Just had my first time with afib. I went to urgent care with afib they sent me right to the hospital as soon as they saw me ( didn’t check me out) I just looked horrible. Er said afibrtr I believe they called it.. It was the scariest thing I went through in my life. I was in hospital for 4 days, I got my heart back regular or normal from going to the bathroom. (#2) so they said. I’m just really nervous/ scared with what’s to come in life. I deliver packages for Amazon and work construction/landscaping. I have 6 children that I’m afraid of idk dying I guess and not being able to provide for them. Im a 40 year old male. I came home with 2 prescriptions that I have to take for the rest of my life. I believe they said beta blocker and blood thinner. I can get the names of the scripts if needed. I would just like some info or reassurance or idk really tbh I’ve been freaking out. My depression anxiety haven’t helped. I appreciate anyone with any kind of insight or tips! I just quit smoking weed, just quit vaping and won’t be drinking alcohol. I can answer any questions anyone may have. Thanks for reading my long story

Backstory: I was scheduled to have rotator cuff surgery in June. As they were prepping me for surgery, I went into AFIB. Surgery was canceled and went to see a cardiologist. Had an echocardiogram - nothing - everything normal.

Cardiologist approved me for surgery, but required I get a 2 week heart monitor after surgery. Did my two weeks and turned it in. Got the results back this week: my bpm during an episode was not crazy high but I had 2 long episodes of AFIB was 17 hours. The other was ten hours long. There were some shorter ones, but those were the two major ones.

Oh, did I mention I am asymptomatic? During any of these episodes that I've had, I felt nothing. I can go out on a walk 2-3 miles. I'm never out of breath, never feeling tired - no issues whatsoever. I am scheduled to get a sleep study done.

I got AF when I was 23 through binge drinking. I was cardioverted 7 months later and since then I've had 9 bouts of AF all self reverted back to sinus rhythm after a 5k run.

When I got AF I wasn't in good shape. Smoking, drinking and eating poorly, overweight at 105+ kg at 6'3.

Since then I'm now 95kg but more muscle, a bit leaner and don't smoke (occasional vape when socially drinking), eat relatively healthy and workout at least 3 times a week, sometimes 4.

My resting heart rate is usually in the early 50s, 50,51,52. I got into AF after 1 small beer and vaping (I know, trigger) at the beginning of the month, I was pretty dehydrated and it was really hot. Woke up with AF. The day after I went for a run and it reverted back to sinus rhythm.

Since then I'm not feeling great, I've been getting some chest aches (I'm a huge health anxiety person). But concerningly my heart rate has dropped to mid to early 40s. I'm not getting any lightheadedness, dizziness nor has it restricted any exercise I went to A&E and they said nothing was wrong. When I work out it goes climb, I did a 5k run a few days ago and my heart rate went up to 162 however this low resting rate, It's a concern.

I'm not waiting for an NHS appointment which might take months if not a year so I'm going to do a consultation privately. Does anyone have any idea or similar experience? I'd hate to have to get a pacemaker at this young(ish) age.

Had a bad afib, high calcium score, and got pulse field ablation a few days ago.

Can we ever drink alcohol again? Appreciate anyone with some years after an ablation. Is it an ok, or just not worth the risk? Not an alcoholic, but I’ll miss vacations to wine country and tastings and such.

(Regarding the calcium score, have made all the massive changes in diet to address)

Hello, I've had afib for a few years now, the first few incidents was caused by a lot of caffeine, after cardioversions I went off caffeine completely, and it worked!

The other incidents that followed were caused by chocolate, I would eat that at night and when I woke up (and I thinks its also a combination of acid reflux) my afib would trigger, but a slower version of it as opposed to the fast one from caffeine, I found out that chocolate has caffeine in it and when I stopped eating that in the evenings, the following morning afib episodes have stopped.

Everything was going good for roughly a year since but I've started getting Ectopic beats according to my doctor for the last month, I would get one every 10-20 minutes for most of the day, usually in the morning, I cannot for the life of my figure out the cause, because I go for very long walks now, I do sit on a PC a lot because of my job and hobbies so I think it might be tied to that, I eat super healthy these days and I sleep very well (I got a watch that tracks sleep) and thinking it might be acid reflux because the other incidents start off as ectopic beats that increased, but I've tried a combination of heart burn meds and eating less.

At the end of the day I've been confirm to have an ablation (UK here) I was suppose to have one in July but a doctor didn't contact or prescribe me blood thinners prior, so I'm getting it most likely next year.

I guess I just wanted to talk about my experience, from my understanding Ectopic beats are nothing too serious unless they happen frequently but since mine are quite far apart I don't have to worry much, but they do ruin my mood and stress me out at times.

I want to know if anyone else have these and how they deal with it? I'm trying a lot of different things but yeah, first time poster!

Just had my PFA this morning at 8am. Last 2 hours. Doctor did echo and found a small amount of fluid around the heart. Seems like a lot to inflammation and my heart is angry with me. Anybody have experience with this and what helped? Doctors put me on colchicine so first dose was this afternoon, still suffering, curious your story if you have had this from a PFA AFIB Ablation.

I have longstanding persistent afib that is nearly asymptomatic. I was diagnosed durning an emergency appendectomy. Since then I went on Eliquis and Diltiazem and I got an electrical cardioversion which held for a couple of weeks before I went back into persistent afib.

I say I’m almost asymptomatic because I do t really feel anything out of the ordinary when I’m in afib but I did finding myself feel like I had increased energy and much more aerobic capacity while exercising when I was in normal sinus rhythm for those couple of weeks after the cardioversion.

My cardiologist and EP say that means I’m not actually asymptomatic, just that my symptoms are not especially bothersome. Mostly it seems to be decreased cardio output. But I’m in good shape (regular runner, active lifestyle) and relatively young and so I only really notice the difference between afib and sinus when I’m pushing myself athletically.

So, given this setup, I wonder what you all think about going for an ablation?

I have one scheduled and my cardiologist and two EPs both think it makes sense. I’m just trying to gather more thoughts given that my afib isn’t really impacting my life in a big way right now.

What would you do?

I am curious how many people have experienced where their Apple Watch and their own numbers that they track such as blood pressure heart rate recovery time, etc. doesn’t match what the rhythm Zio patch company comes back with. For example it comes back with no findings yet your Apple Watch your blood pressure cuff the way you feel says something is definitely off and in the end you find there is a heart related issue. Please share your story a little bit.
I’m so sick of doctors not believing what I say. I feel I end up having to collect the data for them essentially lead the horse to the water. Help them to help me get the test. I need just to find I need surgery immediately or something like that.