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After losing weight and getting healthier...I ended up in A&E with atrial fibrillation.

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Bubble99 · 19/02/2008 21:53

On Friday night.

Heart started fluttering in my throat when I went to bed. Pulse was all over the place.

I'm now on beta-blockers and aspirin and seeing a cardiologist next week.

Has anyone else had this?

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cadelaide · 19/02/2008 23:06

Bumping for you Bubble, sounds horrid.

oops · 19/02/2008 23:13

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Carmenere · 19/02/2008 23:15

Oh you poor love, no experience but sympathy as it must be scary.

jasper · 19/02/2008 23:52

Did the medics give any idea what may have caused it?
Hope you are better soon

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Bubble99 · 20/02/2008 19:28

Thanks all.

oops. It started when I went to bed. I'd had a warm bath, was tucked up with a book - switched the light out and settled down to sleep (Mr Bubble was watching TV downstairs.) As I lay down my heart started fluttering and I could feel it thudding in my chest. Once I'd got up, there was no difference between moving around or sitting still.

I've got an appointment next Tuesday to see a cardiologist. My GP isn't sure what may have caused it. It can be caused by a lot of things including infection and stress so I'll just need to wait and talk to the doctor next week.

The beta-blockers are making me feel knackered so I'm hoping I won't need to be on them for too long.

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chipmonkey · 20/02/2008 20:14

I have sinus arrhythmia and it started like that. Has never given me any trouhle though.

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Bubble99 · 20/02/2008 20:25

chipmonkey. Do you need to take any meds at all?

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foxinsocks · 20/02/2008 20:27

overactive thyroid?

I am getting tested for that at some point as I lost weight and have had weird heartbeating

VeniVidiVickiQV · 20/02/2008 20:31

OH fuckery buggers bubble. You dont need this

I'm sure it's nothing serious, but, in the meantime until you get confirmation, its even more stress!

stress free heading your way.

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Bubble99 · 20/02/2008 20:34

foxy. I had blood tests in A&E but I think they were for immediate stuff like electrolytes etc. Don't think thyroid function was checked.

I don't seem to have any of the usual symptoms for overactive thyroid..

I have lost weight but that has been down to a lot less wine and a bit more activity.

Do you get the weird heartbeating a lot of the time?

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BecauseImWorthIt · 20/02/2008 20:36

OMGoodness - sorry to hear about this. Can't offer anything other than sympathy. Hope you get it sorted soon.

foxinsocks · 20/02/2008 20:37

I haven't been diagnosed with it yet and I also don't have all the symptoms but I don't think you have to iyswim.

I have just lost weight doing nothing and for no good reason have found myself sweating at night and having an increased heartbeat (and it isn't anxiety because I know what that feels like!). My periods have also stopped. It may well be the menopause or the lead up to it but they want to check my thyroid too to see what on earth is going on!

The heartbeat thing is annoying.

Poor you. You must have got such a fright. I'm pleased you're seeing someone soon.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 20/02/2008 20:37

Bubble, I've no idea if this has any substance, but I'm sure I was told by a HCP once that my low iron levels can cause weird fluttering-type palpatations and skipped beats and that it wasnt serious.

chipmonkey · 20/02/2008 20:38

No Bubble, no meds required. Just wine!

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Bubble99 · 20/02/2008 20:42

I know, VVV.

I have been milking it with Mr Bubble though.

He has a weird dystonia thing in his neck and has been having Botox injections into the muscles (ouch!)

So. Since Friday we have been having 'I'm iller than you convos.' Along the lines of....

" Of course, yours is a chronic condition, whereas I went to hospital in an ambulance."

And.. " I see your botulinum toxin and I raise you with beta-blockers and an anti-coagulant."

Anything to get out of the 5am wake-up.

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hunkermunker · 20/02/2008 20:43

Oh, Bubble! I think I had this when I was a teenager/in my early 20s - my heart used to skip a beat and then pound and pound, then skip another beat. Haven't noticed it doing it for years, so either I'm frightfully unobservant, or it's gone. Did it for a while though, on and off. May, of course, not have been the same thing at all.

Whatever though, I hope yours is better very soon and it sounds like you're being very well looked after. Hope you're not on the beta-blockers for long. See you soon - you must come and see the drive, OK?

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Bubble99 · 20/02/2008 20:44

VVV. That's interesting as one of the causes (I've googled - oh! How I've googled)of AF is anaemia.

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BecauseImWorthIt · 20/02/2008 20:45

But more wine may also help.

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Bubble99 · 20/02/2008 20:46

Thanks, munker. Although one look at the fabled drive might just finish me off?

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Bubble99 · 20/02/2008 20:50

BIWI. That sounds like a good alternative therapy.

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foxinsocks · 20/02/2008 20:52

let us know what they say bubble!

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Bubble99 · 20/02/2008 20:53

I will, foxy. Thanks.

And be sure to get yourself checked out, too.

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VeniVidiVickiQV · 20/02/2008 21:12

Ah ha! Glad to hear I'm not making it up

(Or at least not the only one making it up)

Have got this A LOT after both pg's a few months after childbirth.

I'm pretty sure red wine is good (not a drinker myself mind you), and lots of calves liver gently fried with onions and a good portion of spinach

oops · 20/02/2008 21:29

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hotbot · 20/02/2008 21:43

alcohol can aggravate af....
get well thoughts bubble

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