Am I on verge of AF

[howesgilly]

Feeling like I ami n AF tonight( slightly sob, chest sensation like I havee eaten too much...) but pulse feels regular.

Does anyone else get this?

Thinking it'd the flecanide keeping me regular....Just

[Finvola]

Yes, I get the same sensations now and then - tight chested and shaky kneed. I find controlled breathing eases it and -- strangely enough -- repeated gaping yawning! Hopefully it's just a shortage of oxygen and not AF - I'm also on Flecainide.

[Hidden in reply to Finvola]

During my long years of severe atrial fibl & parx. tach. I always got out of the severe attacks when nature had me begin to yawn. My sister knew this & used to try to make me yawn!

Now, with less severe small episodes since I had the duel AV Node deleted, I have the same experience. I have to sit up & relax & wait til the yawning begins - masses of it. Amazing.

[Finvola in reply to Hidden]

That's interesting Jansang - I remember reading somewhere a long time ago that yawning expels stale air - don't know if that's fact, but if it works, why worry?

[Tobw]

For the first three weeks of this month I went through a phase where I thought I was going into AF at any moment. Although my pulse always felt like I was in sinus rhythm throughout, I was feeling far more ectopic and double/triple beats than normal - it did get to seven or eight of them per minute at it's worst, but more often there would be one or two of them per minute.

There was a pretty regular pattern during this period whereby I'd wake up with very few ectopics (I always feel a few during the course of any "normal" day), but they would start to come on shortly after having my breakfast and my daily 10 mg bisoprolol tablet and would continue through the most of the day before fading in the early evening - there'd often be a short return of them after my main meal of the day at about 6 pm, but they'd soon go again and by the time I went to bed they had gone completely.

I didn't get too stressed out by what was happening once I realised that it was was pretty predictable, but I daresay the fact that I had begun to expect them at certain times of the day only made them more likely to arrive.

Then, as suddenly as it had began, my heart returned to normal (or what passes as normal with me!) ten days ago and it's been that way ever since.

I've not had what I term an AF episode for nearly two months, but have had periods of about three weeks in the past where it feels almost like I'm walking a tightrope where if I fall one way I go into AF and if I go the other my heart stays in sinus rhythm. During these periods I often go into AF if I eat, or sit or lay down, but the episodes often can be ended quite quickly and easily by me getting up and walking about a bit. This wasn't like one of these periods because my heart never felt like it was in AF for the whole three weeks - something to mention to my GP when I see him shortly I suppose.

[ruskin10]

Yes, I`m like this most of the time and I`m not on flecanide. Most days I feel I`m going intoAF but only do about every couple of months. I mentioned it to my GP when I was there about something else, he seemed to imply that wrist pulse doesnt really count for much!!!!!! Said people think they are going into AF when they aren`t. Try not to see this GP usually but none of the others were available (you can see why). So I plod on

Heyho.