Would you know the signs and symptoms of an Arrhythmia?

[SamAdmin]

If you have been experiencing unexplained palpitations, breathlessness, light-headedness, fatigue and fainting - these are all common symptoms of an (arrhythmia) heart rhythm disorder.

The heart is a muscular pump that delivers blood containing oxygen to the body. It is divided into two upper chambers (atria) which collect blood returning via the veins, and the two lower chambers (ventricles) which pump blood out through the aorta (main artery) and the lungs.

For more information, please download 'Diagnosing Arrhythmias' booklet from the Arrhythmia Alliance website:

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US: api.heartrhythmalliance.org...

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Kind regards

SamAdmin

[Vonnegut]

What a pity my surgery didn’t have this information when I fainted etc as they would just do a blood test and dismiss me! That went on for some time before I was finally diagnosed by paramedics, only because I went to a spa and sauna which I wouldn’t have done had I known I had a heart condition and shouldn’t have done!!

[SamAdmin in reply to Vonnegut]

Thank you for your comment, I am sorry you were dismissed for a while, arrhythmias are hard to detect. I hope now you are having the correct treatment.

Kind regards

SamAdmin

[Vonnegut in reply to SamAdmin]

Only because we found an EP through your site who we saw privately who having introduced me to having a smarter phone and a Kardia and seen the reading of my heart in AF that I sent him, sent a prescription for Flecainide for me to my surgery. They hadn’t come up with anything after the smallest dose of Bisoprolol proved too much for me to take daily. And when I gave them the helpful literature that you kindly sent, that would have been very helpful to other newly diagnosed patients, it was returned to me! Now that I take Flecainide regularly it has put an end to episodes and I have even been able to reduce my daily intake- at my suggestion!

So thank you again for the information on your site which led me to the lovely EP!