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I’ve had benign, postural ectopic beats since my twenties. Not a problem. After my 5th covid shot they got so bad my doctor had me wear a ZIO patch for two weeks. It showed 265 episodes of SVTs and I don’t remember how many PACs. Right after that I had my first episode of Afib. I had two more shortly after. This was just shocking to me. I have lived a clean, heart healthy life. I’m fit, I exercised daily, I have none of the typical afib triggers. Now I’ve had a double ablation and I’m on a blood thinner. I still can’t believe it. I took an ekg from my watch 12 hours after my 6th shot and showed it to my EP. He said “yeah, we’re seeing a lot of this post covid vaccine heart issues.” So, the covid infection is well documented to cause afib and other cardiovascular problems. Now the vaccine is being studied and reveals that it too can cause afib and other arrhythmias so basically we’re doomed if we do and doomed if we don’t. I’m 71, I can’t afford to get covid. But I’m questioning continuing to get the vaccine. Sigh….
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I had the same uncertainty. I opted to get the Novavax vaccine which is formulated in a way that is similar to flu vaccines which I tolerate much better than mRNA vaccines.
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I, too, had been a lifelong runner and was active, although retired, when I had my first AF episode. In fact, my first episode happened at about the 8 km point in a 10 km maintenance run. This was in 2017, well before COVID. I'm not prepared to say your suspicions aren't warranted about the vaccine and pericarditis or arrhythmias (there is grudging acceptance, finally, for example, by the British National Health Service, that there are unaccounted for excess deaths in Great Britain that must be due to COVID vaccines as the only other variable not accounted for). But be very careful to not fall into the post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy. Just because two events share the same time, or follow closely to one another, doesn't necessarily mean they are causally related.