AF with sex

[lifts984]

Kevin, you not alone , I too often suffer with AF after sex especially if I edge a lot and mostly in evenings , it appears to be better in the mornings. Now this maybe due to BP as mornings it is lower for me than evenings

Firstly I get faster heart rate , and irregular beats, then it settles into a slower rate but higher than normal a little but still on beats out , then eventually after 8 - 15 hours it goes back into normal. When I first started 15 years ago I would feel I would faint when it went back in , that was how I know it was back in , maybe heart stopped for a short while? but for a long time now , it just quietly goes back in and I hardly notice , but I do somehow know

My episodes have increased over the years and noe I am waiting for an appointment with cardiologist , I believe a pacemaker would be best option for me

all best Ray

[BobD Volunteer]

I remember at our first conference in 2007 hearing a doctor talking about AF and sex saying OK with your spouse or regular partner but a "mistress" may be a step too far.

[wilsond in reply to BobD]

🤣🤣🤣

[mjames1]

Perhaps counterintuitively, it has always had a positive effect on my afib, even when I had more triggers than you could find at a gun show 😄 And nothing in the literature to suggest one should avoid sex, quite to the contrary. Of course, like anything else a fib, this can vary person to person.

Jim

[OzJames]

I’ll never forget my first episode of AF 31 years ago… went to a very serious looking cardiologist and he gave me I think digoxin and said start taking them in a few days if you havnt reverted and will see you in a week. I got home and decided to partake in a romantic evening… anyway it got me into sinus. I went back the following week and told the Cardiologist that the saying ‘sex is good for you’ is true and that it got me back into sinus. Let’s just say he didn’t have a sense of humour! From that day whenever I went into AF which was approx once every 5 years I’d go and do some low/high intensity exercise and revert back to sinus.

[OldGrit]

it’s feels very odd to have this normally taboo subject up here for discussion but I have to say that I find “amorous activity” another way to tone down the feeling of an impending PAF attack ( anxiety reduction ?) and even to have have caused me to revert to NSR on 2 occasions. Far better than CV … and no NHS waiting time.

[OzJames in reply to OldGrit]

Agreed!

[Mugsy15]

Ray, just for info you appear to have attempted to reply to an existing post by starting an entirely new discussion thread. Whoever Kevin is, he might not even see this.

[Tomred]

Could someone explain edging for me please.

[Bluseman in reply to Tomred]

I think it means that during sex you take things slowly to keep each other on the edge of your pleasure, I could be more graphic but would probably unacceptable on this forum.

[Tomred in reply to Bluseman]

was just checking lol

[ozziebob]

Where can I get this "treatment" on the NHS? I'm certainly willing to give it my fullest attention.

[Sixtychick in reply to ozziebob]

🤣🤣

[pusillanimous]

I guess I'll have to get myself a Toy Boy !!!!!!!!