“Quivering shaking heart”

[Thanks55]

Hi I’m hoping someone can help me

I have been told I have af

I am on bisoperal and apiciban for this

I am on a statin and leveroxin

I am on a waiting list for two years for cardiac ablation

I have really bad episodes where my heart races up to 200 and then sei gs back down and my heart just quivers u feel so ill this usually comes on at night and can last for at least 24 hours I do t k ow what to do I have been hospitalised several times does anyone else have this

I do t take cafine

I do t drink wine

I excercise most days

[jeanjeannie50]

I feel for you, atrial fibrillation (AF) is a horrible feeling. At night when my heart played up, it would be like a fish flopping around in my chest, or as though my heart was trying to bash it's way out of my chest. I've had 3 ablations and numerous cardioversions. What have I learnt over the last 17years:

1. You are most unlikely to die from AF. I used to think that the way my heart bounced around I would surely be found dead next day. Still here though!

2. Changing your diet to a more plant based one, avoiding any foods or drinks containing artificial additives or caffeine, not allowing yourself to become dehydrated, cutting back on sugar and losing weight (if it's needed) will all have a beneficial effect on your AF. Artificial sweeteners were a sure trigger for my attacks. How I wish I'd known all of this before having any of my ablations. Would I have listened if anyone had told me? Probably not, because I believed ablations would cure me - three didn't! They have helped some people though and my AF now is not so severe.

3. This is a hard one, but looking at gadgets that show your pulse and AF will make you anxious and anxiety feeds AF. I was obsessed with what my heart was doing for about the first ten+ years of my AF journey and my attacks were so debilitating I'd end up in a hospital ward, it has taken me a long time to take my mind off this subject and get on with living. The less I think about it, the better I feel. Now I used to feel cross with people who suggested I stop looking at my pulse rate machines, I thought that their AF couldn't be as bad as mine and they didn't understand how poorly attacks made some of us feel. I would get cross with anyone who said they could still go on holiday and carry on life as normal. They made me feel evil, by not understanding how ill I felt! In our minds AF is only as bad as we have experienced, for some attacks are mild for others they're more severe.

4. Make sure you don't slouch, wear anything tight around your waist, or unwittingly do shallow breathing. If you do your heart will protest. As soon as you feel your heart kick off in AF start taking slow deep breaths

5. Try supplementing with magnesium (I use glycinate from YourSupplements and also take vitamins B12, D3, C and zinc). I feel well and there's nothing I can't do now, despite being in constant low rate AF. Or at least I think I am, I don't check these days.

Sanjay Gupta a cardiologist from York Hospital in the U.K. has made some helpful YouTube posts. They're presented in a way we can easily understand and he really cares about people.

Here it is:

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Jean

[Thanks55 in reply to jeanjeannie50]

Jean Thankyou so much for your reply I really appreciated all the information you gave me and will buy the supplements and try them as honestly I will try anything

I was surprised to hear you have tried the ablation three times as I had pinned my hopes on this being successful I hope you keep improving take care

[jeanjeannie50 in reply to Thanks55]

I thought an ablation would be a miracle cure too. I have to speak honestly and say that the first two made my AF worse. The third helped. X

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Make sure your potassium, chloride and sodium levels are good as well as the magnesium-I have posted at length elsewhere on this forum about this-these minerals are electrolytes and vital for the electrical pulses our heart needs to beat-if they are low they can trigger AF as in my case. Good luck.