Climbing stairs triggering arrythmia.

[Goldenheart]

Just a quick question, does anyones a fib,or a flutter, trigger this. Thanks in advance.

[BobD Volunteer]

I am sure many people find that exertion may bring on AF but against that many find exercise can terminate an AF event. We are all different and there is no normal.

[Finvola]

I agree with Bob - before I started Flecainide anything which changed my breathing such as going uphill, climbing stairs, bending down or talking too excitedly triggered arrhythmias. But - when I have ectopics, slight exertion sometimes get rid of them. No logic to it at all.

[cbsrbpm]

Yes any sort of exercise will make my heart do weird things unless it’s done real slow. Slowish walk is ok but if I step up the pace it’s not happy.

[Flimmeri]

I find if I increase my heart rate, for instance go jogging would trigger AF. I can walk quite briskly, walk the 18 hole golf course, as long as there is not too many hills to climb, I am fine. Climbing a lot of stairs would be no good for me.

[KMRobbo]

for the first 20 months of my AF when my HR went up i went running and 7 to 10 mins , mile mile and a quarter later I was in NSR.

Unfortunately AF progressed and the magic trick stopped working on the 12th attack!

[planetiowa in reply to KMRobbo]

I probably had 40 episodes of AF over a 5 year period before I had an ablation done and for pretty much every one I was able to get back into NSR by running for a few minutes.