Newly diagnosed with AFib and Ventricular Tachycardia

Sorry to see what you're going through. My wife is an autoimmune mess....no other word for it. She has to take multiple meds each day....so I think I have a sense on what it's like for you.

You need a full blood panel that an endocrinologist would look at to see what's wonky. Not that your AF and RVR (which is what I think you've been told...rapid ventricular response when you are fibrillating, which is exceedingly common in patients with AF...including me) are necessarily linked to endocrinology, but wonky endocrinology puts a strain on many systems, and your heart feeds those systems and gets feedback from them through the parasympathetic nervous system. It's all one big bowl'a porridge going on there.

Thyroid problems DO affect the heart....big time! If you're too high, or too low on thyroxin, or on its synthetic and prescribed alternative, you can expect not to feel well. This is why I think you need an expert to review a recent panel and figure out what needs immediate attention, and then what to begin to massage back into place once the two/three biggest concerns, the acute ones, are being managed properly.

Actually, my heart is having Ventricular Tachycardia and is ceasing to beat at all for up to 5 beats maximum (having been documented thus far) and causing my oxygen saturation to fall. So far my Endocrinologist has only focused on my thyroid but, I have had a lot of stress and feel like it could be an adrenal gland problem as well.

@grandmab33 Has anyone suggested a small dose, initially, of metoprolol or something like it, to see if you get far fewer episodes? If it works, it probably is an adrenal response, but not necessarily adrenal in origin....if you follow. There is such a thing as pheochromocytoma, but they are rare, and I doubt that it would produce your condition anyway.