Hospital or not

Last two days I've been having lots and lots of runs of odd beats, Dr Dave said they were runs of atrial beats, short run of atrial tachycardias.....now this is pretty new to me so it's got me really worried, and in two minds of going to get checked out at hospital.....anyone else get these??

[BobD Volunteer]

Had my ablation in August for A Tach. Quite a common follow on from AF I'm afraid. No biggy. If I were you I would get a 12 lead ecg done locally and e mail to Sabine if you are still in touch.

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Bob you never fail to bring me back down with your matter of factness👍👍👍😂

[BobD Volunteer in reply to Hidden]

Just edited it so please read again.

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Yes I'm still under her, I caught a run on my kardia and mailed it to Sarah my arrythmia nurse at Brompton this morning but no reply yet, it was confirmed by Dr dave When I posted on here yesterday..........your edited post has me worried now😩😩

[BobD Volunteer in reply to Hidden]

No worry Jugsy just thought it would be worth it and might shortcut the system. Mine always stuck fast and needed DCCV.

Met SP in August for my assessment . Hope she can help but not sure how many days a week she does. When she gave me a card it was some other nurses onto which she wrote her e mail address.

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Mine last no more than 5-10 secs and will stop if I cough or hold nose and blow, however it's becoming more frequent, three years since ablation and I'm dissapointed to be back to square one again at 44 years old

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Well I've not heard from nurse so I've mailed my kardia to Dr Ernst.....not sure how that will go down, I'm not sure she likes to be contacted directly😩😩

[CDreamer]

Hi Jugsy - It seems a common problem after ablation. I found they slowly disappeared over time. Good to hear you are doing otherwise really well. No news is good news thou as if it was serious I’m sure they would be back to you pronto.

Best wishes CD

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My ablation was three years ago though, I'd hoped any blips or issues would be gone by now

[CDreamer in reply to Hidden]

Sometimes it’s a long road.

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If I hadn't had two - three good years I'd take that but it's come on last couple months

[Jalia]

Just looked at your readings and they are identical to mine recorded on Kardia recently at 115bpm but quite short lived. I've had these prolonged in the past and been cardioverted.

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You might try this to better control, or stop, your afib episodes:

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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 (this is why all doctors agree that afib gets worse as you get older). 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 (afternoon) 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??

I'm pretty sure that Afib is caused by a gland(s) - like the Pancreas or Thyroid - or an organ that, in our old age, is not working well anymore and excess sugar or dehydration is causing them to send mixed signals to the heart - for example telling the heart to beat fast and slow at the same time - which causes it to skip beats, etc. I can't prove that (and neither can my doctors), but I have a very strong suspicion that that is the root cause of our Afib problems. I am working on this with a Nutritionist and hope to get some definitive proof in a few months.

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:

https//cardiab.biomedcentral.com/a...

How much sugar do you need to stop your afib? The answer is about 1/2 of what your daily sugar limit (threshold) is. My sugar threshold is about 80 grams a day right now. So if I go over that (and it's sooooo easy to do) my heart will start to afib. Then if I cut back to about 40-45 grams of sugar for one or two days, then the heart goes back to normal rhythm and stays there until I exceed my daily threshold of sugar again. (moderate exercise will shorten that time frame). I have gone 30 days under my sugar threshold with no afib once just to prove it is the sugar. And I have consumed my daily limit of sugar every day after going into afib and it stayed in afib for a week - just to prove that worked. So - as long as you know what your sugar threshold is you can control it, but that takes several weeks of experimenting to figure out. I use the following WEB site to know how much sugar is in different foods:

fatsecret.com/calories-nutr....