Return of the horrid solar plexus feeling

[Cliff_G]

Does anyone else get this, and is there a solution?

Over the years, one of the symptoms I've had when my AF has been playing up is a rather horrid feeling in my solar plexus, a dull persistent ache, sort of a sick feeling, but not a normal going-to-be-sick nausea. Accompanied by the usual other AF symptoms (with or without full blown AF), including ectopics. A bit of food tends to lessen it.

Whatever it is, 😕 it's back, 8 weeks after my latest ablation and after a really good week having upped the Flecainide to 200 mg/day. Disappointed does not cover it.

[bobify]

Hi cliff,yes I get this feeling every know and then on and off for a couple of years ,not sure what it is I do try and ignore it not easy but eventually it goes away 😊

[Cliff_G in reply to bobify]

Thanks, glad it's not only me, I've never had a doctor in the past who understood this. I wondered about just taking paracetamol for it, see if that works. But that alters my INR, so I don't want to be on it and off it.

[30912]

Yes, but I have never got to find out why. It sounds similiar to when I get a mild ache or discomfort local to that region made more prominent when walking or lying on my left side. It's not so apparent when at rest other times. It usually manifests itself after prolonged bouts of AF but tends to disappear after 4 or 5 days after I've gone back to NSR.

[Ppiman]

I have it as I write, Cliff, and it's been there about two months now. I have had it before and put it down to my hiatus hernia and reflux issues, but the link with my heart is also hard to ignore. As you say, the nausea element is out unpleasant. Luckily, this time round, it is fairly mild.

Steve

[Vonnegut]

Poor you. How different we all are. Flecainide has virtually put an end to AF episodes for me and I have actually reduced my first dose of the day to 50mg but, because I acquired chronic fatigue around the same time as the PAF, I can no longer do all the active stuff I used to engage in. Never liked big meals and now have main meal at lunch time ( and gave up the the small glass of wine I used to have with evening meals!) No food after 8pm and still here at 80 and more importantly, brain still functions!