Good afternoon you lot,
Hope everyone is well, I’ve had trouble with pvcs since stopping flecainide in March this year, then from July to September they were great until I caught covid last week and since Friday afternoon I’m having Pvcs galore. Will these die down as I start to feel better, I’ve picked a cold up as well which isn’t helping. Thanks in advance
Alex
nature.com/articles/s41591-...
Covid induced Afib is quite well documented even in those folks who didn’t knowingly have Afib as this article in Nature explains.
I certainly had a 3 day run of Afib in June about 10 days into omy mild Covid experience, after 5 clear years. But as the infection settled, so did my heart.
That’s good to know.
They are not pleasant, so you have my sympathies. I am finding that mine come and go and although I have managed to miss out on catching covid, I have had two really bad colds with no effect on them.
Steve
Hi achant1. Can i ask how you differentiate a cold from covid ? Thanks in advance.
Aches, pains and bad headaches. Cough I only ever feel a bit rough.
Did you do an LFT?
Yes.
Definitely not a cold then. I had a cold a year ago and it didn’t have any effect on ectopics but a flu that I had 2019 seemed to cause a significant increase.
I new it wasn’t a cold as I very rarely get headaches and I got a banging headache, aches and pains all over.
Get well soon 😀
Very interesting to read your post. With one or two exceptions, I have been Afib free since my ablation well over two years ago now (now 78 years old). Occasionally I had PVCs but largely those are short lived. However, I tested positive for Covid two weeks ago, and have been asymtomatic. Except for a series of PVCs (or ectopic beats). They are pretty persistent mainly at night, after mid-night. A couple of times, they morphed into Afib, which I handled with 5-10 minutes of deep breathing. The last 5 days or so, they are mild…but just ‘present’ enough to keep me awake.
Last night, for example, they did not present when I laid on my back, but if I switched to laying on either side, the odd beats started. How irritating, not because of a danger, but because it makes you notice, and it is hard to get back to sleep. And even though I know I shouldn’t get anxious, I am sure at some level anxiety makes it worse. Eventually if I walk around in the middle of the night when this is happening for 10 minutes, it seems to regularize again.
I feel what has perhaps made the situation worse is that we have had a run of bad weather for a week or so, rain, the remnants of the hurricane, cold weather, so I have not been able to get out much and I am usually very active outside.
That is my present situation. Seems to be getting milder, but still irritating. And I feel that worry/anxiety about the whole situation makes things worse.
They are gradually getting better. Did not appear at all last night. I think what is also contributing as I did not get much of my regular exercise for the previous three weeks or so, because we were traveling and then the weather was awful. The last two days, I got out, played golf in a very hilly course, got lots of steps in, and now I am beginning to feel ‘normal’ (ie, without the arrhythmia). We will see what happens going forward.
Looks like I spoke too soon…😳😅. Arrhythmia and one hour bout with Afib returned yesterday, probably induced by an exercise walk. Maybe I am trying to do much too soon, may have to ease into things for a while. Taking a note from your post, perhaps let things pass a bit before pushing too hard. Who knows? How are you doing?
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