AF with a heart rate of 59bpm

[bushy2016]

Hi all my AF im (paroxysmal af) usually is around 150 then down to 100 when controlled but this weekend was getting readings of AF at 59 bpm...anyone else had this?

[BobD Volunteer]

Are you sure it is AF and not just ectopics?

[bushy2016 in reply to BobD]

Ive looked and there is lots of ectopics, that again ive started showing up with the last week

[tibetan36]

Kardia picked up my possible AF at 92bpm. I've never registered AF around 60bpm

[Mazza23]

My AF was always fast 100 150bpm but since cryoblation I have had several bouts under 60bpm and all have resolved by themselves where I used to have CV

[Mazza23 in reply to Mazza23]

No ectopics just irregular hr I am on 10 mg bisoprolol

[creschendo]

I have just checked my Kardi journal and I do have a couple of "AF" readings below 60 but these are all false positives, caused by ectopics. I will attempt to submit a screen shot.

[RoyM]

I am in Persistent AF with a resting HR of approx 65-70 bmp. I take Apixiban and 1.25 Bisoprolol x daily

[rothwell]

I have AF episodes several times a week and BPM vary between lower 50's and lower 90's usually for 4-6 hours.

[pottypete1]

Yes I have been in AF numerous times with my heart rate between 60 & 90. It also has happened at rates up to 150.

However this was when I was taking Bisoprolol which is a rate control drug which controlled my heart rate to a resting NSR around 40 - 45.

At my consultation with my EP last week he took me off the Bisoprolol which I have taken for around 20 years.

I am now wondering what will happen now next time my AF rears its ugly head.

Pete

[kitzabella in reply to pottypete1]

i hope you are doing good now. may i know why your EP removed the bisoprolol?

[pottypete1 in reply to kitzabella]

My Bisoprolol was stopped because I have heart block (bad conductivity between Artrium and Ventrical). The Bisoprolol was slowing my heart too much as because of the conductivity issue which causes a slow heart rate anyway.

I had a further ablation 2 years ago and my AF incidences have been significantly reduced. I have not had an episode for over 6 months now. A record for me in all the 30 years since.

Pete

[kitzabella in reply to pottypete1]

wow that's good to hear. i hope my EP figure out soon what is happening to me. i have an ICD and got cardioverted 16 times last month and she is not sure if it was AF or VT.. i am having intermittent episodes even in amiodarone as a last resort meds before ablation and 2.5mg of bisoprolol

[Plai]

Could be the high dose of bisoprolol bringing your heart rate right down

[Mike11]

I picked up a virus in November which put me in AF at around 70bpm so its definitely possible. Fortunately for me I reverted to NSR the day before I was going to have a cardioversion and have been fine since

[Tobw]

Typically, my HR is around the 70/90 mark when I'm in AF as compared to 42/54 when in SR. I've still been in AF twice when sent home from A and E because, in both cases, I was told that the medical professionals concerned would have no problems with me being in AF for months with a heart rate like that. The stroke risk remains the same apparently, but, comparatively speaking, it would seem that a lower HR while in AF is seen as being less of a problem than one that is up in three figures, so, while any AF is best avoided of course, your lower rate shouldn't be a cause of great concern bushy 2016 - as mentioned earlier, your lower HR is probably down to the Bisoprolol doing what it's supposed to.

[Gertsen]

I was in AF for 20 hours yesterday and quite a bit of that time in was in the 88 bpm area. I was on 5mg bisoprolol but have gone down to 3,75 I found the higher dose made an anxious and the AF worse. Anyone else had that problem?