Is there anyone that wasn't on any meds or had a heart attack before being diognosied with AF?

[jillgloucester]

Please

[CaroleF]

I hadn't, and haven't had, a heart attack and nor was I taking any prescribed medication for any medical condition at all before being diagnosed with paroxysmal AF.

In fact I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of people newly diagnosed with AF were not in exactly the same position.

[Spartan66 in reply to CaroleF]

I am exactly the same fit as a fiddle going to the gym 3 times a week eat a balanced low carb diet to control my diabetes which is normal for the last 4 years not on medication just died control and then coincidentally in A&E for false alarm on my potassium level picked it up i have AF seing cardiologist on 1st oh June for the echo and 24 hour CEG results makes me a bit anxious

[BobD Volunteer]

AF and heart attacks are seldom linked. I'm not saying it is impossible but unlikely. AF can be caused by heart surgery such as by pass when extra electrical pathways can be introduced.

A classic MI (heart attack) is caused when the blood supply to part of the heart is disrupted say by a blocked artery so has nothing to do with the electrics.

Please go to AF Association website and read all about what AF is and is not so you are less likely to worry about such things.

[jillgloucester in reply to BobD]

What if the heart is damaged by the MI?

[BobD Volunteer in reply to jillgloucester]

OK the muscle may be damaged but AF is an electrical problem. Valve problems affect AF because pressure in the left atrium may rise due to back flow causing stretching which can allow the pathways to change and AF to start.

By pass surgery can introduce additional pathways causing AF but I have never heard of a heart attack causing it.

[RiderontheStorm]

Was in a stressful situation and went to the doctor right after as I was not feeling "normal"...

my Primary did an EKG and send me directly to Cardiology. The rest is 5 year history now.

[angell1950]

I wasn't on anything : then out of the blue I suffered a TIA and everything went from bad to worse that was 18 months ago : I was diagnosed with AF prescribed loads of medication - found a problem with the heart ❤️ and having ongoing treatment. I think more should be done to hilight AF awareness by GP,s

[Hidden]

I had a serious choking fit on a gherkin (true story) and thought I was dreaming weird heart rhythms that night - only realised something was truly up a few months later when I'd been seriously overdoing it and the AF came on properly...

[Hidden]

I wasn't on medication before AF was diagnosed as my high heart rate during cardio exercise was seen as a high level of cardio fitness. My Bruce protocol stress test for AF registered my heart rate in excess of 150% of the maximum heart rate for my age, and peaked at 235 bpm. The downside of that was that I was prescribed oral Dronedarone and later given an Amiodarone IV, that both caused a near-fatal rare lung condition. I can't take beta-blockers as my night time pulse drops to the 20's and my heart can pause for two seconds.

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

My rate plummeted to twenty just moving about a holster showed 70 pauses of up to 8 secs in 24 hours now on two heart meds and pacemaker

[dedeottie]

Hadnt had a heart attack and was on no medication. I had always been unbelievably healthy so was completely shocked when I developed A.F. x

[Evefay]

I had pericarditis that was first thought to be a heart attack. It was a year after that when several heart rhythms started. Bigiminy for which I have a pacemaker, then afib which I was cardioverted out of, svt with several ER visits, then back to afib for 3 weeks, trying meds. Never had fast heart rate or high blood pressure. I have a heart murmur. I am 70 and all this started when I was 67.

[GrannySmithgs5]

No medication and no previous medical history !

[Mike11]

My AF followed on from a heart bypass after a heart attack. It's a very common outcome. They normally perform the Maze procedure whilst in the chest cavity but my personal opinion is it's not much help

[Hidden in reply to Mike11]

I had cox maze at same time as tumour removed from my heart pills and pacemaker keep me ticking along still AF amongst other things but I'm breathing which is a bonus

[Tracyrdh]

No medications and no heart attack before being diagnosed with afib. But I have the genetics link. Grandmother and great grandmother with afib

[jillgloucester]

Thank you very much for the replys x