positive thinking and af

[mbhakta]

last week I was hospitalised due to severe af. in icu while I was fighting against irregular and racing heart. suddenly I thought if my mental conditions like negative thinking, fear, stress etc. can help recurrence of af, its opposite too must be true, positive thinking, hope, pleasure etc can help heart overcome from its ailment. I tried hard for. I encouraged my heart to fight, tried to become more confident and remembered about flowers, birds, so many lovely moments of past and these realy helped me. you all know, during af episodes how we become vulnerable to everything that is negative. though only thinking positive is not the treatment, but still it helps u to fight or adjust the discomfort and hopelessness.

[BobD Volunteer]

Absolutely . This is a world of thought and what we think is what will happen. Negativity of thought attracts negative actions . Remember disease is just dis- ease.

It is not always possible for anybody to remain positive at all times least of all me who promotes positive thought so much but by golly it does help!

[mbhakta in reply to BobD]

really encouraging comment!

[CDreamer]

Great post - absolutely believe this can help but may not always resolve the AF. It will however counter the anxiety which can increase symptoms.

[SteveCairns]

If only more people were given some

Form of counselling when they go to ER and are told there’s

Something wrong with their heart . My experience - told

By doctors nothing wrong , insisted on chest X-ray , 2’days later told to go straight to hospital as “ something” found .

Admitted - was scared - unsure , heaps of machines and no one really telling me what’s going on , during the early stages of being in ER I think I had a panic attack , was skipping in and out of AF up until then ,

But with heart now

Racing with anxiety , suddenly I’m now in full AF - Thando hospital for that ,

Days later found a 3cm blood clot in left ventricular and registrar told me I have heart of an 80 year old . ( was 47 at the time ) , that was 2014 - what a shot year .

Important thing if only I had been told

This - is NOT to panick , cos it doesn’t help , and if I had someone actually talk to me properly about what was going on I may have handles things differently and not suffered additional damage to my heart while in the hospital - end of the story is keep calm , going into AF is not good , but helpfully we come

Out of it with drugs/cArdioversion etc .

So if you know someone who’s in early stages of AF , try talking to them and remember things can improve

[mbhakta]

fine!

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Never underestimate the power of the brain!!

- Rick Hyer.

BUT - if that doesn't work for you, try this ...

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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

[mbhakta]

your experience can help many of us. I will experiment less sugar and salt. though most of drs advice these diet and regimen, but few patients take them seriously . thanks sugarist!