Today's hot topic is healthy eating. Do you have any questions about food and how it interacts with your medication or how it might trigger your condition?
Have you found that certain food makes you feel worse or better?
Do you have any tips or advice you feel would be valuable to others?
Please share below
Hello there. I have to thank my wayward heart for introducing me to thinking more deeply about what I eat and drink. I have been more careful in recent years although I have had arrhythmia issues for about 28 years - untreated SVT for about 21 and AF for 6 years. Now 71, I don't feel I am significantly worse than I was when I first noticed palpitations.
The only food I make a point of avoiding is grapefruit and that's because I take Rivaroxaban. I have cut down on most naughty things, rarely drink alcohol and not much caffeine.
I start every day with proper tea as I enjoy it and don't want to be completely ruled by my heart condition.
Hello, thank you for your input. I am pleased to read that you are still able to enjoy your morning tea, and that you do not feel any worse now than you did when first diagnosed.
Regards, Rachel - Arrhythmia Alliance Patient Services
Thank you Rachel. I wonder if any other forum members have things they avoid or things that they refuse to give up.
Hello Rellim2
Interesting. I was an eat to live guy for a long time. As I get older, I see the virtue of eating food because it tastes good and therefore makes me feel good.
I still don't use much salt because I don't like the taste, but I no longer restrict animal fat which is delicious and very healthy apparently as long as organic
I am glad that medical advice has come full circle and we can forget about cholesterol., seemingly
Obviously if we have atherosclerosis we should use statins if prescribed because of their inflammatory effect, as Dr Gupta describes.So I carry on eating cheese and cream, content that they are natural, and very good for me, or so I have been told.
I should say that this is just the advice I have been given by my very eminent cardiologist and others may well have had very different advice which will be relevant to their particular situation.
Rellim2
Avoid? - unwisely perhaps, very little.
Refuse to give up? Poetry, music and the never ending quest for acceptance and lost love.
Anyone with arrhythmia take thyroid medications? 
Gastroenterologist - AF/SVT&IBS (Irritable bowel syndrome) 
Afraid to close my eyes 😏
Heart rate over 130 causing me to feel unwell 
