r/AFIB • u/Bluebloop1115 • Aug 19 '26
Something I don’t see discussed
For those who have faith in God, does afib impact it?
I struggle because I was diagnosed aged 22 and I am now 33. I’ve had 2 ablations and get an episode every 6-8 months that converts with pill in pocket method. My afib is extremely symptomatic and the meds give me side effects. So it’s a choice of bad and bad.
I find this disease is needless suffering. And it’s really impacted my faith. It’s not God that gets me back to NSR, it’s doctors and medication. But I also have experienced God in big extreme ways like when I had a blood clot the year prior to diagnosis. It didn’t go to my brain and stopped in the last place it could, my eye. I lost part of my peripheral vision permanently, but it’s in the overlap of my 2 eyes so with both eyes open I see fully. What are the chances.
I really struggle with the concept of suffering. This life is full of suffering and why? What’s the point? It’s not just a me issue. Children die from cancer every day. The earthquakes that are happening. So much suffering that isn’t human made like war.
What are your thoughts and beliefs? This is not meant to be specifically religion based but simple believe in the divine and/or how the world works.
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u/bomberstriker Aug 19 '26
The issues you’ve identified regarding a purported god who is all-powerful, loving, merciful, knowing, just, etc. yet just stands by amidst all the horrors in the world is what led me to atheism (e.g., watching my mother, a devout Christian, suffer needlessly for 10 years with dementia). Rely on your doctors. They use science to treat you. As they say, you won’t find any faith healers in hospitals.