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I'm fine during the day when I'm up and that includes reading in bed or watching TV. At night I can get to sleep but am suddenly aware that my heart is racing or quivering and I wake up and have to get up and walk around or sit at the computer and it calms down. I now try to sleep sitting up and if I think an attack is coming on I drop one leg off the side of the bed trying to have gravity come to my aid. So, needless to say, since this happens every night I haven't had a good nights sleep since the first of December. If I lay down to cat nap I get a little sleep but never enough. I went to the ER December 6 and they checked my blood and hooked me up to a monitor for a few minutes and told me I'd get a call in a couple of days and a cardiologist would hook me up with a Holder. It arrived by Fedex today. I hooked it up. Now I have to wait another 2 weeks plus to find out what's wrong. I read all the articles from PACs to Bradycardia and still don't see a close match. Just have to hang on a bit longer.
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@tootall10 It is surprising how many people experience arrhythmia, particularly atrial fibrillation, when reposed at night. My sister in law is one such person.
Sleeping on one's left side is often not advised in forums where AF is being discussed. It seems to make the heart cranky.
One major cause of AF is sleep apnea. The heart never rests long because it is constantly ramping up to 120-150 BPM in order to keep its host alive when they stop breathing 10, 20,30, 50 times each hour. Sometimes for 20 or more seconds. Or they breathe poorly and this goes on for most of the night to the point where the person is largely hypoxic all night long. If you have not been checked for that, maybe ask for an over night polysomnography at an accredited sleep lab. I did, me a lifelong athlete and not a bit overweight. The result? 'Severe obstructive sleep apnea.' This report was explained to me by a third party physician not affiliated with the lab. It was his job to convince me I have a problem and to accept treatment. Neither the lab nor the physician got a dime out of me...all paid by the province, so they had nothing to sell me except to 'splain what had been found. I had to go to a medical supply seller and purchase a CPAP machine, the right model for my particular need.