In rhythm?

[Hambo444]

Anyone have the feeling that you are out of rhythm but when you check (manual pulse) you're not - often when getting up from lying.

[Jalia]

Is your heart rate greater than normal ? This could possibly contribute to that feeling. I felt like that when I was in atrial flutter.

[Hambo444 in reply to Jalia]

It's higher plin general since ablation..but when funny feeling it's not too different to normal.. Not worked out yet if feels slower or higher than normal.

[Bayonnejoe]

Happens lots with me. I only use a rate control approach to my AF. Betablocker. Sometimes I'm hypersensitive to rhythm. Working on reducing that.

[secondtry]

Maybe your Vagus Nerve is very sensitive and just the process of going to check your pulse stimulates it to put it back into NSR.

[Bambi65]

I keep my kardia with me at all times. When I feel that, uh oh, I pull out my kardia and cell phone immediately. It's usually a few extra beats or a few skipped beats. More often it's a warning that my afib monster is rattling the cage. I'm not on any control meds, Only the anticoagulants. My monster usually breaks free 2 or 3x a week. Taking My pulse does not show what I feel when these happen. I love kardia.

[Hidden]

I feel like that when I eat my threshold of sugar the day before, but don't go over my threshold. You could be right on the edge of the fence. Here is the data that I am talking about:

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After 9 years of trying different foods and logging EVERYTHING I ate, I found sugar (and to a lesser degree, salt – i.e. dehydration) was triggering my Afib. Doctors don't want to hear this - there is no money in telling patients to eat less sugar. Each person has a different sugar threshold - and it changes as you get older, so you need to count every gram of sugar you eat every day (including natural sugars in fruits, etc.). My tolerance level was 190 grams of sugar per day 8 years ago, 85 grams a year and a half ago, and 60 grams today, so AFIB episodes are more frequent and last longer. If you keep your intake of sugar below your threshold level your AFIB will not happen again (easier said than done of course). It's not the food - it's the sugar (or salt - see below) IN the food that's causing your problems. Try it and you will see - should only take you 1 or 2 months of trial-and-error to find your threshold level. And for the record - ALL sugars are treated the same (honey, refined, agave, natural sugars in fruits, etc.). I successfully triggered AFIB by eating a bunch of plums and peaches one day just to test it out. In addition, I have noticed that moderate exercise (7-mile bike ride or 5-mile hike in the park) often puts my Afib heart back in to normal rhythm a couple hours later. Don’t know why – perhaps you burn off the excess sugars in your blood/muscles or sweat out excess salt??

Also, in addition to sugar, if you are dehydrated - this will trigger AFIB as well. It seems (but I have no proof of this) that a little uptick of salt in your blood is being treated the same as an uptick of sugar - both cause AFIB episodes. (I’m not a doctor – it may be the sugar in your muscles/organs and not in your blood, don’t know). In any case you have to keep hydrated, and not eat too much salt. The root problem is that our bodies are not processing sugar/salt properly and no doctor knows why, but the AFIB seems to be a symptom of this and not the primary problem, but medicine is not advanced enough to know the core reason that causes AFIB at this time. You can have a healthy heart and still have Afib – something inside us is triggering it when we eat too much sugar or get (even a little) dehydrated. Find out the core reason for this and you will be a millionaire and make the cover of Time Magazine! Good luck! - Rick Hyer