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Afib Triggers: Mine is my neck or body position, yours?
My atrial Fibrillation triggers with neck position or body. My neck and torso are relatively short and I seem to compress the Vagus nerve if my neck is sharply bent or the same with my torso. Have you ever heard of that? That is the only time it does so.
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Yes - my afib seems to come in the middle of the night if I wake up too warm or don’t get enough sleep. Sometimes I have a weird smell before I go into afib - I know it sounds crazy -
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1 ReactionFor some strange reason, laying on my right side will trigger my Afib. I have found my Afib to moderate when I practice the valsalva maneuver which is nothing more than holding your breath (10 - 15 seconds) after a large intake of air.
There is one more important component to valsalva....you have to strain, or bear down, as if you're trying to defecate. So, yes, take a breath, close up the upper airway, but then you tighten your stomach muscles and attempt to poop...with caution. Hold that for about six to ten seconds, release, see if the heart rate/rhythm has corrected itself.
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1 ReactionThank goodness that doesn't happen to me.
Thank goodness that doesn't happen to me. I never feel my heart beating too fast.
Some where in this group I saw a post about dreams. I've started to have some fantastic dreams even before I started Melatonin. They are very real and when I wake up I feel unsettled. Some dreams are nice, some aren't.
Even though it may not be a great experience when the dreams are most vivid and most unsettling, they ARE dreams....and that's good. Dreaming is an indication of your sleep going through the various stages uninterrupted...which is what everyone....ummm....dreams of. 😀