response (heart rate 190+) but with low blood pressure, it is dicey to bring it down with meds so I am usually in the ER, once in the ICU. They give me a diltiazem drip and we wait.
I would not be able to sleep- short of breath, fish flopping in my chest, woozy. Mine needs treatment.
If yours is lasting all night, or more than 5 hours, you are at risk for stroke. There is controversy about how long it has to last (minutes to 48 hours) for that risk to occur.
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The episodes were in my teens until I discovered sensitivity to coffee. Now at 75, I had been eating some Haagen Daz coffee ice cream from the US. I now live in Costa Rica and had never seen the ice cream sold here. I was having a good time with it, until I started having episodes that I had not had in over 50 years. The light bulb went off and I realized it was made from coffee in the US. The coffee they have and grow here did not cause me problems. So no more of the ice cream for me. I understand at my age, it would be dangerous.