Perhaps someone here, you, or others, can edify me about the feeling of afib. All summer long, I thought I was cured, well, the feelings in my chest were just about absent, but my pulse was often irregular. Afib (once diagnosed, no one should use this comment to self diagnose) produces an irregularly irregular heart rhythm.

Bigeminy, Trigeminy, etc., not from Afib, is a regularly irregular rhythm.

So, my most recent visit to the Internist, my family doctor, said I'm not always in afib, he said mine is Paroxysmal in nature, though he's never run an EKG. I had seen a Cardiologist he communicates well with, and the Cardiologist wanted to try one shock to restore the rhythm. That would have been a three day hospital stay, and I'd been started on Sotalol while being monitored, prior to the shock. But I have other health conditions, I'm not symptomatic, and I decided to wait it out, losing 25 lbs in the meantime.

I'm working hard around the house all summer. I was less symptomatic. I developed a leg infection (dry skin), fever, elevated heart rate, no afib symptoms. But now, colder days upon us, marginally cold, and periodically during the day, I feel the fluttering. Ventricular rate is made irregular by it, but still below 76 to 80, and when I'm relaxed, in the 60s.

But the fluttering is on my left side, a source of afib is the Pulmonary Veins; the only veins in the body that carry oxygen enriched blood; and they are in the left side of the heart.

When I developed afib last November, my heart was banging all over the place, in the hospital. No one was concerned. For a few months after discharge, it banged. But since then, mostly I haven't felt much inside. How many people often feel their afib as a fluttering, and when you do, where do you feel it, if at all.

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