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Does anyone else have a strange sensation before an episode of AF or SVT? An emotional shift is the only way I can describe it, a fleeting feeling of either intense irritation or a strange feeling of wellbeing a few seconds before it happens? Sorry to ask so many questions, these things have been going around in my head for years!

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CDreamer

Yes, definitely. Some experience a sense of doom, others have shifts in energies.

It’s so good when others get it isn’t it?

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Kellyjelly in reply toCDreamer

It really is! I don’t know at the time it happens but when I think back I can see I acted or felt different. My family have sometimes noticed it too.

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Finvola

Ask as many questions as you need - someone will have had the experience.

Just before I had an episode I used to get worried and easily irritated but didn’t know enough about the condition to take note of it. I find the same symptoms occur before bouts of ectopics and put it down to the brain recognising that something isn’t right - chemicals or hormones - and so altering our mood. Layman’s theory.🙂

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Kellyjelly in reply toFinvola

Thank you 😊 my daughter suffers from migraines and I can tell a few days before that one is brewing by subtle changes in her behaviour. It must be the same sort of thing, the body is a very strange thing!

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Ianp66

Definitely, I get irratable and snappy, and it's like you feel unsettled but can't think why, it's got less bothersome the more I've got used to it, and as a few like CD have advised mind and relaxation techniques works very well, with controlled breathing it does help, more or less makes it matter of fact after a couple of times, my mind always makes a lot more of it than it is I think .

Ian.

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Kellyjelly in reply toIanp66

I know what you mean, afterwards you really feel like you were acting a bit weird but no one else can really pick up on it.

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wilsond

Yes,I feel a sense of dread,doom, gloomy snappy.....only before what I call a Bit of A Do...not a lttle run of AF but when I get a longer session.Weird isnt it

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Kellyjelly in reply towilsond

It is very weird. I get a strange sense of well being come over me sometimes which sounds really nice but it actually isn’t, it’s disconcerting.

Yes, it's kind of like how some animals change behavior before a weather front moves in. I sure wish science would answer these questions in my life time! It is also perplexing how some can go months or years with no a fib then boom. We knock ourselves out trying to figure out " what did we do wrong", but mother nature isnt telling us, lol.

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I know!!! If we could just unravel it all and get the answers wouldn’t it be interesting!

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Buffafly

Somebody made a very interesting comment some time go to the effect that they felt that an episode of AF released a sort of build up of charge and they felt much better afterwards, rather I think like people who benefit from electric shock treatment. I could see where they were coming from and it certainly put an episode of AF in a new light. I do think I can feel when my heart is building up to something and it is almost a relief when it starts - but not if it lasts too long......

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Kellyjelly in reply toBuffafly

I had this yesterday,I suddenly felt really off at about 4pm and just couldn’t put my finger on what was wrong. It last all afternoon and evening and at 10pm I went into svt. 😪 it lasted about 20 mins but I’ve woken up feeling the same off feeling this morning.

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Lola555

My very affectionate cockapoo becomes wary of me just before an episode of SVT. She actually backs away from me and sits watching from a safe distance. I’ve learnt to trust her reaction and know that I will have an episode at some point during the day.

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Kellyjelly in reply toLola555

That’s so interesting isn’t it, dogs are so perceptive, I wonder what it is they can see or sense???

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Lola555

She definitely senses something is different about me on those occasions 🐶😊

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Buffafly in reply toLola555

That is fascinating, would be a good subject for a poll about pets reacting to heart disturbances. My cat, sadly deceased, was very sensitive too.

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