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Sober for two years symptoms persist
I used weed for 3years,meth for a year occasionally ,benzo for 4months occasionally and alcohol occasionally during the weed 3year run.Sober for two year and half but have symptoms of palpitations after eating,fatigue with exertion occasionally,upper right abdominal pain dull pain,abdominal muscle cramping during palpitations after food,bowel movement triggering palpitations and lower right abdomal hard muscles feeling like ingesting cramping and occasional muscle twitches .1st ECG normal sinus
2nd ECG -Incomplete right bundle branch block
Echo EF 59.7(normal structure ,no regurgitation,no stenosis,no valve issues
Chest ct scan normal
Abdominal scan done three times nothing found
I am just 24 has anyone dealt with this after being sober and still going through this ,do I possibly have heart issues or gastroparesis or intestinal ischemia from meth /paralytic ileus or nerve issue from benzodiazepines I feel like my autonomic function has been altered but things are slow with diagnosis because of health care in my country
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There are two bottom-line influences to atrial fibrillation: adrenergic and Vavus nerve, or 'vagal tone'. If you have AF, and I take it there is no formal diagnosis, then you would need to read up, and inquire, on those two factors to see what tends to trigger you the most.
Palpitation...the term you have used, and the one doctors use when discussing heart rhythm problems with patients, is often just skipped beats, followed by a make-up beat that is often a doozie and you feel the thump. They are properly called 'premature atrial contractions', and in some medical circles they are 'premature atrial complexes.' Doctors will call them palpitations only because almost all patients come to them complaining of....well....palpitations. It's a term they saw....somewhere, or heard of. 🙂 PACs, the premature contractions, are benign and doctors won't treat them until they become a real nuisance for you, if they become truly intrusive and are degrading your quality of life significantly. They also tend not to worry about them until they amount to something between 3-5% of your daily total of heartbeats....literally two or three thousand each day. After that, the morbidity in the human population begins to rise.
There are specialists who can diagnose problems with vagal tone, or dysautonomia, and it can be treated, although I have no experience and can't describe what they do and why. If it is adrenergic, the other type, metoprolol is often given to help to calm the heart, but NOT for PACs...only if you have AF or another arrhythmia that metoprolol would work for. It's a 'beta-adrenergic' medicine that stunts the heart's reactivity to literally adrenalin.
I am not a physician, and have no medical training. This is only what I understand, and I could be corrected if you learn anything otherwise. This is best managed in consultation with a cardiologist or maybe the Big Cheeses in cardiology, electrophysiologists....heart electricians.