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Quotebeardman I’ll try dropping my cheese/dairy intake and see what that does for a week or so. I think mine is about 500-600mg/day. It was stress eating wheels of brie during my divorce that was the culprit for me. I had a before and after. I started this stress habit fairly soon after the divorce ensued. I was eating a keto diet at the time (now it is ovo-pescatarian vegan keto), so thougby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotebeardman I consume 1,000-1,500 MG of calcium a day, maybe that’s too much and I could try cutting down. I eat a Keto/vegetarian diet though, so I am sourcing most of my fat content from dairy. From my experience, I'd stop the Ca++ completely. Now. When I was overeating Ca++ , I had many more triggers. I'm much more robust without it. How much is too much exercise is too mby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotebolimasa It sounds like vagally-mediated AF due to chronic fitness (something I know something about). Curious I'm trying to get a handle on "vagally-mediated" Is there a reason the chronically fit people would have vagally mediated afib? (reference?) Was there something in his description of his symptoms that would indicate it is vagal? I guess I don't reallyby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotebeardman Your doc is right when he wants having you back in NSR as soon as possible. Waiting is usually bad because the longer you're in afib, the more likely afib would worsen. I understand this, but with the ability to convert on my own, I just didn't feel it was necessary. I am usually in NSR for 3-4 days at a clip and then out for 1-2 days. I would say that an electro cby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuotePompon Thanks, George. Interesting but mixed opinions there. I was thinking about acupuncture because I have neck pain. I wondered if such a treatment could be good both for this and for afib. If you PM me an email address, I can forward some info for neck pain treatment that may be useful.by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Best wishes for a successful outcome for all of it! Georgeby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Exercising recommendations for paroxysmal AF in young and middle-aged athletes (PAFIYAMA) syndromeby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hey Joe, One thing I should add. After my 2.5 month episode, I terminated every episode that did not terminate in a couple of minutes of changing position or jumping around with flecainide on demand. My goal was to be out of rhythm as short a time as possible, so I would chew the flec and swallow to get it into my system as soon as possible. In May, I happened to be able to convert by exhaby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Hi Joe, Chronic fitness was my path to afib. I found that long duration endurance exercise created a delayed vagal trigger for me. My first episode (over 14 years ago) was a day or so after a training run on a 14,000' (4,300m) mountain. Except for a period when I was overconsuming calcium, exercise as a trigger for afib has always been delayed. It took me two years to decide that enduby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotejpeters guess that's why hybrid techniques are being used...to burn from both sides for success with difficult cases. Makes sense. Here is Shannon's comment on the hybrid technique <by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
I've been on this afib journey with you for a long time, Mike. When do you head to Bordeaux? You are in excellent hands. Wishing you a spectacular outcome! Cheers, Georgeby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
I've been here 14 years. What Sam said.by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotebolimasa You record your heart rhythm when you're feeling bad. When you're fine, you do something else. Isn't it the reason why your recordings are nearly all abnormal? No, I mostly do random checks... I rarely notice anything, though I do check then... Like I said in my original post the feeling I get that inspired me to non randomly check is the good feeling... weirdby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteJoe Your experience is consistent with this study: The people in the study were, from what I saw, not fit to begin with. Their BMI was around 28 and their VO2 max around 33. So they would likely not be in the group where chronic fitness brought them to afib. Hence the exercise appeared to help their metabolic markers. When unfit people get more fit, afib usually improves. "Eby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotewolfpack My resting HR is consistently 45-50 bpm. It's not an issue in any way shape or form if it's the result of chronic fitness. Except that it is an indicator of vagal tone. Most afibbers whose path to afib is chronic fitness have vagal triggers. In a static sense - your resting heart rate is say 50. For people that don't have a genetic propensity for afib, it is notby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
I know that Shannon's father died of an afib related stroke and his sister is in a nursing home because of a botched afib ablation. In my case, neither parent had it, though I saw a short burst of it in my mom at around age 86. She was in a memory care group home & I took her on a walk. I put my Polar r to r (beat to beat) recording monitor on her and took her on a walk. Howeverby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteCarey Natto cures afib. Now I've heard everything. I was here before Dean started Natto. His afib clearly had a digestion related afib driver. In his case, the natto mitigated this issue and has allowed him to stay in afib remission for a very long time. Would I make a universal claim about natto and afib. Certainly not. Clearly if I had GERD that seems to initiate my afib, it wby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Steve, Here is a search on the site for digoxin: < You can start here < 14 years ago, I ended up here about a month or so after I had my first episode, I bought the founder of this stie's book < (it is dated, but still worth a read). Learned digoxin was not indicated for a vagal afibber (which most athletes are & your bending over sounds like a vagal trigger). Iby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
For myself, I've had afib for over 14 years. I've kept myself in afib remission with a very small AF burden (I haven't calculated in a while, but < 0.01% as I recall). My first 4 months included a 2.5 month episode. I was on warfarin for the last month or so of that episode and the first 3 or 4 weeks after, but no anti-coagulation since. My CHA2DS2-VASc is 0. I also keep mby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteJackie I have not seen any recent data indicating that it would be a good idea to combine any form of natto with Eliquis or any of the other new anticoagulants. I know I'd certainly rather be on nattokinase than Eliquis. I presume you mean from the side effects you experienced, not on the stroke prevention efficacy. I don't think anyone suggests that someone with a large strokby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotemwcf Maybe I'm reaidng it wrong but it looks as though beer contains quite a bit of genistein! Fermented tofu looks best and contains way more than natto!! Mike, I think you missed the e-03 on the beer hence 1.00e-03 (which equals 0.001). Therefore beer is 0.001 mg/100 ml (or 100g since 1 ml water = 1g) vs natto 4.28 mg/100g. Dean, Interesting, I remember you saying years agoby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quoteln108 A question occurs: I'm pretty clear, and remember reading on this forum some years ago, that natto (food) would be contraindicated for those of us on warfarin. What about for those on Eliquis and the other NOACs, which as I understand it don't depend on the vitamin K interaction? In short, could someone on Eliquis benefit from eating natto? I note a thread from 2015 onby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
On the serious note, Dean's afib was triggered by gastrointestinal distress. As I recall, he was using PPI's to mitigate this. He introduced natto food and worked out how best to incorporate it to keep afib at bay. He wrote this in 2006: < I recall reading this at the time. For those with a digestive trigger, this may be worth looking at. This is a totally separate discussionby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Dwan has posted many benefits of natto food over the years. One that I always thought interesting was how bacillus subtilis (which is the ferementing bacteria in Natto) is also in fresh camel dung. Tunrs out the Germans used this to ward off dysentery in N. Africa in WWII <by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotebolimasa Of course I do suppose the bottom line is that I'm screwed up, should get the ablation and hope for the best... but my science mind would like to be able to self interpret n bit as I think it would be helpful for me to self monitor... especially because I want to give up the anticoagulants if I have a successful ablation. Our Chinese friends to the rescue, through eBay &lby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Quotejpeters Sue Is this the trigger? Nice!by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
QuoteSueChef Should I be worried about the 40 bpm (I was asleep, I thought 40 was too low even when sleeping!) ? Nope, not to worry. I've been there or even a few BPM lower, though since I don't train endurance cardio for the last 12 years, its come up a bit to like 48 QuoteSueChef Seeing the max heart rate of 190 bpm was scary even if it was only for 8 seconds! I was probablyby GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM
Other than no afib, probably the most significant: QuotePatient Events Triggered Events: 10 Findings within ± 45 sec of Triggers: Sinus Rhythm, Supraventricular Ectopic beat(s), Ventricular Ectopic beat(s) Meaning when you pushed the button because you felt something, it wasn't afib. It was either NSR, PAC's or PVC's.by GeorgeN - AFIBBERS FORUM