A FIB and hot flashes

[Florenceamelia]

I only have A/F episodes on waking at present, 2/3 times at night and in the afternoon when I catch up on sleep when I wake. but at the same time I have hot flashes which I had 20 years ago when menopausal, is this usual?

[heartfelt101]

I would get this checked out...tell the cardiologist and the EP....when my heart would slow down from a afib attack I would also get flushing or heat flush. She said that this was not good....You need to check this out and get a Zio patch or week monitor to catch these spells

[Florenceamelia in reply to heartfelt101]

Thank you for your reply,I am seeing an EP on wednesday so I will ask him,it is so uncomfortable to go so hot and it happens a lot just lately,I thought perhaps it is the nebivolol as only take flecainide as a PIP.

[Rubymurray25]

Before being diagnosed with severe sleep apnea I would wake up during the night hot and often feeling as if I was about to enter into an AF episode, eventually on checking when I did wake up my blood pressure was very high. When explained to my Cardiologist he was adamant my SA was causing my AF and I was put on CPAP . I am not overweight so SA was never really a consideration! If you haven't done, might be worth get it check, firstly by a simple questionnaire by your GP.

[Florenceamelia]

I have only had AFIB since July, ablation has not been mentioned yet.........

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You might be on the verge of too much sugar or dehydration. This worked for me --

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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?? I also found that strenuous exercise does no good – perhaps you make yourself dehydrated??

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

PS – there is a study backing up this data you can view at:

Cardiab.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1475-2840-7-28