How AF feels - question from a PVC person?

[nano-science]

Dear All,

I had not pleasant episode this night that landed me in the Cardiology. I am the long time PVC, bigeminy, quadrigeminy and some NSVT sufferer, but this night I woke up with pretty fast beat ~120 bpm with my normal around 65-75 at rest, funny ECG shape with pocket ECG with no sinus beat where it should be followed by PVC.

With high loads of PVC i know they can trigger the AF.

I know very well how the bigeminy, quadrigemini, couplet etc felt but wonder how you feel the atrial flutter and AF episodes.

Many thanks!

[Hidden]

I have episodes of atrial flutter which is regular and for me at either 60 or 75 beats per minute, so it feels like being in sinus rhythm at rest. If I hurry or go up stairs it feels like being in atrial fibrillation, which I have the rest of the time.

Both AF and flutter are associated with reduced cardiac output , and the symptoms of that are the same for me.

I had paroxysmal AF for 8 years but was lucky not to get many physical symptoms other than irregular palpitations.

[nano-science in reply to Hidden]

Many thanks - looks like bigeminy to me (the only difference it is very slow - 80-90/2 about 40-45 bpm, with low output so hard to walk. Hope you and all on this forum will if not heal completely that is the best but relieve the symptoms or improve the condition.

[Buffafly]

My AF feels like two lots of beats from my heart, very fast atrial beats and completely irregular in timing and strength ventricular beats. The flutter just feels like any tachycardia, it is only the ECG that shows it is flutter.

[nano-science in reply to Buffafly]

Many thanks! My v beats were irregular due to PVC but timed by sinus or PVC instead of sinus, so it was probably sinus tach as my small monitor did not show the 300 bpm atrial oscillation. It did show weird uncomplete QRS that was a bit funny. The cardiologist in teh hospital said - disregard these, the EP said it is variation of the gain on the monitor, that it was not, only seen it tree times - before going to tachicardia with ventricular bigeminies at 120 bpm that was pretty unpleasant. Thanks for you response!