So no one really knows what the hell is going on, so I'm just living assuming that I'm on borrowed time since freaking out about it just makes it worse shrug The last time I was at a doctor they thought maybe I had a heart murmur, but after checking again they changed their mind. Even after several trips to a cardiologist, wearing a holter monitor, and the thumps actually happening when being examined, no one knows what is causing them. I stopped taking them and the thumps stopped for a couple years, only really happening when I was stressed, and that's where I've been since then, but even now and then I can just be chilling at home and get them out of nowhere, still making me feel like I'm dying. ![]() After wasting time in an ER, they said it wasn't anything they could find, so go back to my doctor and he says it's just anxiety now and I can stop the BP meds. ![]() Went on like that for a few years before I had a really bad day where my heart just felt like it was completely stopping and the thumps were shaking my body. Brought this up and doctor told me to take half of my BP meds, still kept going. The fluttering stopped and was then replaced with a heavy solid thump every now and then, like my heart forgot it had to beat or something and was catching up. I went to a clinic, they said it's normal.Ī year later I got insurance and went to a real doctor, they said it was High Blood Pressure and got me on some meds. Understandably I was stressed out from this, and noticed my heart would flutter now and then. They don't understand afib meds long-term, since it's an old-people's disease.īack in 2009 I got a new job and had to move out from my childhood home that was foreclosed on. Tl dr - Don't get complacent and rely on medication. Others raise the risk of dangerous ventricular tachycardias. And some, including Sotalol which I was on, are also beta blockers so they can cause depression. Many cause the body to adapt to they gradually become ineffective. There is a lot of research coming out now about the long-term effects of medications in general - they are not studied in the FDA approval process. If I had let it go longer, my atria might have enlarged and made the medications less effective. I was 47 at the time and in exellent health. Ended up in persistent afib and needed electrocardioversion (anasthesia + paddle shock) to restore sinus rhythm, and bilateral radiofrequency ablation to resolve the issue. I had my second attack of aFib WHILE ON MEDICATION and had to fly home from holiday. Take that "very treatable" statement with a grain of salt. New to reddit? Click here! Get flair in /r/science Previous Science AMA's Repeat or flagrant offenders will be banned. ![]() Comments dismissing established findings and fields of science must provide evidence.Criticism of published work should assume basic competence of the researchers and reviewers.Non-professional personal anecdotes will be removed.No off-topic comments, memes, low-effort comments or jokes.All submissions must have flair assigned.No blogspam, images, videos, or infographics.Research must be less than 6 months old.No editorialized, sensationalized, or biased titles.No summaries of summaries, re-hosted press releases, or reposts.Directly link to published peer-reviewed research or media summary.
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