A friend said to me “It sounds as if your heart has rebooted?”; Is this possible?

[LindyMc]

Here is the background. I had the virus that can’t be named from my partner following a visit of his to the hospital and 48 hours after it went negative, I had a fast pulse with an irregular heartbeat (only traceable by taking a wrist pulse, no palpitations, no breathlessness). Was put on apixaban and bisoprolol both of which were wound down, as one GP said ‘you are an over reactor to most things!’ But generally felt very flat, exhausted, brain fog and unable to keep up the full-time caring roll successfully. AF tended to come in 10 day to 3 week stints and then recede for a similar time scale. Then had a good patch from August to November while I was trying to reduce the betablocker to achieve a pill in the pocket. Then the emotional shit hit the fan (partner deteriorating until the level of anaemia was discovered) and things were very bad with AF and seriously bad sinus rhythm with supraventricular episodes, regularly getting 10 ectopics in 30 seconds with a Kardia reading.

Mid-February I had another dose of the dread bug and despite feeling moderately physically crap the joyless feeling and difficulty coping lifted and suddenly all was possible, and I even relished overcoming minor irritations that pre February had left me unable to respond and in floods of tears. Although the AF didn’t stop immediately, it quickly reduced to zero. Since early April I have had nothing apart from a couple of supraventricular episodes with 2 or 3 ectopics in 30 seconds. For the last 6 weeks I have been in normal sinus rhythm with no ectopics and no betablockers. Hence the comment above. There have been some people who have had AF in ITU with the dread bug but on release they have been told they can treat it as transient. No idea if anyone has written about those who were not hospitalised. So, anyone any thoughts?

[Captain_Birdseye]

Sounds like you had a bit of long "dread bug" coupled with major stressors... it's possible that the treatment got the issue sorted over time until your body got into its natural rhythm again.

In saying that... and this is completely anecdotal... I was diagnosed with an underactive thyroid in my early 20s and told I'd be on thyroxine "til the grave"... after my first bout of dread, my blood results suggested I could lower my dose from 250 to 25 daily. After the second bout, I returned normal thyroid results for the first time in 15 years, for 3 months in a row. I no longer need thyroxine.

Go figure.

[jeanjeannie50 in reply to Captain_Birdseye]

Wow, that's amazing!

[LindyMc]

Thank you. That's helpful.

[LindyMc]

Interesting........Will certainly bear that in mind...

[Territorial]

I am just wondering if you have anxiety too which can cause problems i have anxiety depression and A Fib and i know the anxiety triggers me at times..

Any way good health