Heart going wild today

So I've been getting these runs all day, must've had around 20 of them so far, feels like a missed beat then a run of strange beats.....scaring the life out of me, Hy he goes from its resting rate which at minute is 80-90 due to anxiety, up to around 120 while beats are happening then back to normal....lasts about 5 secs or so......kardia says normal but they don't feel normal to me.......waiting for hospital to get back to me, Dr Dave said it was short run of PACs or atrial tach......is this another arrythmia I've developed because of the ablation?

[Padayn01]

How long ago did you have the abalation?

[Hidden in reply to Padayn01]

3 years ago now

[Buffafly]

My heart is doing that plus a lot of extra thumps and bumps and my Kardia has given up so can't catch it, maybe just as well 🙁 I certainly sympathise, once you feel you can't trust your heart it's very stressful 😬

[Polski in reply to Buffafly]

Try a new battery?

[Buffafly in reply to Polski]

I've hardly used it since the new one was put in! I was looking for an excuse to buy the whizzy new 6 lead one but a) they are sold out and b) not sure it will work with my 5S iPhone. I asked but no response yet. New battery would be much cheaper 😬

[Hidden]

Could be your diet is causing you grief. Give this a try and see if it helps:

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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, Thyroid (sends signals to the heart to increase speed or strength of beat), Adrenal Gland (sends signals to increase heart rate), Sympathetic Nerve (increases heart rate) or Vagus Nerve (decreases heart rate), Hypothalamus Gland or others - 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...

[lynneangela in reply to Hidden]

Hi sugarisit, l have hereditary fructose intolerance which means no sugar or fruit sugars as I cannot digest it and it would damage my liver and can cause organ failure, Hypoglycaemia. So sugar is not in my diet and l have to read everything l eat as the maximum is 4gm a day, but luckily for me l don't like the taste. I have AF and constantly have an irregular heart rate of over 120 beats plus. I have also had cryo ablation in 2014. So sugar is not a trigger and also not food in my case.

[Hidden in reply to lynneangela]

Your afib must be triggered by something else. Although, I must admit that over the last 2 months I have discovered that too little sugar also triggers my afib (19 grams a day or less). So . . . jeeze - what's a person to do?? Especially you. You are backed into a corner with no apparent way out. You might try a Nutrition Response Tester to see if you can identify which organ or gland is having problems and try to improve it. Or perhaps you can feed your troubled gland something it needs.

This getting old stuff really reeks!!

- Rick Hyer.