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Arrhythmia: Does caffeine disrupt normal rhythms?
Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: Mar 20, 2012 | Replies (4)Comment receiving replies
I experienced a temporary syncope while driving and totaled my car. No serious injury though. Local DR had me cut back on atenolol and the thought was I could be over-medicated as I take several other medications. Previous spells were shorter-lived and far apart.
Mayo put me on a heart monitor last year. This summer, (20011), They collected data from the implant and decided I had a heart aarrythma which probably triggered my fainting spells. I opted for minimal RX treatment as opposed to a pacemaker for a period of time to see if this corrected the problem. Next year at Mayo, maybe I’ll have an answer. Pacemaker??
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Thank you for the reply. Although thankfully my symptoms are arrythmia at this time, I did experience temporary syncope last year. Luckilly I wasn’t driving at the time it happened. I do take many medications but up until lately haven’t had any arrythmia. I did wear a 24 hour holter monitor about 2 months ago but nothing of note was recorded. But since then the irregular beats have gotten more frequent.
I’m going to my cardiologist next week for a nuclear stress test. I will tell him then about the more frequent arrythmia lately.