Medication change

[Giorgos1973]

Good evening I would like some help on Thursday I have an appointment with the cardiologist for a preventive check-up, at the moment I am taking atenolol 25 degrees of pulse and tachycardia, they have been on these pills for about 4 years, starting with bisoprolol 2.5 then nebivolol 2.5 and now atenolol, generally not I'm doing well with these pills, bad sleep nervousness anxiety despair pessimism I did not have before, to emphasize that I started these pills from a period of stress with illness in the family, a fact that worried me most were the two heart attacks the biggest my brother, and I'm afraid of being buried I'm sick, all my tests are good in relation to my obese brother who had high cholesterol, the medication to ask the cardiologist, or if any of you went through something depending on how he overcame it I am 49 years old from Greece and I do not know if the translation is good thank you

[jeanjeannie50]

Your translation is a little confusing Giorgos.

I've had AF for 17 years and the following is what I've learnt:

1. You are most unlikely to die from AF. I used to think that the way my heart bounced around I would surely be found dead next day. Still here though!

2. Changing your diet to a more plant based one, avoiding any foods or drinks containing artificial additives or caffeine, not allowing yourself to become dehydrated, cutting back on sugar and losing weight (if it's needed) will all have a beneficial effect on your AF. Artificial sweeteners were a sure trigger for my attacks. How I wish I'd known all of this before having any of my ablations. Would I have listened if anyone had told me? Probably not, because I believed ablations would cure me - three didn't! They have helped some people though and my AF now is not so severe.

3. This is a hard one, but looking at gadgets that show your pulse and AF will make you anxious and anxiety feeds AF. I was obsessed with what my heart was doing for about the first ten+ years of my AF journey and my attacks were so debilitating I'd end up in a hospital ward, it has taken me a long time to take my mind off this subject and get on with living. The less I think about it, the better I feel. Now I used to feel cross with people who suggested I stop looking at my pulse rate machines, I thought that their AF couldn't be as bad as mine and they didn't understand how poorly attacks made some of us feel. I would get cross with anyone who said they could still go on holiday and carry on life as normal. They made me feel evil, by not understanding how ill I felt! In our minds AF is only as bad as we have experienced, for some attacks are mild for others they're more severe.

4. Make sure you don't slouch, or unwittingly do shallow breathing. If you do your heart will protest.

5. Try supplementing with magnesium (I use glycinate ). I feel well and there's nothing I can't do now, despite being in constant low rate AF. Or at least I think I am, I rarely check these days.

Sanjay Gupta a cardiologist from York Hospital in the U.K. has made some helpful YouTube posts. They're presented in a way we can easily understand and he really cares about people. I guess you can speak and understand English language more than write it.

Here it is:

youtube.com/c/YorkCardiolog...

Jean

If the link doesn't open just search on YouTube for York Cardiology Sanjay Gupta

[Giorgos1973 in reply to jeanjeannie50]

thank you very much help me enough I will follow your advice God bless you

[jeanjeannie50 in reply to Giorgos1973]

Did you understand all I was saying? If not I will try to convert it into the Greek language for you.

Jean

[Giorgos1973 in reply to jeanjeannie50]

No I did not understand well about the magnesium of distraction and the role of respiration

[Giorgos1973 in reply to Giorgos1973]

Sorry I understood everything well to be well

[jeanjeannie50]

Taking magnesium can help reduce AF symptoms in some people.

If we become very absorbed in what we are doing we can sometimes forget to breathe deep enough to satisfy the need of our heart.