Hello! I am pretty sure I have written this to you before but maybe for others, I will share my story.
I had a serious case of Afib years ago. My heart was terribly erratic and I felt faint and air hungry because I didn't have 3 steady beats in a row. The cardiologist had never seen such a bad case. He said I would have Afib for life but that I could control it with a super high dose of beta blockers. It was so high though that he said, the drug could kill me and he urged me to somewhat lower the dose. But if I did, my heart went wonky.. (I took 4 x 80 mg tablets per day).Gentle exercise like walking didn't enable me to reduce the dose.
I decided to join a gym because I had read that making the heart work helped regulate it. The heart's a muscle and I needed to exercise it to make it strong. Within a month, I was shocked to discover that I was able to very gradually get the dose down to....zero! For 4 months, I kept up the 35 minutes of treadmill per day (my heart remained at 80 beats per minute on the treadmill!) and another 30 minutes of stretches and weights.I went every day but Sunday.
Then I went back to see the cardiologist and he couldn't believe it. He said, "Your Afib will be back." Well, here I am 24 years later and thanks to avoiding stimulants (coffee, chocolate, not too much sugar at once, alcohol, smoky environments, ephedrine or epinephrine in decongestants and dental freezing) I rarely have a blip. I never ever have alcohol or caffeinated coffee but on occasion I will have something with chocolate in it. I can't always get away with it so it's a warning. I am so glad I found the cure for my Afib that plagued me for almost 2 years. I hope you do, too.