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Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: Oct 21 6:25pm | Replies (13)Comment receiving replies
I have been researching caffeine for awhile now and almost everything I read says moderate caffeine in coffee and tea most like does not contribute to arrhythmias and it can also be good for you. Energy drinks and caffeine added to sodas, colas and the rest are bad news and they add more than just caffeine that interacts with caffeine that makes it worse. If someone has links to scientific studies that says moderate caffeine is bad of arrhythmias then I'd like to read them. I'll plenty of studies if anybody is interested. I myself do not tolerate caffeine and never have. It always kept me up at night and made me jittery when I drank coffee. I quit decades before I every had arrhythmia issues. Both my parents and brother could drink fresh black coffee all day and sleep like lambs.
I have been thinking about post about this for awhile because I am wondering where the information is coming from.
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The info is from my own experience. I have posted my story many times. After 7 years of serious episodes when young, I read in a new column someone writing in with symptoms the same as mine and the DOCTOR replied that some people are extremely sensitive to caffeine and that it CAUSES not just worsens the episodes I was having.
I ended up decreasing my coffee to 1/2 cup and discovered it affected me as much as 4 cups. I ended up quitting and rarely had even a minor episode. Also, I had begun being a secretary at this time, and typed engineering specifications back when there was not even electric typewriters. If you made an error, had to white out or start the page over. I made errors when drinking even a tiny bit of coffee, b ut typed lickety split without it.
Now at age 76, I had found haagen daz COFFEE ice cream and was eating it, and within a short time, started to have heart rhythm issues. I do not live in US, so hadn't seen this ice cream in years.