Missed beats

[Harvester188]

I had a successful ablation over 4 years ago but after several virus infections and a chest infection I have been experiencing missed beats and a more variable heart rate with a higher resting heart rate, also short spells of bigemini. Would this be due to the body fighting infections or a sign of hassle to come and leading to af again?

[BobD Volunteer]

Probably the inflamation but do try the slow deep breathing we promote. Use diaphragm not shoulders and slow to six or less breaths per minute fr at least five minutes.

[Harvester188 in reply to BobD]

Thank you BobD I was hoping you would answer, with good advice as always. That was my suspicion and pretty much what I wanted to hear, I will try the breathing, thanks again.

[OzJames]

Yes Bob's advice is sound and works for me. Sometimes its a bunch of ectopics as well and the more we feel them the more stressed we get and HR rises with it. Find a distraction and hopefully will help. One time i got a pot of paint and started painting my picket fence.. by the time i reached the gate in the middle i was back to normal!

[Harvester188 in reply to OzJames]

Hi James, that sounds good to me and with an added bonus of a painted fence😀

[Ppiman]

My ablation was four years ago, and my palpitations this year are far worse that ever and have brought several extra AF episodes in their wake. I have had covid in mind but I suspect otherwise. The specialist I saw recently is awaiting results from a Holter, but suggested it was quite usual for this to happen.

Steve

[Harvester188 in reply to Ppiman]

Hi Steve, thanks for your reply, I may well have had covid and was showing a lot of the symptoms of long covid but whatever I got I feel it will a little while to get over it.

[Bluetonic]

I get runs of bigeminy and trigeminy from time to time, and then a day or two later I go down with a cold or infection.I just use it as an early warning system.

[Harvester188 in reply to Bluetonic]

Hi bluetonic, onset of a virus certainly sets things off, I was guaranteed to have an AF episode just before I felt the virus getting a grip, that was before my ablation.