@jfulford

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@jfulford It might be normal for you, but it might also be temporary. You're aging every day, and sometimes it's just 2 hours when things can change from great to permanently over. Happened to me three years ago with my hearing in the left ear. Was standing in the kitchen doing something when my left ear went silent. Weird. I got shrugs from the experts who said it must have been viral. I now wear hearing aids, but the one in the left ear only improves my hearing in that ear to about a D- grade.

Your heart is becoming electrically disordered in some way. The palpitations you feel are almost certainly SVT (supraventricular tachycardia, or a fast heartbeat, but only in the top of the heart, the smaller vessels, not the larger ventricles at the bottom). They could also be PACs, or premature atrial contractions. If you get a pause followed by a thump, that's a PAC for sure. Cardioversions can work, sometimes once and that's it for ever. Others find they need one every other month. Or, for me, they don't work more than 16 hours, my longest time before I resumed atrial fibrillation.

You might wish to begin reading about catheter ablations. They are the gold standard of care for those with certain types of arrythmia like SVT, PACs, and AF. They are day surgery....you're home that night, or in a hotel if they want to see you next day and you've gone to an electrophysiologist out of town. The people that deal with heart arrhythmias are EPs, electrophysiologists.

You mentioned heartburn. That could be GERD, and it does act as a trigger for ectopic beats with some people. As I got heavier, I got more heartburn and it would sometimes set me into a run of AF for a few hours. Also, visceral fat is bad, and so is eating too much at one meal. For some caffeine is strictly off limits, in any form. Hypomagnesemia, or not having enough magnesium in one's diet. Heart valve disorders can cause arrhythmia, especially the mitral valve between the left atrium and the left ventricle. It can prolapse which can encourage AF.

The more you get on top of this, the earlier you get it controlled or managed, the better it will be and the easier it is to manage and to live well. If you put it off, it an lead to problems down the road, not least of which is making the job a great deal tougher for physicians who would like to help you.