Very scary for you! It’s the abnormal rhythm that bothers me most. I can feel it and see the sign wave on the pulse odometer go crazy erratic.

I have refused blood thinners because I’m always the person that gets the rare side effects from meds.

I also had my first afib episode in 2015. Thought I was having a heart attack and went to the ER. I was having trouble with constant food aspiration (neurological) and virtually stopped eating. I lost 25 pounds in a month and went into afib. Didn’t have afib again until 2021 within days of starting Kisqali and have had issues ever since. I also have low BP and HR from two cancer meds. That’s concerning too but I refused meds to raise them. I took the Multaq for afib in 2015 and had all the symptoms of a heart attack for 3 days straight until I stopped taking it. I was told that shouldn’t happen. Well, it did. I’m convinced I would have had a heart attack if I had kept taking it. I should have stopped day one.

If you knew all the scary and unusual reactions I’ve had to meds you’d understand why I’m afraid to take new ones. I am a poor metabolizer on several key enzymes needed to metabolize meds and that can make them toxic to me.

I’m allergic to aspirin anyway.