Is PAF affected by the weather?

[Kinfusion]

I’m wondering if anyone has found that their PAF is worse in bad weather, and in winter especially, and improves in summer? My husband has had PAF for the past year and seems to have loads of triggers including singing (😢 he’s a lovely singer and that one is a biggie for us both), getting too hot or cold, any form of exertion (exercise tolerance has plummeted). But we’ve both noticed that since the clocks changed any episodes he’s had have been short and not as symptomatic. He’s suffered from SAD for many years - could this affect PAF?

[BobD Volunteer]

There is always a first for anything. If you have AF you will get AF and any inflamation will exacerbate it.

[secondtry]

Suggest you read up about the Vagus Nerve; it could be the cause of some of those issues as that big nerve connects the brain to the heart and this has caused episodes in my case.

[Tilly1957]

weather affects me, always has done before I knew anything about af. . But I am not sure if it’s the weather that triggers an episode or because I have got too hot, which can happen indoors anyway. Things I know are a trigger like alcohol or Chinese, very occasionally I can tolerate. Humid hot weather does me in now more than ever.

[Hidden]

I thought the weather it had an impact on me but then in the past three years someone in the family has died during the winter.

So it’s either the weather affected all of us and three worse than me with just a blast of PAF or the stress of observing close relatives dying triggers episodes of PAF or my problem arises from a mixture of both weather and stress.

I don’t think about it too much now as I find it stressful trying to work out “ coincidence or cause” ….

[Czech_Mate]

An interesting discussion. For me, I think that hot weather makes things worse. When I was young and foolish hot weather didn't seem to bother, now I'm older (and ditto), especially since the heart arrhythmias have appeared, I feel like a zombie when it gets hot.

(My singing could put anyone into afib) 😉