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I won't tell a lie but I have AFIB and nobody knows why. When I become aware of the PACs and PVCs during the day, life can become very difficult. The ability to "concentrate" or "focus" lose out to the pounding in and "heaving of" my chest. In addition to the accompanying pain and fatigue that I usually experience, I often take 2 or 3 of my meds and then nap or at least lie down for my coping mechanism. After 30 to 60 minutes, the palpitations have either significantly lessened or are no longer noticeable as the pills have begun to work. When I return home from visiting Mayo Clinic about what seems to be an unrelated matter, my cardiologisty has in mind a referral that may eventually require surgery for ablation of the AFIB's source(s), but that is not on the near horizon.
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Thanks for you comment. I do take Magnesium, Fish Oil, Flaxseed Oil, Fergon, B-12, allergy and Testosterone injections, Centrum Silver, Polyethelyne Glycol, colace, 81mg aspirin, Calcium Carbonate, Tylenol and a lot of other real medicines on a daily basis. Other meds are on hand and added as regularly inconsistent situations arise. I have not really had more than a sip of alcohol for almost twenty years and I have not really ever smoked at all since I smoked off and on for about a year in 1969 to keep the mosquitoes away in Borneo. Potassium has never been a problem. Like many people with CAD, I usually have low HDL. Otherwise, the other typical metrics are acceptable or good.
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Ablation sounds like it's not a bad route. Your A-Fib sounds like it's significant enough to justify doing it. I was just searching around other websites and found a lot of discussion of 2 triggers--alcohol consumption and a deficiency in potassium and magnesium. If you're willing to share, let me know other facts about your life and your symptoms.